How far can a clumsy person go?
Zeng Guofan lived for sixty-two years, and the first half of his life was stumbling.
He is stupid. I had to memorize it all night to remember it, and even after ten years as an official, I was scolded "useless" by the emperor in front of him.
He is miserable. After the Jinggang defeat, he threw himself into the water and was rescued. After the Hukou defeat, he tried to swallow gold and committed suicide. Qimen was surrounded and wrote a suicide note and waited to die.
He wanted to die.
But he didn't die.
From a scholar to the commander of the Hunan Army, from repeated defeats to turning the tide -
He used twenty years of persistence to prove:
Failure is not the end, giving up is.
This is not just the story of a historical figure.
This is the story of everyone who asks themselves "should I go on" in a desperate situation?
Repeated defeats and repeated battles, repeated battles and repeated courage.
