greatest wisdom book

Chapter 87
Only by having a crisis in your heart can you reduce the risk factor
Chaos breeds order, timidity breeds courage, and weakness breeds strength.

The survival of the fittest in nature is the same as the winner and loser on the battlefield. Therefore, Sun Wu said in his "Sun Tzu's Art of War": "Chaos breeds order, timidity breeds courage, and weakness breeds strength." Courage, weakness and strength are regarded as a unity of contradictions, which can be transformed under certain conditions.Therefore, during combat, one must always remain vigilant and pay attention to changes in the situation.Everything has both good and bad sides, and contentment and lingering mean danger, so crisis awareness is particularly important.

With a sense of crisis in your heart, you will be careful and keep a high degree of vigilance at all times.In this way, the enemy will not be given an opportunity to take advantage of it.With a sense of crisis, you will not let yourself fall into a crisis and be helpless.

No matter how stable the current development situation is, the threat from the enemy cannot be ruled out.While the enemy is accumulating strength, if we do not break through or make progress, we will inevitably fall behind.All we can do is surpass the enemy's development with development, and surpass the enemy's progress with progress, and we cannot stop for a moment.

There was a wild boar grinding its tusks against a tree trunk. A fox saw it and asked why it didn't lie down to rest and enjoy itself, and now it didn't see the hunter or the hunting dog.The wild boar replied: It will be too late to grind your teeth when the hunter and hound appear!The fact is just like what the wild boar said, you can never relax. If you have no foresight and can’t see the potential danger, then when you let your guard down, the danger will suddenly come. What else can you do except panic and catch it as?
If people have a sense of crisis at all times and dare not slack off, then they will be able to survive; if they have no foresight, and if they are drunk today, self-satisfied and self-indulgent, then they may perish!

One day, the woodpecker accidentally discovered in the woods that some trees secreted a very sticky glue.The woodpecker was almost stuck.So the woodpecker called on the nearby birds to eat all the seeds of this tree species as soon as possible to avoid future troubles.But the nearby birds didn't take the woodpecker's words seriously.

Spring came, and the saplings grew up, and the woodpecker said to the birds: "Pull up all the saplings before they grow up, and when they grow into big trees, you will lose this forest and be homeless. "However, the birds still ignored the woodpecker's words.

As time goes by, the small saplings grow into big trees, and they secrete fragrant glue, which attracts many insects.Seeing all this, the birds began to laugh at the woodpecker and said: "Stupid prophet, confused prophet, fortunately I didn't listen to your rumors, otherwise I wouldn't be able to eat such delicious food!" After hearing this, the woodpecker sighed: Don't you really know that disaster is about to happen? "Amidst the ridicule, the woodpecker left here.

Looking at the delicious food on the tree, the birds cheered for joy, they flew into the woods in groups, and finally they were all stuck to the tree for the last dying struggle.

Keep a sense of crisis in your heart at all times, and you will be able to work hard, fight against fate, and maintain self-motivation.There is such a saying, "No sense of crisis is the greatest crisis." No matter how beautiful the successful flowers are, they only belong to the past time. There are heavier burdens and more tortuous journeys waiting for us ahead.On the battlefield, Sun Tzu advocated the awareness of being on guard against the enemy at all times, especially for generals, as long as the war is not over, they cannot be taken lightly and must be vigilant at all times.We might as well apply Sun Tzu's "every tree is a soldier" in our daily life. As long as it is controlled within an appropriate range, crisis awareness can keep us away from blind optimism, and at the same time avoid falling into a truly terrible and deadly crisis.

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