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Chapter 23 The Most Valuable Experience and Advice 4
Volume 5 Chapter 4 The Most Valuable Experience and Advice [-]
Don't have to pay for tomorrow's troubles

Don't worry about future obstacles that will hinder your career unless you can be sure they will affect your immediate work and are not and shouldn't be an emergency tomorrow.

- "The Lost Classic of Getting Rich"

As for the future, it hasn't happened yet, and all our thoughts about the future are just our own mere assumptions, and it may happen, or it may not happen at all.In fact, the future can happen in a way that we can't imagine, and often does.The laws of quantum physics state that there are an infinite number of possible outcomes for any given action in the moment.

This is a thought-provoking quote from "The Lost Classic of Getting Rich." According to Wallace, since there are so many unknown possibilities in the future, why should we waste time and energy thinking about all the things that will happen?
We often make similar mistakes in our lives, always anticipating tomorrow's troubles, trying to solve the troubles that may be encountered in the future in advance, so that we can have a better life in the future.But the fact is often this: no matter how clean you sweep the fallen leaves in the garden the night before, the leaves on the trees will still fall when the autumn wind blows overnight, and you cannot sweep away tomorrow's fallen leaves today.Worrying about the future prematurely is not only useless, but also makes one's life tied up in the present. Therefore, only by being down-to-earth and focusing on the present can we make life easier and not be frightened by the imagined difficulties.

In the spring of 1871, a medical student at the Montreal General Hospital accidentally picked up a book and saw a sentence in the book, which changed the life of this young man.It made this young medical student who only knew how to worry about his final exam results and his future life, finally become a famous medical scientist.

This person is William Osler, who founded the world-famous Johns Hopkins College, was hired as a lecture professor at Oxford University School of Medicine, and was knighted by the King of England.After his death, it took two volumes with 1466 pages to complete his life.

So, what was the sentence that changed his life?

In a lecture at Yale University, Sir William Osler said: "In your eyes, I was a university professor for four years, wrote a best-selling book, and I should have a special head. But In fact, I am just an ordinary person. My whole life has benefited from the sentence in the book of Mr. Thomas Carlyle: The most important thing in a person's life is not to expect a vague future, but to pay attention to the clear present at hand .”

Sir William Osler believed that he was able to succeed because he lived in a "completely independent" today.This is not to say that we should not prepare for the future. In fact, planning for tomorrow is something that everyone must do. But the best way to prepare for tomorrow is not to worry about it, but to concentrate all your wisdom and enthusiasm. , Make today's work perfect.

Don't miss the roses blooming in the window just because you are worried that you won't be able to find a strange rose garden tomorrow.Remember this passage from the ancient Roman poet Horace that will bring you peace and joy:
"This man is happy / and only he can be happy / because he can call today / his own day / he can feel safe in today / can say / no matter how bad tomorrow will be / I have passed today."

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