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ISSUE241
Encouraging young people to believe that they can accomplish great things if they try hard enough is both misleading and potentially harmful.
Encouragement is quite helpful to not only the professions but also the laymen as well. Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push. However, it is always a hard job for experts to lead the newcomers entering the major field. Problems, like in what kind of method to give a hand or how to guide a young man, are the significant and even hard.
As we all know, human usually transfer the knowledge generation-by-generation, and the young man mostly makes new improvement and contribution in the right time and right place. For example, most scientists completed their masterpieces and discoveries before their mid-age, like Nyquist, Newton, Einstein and Maxwell. All of them made their achievement in twenties. Because, during that age, they are full of energy, creativity, inspiration and knowledge, which greatly help them to catch up the new information and stand on the cutting edge of the science and technology. Lively just as fresh blood into a body. As Newton once said as gratitude, he just stood on the giant ancestors. Therefore, young people need more care and support during this golden time.
Encouragement is always helpful and warm hearted to the young man, but they could only walk the career route by themselves. As the famous saying told us, you can take the horse to the river, but you cannot oblige it to drink the water. Usually tutors or supervisors could not directly be involved in your work. They just open the door for you like a watch, and new comers should experience their own world and solve their own problems. That means all the difficulties will be coming to you and you must equip them by themselves. Generally speaking, it is better for the layman to try the simple method with basic skills to do the first, and then turn to the next for more progress and development. While sometimes it seems they are lonely, interesting is the only friend accompanying. But, as a matter of fact, it is their own diligent work that results in attaining your sweet fruit finally.
Spiritual support is always necessary and humanity, but boosting selfishness is in some degree useless and even harmful. So that young man should be self-awareness and clarify their current situation, whether he or she can accomplish the things and make great achievements on the coming project. Sometime, difficult always exists in the way. You cannot move it by the emotion way. For instance, the Sydney Opera House is really a hard project for that young architect. Because of the funds and time limited, together with the traditional technology in that period. At first, no one knows when the building will be finished and what will it be looked like. At last, it is in fact not the original shape of the design. Seems, the encouragement is quite misleading. But later the architect becomes more and more experienced and successful, maybe learning a lot from that bitter lesson.
In conclusion, human are always willing to transfer more, guide more and even encourage more to the younglings, who will be the sunset of the new epoch. This behavior is certainly worthy and foreseeing, if using more considerate way instead of just praising them in the idealism. Otherwise it will cause negative effect probably invalid and potentially harmful. |
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