The Path of the Sage

Chapter 3017: Self-reinvention

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Fang Sheng is blind!

A confirmed piece of news spread across the Shengyuan Continent as if it had wings.

The people of Qing applauded, and many men also applauded, but women from all over the country burst into tears, thinking that Fang Yun had hurt himself for them.

After visiting Wang Jinglong and Chen Qingzhi successively, Fang Yun returned to Quan Garden. He was drinking tea when he heard the news. If it were not for the strong control ability of the semi-saint, he almost spit out the best Wu Ling Divine Tea in his mouth.

Every drop of water in the Wu Ling Magic Tea contains a complete tea leaf, and on each complete tea leaf there is a Wu Ling sleeping. Each Wu Ling is a complete magical medicine.

Fang Yun shook his head and continued to drink tea and think.

At this time, Fang Yun did not really rest, because his holy mind was quickly recalling everything that had happened from the last time he left the Shengyuan Continent and entered the Haiya Ancient Land to today.

It was not enough to recall it once, Fang Yun thought about it over and over again.

Thinking over and over again is not enough. In the literary world, Shen Nian Fang Yun also uses his divine thoughts to turn into words to record all important things.

It is not enough to just record, Fang Yun also has to make judgments, whether it is right or wrong, good or bad, whether there are better options, what he would do if he did it now, etc.

What happened in the past cannot be changed, but what happened in the past can change everything in the present and the future.

The action has been completed. After Fang Yun reflected on it, he did not stop, but proceeded to the third step, summarizing.

The holy thoughts exerted their full power, and the powerful force of the holy way began to summarize the previous reflections, extracting various laws and rules, which made Fang Yun have new views on many things.

Only by reforming yourself can you reform the world.

Before being canonized, Fang Yun realized that he had not paid enough attention to his own innovation. It was because of his lack of ability, too fast promotion, and insufficient training.

However, the Archaic Era made up for this shortcoming.

In ancient times, Fang Yun learned to innovate and iterate himself.

At this moment, Fang Yun has summarized the steps of self-reform, which can be roughly divided into four steps.

Record behavior, reflect on behavior, summarize patterns, test feedback, and then continue to record behavior, forming a continuous cycle, so as to constantly innovate and improve yourself, making yourself stronger and stronger.

These four steps seem very simple.

Fang Yun observed and recalled the people he knew in the past according to the standard of self-reform, and made new discoveries.

Almost all educated people can complete the first step, but many non-educated people cannot even complete the first step. Rather than making progress, they are just passively spinning in place.

Many people often cannot remember everything that happened, nor do they take the initiative to record things in the past. Then, it is as if everything did not happen.

Among those who read, most people cannot complete the second step. It is not because they do not reflect, but because they have not completed the most important foundation before reflection: knowing themselves.

These people have some common characteristics. Sometimes they are careless, sometimes they just muddle through. When they encounter failure, they say it is bad luck, mistakes, or external factors. Some will take the initiative to do things, and some will even discover their own shortcomings or lack of ability.

However, this alone is not enough to be considered as knowing oneself. Knowing oneself does not mean saying that one is inadequate in general, but rather being able to discover that one is inadequate in a specific area, and there will be a tendency to do everything possible to make up for this specific deficiency, rather than just thinking that one is incapable.

Only by finding ways to make up for the shortcomings can people consciously reflect.

Only then did Fang Yun understand that the reason Zengzi could say such profound truths as “I examine myself three times a day” was not because Zengzi was wise enough; and the reason Confucius could say “When three people walk together, there must be one who can be my teacher” and “When you see a virtuous person, you should strive to emulate him” was not because Confucius was wise enough.

Even Confucius and Zengzi were not humble enough.

It is the two people who have the ability to recognize themselves, see through themselves, and have the motivation to change and improve.

Humility without roots is nothing but escape and self-abandonment.

The real humility comes from knowing yourself.

The reason why most people cannot recognize themselves is because recognizing themselves is too painful. It is like taking a knife and carefully dissecting one's skin, texture, blood vessels, and bones. The vast majority of people cannot bear this pain, so they choose to escape. Therefore, they cannot be truly humble and it is impossible for them to complete reflection.

Only on the basis of reflection can we discover the internal laws of everything through the appearances of actions and experience.

However, the rules discovered by anyone cannot be absolutely correct. We must take the final step and test the rules based on the rules we have summarized, accept feedback from the outside world, continue to act, continue to reflect, continue to summarize, and continue to test...

When this system of self-renewal begins to circulate, continuously turning like a windmill, this person will inevitably become more and more powerful.

Such a person may not be able to possess the Supreme Holy Path, but he is definitely closer to the Supreme Holy Path than others.

After completing the summary, Fang Yun stopped his self-innovation and closed his eyes to rest.

After a short nap, Fang Yun browsed the discussion list and quickly read the contents. Not only was he not angry, but there was a hint of enlightenment in his eyes.

In the discussion list, there were endless articles opposing the simultaneous examination of men and women. Some people even implicitly pointed out that Fang Yun was blind because he had done something wrong and was punished by God.

Fang Yun’s holy thoughts entered the discussion list and began to record a large number of comments, then sorted and analyzed them, and finally discovered many interesting things.

In the discussion about killing Qing Jun, some people could only see the surface and thought that Fang Yun was simply a villain with an inflated mentality, who relied on his status as a semi-saint to do whatever he wanted. They were disappointed with Fang Yun's behavior.

Some people have a different perspective and believe that Fang Yun's behavior was inappropriate, but Qing Jun also deserved to die, and Fang Yun was just exercising the power of a semi-saint.

Some people don't care whether Qing Jun lives or dies, they only care about how the people of Qing live in the future.

Only a few people did not pay any attention to Fang Yun's act of killing Qing Jun, but discussed the deeper reasons behind it and explored Fang Yun's intentions.

Everyone has a different understanding of everything.

Some people have deeper understanding, some people have broader understanding.

Some people think that their knowledge is deep and broad.

Everyone's cognition is expressed in words and actions.

Only when the windmill of innovation starts turning can cognition be deepened or broadened.

Fang Yun sighed. If there had not been the strange book world and the experience in the ancient times, he would not have chosen this path.

Since you have chosen, just go for it.

Living alone in a room, Fang Yun slowly opened his eyes.

An unprecedented look of determination appeared on Fang Yun's face.

As the Tongsheng Examination on March 15th drew closer, the opinions opposing the simultaneous examination of both male and female students on the discussion list became increasingly intense.

However, another big news broke out on the discussion board.

"We must find out the murderer who slandered the Kong family!"

The scholars who saw the title were shocked. That was the Kong family. Even if all the semi-saints alive were put together, they could not bring down the Kong family. Is there anyone who dares to target the Kong family

Everyone clicked in to take a closer look out of curiosity, and after seeing it, a huge wave of shock rose in their hearts.