Discussion about emulating those who are more sagacious than ourselves When we are working and struggling for something in the world, we are impossible to fight singly without any team members' help. In the modern world, there are millions of people who are highly related to each other. When we are in family, we live together wth our siblings and parents; when we are at school classes, we study together with our classmates; when we join school clubs or participate in activities outside school, we cooperate with our group members; when we are working in the society, we work with our staffs. Thus, we can say that we need to live for others in almost all kinds of occasions. If we can't hold a good attitude toward getting along with others, we fall short of our parents and friends expectations, waste off our time, and would have fewer friends. I think that an essential attitude toward all people around us is to emulate those who are more sagacious than ourselves. Confucius said, "I will find someone whom I can emulate to and learn something from when walking among any three people.". It is really a celebrated dictum full of much wisdom in ancient China. When we are overproud and self-conceited, we tend to look down on those who are not so intelligent as us, but feel shameful to learn something from the ones who are mre knowledgeable than us. It's just the kind of obsolete attitude that ordinary people hold. However, some wise people can just hold the principle which Confucius said, and they are often the ones who are welcomed among their comrades and finally successful. Some may wonder that if a person has those group members who are idiotic and indolent, and he also learn something from anyone of them as well? Another proverb said by Confucius has explained about it. He said, "On seeing a man of virtue, try to become his equal; on seeing a man without virtue, examine yourself not to have the same defects.". Although those vicious or less intelligent ones can't enlighten or benefit us by their concepts and learning, we can reflect on our faults more clearly by observing their wrongs and characters. There was a good example in Chinese history about what is emulating those who are more sagacious than ourselves. Liu-Bei, the leader of Shu, was not the advantaged country in the last years of East-Han in which was just the time that the whole world was in disorder, was born to be a nobleman. However, he was not haughty and did all things or led the army at will, but very humble. He unders. At that time he earnestly wanted to find a prodigy who could change the fate of his country, and he knew that a person called Sleep Dragon was a real prodigy and living far away. How good the example for us is that he can condescend to visit one person who seem to be vulgar and poor. He visited him for three times until he really meeted him. After he possessed the very great military consellor, ChuKeLiang, the actual strength of Shu country was highly enhanced. Later, they defeated Tsao's great army made up of over two hundered thousand soldiers by merely a fifty-thousand-soldier army. In conclusion, all humans have their own merits and demerits. It's impossible for anyone to learn things well only by themselves without asking others, and tt's also very difficult for people to be conscious of the faults made by themselves. Thus, the principle that need to be kept in mind is to emulate those who are more sagacious than ourselves. --

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