You can learn from others, but don't lose yourself (邯鄲學步)
(Zhuang Zhou) is one of the most famous philosophers in Chinese history.
He wrote a story.
There was a famous intellectual named (Gongsunlong).
After he had a conversation with (Zhuang
Zhou), he was completely unable to understand what(Zhuang Zhou) shared.
He was very puzzled. He didn't know why this happened.
So (Gongsunlong) went to ask a nobleman
from Zhongshan Kingdom, whose name was (Wei Mou).
(Wei Mou) After hearing (Gongsunlong)'s question, he laughed.
He said to (Gongsunlong).
If a mosquito says he wants to fly with a
mountain on his back, do you think it is possible?
If a centipede says he wants to swim across
a big river, do you think it is possible?
The cultural education of the Zhao Kingdom
is very advanced.
So some wealthy people from the Yan Kingdom
sent their 13-15 year olds to study in the capital of the Zhao Kingdom.
But these young people are too young and
their mental development is not sound enough.
When these young people grow up and return
to their hometowns.
His family only discovered that these
children had not learned the essence of the Zhao Kingdom’s culture, and to make
matters worse, he had even forgotten the culture he learned in the Yan Kingdom
when he was a child.
The condition of these people is like a
person cannot stand and can only lie on the ground, because they don't have a
complete system of thought.
So you should go back and consolidate the
knowledge you know now. Otherwise, in your current situation, if you want to
learn the content shared by (Zhuang Zhou), I am worried that you will even
collapse your original knowledge structure.
This idiom is used to describe a person who
only wants to imitate others, but in the end he loses his own advantages.
Dear friend, what inspiration or thoughts
did you have after hearing this story.
When facing things that you don’t
understand, do you keep learning with humility or arrogantly despise others?
Have you established your own value system and proposition?
I hope this story will give you some new
gains.
邯鄲學步(You can learn from others, but don't
lose yourself)
莊周是中國歷史上最著名的哲學家之一。
他寫過一個故事。
有一個當時著名的知識分子，名字叫做公孫龍。
他與莊周對談之後，他卻完全無法理解莊周所分享的內容。
他很疑惑。他不知道為什麼會發生這種事。
所以公孫龍便去請教一位中山王國的貴族，這位貴族的名字叫做(魏牟)。
(魏牟)聽完公孫龍的問題後，他就笑了。
他對公孫龍說。
如果有一隻蚊子表示他想要背著一座山飛行，你覺得可能嗎。
如果有一隻蜈蚣表示他想要游泳橫渡一條大河，你覺得可能嗎。
趙王國的文化教育很發達。
所以有一些燕王國的有錢人，把他們家中13-15歲的青少年，送到趙王國的首都去留學。
但是這些青少年的年紀太輕，心智發展還不夠健全。
等這些青少年長大回到自己的故鄉。
他的家人們才發現，這些孩子沒有學到趙王國的文化中的精髓，更糟糕的是，他連自已小時候在燕王國學習的文化根本都忘光了。
這些人的狀況就像是一個人無法站立只能趴在地上，因為他們沒有一套完整的思想體系了。
所以你還是先回去鞏固好自己現在所知道的知識，不然以你現在的這種情況，想要學習莊周分享給你的內容，我擔心你會連自己原本的知識結構都會崩塌呢。
這句成語被用來形容一個人只想要仿效他人，但結果卻連自己本來的優點都失去了。
親愛的朋友，你聽完這個故事有怎樣的啟發或有怎樣的想法呢。
你在面對自已不懂的事情時，是保持謙卑的學習還是自大的輕視別人呢?你是否已經建立了自我的價值體系與主張呢?
我期待這故事能讓你產生一些新的收穫。