The Modesty as a center of Progress

火要空心，人要虚心 A fire must have space at its center to burn vigorously; a man must be modest to make progress.

The danger of growing older, bigger, richer, smarter is to stop learning.To stop progressing.

Here lies the secret of modesty , moderation, patience and tolerance which is the essence of being Chinese.

To be modest to look common to appear ordinary is the key of being approachable.

When one is modest and for all these reasons he is open to a large number of people, he can benefit from partial knowledge of every single person.
In that sense one may wonder if the smartness of a single person , if the wealth in every sense of a single mind
is it really an attribute of a single person intelligence or mind?

Or may be the ability of that person to benefit from multitude of smart people and of mulitude of single mind.

In that way one may discover an outstanding persons secret formula as follows:

Outstanding person = high number of teachers and advisors surrounding him.

Next time you praise a person for his skills and ability, please stop a moment.

Just do justice to all his advisors and teachers.

In fact an outsTanding person is just a humble and eternal student.

Make sure to praise his ability of constant learning and praise all those who contributed to his mind set and outlook.

This words are specially designed for those who are living in the countries of blinds.

Being crossed eyed kings in the country of blinds can make you a king.

But yet the ego who can cloud your mind will cause you stop progressing.
Stop learning.

May be this is how all empires ended in history.

They just stop learning the day they thought being BIG in every sense.

The lost of the sense of modesty is a self created time bomb that stops progress.

Than this is the time when people beleive in their superiority they trigger the button of regression