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Learn to "bow your head" to succeed in life
Posted date 12/04/2016
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Posted date 12/04/2016
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Bowing your head is not flattery or sycophancy, but understanding life, knowing your own abilities and being ready to face reality, making your vision broad and open.
Bowing your head is not flattery or sycophancy, but understanding life, knowing your own abilities and being ready to face reality, making your vision broad and open. 
One day someone asked Socrates: "You are a man of profound learning, do you know how far the sky is from the earth?"
Socrates replied: “About 1 meter.”
The man did not believe and said: “Sir, except for babies, we are all taller than 1 meter. If the height between the sky and the earth is only 1 meter, wouldn't we have already crashed into the sky?”
Socrates continued: “Yes, everyone is taller than 1 meter, if you want to stand out in the world, you must know how to bow your head.”
This story tells us a moral, "bowing" is the correct way to behave in life.
Learn to bow your head when facing the reality before your eyes
There is often a big gap between reality and dreams. Some military school students enter the school with beautiful aspirations, but cannot adapt to the iron discipline of the army, easily lose their ideals, and find it difficult to integrate into this large military family.
At this time, if you only keep your head high and cannot lower your own mentality, it may be very difficult to find the right position for yourself. On the contrary, if you lower your head and calm your mind, you will quickly find the heroic spirit in the military camp.
Learn to bow your head before your mistakes
No one is a saint, no one is without mistakes, if they make mistakes they should correct them. However, many people do not have the courage to admit their own mistakes.
Bowing your head is not humiliation, bowing your head is not a lowly person, but knowing that you are wrong and must correct it, that is the price to pay.
The courage to bow one's head in the face of mistakes is an intelligent and decisive act, a noble, generous and leisurely character. Only when one is bent can one be straight, only when one can retreat can one advance, only when one can be soft can one be strong.
Learn to bow your head when lust rises
Human desires are endless, everyone wants to be successful and famous in life. Seeing friends and colleagues all become department heads and department heads, while you yourself are nothing, you feel discouraged. However, when you look down, you will discover that you already have a lot, but you just don't realize it and don't know how to cherish it.
The dialectics of life once again reminds us: Many people raise their heads and strive, but in the end, when they look back, what they have achieved is just ephemeral, just something outside of themselves. Those who have the most favorable careers and progress the fastest are often those who understand and know how to "bow their heads".
Socrates replied: “About 1 meter.”
The man did not believe and said: “Sir, except for babies, we are all taller than 1 meter. If the height between the sky and the earth is only 1 meter, wouldn't we have already crashed into the sky?”
Socrates continued: “Yes, everyone is taller than 1 meter, if you want to stand out in the world, you must know how to bow your head.”
This story tells us a moral, "bowing" is the correct way to behave in life.
Learn to bow your head when facing the reality before your eyes
There is often a big gap between reality and dreams. Some military school students enter the school with beautiful aspirations, but cannot adapt to the iron discipline of the army, easily lose their ideals, and find it difficult to integrate into this large military family.
At this time, if you only keep your head high and cannot lower your own mentality, it may be very difficult to find the right position for yourself. On the contrary, if you lower your head and calm your mind, you will quickly find the heroic spirit in the military camp.
Learn to bow your head before your mistakes
No one is a saint, no one is without mistakes, if they make mistakes they should correct them. However, many people do not have the courage to admit their own mistakes.
Bowing your head is not humiliation, bowing your head is not a lowly person, but knowing that you are wrong and must correct it, that is the price to pay.
The courage to bow one's head in the face of mistakes is an intelligent and decisive act, a noble, generous and leisurely character. Only when one is bent can one be straight, only when one can retreat can one advance, only when one can be soft can one be strong.
Learn to bow your head when lust rises
Human desires are endless, everyone wants to be successful and famous in life. Seeing friends and colleagues all become department heads and department heads, while you yourself are nothing, you feel discouraged. However, when you look down, you will discover that you already have a lot, but you just don't realize it and don't know how to cherish it.
The dialectics of life once again reminds us: Many people raise their heads and strive, but in the end, when they look back, what they have achieved is just ephemeral, just something outside of themselves. Those who have the most favorable careers and progress the fastest are often those who understand and know how to "bow their heads".
Le Hieu, translated from Watchinese
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