Einstein said, "Interest is the best teacher". Interest is one of the powerful driving forces of human activities, which can stimulate people's vitality and make people keen on their own preferences and make unremitting efforts.
The ancients also said, "Knowing is not as good as being kind, and knowing is not as good as being happy." Interest has a magical internal driving effect on learning, which can turn ineffectiveness into effectiveness and inefficiency into efficiency.
When Yao Ming was a child, Yao Ming's parents didn't deliberately encourage him to take basketball as his future career. They just let Yao Ming do what he likes. They want Yao Ming Jr. to study, go to college, find a job and find his own way of life like an ordinary child. But Yao Ming finally chose basketball. Later, he found out that he really loved basketball. Yao Ming, Yao Ming's parents, his teachers, coaches and friends all said that he didn't like basketball at first. For him, basketball is just a game. Yao Ming's father, Yao Zhiyuan, said that when he was a child, Yao Ming liked guns like other boys. Later, he liked reading books, especially geography books. For a time, he became interested in archaeology. Later, he liked to make model planes. The first time he got his salary in the sports team, he bought a model airplane and made it himself. Later, I liked playing video games. In learning, Yao Ming's parents never forced Yao Ming, but mainly inspired him and focused on cultivating his interest.
In this way, Yao Ming enjoyed the fun of learning. When he grows up, whenever someone asks about his childhood, he will say, "I play here, and no one forces me to study." In fact, his so-called play is to read his favorite books and study everything he is curious about. Because you enjoy it, just like playing.
China's parents ordered their children to learn this and that after school-music, painting and dancing. Children have no freedom of choice, and parents have the final say. Yao Ming's mother never forced Yao Ming to do such a thing. She asked Yao Ming to try to do whatever she liked. She only asked Yao Ming not to do bad things and do things in the wrong way. Yao Ming was not interested in basketball until he was nine years old.
By the time he was 12 years old, he already liked basketball very much. His parents sent him to Shanghai Institute of Physical Education, where he played basketball for several hours every day. Because Yao Ming lives on campus and is far away from home, he has more time to play basketball, and he is more and more focused on basketball.
Later, Yao Ming paid close attention to the Houston Rockets and won the NBA championship for two consecutive years with 1994 and 1995. Yao Ming was fascinated by this team and worshipped Olajuwon. All these make Yao Ming more interested in basketball and more motivated to play.
It can be seen that interest plays a great role in the formation and development of one's personality and in one's life and activities. Interest refers to an individual's positive, tendentious and selective attitude and emotion with specific things, activities and people as the object. Everyone will give priority to what they are interested in and actively explore, and show their yearning. Yao Ming, for example, has a strong interest in basketball, so he will pay attention to it and devote himself to it.
Specifically, the role of interest in a person is manifested in the following aspects: First, preparation for future activities. Secondly, it will promote ongoing activities. Interest is an interest activity with strong emotions, which can make people concentrate on acquiring knowledge and creatively complete current activities. It is interest and enterprising spirit that have promoted Professor Ding's scientific research and made him a great success. Finally, advocate a creative attitude towards activities. Interest will encourage people to study deeply and work and study creatively. Therefore, people's interest not only occurs and develops in learning and activities, but also is a great motive force for understanding and engaging in activities. Yao Ming became a big star because of his interest in basketball, and we can also achieve the future because of our interest.
Yao Ming's enlightenment: Interest can open people's intelligence, enrich people's knowledge, broaden people's horizons, make people good at adapting to the environment and be full of enthusiasm for life. Interest plays a great role in the formation and development of human personality.
So people who like sports are more likely to succeed than those who don't.