Review of 'Small Great Things': A NovelIn my opinion, 'Small Great Things' is a must - read. It's a novel that tackles difficult topics with grace. The character arcs are well - crafted, and you can see the growth and transformation of the characters throughout the story. The courtroom scenes are especially intense and add to the overall drama. The exploration of the relationships between the different characters, across racial lines, is one of the strongest aspects of this novel. It gives a real - life feel to the fictional story, making it relatable and impactful.
To achieve great things, do small things firstThe development of anything was from small to large, from small to large, and gradually accumulated to achieve a qualitative leap. As the Tao Te Ching says in Chapter 64," A tree that is held together is born from a tiny bit; a nine-story platform is born from a pile of soil; a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." This showed that big things started from small things.
To achieve great things, one must pay attention to small things, because great things were formed by small things. If one wanted to achieve great things and achieve long-term development, they had to complete it bit by bit. If they did not take small things seriously, big things would just be empty talk. For example, building a house. The big goal of building a house was to accumulate small things like bricks and tiles. Only by putting bricks and tiles together could a house be built.
In real life, many people tended to aim too high and only see the big goals and ignore the small things in front of them. For example, Chen Fan of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when he was young, he had the ambition to eliminate all disasters in the world, but he disdained to clean the courtyard. Xue Qin warned him that if he could not even clean a house well, how could he govern the world? Later, Chen Fan started from the trivial matters around him and eventually became a famous official. There were also young people who had just graduated. They were ambitious and wanted to show their talents in important positions, but when they were asked to do some inconspicuous work, they felt that they were overqualified. They did things carelessly and could not do small things well.
Lao Tzu said," Great things in the world must be done in detail." Xun Zi also proposed," The smallest is the greatest, and the smallest is the greatest." These two points clearly illustrated the relationship between achieving great things and doing small things. At the same time, perseverance was also needed when doing small things, such as "no small steps, no great distance; no small streams, no rivers." If you give up, rotten wood will not break; if you persevere, gold and stone can be carved. Only by doing small things step by step and persevering can you achieve great things.
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