"Zhuangzi" Everyone knows the use of the useful_but does not know the use of the useless

Zhuangzi has a saying: "Everyone knows the uses of useful things, but no one knows the uses of useless things." This sentence means: Everyone knows the uses of useful things, but they don't know the uses of useless things. Greater use.

This principle is like the principle that "people do not suffer from ignorance, but from knowledge." For life, we do not lack the vision to understand our own strengths, but what we lack is that we should stay in the understanding of our own strengths. place, so when people see their own advantages, they always make self-righteous mistakes and use their one-sided advantages to show off their power.

The worst kind of person in this world is not that he has no talents, but that when he knows that he has some one-sided talents, he uses his talents to be self-righteous. In such a state , the talents it possesses will not only not be an advantage in life, but will become the source of disaster in life. Because when the edge of advantage cannot be restrained, the edge of advantage will definitely hurt itself.

There is a story in "Liezi" about "Knowing the virtuous but not being virtuous", which says this:

Energy people are often arrogant and self-sufficient, and they are powerful. People who are brave and arrogant are often brave and arrogant. People who are self-willed are not willing to hear about their own faults from others. It is precisely because they have corresponding advantages in certain aspects, so they develop the problem of being overly arrogant because of their advantages. This is not virtuous. The wisdom possessed by people.

And truly virtuous people like to appoint people who are older and whose wisdom has passed its peak but who are not sexually promiscuous. Such people can know their own advantages, but they will never be sharp because of their own advantages. . Therefore, for a person who governs a country, the biggest problem is how to find talented people, rather than always deliberately showing off one's own talents.

Just like Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, when it comes to personal abilities, Xiang Yu's quality and cultivation are far superior to Liu Bang, but it is precisely because of his own excellence that he developed the shortcomings of self-righteousness. Initially, Han Xin , Yingbu, and Fan Zeng all assisted Xiang Yu, but Xiang Yu was skeptical of them.

For example, Fan Zeng, Xiang Yu's main adviser, had many strategies, but Xiang Yu did not adopt them. As Liu Bang said: "Xiang Yu has Fan Zeng but cannot use it." Later, Fan Zeng was suspected by Xiang Yu and angrily asked to return to his hometown. Along the way, he became depressed and became ill. He fell ill and died when he was approaching Pengcheng. From Han Xin's not being reused, to Yingbu's departure, and finally Fan Zeng's departure, all of this was caused by excessive self-righteousness and not using talents, and this was also the direct factor that caused Xiang Yu to commit suicide in Wujiang.

On the other hand, Liu Bang is just the opposite. He adopts the attitude of using and trusting talents without doubting them, because Liu Bang knows that in order to achieve a great cause, he needs to select talents and use them with great importance, so When he had the opportunity, he held a job fair and openly recruited talents. In the end, he defeated Xiang Yu and became the king.