What an attractive word success is. Many people want to succeed, but how can they succeed? In my opinion, if you want to succeed, you must defeat yourself first.

Gao Min, a famous Chinese diver, won the gold medal in springboard diving at the 24th Olympic Games. Before the game, a reporter asked her: "Who is your opponent? She replied:" It's me. I challenge myself first.

Of course, the strength of Gao Min plays an extremely important role in getting on the podium. However, the most important thing is confidence. She always believes that the premise of winning is to defeat herself.

At all times and in all countries, there are some people of insight who often tell young people: "Be determined and restrain yourself.".

During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang wrote a letter to his son and nephew, asking them to "aspire to a higher future. To do this, we must" be ruthless and go to pieces.

Hegel said: "A person who aspires to great achievements must know how to limit himself, as Goethe said.

To link success with self denial can be regarded as insightful talk. There has never been easy learning in the world, so we must restrain our desires. Concentrate and go all out. A person's energy is always limited. If we think more about this aspect, we will have less. Therefore, we should put our energy in meaningful places and restrain ourselves from some unnecessary desires in order to succeed.

If you want to defeat yourself, you should be confident first, and restrain yourself second.