Classic Wisdom stories: the Life of carrots, eggs and Coffee beans

A girl who had just graduated from Harvard complained to her father about her life and that everything was so difficult. She doesn't know how to cope with life and wants to give herself up. She was tired of life and career, as if no sooner had a problem been solved than a new one appeared.

Her father is a cook, in order to change his daughter's attitude towards life, her father took her into the kitchen. He first poured some water into the three pots and then put them on the fire. When the water boiled, he put some carrots in one pot, eggs in the second pot, and powdered coffee beans in the last pot. After my father had done all these things, he didn't say a word.

The daughter waited impatiently, wondering what her father was doing. About 20 minutes later, my father turned off the fire, fished out the carrots and put them in a bowl, eggs in another bowl, and finally scooped the coffee into a cup. After doing this, he turned around and asked his daughter, "Honey, what do you see?" "carrots, eggs, coffee." She answered.

The father asked his daughter to come closer and let her touch the carrots. She touched them and noticed that the carrots had softened. The father asked his daughter to take an egg and break it. After she peeled off the shell, a hard-boiled egg was exposed. Finally, the father let her drink coffee, tasted the strong coffee, the daughter smiled. She asked timidly, "Father, what are you doing to tell me?"

He explained that the three things faced the same adversity-boiling water, but reacted differently. Before entering the pot, the carrot is strong and strong, showing no sign of weakness, but after entering the boiling water, it becomes softer and weaker. The egg was fragile and its thin shell protected its liquid body, but it hardened as soon as it was boiled in boiling water. Only powdered coffee beans are unique, and when they enter the boiling water, they change the water. "which one do you want to be?" The father asked his daughter, "how should you react when adversity comes to you?" Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean? " The daughter suddenly realized that she also realized her father's good intentions.

What about you, are you a carrot that seems tough, but flinches, weakens and loses its strength after suffering and adversity? Are you a malleable egg in your heart? You used to be an uncertain person, but after death, breakup, divorce or unemployment, have you become strong and stubborn? Your shell looks like it used to be, but have you become tough and tough because of your strong character and heart? Or you are like a coffee bean, changing the boiling water that brings pain to it and giving it its best fragrance when it reaches high temperature. When the water is hottest, it tastes better.

Harvard philosophy

"being strong can regard setbacks as challenges and turn setbacks into motivation to forge ahead and keep moving forward." Harvard professors ask their students to do so. Nine times out of ten there are unsatisfactory things in life, but we should learn to think often. Everything is up to me. Even if things that don't go well can't find you, you still have the right to choose how to face them.