Your troubles are caused by yourself(庸人自擾)
During the Tang Dynasty in China, there was
a famous minister named (Lu Xiangxian).
There is a story about him in history
books.
He is a senior judicial official.
Once, a junior official in his team made a
mistake.
He only gave a verbal warning without
actually punishing the junior official.
A middle-ranking official came to his
office in private.
Said the middle-ranking official.
I think your approach is wrong. You should
punish this junior official according to the strictest standards.
He replied.
I believe in the kindness of human nature, and I think we should give him a chance to repent.
If I treat all subordinates in accordance
with the strictest standards, are you sure that you will not make mistakes and
that you will not be punished by me.
He went on to say.
There are many things that are solved in a
very simple way, but the way people deal with it has caused this matter to
become more and more complicated and more difficult to solve.
The purpose of our penalties is to hope that this person becomes better, and we hope that this person can improve.
These penalties are just one of many ways
to make this person change.
We should figure out what our purpose is to
do this thing, so that the way we solve this thing will not cause bigger and
more problems.
This idiom is used to describe a person in
order to solve a problem, but his solution creates more problems.
Dear friend, what inspiration or thoughts did you have after hearing this story.
Do you agree with (Lu Xiangxian)'s point of view? Do you only focus on the method of solving the problem, and forget the purpose of doing this?
I hope this story will give you some new
gains.
庸人自擾(Your troubles are caused by yourself)
中國的唐王朝時代，有一個著名的大臣，他的名字叫做(陸象先)。
歷史書中記載了一個他的故事。
他是一名高級的司法官員。
有一次，他的團隊中有一個初級官吏犯了錯誤。
他只是口頭警告而沒有實際的處罰這位初級官吏。
一個中階官吏就私底下到他的辦公室。
這個中階官吏說。
我認為你的做法是錯的，你應該按照最嚴格的標準去懲罰這位初級官吏。
他回答。
如果我對待所有部屬都是按照最嚴格的標準，你確定你之後不會犯錯，你之後不會被我處罰嗎。
他接著說。
有很多事情解決的方式很簡單，但是人們的處理方式卻導致這件事情變得愈來愈複雜，愈來愈難以解決。
我們訂定罰則的目的是希望這個人變好，我們希望這個人能夠改進。
這些罰則只是讓這個人改變的許多手段之一。
我們應該搞清楚我們做這件事情的目的是甚麼，才不會因為解決這件事情的方式又產生的更大更多的問題。
這句成語被用來形容一個人為了解決一件問題，但他的解決方法卻造了更多的問題。
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。
你認同(陸象先)的觀點嗎?你是否只關注解決問題的方法，而忘了做這件事情的目的呢?
我期待這故事能讓你產生一些新的收穫。
出處為新唐書-列傳-卷四十一-陸象先傳