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Chapter 80

Chapter 9 Section 3 Einstein's hobby?

Happiness is success, this is a sunny philosophy of life, and it is a truly successful great man who realizes this philosophy. ? ?

At the beginning of the 20th century, a Jewish teenager was immersed in Paganini's music. He dreamed of becoming a violinist like Paganini one day, and worked hard for this goal.He practiced the piano whenever he had free time, and he practiced ecstatically, but he made little progress. Even his parents felt that the poor child's playing was really bad, and he had no musical talent at all, but they were afraid that telling the truth would hurt the young man. self-esteem. ?
One day, the young man went to ask an old luthier for advice, and the old luthier said: "Son, please play a piece of music for me first." The young man played the third of Paganini's 24 etudes, which was full of flaws. , It is unbearable to listen to.At the end of the piece, the old violinist asked the young man: "Why do you like playing the violin so much?" The young man said: "I want to succeed, I want to be a great violinist like Paganini." The old luthier asked again: "Are you happy?" Is it?" The young man replied: "I am very happy." The old luthier took the young man to his garden and said to him: "Son, you are very happy, which means that you have succeeded, why do you have to be Paganini?" Such a great violin player? In my opinion, happiness itself is success.”?
The boy was deeply moved after hearing what the luthier said.He finally realized that happiness is the success with the lowest cost and the least risk in the world, but it gives real nourishment to life.If you don't seek anything else, you are likely to fall into the swamp of disappointment and loss.Success is not pursued, and happiness is gone.Since then, the frenzied fire in the boy's heart has calmed down. He still plays the violin often, but he is no longer trapped in Paganini's dream.Who is this boy?Albert?Einstein, he liked the violin all his life, played very badly, but enjoyed himself.

Mind walk?

Happiness is one of the most basic human emotions.It is the emotional experience that follows from the desire to achieve a goal and the release of tension. ?
Life is a process, and death is the final destination of everyone.Now that the result is the same, the process is even more important.In the short journey of life, you can choose what kind of mentality to live in. If you choose the positive emotion of happiness, your life will be full of sunshine. A life of body and happiness, isn't this kind of life the most worth looking forward to?Isn't such a life also a kind of success? ?
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