I raise this subject on the basis of a little personal experience. At one time, I learned to write lyrics in poetry. When the time came, I would write what came to my mind and read it myself. I felt very happy and thought it was not bad. Later, I showed these debut works to a friend who was good at poetry and asked him to criticize. So I asked him, "What's the problem?" He said, "Your poems come too easily. You don't try too hard. You take advantage of them and show off your smarts." Hearing this, I felt a cold sweat. At first, I was not satisfied with it. Later, I spent a little more thought on the previous works and suddenly realized that my friend's criticism of me really hit home. My problem is that I don't try too hard. I put too much faith in spontaneous revelation to know that the first meaning that comes to mind is often not the best meaning, and the first words that come to mind are often not the best words. Artistic conception needs to be refined, and the words that express artistic conception also need to be refined, in order to remove the dross and reach the exquisite realm. Practice deliberation to hard work, to go to the most resistant path. Flaubert self-described the hard work of writing said: "Writing requires a superhuman will, and I am just a person!" I have the same feeling, I lack the superhuman will, can't fight hard to drill in, only toward the path of the lowest resistance. I was deeply touched by this personal experience. It was a failure, but I learned a good lesson from that failure. In my opinion, not only in literature and art, but also in any aspect of life, one cannot achieve great success by being lazy and taking advantage of others. To achieve great success, one must follow the path of greatest resistance. "Resistance" is a term in physics. Everything in the static are its inherent "inert" and continue to static, to make it move, must be added to its "power", the greater the power, the faster the move. The path of movement can not be without resistance, all things move in the direction of the lowest resistance. If the resistance is greater than the power, the movement will stop, the resistance is low, gathered up can also make the power gradually reduce to eliminate, so things can not move forever, static to it continue to move, must be a new power. This is a very simple principle in physics that can also be applied to life. Like ordinary matter, there is inertia, if he wants to move, also must have power. Man's power is his own willpower. The stronger the will, the easier to succeed; The weaker the will, the more likely to fail. But there is one important difference between man and matter in general. Matter in general moves passively, and the force which causes it to move is external; Man's movement can sometimes be active, so that his will to move is spontaneous and self-sufficient. In the case of matter, motion does not automatically increase with resistance; On the human side, willpower can automatically increase with the increase of resistance, so material is always the path to the lowest resistance, and people can go to the most resistant path. The movement of things will eventually be stopped by resistance, and the movement of people can not be stopped by resistance. According to this view, the reason why people are human, can not be the greatest resistance to yield. If we want to measure how human a person is, the best standard is his resistance to resistance, in other words, he is in the face of environmental difficulties to show the will. As I said above, people can walk in the path of the greatest resistance, and their movement can not be hindered by resistance. I say "can" rather than "must", because most people in the world are still more inertia than willpower, happy to go to the path of the lowest resistance, resistance is a little greater, he will surrender. Such a person in fact loses the characteristics of the highest life and descends to the level of inanimate matter, pushing and falling like a corpse. They will never succeed in all aspects of moral knowledge and achievement. If they get a good fortune through the mean, it will be a blessing to them. Human life is the spirit attached to the material, not free from the material often inert. The path of least resistance is often a temptation, and we may also say that any temptation can be a temptation, because it is the path of least resistance, the most suitable for human inertia. Inertia is our enemy, to overcome inertia, we must mobilize strong willpower, not afraid to go to the most resistant path. Go through, resistance even if conquered, to do things even if successful. Let's take a very simple example. You can sleep comfortably in your hot bed on a winter morning, knowing it's time to get up and you don't want to. You do not get up, is along the inertia, to the path of the lowest resistance. The warmth and comfort of the bed, the cold air outside, and the excuses to lie down for a while are all very resistant to the act of getting up, which makes you feel like a huge struggle. But if you make a resolution and say you must get up, you will get up with a shrug. This is a small thing, but it represents the conquest of your greatest resistance, the success of your designs. This is a trivial case, as all things in the world may be considered. Many great people in history can have great achievements, mostly rely on a very strong will, willing to resist the most of the path. Confucius, for example, was a great scholar with many disciples. If he had been greedy for personal comfort, he could have sat in Qufu and lived his quiet life as a scholar. However, he spent his whole life wandering about without too much food, running out of food in Chen and encountering danger to his life in Kuang, and his scurrying and squatting in a hurry was much derided by those who were not at that time. Why would he do that? Just because he has the ambition to reform the world, he will not rest until he achieves his ideal. In the Analects of Confucius, Jie Jie and Zhang Jie can best be seen in his thoughts. Both Chang and Jie were hiding in the countryside, ploughing fields. Confucius asked Zi Lu to ask them the way. When they heard that it was Confucius, they told Zi Lu, "All the world is eloquent. That is to say, the world is full of bad, who will take care of it, reform it? When Confucius heard this, he sighed and said, "Birds and beasts are not allowed to be in the same group. The world has its own way, and hills are not easy." This means that as human beings we should do what we should do; If the world were not bad, I should not bother to reform it. Confucius said in his life, I think these lines are the most painful, the greatest. Long dijie and dijie see the world no way, retreat to ploughing, is the path to the lowest resistance; Confucius saw that there was no way in the world, so he sacrificed everything to reform it, which was the path of greatest resistance. He put it simply, "There is a world in which the hills are not easy." Another example is Jesus, from the four Gospels in the New Testament, his life was the path of the greatest resistance. He abandoned his parents and brothers, rebelled against the old Jewish religion at that time, attacked the social organization at that time, and tried to build an ideal heaven in love. He went through all kinds of difficulties and hardships, and finally sacrificed his life, but refused to give up his ideal. There was a moment in the history of his life that was a very close call. He made up his mind to preach the Gospel of heaven and went into the desert for forty days and nights of penance. According to his disciples, he was constantly seduced by demons during these forty days and forty nights. The devil tempted him to fight for earthly authority, to betray God, to worship the devil himself. Jesus after 40 days and nights of struggle, finally refused the temptation of the devil, firm faith in the kingdom of heaven. From our non-Christian point of view, this story of demonic seduction is an allegory for Jesus' own inner conflict. There are two ways before him: one is the way of God, the other is the way of the devil. In God's way he would sacrifice himself, in the devil's way he would hold on to power and enjoy earthly comforts. After forty days and nights of struggle, he decided to go the most resistant way ── the way of God. In particular, I put forward a story about the seduction of demons in Jesus' life, because it can very well illustrate the conflict between nature and human desire that the neo-Confucianists of Song and Ming said. We generally do the best of good and evil rarely see, character is often a combination of nature and human desire, God and devil, our life history is often a reason and desire, God and the devil struggle history. We often wander astray, reason tells us to the east, desire lures us to the west. At such times, the power of God and the power of evil seem to be at opposite ends of the scale, and it is not clear which is the lesser. This is the time of "a thousand fates", "a misstep is eternal hate", a struggle can immediately become a sage hero. If God's end of the scale is to be heavy, we must put a little weight on it, and this weight is the will to resist temptation and overcome resistance. Some people, unable to muster a little willpower at this critical juncture, succumb to inertia and fall gently and easily, or their willpower is not strong enough, and after some conflict, they still surrender to the devil. For example, Hong Chengchou, originally a famous official in the late Ming Dynasty, wanted to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty and restore the rivers and mountains. After the Qing soldiers entered the customs, it was expected that he would die to die for his country. The Qing soldiers tried to persuade him to surrender. To give another example at hand, Wang Jingwei had worked very hard for the national revolution in the first half of his life. When the War of Resistance began, he made an impassioned radio speech. Who expected to his wealth edifice, once the enemy seduced, he began to betray the bad thoughts of the party. But he could not show any willpower, so he admitted his mistake and accepted the responsibility as his father. Many people in the world are like Wang Jingwei and Hong Chengchou. At a critical juncture, they refuse to fight for breath and go carelessly towards the path of the lowest resistance. This is a striking example. In fact, when we are involved in life, there are two paths, one is the least resistant, the other is the most resistant. For example, when a student, not determined to do knowledge, only perfunctory homework, mixed scores diploma; After graduation do not come up with the ability to serve the society, only run flattery, pleasing to talented and deep; When doing things, they do not get things done, only blindly follow the casual and casual work, even corrupt and adulterous, catch money when it comes, whether it is legitimate or not -- this is to give up the path of the greatest resistance and take the path of the lowest resistance. This kind of psychology, if full, can gradually make a person degenerate. I would dig into the root causes of corruption in the present Chinese society and conclude that it is all due to laziness. Lazy, so muddle along perfunctory, do not seriously; Lazy, so greedy small cheap, with improper methods to solve the personal livelihood; Lazy, so do as the vulgar ups and downs, blindly smooth, dare not struggle for justice and justice; Lazy, so when tempted to fall, personal life without discipline, social life without order. The intellectual class is lazy, so there is no progress in culture and scholarship; Officials are lazy, so politics is not on track; The average person is lazy, so the whole society is lazy and sleepy. Laziness is the root of all evil, that is, the path to the lowest resistance. If we want to reform Chinese society, the first psychological destruction work is to get rid of laziness, the first psychological construction work is to promote the spirit of struggle. Life is a struggle, can not struggle, lose the meaning of life and value; Can struggle, the world rarely can not conquer the difficulties. As the old saying goes, "Where there is a will, there is a way." Demosthenes was the greatest orator in Greece. He was born with a stammer and could not speak clearly, but he was determined to become a great orator. Every day he went to the sea by himself and practiced his orations towards the sea. Adlerian psychologists often cite this example. According to them, when people feel that they have defects, they get the "sense of meanness" and feel ashamed of being inferior to others, so they start a kind of "male protest" in their hearts, saying that they are also human, and I should not be inferior to others, and I will use my willpower to make up for the natural defects.