July 07th 2017 Week 27th Friday

Learn wisdom by the follies of others.

要从别人的愚行中学到智慧。

How to become smart or what characters should a man have so that he can be considered as smart or wise?

People say a smart man, like most of his peers, also makes mistakes, but they can learns from their past mistakes, and never makes those same mistakes again.

But that is far from enough to be a wise man.

A wise man can find out a smart man and learn from him about how to avoid making mistakes.

Please don't be afraid of making mistakes, it is normal of human, only those who did nothing never made mistakes.

And it is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes, and then make amends for them.

To make mistake is only an error in judgement, we still have the possibility to compensate for the past mistakes as long as we don't give up trying.

Remember, a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

 

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

公众是非常宽容的，他们能够原谅一切，除了天才以外。

From Oscar Wilde.

How ridiculous.

We need to surrender old perceptions and open ourselves to new ones that reflect the love and wisdom of the public, to release fear, guilt, unresolved relief, and letting them be replaced by love and joy.

In the actual fact, the public often give their respects and tolerance to those genius generously, and of course, they also expect too much of those genius.

When those genius err on somethings, the public may criticise their misdeeds at first, but then, they would say, everyone would make some mistakes, so just let us forgive them.

We shouldn't be so cynical, even if we had been abandoned by the public for our errors, we still can win their trust back by our earnest efforts.

The process to regain other's respectation may be very hard, but the work is worthwhile.