The fastest way to ruin a person is to teach him to "take the easy way out"

A friend of mine, who has suddenly become obsessed with writing recently, found me around the corner, hoping I could help guide her.

　　After reading several articles in a row, I found that she wrote, all gossip patchwork, not to mention literary talent, even the basic authenticity and point of view are not.

　　I told her: "You can't write like this."

　　She replied to me, "Why not? Some so many people read articles like this! If I keep writing like this, I'm sure I'll become a big V."

　　Then she showed me a few pictures, and the readership was really good.

　　She said, "Gee, I found a shortcut to success!"

　　I was speechless: once a person believes that she has found a "shortcut", it means that she will never consider anything else.

　　Everyone wants to find a shortcut.

　　It's like a group of people on a muddy path, looking at the goal that is far away, and then suddenly there is a big road, flat and wide, straight to Rome.

　　Ask, who does not want to go?

　　There is no shortcut in the world, but as more people are walking, there is a shortcut.

　　But people who take the shortcut never think about why the shortcut is so good, and the people who walk to the end are still so few.

　　More people walk past, fewer people walk out. This fully illustrates that the other side of the shortcut is likely to be a trap.

　　In our elementary school nature class, there was a section on planting garlic plants.

　　The teacher assigned homework and asked each of us to plant them at home and bring them to school two weeks later.

　　I immediately dove into the kitchen after school and found a bag of garlic. At this point, all I had to do was pick out a few full, firm garlic cloves and plant them in a pot.

　　But then, I got the wrong idea.

　　I noticed that a few of the garlic cloves in the packet had already sprouted, revealing their pointy buds.

　　"If I use the already sprouted garlic cloves to plant, won't that save me a lot of waiting time?"

　　So I picked the sprouted garlic cloves specifically.

　　While all the other students were waiting with bated breath for the garlic cloves to sprout, mine had already started to draw and grow leaves.

　　"Ah, I'm so smart!"

　　In a flash, two weeks had passed. As promised, my classmates and I brought the planted garlic plants into the classroom.

　　A blushing scene occurred.

　　The garlic seedlings planted by others were all pointing towards the blue sky like little soldiers in uniform, but the garlic seedlings planted by me were all over the place, like a handful of messy hair.

　　Even my knowledgeable teacher looked confused and tried to explain why my garlic plants were different: "Maybe the cloves are sick."

　　Only I knew that the cloves weren't sick, but that I had taken a "shortcut" by using cloves that were lying in the bag and sprouting.

　　It's not a disease to have garlic cloves lying and sprouting, it's a disease to believe in "pseudo-shortcuts".

　　The fastest way to ruin a person is to teach him to crave pseudo-shortcuts and enjoy the easiest success that comes his way.

　　Someone once complained to me: "I really can't figure out why I have to work so hard?"

　　"We have a little girl in the office who is a year younger than me. She is very pampered, and our manager has a good relationship, often misses work, can not do anything, the manager turned a blind eye, and never bothered with her."

　　"I sometimes really do not understand, obviously pampering can solve the problem, why do I have to so hard?"

　　But after two more years, she never complained again.

　　Because of that sparse manager, she was fired from the company for negligence at work.

　　The pampered little girl, who lost her dependence and lacked the basic ability to work, soon fell into a state of hitting walls everywhere and suffered all kinds of blank stares in the company.

　　But she didn't dare to resign, because she knew that nothing would be done, and it would be the same in a different place.

　　She can only be fired before, like a newcomer to asking around for advice, badly remedy the work of a variety of common sense, the muddy path that others have walked, and again.

　　As the saying goes, there is no road taken for nothing in life, every step counts. There is no road less traveled in life, you are lazy to take each step, and you need to make up from elsewhere.

　　People who are greedy for shortcuts often think that success is that simple, without any sweat, you can water the flowers of success.

　　But I do not know, there is a flower, called the "flash in the pan".

　　The young people who have just embarked on society are often overwhelmed by the proliferation of "pseudo-shortcuts".

　　The young people who like to write, see the nonsense can get traffic, and no longer think about honing the basic skills.

　　The young people who like to paint, see imitation handling can be stunning, and no longer care about their creative ability.

　　Young people who like to perform, as long as the plastic surgery into a cone face, can easily become a netizen, and no longer care to polish their acting skills.

　　There are too many "shortcuts" to success, they are not willing to put in the dumb work, and they don't care if what they are doing can produce value and is not able to last.

　　Once a person chooses a shortcut, he or she will live in a short and vain harvest, and gradually forget what struggle should look like. In the end, they become the most insignificant ones among a group of crude fakes.

　　In his family letter to his son, Zeng Guopan once wrote.

　　"In all things, you should not seek fame too quickly or effectiveness too quickly. Surviving this hurdle, you will be able to advance less. And then into the sleepy, and then boil again, there will be a day of prosperity and progress."

　　It means, "Do things slowly, do not think of success at once, when you encounter difficulties, slowly simmer, always simmer out, so that success is solid."

　　As long as people live, the face is a marathon, the fight is the real ability.

　　And all the "pseudo-shortcut" road signs, is to lure you to give up the trap of running.