It takes a long time to cultivate an
excellent talent(百年樹人)
During the Spring and Autumn Period in
China, there was an outstanding statesman in the Qi Kingdom. His name is (Guan
Zhong).
He is known as one of the most capable
prime ministers in Chinese history.
After his death, his students wrote a book
in which his thoughts and philosophy were recorded.
There is a passage in the book as follows.
If you're going to be productive after a
year, you need to know how to grow rice.
If you're going to be productive in ten
years, you need to know how to plant trees.
If you are going to be productive in your
life, you need to know how to cultivate talent.
You spend a year growing rice, and you'll
more than double your harvest a year later.
You spend a year planting trees, and in ten
years you will have ten times as much harvest.
You spend a year of energy cultivating
talents, and you will eventually get more than a hundred times the harvest.
Although we cannot see results in the
short-term in cultivating talents, we still have to do it.
We can't predict the future, we don't know
when we'll need the talent we've nurtured.
If a leader can nurture talent with this
mindset, then that leader will accomplish great things.
This idiom means that it is very difficult
to cultivate talents, and it also means that it takes a long time to cultivate
talents.
Dear friends, what inspiration or thoughts
do you have after listening to this story?
Have you ever planted flowers or trees? How
do you think one should educate oneself after leaving school?
I hope this story will give you something
new to gain.
百年樹人(It takes a long time to cultivate an
excellent talent)
中國的春秋時代，齊王國有一位傑出的政治家。他的名字是(管仲)。
他被稱為中國歷史上最有能力的宰相之一。
他過世之後，他的學生們寫了一本書，這本書中記錄了他的思想與哲學。
書裡面有一段文字如下。
如果你一年之後要有所成果，你要知道如何種植稻米。
如果你十年之後要有所成果，你要知道如何種植樹木。
如果你的一生要有所成果，你要知道如何培育人才。
你花了一年的精力種植稻米，你一年後就會有一倍以上的收成。
你花了一年的精力種植樹木，你十年後就會有十倍以上的收成。
你花了一年的精力培育人才，你終究會獲得百倍以上的收成。
培育人才雖然短期看不見成效，但我們還是要做。
我們無法預測未來，我們不知道我們何時會需要用到這些我們培育的人才。
如果一個領導者可以用這個心態去培育人才，那麼這個領導者會成就偉大的事業。
這句成語的意思是培養人才非常不易，也有培育人才是需要長時間去培養的意思。
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。
你有種過花或是種過樹嗎?你認為一個人離開學校後要如何自我教育呢?
我期待這故事能讓你產生一些新的收穫。
出處為管子-權修-11條