Rockefeller’s Letter to His Son

There is a good saying from a person of wisdom, “Education contains many aspects, but it doesn’t teach you anything itself!” This great person has shown us a truth: If you don’t take any action, even the most useful, beautiful and available philosophies are useless. I always believe that opportunity is created by opportunity. Any seemingly excellent plan has disadvantages, though just a common plan it is. However, if you can really implement it and keep on, that should be better than a good plan which has been given up halfway, because the former is fighting all the time, but the latter is wasting all previous efforts. There is no secret of success. In order to obtain positive results in life, owning exceptional intelligence and special skills is certainly fine, but if not, that doesn’t matter. As long as you work vigorously, you can also approach success. The sad truth is that most people haven’t remembered this warning, resulting in making themselves mediocre. Have a look at those ordinary people, and you will find that they are living passively, because what they have said is far more than what they have done, only speaking without doing anything. Every one of them is good at finding excuses for himself, so he will find all kinds of excuses to postpone his plan until it has been proven that he is truly wrong or incapable of doing anything or too late to do it. The most frustrating thing in life is that you have always been thinking too much, which not only leads to no enough time left to accomplish your goal, but makes you worry too much about numerous steps in the process and then feel shocked. Therefore, all is in vain actually. We must admit that no one can accomplish all things, so we should focus on what we can do and devote ourselves to it.