For this problem, predecessors have long complained. For example, after the Revolution of 1911, Cai Yuanpei thought that since the revolution had been successful, the so-called patriotism meant "not advocating revolution, but cultivating a complete personality." After serving as the president of Peking University, he repeatedly stressed: "Universities are not institutions that sell graduates, nor institutions that instill fixed knowledge, but institutions that study academic theories. ..... The results of learning theory must affect life. " Therefore, he often said to his students, "You should be interested in learning knowledge, especially cultivating the personality of scholars."
To this end, I thought of Mr. Zhang Yuanji. In the early years of the Republic of China, when he was in charge of the Commercial Press, he asked to stop paying wages due to illness. If the board of directors doesn't agree, he refuses to accept it. The company deposited the money in the bank, and after a few years, it reached more than 5000 yuan with interest. He also suggested that the money be used as an education fund to pay tuition fees for the children of low-income employees in the company. Not long ago, Southern Weekend reported a strange phenomenon in Fuyang, Anhui Province: leading cadres have accumulated a set of experience of "being hospitalized without illness" in order to accept bribes. When they were hospitalized, because many people were going to visit them, "the' net income' of a hospitalization ranged from 50,000 yuan to several hundred thousand yuan". There is also an article in the same issue of Southern Weekend, saying that singers have to take the exam after taking the official exam, and it is estimated that the knowledge in their stomachs may not be admitted. That's a good idea, but I think even if a cadre can pass in knowledge, he still has personality problems. For those greedy and despicable people, even if they have higher education and greater skills, they can't use them. This problem should not be confined to empty talk, but should be institutionalized as soon as possible.
In addition, when Zhang Yuanji attended the New China People's Political Consultative Conference in 1949, there were many touching things. For example, he sent a telegram to Shanghai at that time, and the telegram fee had been settled by the reception desk of the conference on his behalf, but he thought it was a private matter and had to be paid by himself. For another example, in order to take care of his daily life, he asked his son Zhang Shunian to accompany him to the meeting and gave Zhang Shunian pocket money, but Zhang Yuanji refused to accept it. Another example is that during the meeting, Mao Zedong invited him to visit the Temple of Heaven and take photos together. Afterwards, he wrote to ask for photos, and he had to pay for developing them.
A telegram, a subsidy and a photo, though insignificant, show Zhang Yuanji's personality. It is worth mentioning that this kind of personality orientation is very common among them. For example, Liang Shiqiu once said in an article that his old classmate Wu Jingchao followed the rules and worked hard at school, and later worked in the Economic Department of Nanjing Government. "The stamps used are divided into two cartons, one for official business and one for private letters. Don't be confused. It can be seen that it is one of the spots. " Another old classmate, Zhang Xinyi, served as the auditor-general of the bank during War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's time. He "goes out to audit the accounts and never entertains." He held a grand banquet in his honor somewhere. He fled when he heard the news and went to the food stall to eat. " No wonder Jiang Menglin said that on the eve of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China's modern university system and banking, customs, postal services, railways, salt affairs and other departments "fundamentally changed their attitude towards public funds", thus effectively curbing corruption.
Compared with Jiang Menglin, Zhang Yuanji saw the other side of the problem. On the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, he wrote a pamphlet in vernacular Chinese called "Personality of the Chinese Nation". He believes that "there is an atmosphere of arrogance, extravagance, corruption, fraud, laziness, honesty and shame in society", which is related to everyone's "only paying attention to new knowledge and leaving personality cultivation and moral cultivation behind"; If we only pay attention to the instillation of knowledge and put the cultivation of personality behind us, it is easy to induce people to disregard their conscience and blindly pursue material enjoyment; In this case, many people think that "as long as you rob wealth, you won't be poor, and … you can ignore everything"; If this continues, it will only lead to the collapse of the whole nation. Knowledge, the dictionary explanation is people's understanding of things through class struggle, production struggle and scientific experiment activities. It seems that knowledge only refers to the understanding of things. But can the understanding of things only be obtained through the form of education such as universities? Obviously not. Since knowledge can be acquired in the future, as a college student, we should make full use of the good atmosphere in the university to shape our excellent character at this stage. Only in this way can we be a college student with a real college temperament in a mixed society and give full play to what we have learned. So we think it's more important to build character. In today's society, the basic point of being a man is to have personality charm. What is personality charm? First of all, we must figure out what personality is. Personality refers to the sum of personality, temperament, ability and other characteristics, as well as personal moral quality and human qualifications as the subject of power and obligation. Personality charm refers to a person's attractive strength in personality, temperament, ability and moral quality. In today's society, a person can be welcomed and tolerated by others, and he actually has a certain personality.
Mollo is the chairman and general manager of Morgan Bank, the most famous bank in New York. His position as general manager makes his annual income as high as $654.38 million. At first, he just worked as a clerk in a small court. Later, his career developed so amazingly. What is the magic weapon behind it? The most important thing in Mollo's life is to win the favor of Morgan, a big financial group, and thus become a business tycoon that attracts the attention of the whole country.
It is said that Morgan chose Morrow to take this important position, not only because of his high reputation in the economic circle, but also because of his noble personality.
When Van Dunlap became president of the Federal Bank of new york, he chose his important administrative assistants, the first of which was based on noble personality.
Jefford is an example of an accountant who rose from a humble position to the general manager of AT&T Company. He often tells people that he thinks "personality" is one of the most important factors for career success. He said: "No one can say exactly what' personality' is, but if a person has no sound characteristics, he has no personality. It goes without saying that personality is extremely important in all undertakings. "
Morgan, Van Dunlap, jeffries and other leaders all attach great importance to "personality" and think that a person's greatest property is "personality".
A well-known store manager once said: "Some people are born with the nature of interacting with others. They are naturally decent in dealing with people, themselves, others, gestures and behaviors, and they can gain the attention and love of others without any effort. But some people don't have this talent, and they have to work hard to get the attention and love of others. But whether they are born or hard-working, their result is nothing more than winning the goodwill of others, and the way and means to get goodwill is the development of' personality'. "
Only a sound personality can win people's love and cooperation. Therefore. All wise people in the world often try their best to show their individuality.