Self-criticism is to guide yourself to deeply understand and dissect yourself through professional theories and methods, find out the wrong, distorted and objective aspects of your cognition and behavior, and adjust them to the aspects suitable for the real world and the development law of things.
Dialectics is essentially sublating, inheriting what is correct and objective, and denying what is wrong and distorted. Self-criticism is the application of dialectical thinking in personal growth, the inevitable way of self-growth and the best way.
Over the years, I have been doing self-criticism and self-practice, correcting myself, expanding myself and improving myself in various ways. Every time I criticize myself and review myself, I always feel that I have done a good job. At that time, I gained a lot, and I felt a sense of physical and mental pleasure, and sometimes I was suddenly enlightened.
Whether in Cairo, Paris, Algeria, Senegal, Ethiopia, countries in Africa, countries in Southeast Asia and countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States, I often find time to reflect and examine myself in the hotel after work. In fact, the most unforgettable thing is a business trip to a West African country. After a busy day, I returned to the hotel and began to examine myself carefully.
It is these investigations, reflections and criticisms that have gradually prompted me to have a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the world and my life. The intense emotions gradually fade away, and the strong impulse and desperate courage of the characters gradually tend to be rational. In terms of personal transformation, it can be said that it has taken a big step. However, if you look at yourself today, there are still many shortcomings and defects. The essence of these problems is that my own life started too low, and in the first many years of my life, I lacked the guidance and opportunities to obtain good methods of self-awareness and self-transformation.
In the past year, or the accumulation of the past four years, I have taken a very critical milestone step forward in my self-awareness. In the past, self-criticism often became a mere formality, or was applied to the superficial level of this method. It doesn't really grasp this magnified god, and it can't integrate this self-criticism method into daily life and practice, become a living habit, or become a way of life development.
Last year, or recently, I finally understood that self-criticism is the most basic kung fu of self-love, self-improvement and self-progress. People who lack self-criticism are lost, closed and unable to progress and grow.
If traced back to the source, I grew up in a mountain village, a farming society. My earliest knowledge of life came from my parents, other relatives and friends around me, villagers, and teachers and classmates at school. This crowd is simple, simple and simple. The biggest feature of this group of people is that they struggle to survive in hunger, and many relatives around them starve to death because of lack of food. In this era, schools were smashed and temples were destroyed. Survival is an arduous task, the religious atmosphere has been completely destroyed, people compete for scarce resources in order to survive, and huge conflicts may break out between people for a little benefit, or a little food dispute, or a small vegetable field dispute, or a small mountain dispute.
Although I left my hometown to study in the city, these cultures in my hometown for eighteen years have been deposited in my spiritual world. Of course, these are all accompanied by the filial piety culture and the culture of not holding grudges in my hometown. The filial piety of my mother and other relatives was passed on to me. Although it is easy for my hometown people to make a fuss about trivial matters, I also inherited that impulse. Although my parents' wine culture was initially rejected, it was finally passed on to my heart. In my later life, the conflicts after drinking several times were actually the influence of my hometown wine culture on me.
Of course, what is passed on to me is also the sincerity, frankness and optimism of my hometown people. I have no grudge and no disguise. Over the years, although I have encountered misunderstandings and been wronged, I have never had bad people or unkind people and things in my heart. In fact, over the years, self-reflection, self-summary, life, and all the grievances at that time were ultimately the result of their own actions.
One side of the landscape supports the other. My hometown is a hill and a stream, which means that I am not really grand in thought, realm and pattern. Even in my later life, I saw so many mountains and rivers, but the realm and pattern of life always seem to be difficult to get rid of the shackles of childhood.
When I was a child, I saw the road in my hometown and felt great. When I grow up and go to town, I realize that the biggest road in my hometown is actually the smallest and most common road in the outside world. However, it has become a reference for me to know the outside world and an important part of my life style.
Later, when I entered the city, I was dealing with all kinds of people in my study and work. When I faced all kinds of problems, I gradually discovered my limitations and shortcomings. The rural culture of my hometown, the frankness and impulsiveness of my hometown people, and the haggle over every ounce of my hometown people's typical small-scale peasant consciousness will be manifested in my language behavior anytime and anywhere, and of course it is more of an inner activity I feel.
Many inner struggles, unpleasantness and conflicts experienced in this life, as well as grievances, conflicts and contradictions felt in the process of dealing with the outside world, have been deeply implanted in my heart by the culture of my hometown and family, which has become my thinking activity and dominated my thoughts, language, behavior and feelings. Later, I made some friends, who came from a very good local culture, from a family with a deep knowledge background and from a better education system. I saw that kind of nature and freedom from them, that kind of openness, freedom and nature beyond fame and fortune, detachment from desire and backwardness and narrow understanding of life, which inspired me, moved me and inspired me.
These also prompted me to realize my own shortcomings, fully understand myself, accept myself, and better return to the road of self-confident and inspirational natural personality. Summarize your own reflection and practice, start self-criticism, and input very good nutrition.
However, many customs were born and grew up in that land. It is really harder to change them than to ascend to heaven. This is also the reason why I have studied Buddhism for many years and have done more research on Taoist culture over the years. My ideal life realm is so far away from me. If you make a little progress every day and spend your whole life, you may still only look up to your dreams, so you often hope that you can have an epiphany like your sixth ancestor. Just like a Taoist figure, he suddenly realized the ultimate wisdom of life and lived a free and happy life.
There are achievements, progress and gains. All this is beyond doubt. Some epiphany, not only brought them temporary happiness in mind and changes in behavior language, but also gradually changed themselves, being good to themselves and being beautiful to themselves.
Just still, the harvest is still too little, and the consciousness has not come yet. In the past three months, because of the opportunity of organizational construction, I was able to learn self-criticism, observe others' self-criticism and examine myself. I just know that in the past few years, I have been practicing introspection and self-criticism, which are the key activities to promote cognitive upgrading and life progress. I really understand that their most essential and core place is not really pious operation and practice. Most people's lives, like mine, are spent in an illusion, in self-deception or confusion.
Because of my work, I officially started self-criticism with the help of the organization around 2005. Over the years, I have been making formal self-criticism. At first, I thought I really went deep into the core of self-criticism and mastered the essence of self-criticism. However, the three-month investigation, especially the in-depth study on the self-criticism of my old employer last week, is considered to have a new understanding of self-criticism and a more systematic understanding.
I remember that I criticized myself most from 20 1 1 to 20 13. This is my second time in the sales system and my second time in charge of business in several countries.
During that time, the company handed over the most difficult tasks in those years, which was of great strategic significance to the company. I must be on tenterhooks under such a burden. The people on the team are all experts mobilized by the company from all directions. I have never been exposed to such a battle. There are also sales teams in several countries that are integrated, and everyone has their own small circle and small team culture. This feeling of long-term cooperation is natural and real.
The team is unfamiliar, there are many experts, there are many schools, especially the competition is very scary, and there is a danger of being out at any time. And the pressure from the company is the most difficult. Faced with these challenges, as a friend, I am always afraid. I set strict requirements for myself every day, and I have to look at my work, my personality and my conduct every day. I remember that article criticized by my son in those years was taken as a learning sample by the company and passed on to other young cadres and younger generations for reference.
In the first seven years at Huawei, my career developed very rapidly and achieved good results. And these achievements also make the general proud, and sometimes even get carried away, and the achievements make their own shortcomings and deficiencies naturally erupt. I still remember my subordinates who played in the office, wrote to the chairman of the company to attack my suppliers, and there were many rumors about myself. The company is also very strict with me, so I ended my first rapid growth in my career and returned to the office. I remember myself at the beginning, always complaining, always feeling that the company was too unfair to me and too fond of making a mountain out of a molehill. And I know that my competitors have also given me a despicable means to arrange suppliers to write letters to the top management of the company to slander me. I was worried about it for a while. Later, under the guidance of various reflections and the spirit of Taoism and Buddhism, I deeply saw my own shortcomings. This deficiency is not ability, not character, but character and pattern. If I live an ordinary professional life, my moral character can certainly be satisfied. However, to become a middle and senior leader of a world-class company, I have to lead many outstanding talents to the front desk, ensure the overall progress of an organization, and unite all kinds of outstanding talents before I know the serious defects of my personality. It's almost ten years since I realized such a rule.
In the past ten years, I have worked hard on my moral quality, constantly strengthened my self-cultivation and practice, and gradually let some defects in my personality be hidden, controlled or compensated. In fact, there was a time when I thought that a person's moral character could be fully developed through his own efforts. However, the construction of corporate culture last year made me deeply understand that the early culture had such a strong influence on a person's life's behavior, personality, morality and pattern that it could only be controlled and managed with a lifetime's efforts, but after all, there was no way to completely remove those inappropriate personalities and conduct.
For example, my impulse, my self-righteousness, my consciousness of small farmers, and my extreme lack of complete control over material desires in the process of material growth from childhood seem to be impossible to get rid of completely after all. Of course, I also learned from Buddhism later that when I have the determination and courage to break my arm like Master Hui Ke, those imperfections and personality defects can be overcome.
However, on New Year's Day this year, when I summed myself up and reflected on myself, I made new discoveries. I find that I lack compassion or real compassion. I don't have that kind of sympathy from the depths of my soul. My kindness is not permanent, and it will not always coexist and flow like my own life.
A truly enlightened person, if there is no compassion from the bottom of his heart and no kindness with the breath of life, such a life is incomplete and incomplete, which is a lifelong regret.
But how to achieve this? Past practice, exhausted for so many years, has gained a lot, but the starting point is too low, and it is still so far from where I expected.
These days, from self-criticism, I feel that I have had some epiphany, found something and built up more confidence. In the past, my own reflection, self-cultivation and self-criticism were really too weak. In the past, there was always a self there. No matter when, who and what problems, there is always a self there. That ego has dignity, vanity, influence and interest. Today, I know that the real me is integrated with nature and heaven and earth. I have no dignity, no vanity, no power, no influence, and I shouldn't have any fame and fortune. I exist only between every breath and every thought. Everything external is an extension of ourselves, and the so-called honor and disgrace of dignity is an illusion and a mistake.
Look at Renzong's statement: I like all those who criticize me. It is a saint who gets up from the mud. I am shameless, so I make progress. Isn't this the real outlook on life of harmony between man and nature?
What dignity and vanity does a person have when he comes and goes in this world? As long as we don't think about the outside world and have no selfish distractions, these egos will disappear cleanly.
In the past, we cared about other people's language, mood, evaluation and everything about us. In fact, we never know how others understand us and treat us. Many times, we are just thinking. In fact, when we really know ourselves, we will find that we have too many shortcomings, too many deficiencies, and we are far from being so good in other people's world. On the contrary, we have many shortcomings and deficiencies, and we need external forces to help us change.
Taking people as a mirror is an inevitable way and dependence for us to know ourselves. All other people's feedback is to help us understand ourselves more comprehensively. They are mirrors for us to know ourselves. When they give us feedback on our shortcomings, we should cherish them, follow them, cultivate our self-cultivation, instead of complaining about others, and even expect the world to look at us beautifully forever.
Second, it is a phoenix that can't burn, a saint who got up from the mud pit. Renzong's self-criticism and Zeng Guofan's self-restraint are typical ways for China people to practice.
The bird that can't burn is the phoenix. It is a saint who climbs up from the mud pit; Only people who insist on self-criticism for a long time can have a broad mind, and only companies that insist on self-criticism for a long time can have a bright future.
"Shameless people can make progress." "I like all the people who criticize me." "Only those companies that are good at self-criticism can survive in the world."
"Only people with the spirit of sacrifice can eventually grow into generals; Only those who insist on self-criticism for a long time will have a broad mind. "
Ren Zong is not only an advocate of self-criticism, but also a practitioner of self-criticism. Self-criticism is the common value of Huawei. If Ren Zong and senior management are independent of this, self-criticism is difficult to be thorough, so his criticism of himself is more severe and thorough than others. Openness, gray scale, tolerance, compromise and self-criticism constitute the core content of Renzong's management philosophy. In Huawei, Ren is always an example, model and benchmark for employees and cadres, especially his shocking sentence in 20 19-"If I am afraid of death, how can you fight bravely?" This sentence was made when visiting employees in Bolivia. He said that shameless employees have made rapid progress, and he is Huawei's most shameless. He is always at the forefront of self-criticism.
Entrepreneur's self-criticism and criticism is the engine of company's self-criticism. He set a benchmark for cadres and workers and set an example. When criticizing a company, entrepreneurs provide a direction and goal for self-criticism.
20 18 was fined 1 10,000, and other rotating CEOs were fined 500,000. At this time, everyone should take responsibility on themselves; After repeated self-examination and self-criticism, the problem of reimbursement of invoices by President Ren was left to senior cadres and grass-roots employees. President Ren has a pavilion in Bantian Industrial Park, which feels good. As a result, the customer said that it was not good, and Ren Zong fined himself 40,000.
In fact, President Ren's self-criticism has been with him all his life, and he is always criticizing himself. A person makes himself more perfect and stronger, which is the inevitable result of self-criticism, just as we will have strength when we eat. This is the same reason.
Third, adhere to self-criticism, transcend self-criticism, have both, and achieve the realm of inaction.
People are irrational, and their knowledge of the world comes from intuitive knowledge and experience. No matter the acquisition, process and evolution of cognition, it is the result of people's subjective activities, and there are inevitable deviations between our cognition of the world and the objective world and the real world. Only self-criticism can constantly remind us to overcome subjectivism, empiricism and intuition and constantly adjust to conform to the universal laws of the real world and the world.
Adhere to self-criticism and accept any criticism frankly and gratefully. I visit my body three times a day. For me, I have to examine myself every day when I meditate.
I must go beyond self-criticism. This growth mode is still too slow for me. Life has left me less and less time for complete epiphany. If I can't practice like Master Hui Ke, my understanding of life will be doomed to be very superficial, and I will be doomed to stay away from the truth of life.
We should constantly restrain our behavior and hobbies, constantly reduce our desire and pursuit of life, and make additions and efforts on the simplest and smallest things. Perhaps, when we find the answer to a very small thing, we realize the true meaning of life. There is a sumeru mountain on the needle tip, which may contain such a truth.
Talk less and express less. I have spoken too much nonsense and meaningless language in my life.
Take less part in ineffective or meaningless social activities. Up to today, I know almost all the people I should know, and I have basically made all the friends I should make. Important people in my life, destiny takes a hand's people, I believe they are already around me, in my life.
Eat less meat, drink less and eat less food. Eating too much, eating too much and drinking too much these years are not only harmful to your health, but also harmful to your temperament. On the road of life, I have suffered many setbacks, and now I find that I want to be grateful for the past and let me really see my own shortcomings and many profound things in human nature.
Read more books and write more reading notes. These years of study, sometimes proud, sometimes lazy, sometimes persistent, has not been able to persist, and no one has been able to get through knowledge. Be sure to read more books, have more conversations with predecessors or famous artists and enrich your understanding of the world.
More writing, more topic research writing. I read a lot of books, but I didn't digest them and didn't use them. After a while, I completely forgot them. It's like knowing a lot of people, having a good chat when we meet, but never meeting again and becoming a stranger. These are not long-term solutions, and they are not done by wise people.
Thematic writing and systematic writing must boldly go out of this road. Only in this way can I really establish my own systematic understanding of the world, from fragmented cognitive fragments to systematic and complete cognition.
Finally, meditate more. The highest state of health preservation is only meditation. It's just that I've been meditating recently, and it's hard to calm down. Maybe the last stage of my life practice is just around the corner. How to calm down is the avenue of life, clear and clear.
To live is to practice. The vitality of life lies in constantly reducing entropy and constantly overcoming thoughts and actions that lead to our silence, and self-criticism is the most important way to help us overcome entropy increase. In fact, if we go back to the Tao Te Ching, we will find that it has a very wise explanation for self-criticism:
Learning is growing, while Tao is losing. Loss and loss, as for inaction, inaction and everything, are all.
The process of learning is growing year by year, knowledge is growing, and cognition is growing, which will make us deviate from ourselves more and more, so that one day, we will not know ourselves at all. The cultivation of monasticism is to do subtraction every day. The so-called self-criticism means not subtracting yourself every day, subtracting desire, prejudice, wealth, fame and fortune, dignity and vanity, and subtracting everything that doesn't belong to us. Until the end, we opened the door of our own id and saw ourselves, being with heaven and earth and being integrated with nature.