A wonderful comment on the misfortune of a child prodigy

There is a child named Fang Zhongyong, whose family has been farmers for generations. He had never seen what paper and ink looked like when he was five years old. One day, Fang Zhongyong suddenly cried and asked his family for paper and ink, saying that he wanted to write poems. His father immediately borrowed a pen and ink, and Fang Zhongyong wrote a poem. After several scholars in the same village learned about it, they all came to see it and agreed that he wrote well. So it spread quickly. Fang Zhongyong's prodigy spread to the county, causing a shock, and people thought he was a prodigy. The rich people in the county admired Fang Zhongyong very much and gave him money to help him. In this way, Fang Zhongyong's father thought it was a profitable good thing, so he didn't let him study. On the contrary, he took Fang Zhongyong to visit the rich every day to show Fang Zhongyong's poetic genius, thus winning praise and rewards from those people. In this way, the prodigy gradually failed. Over time, Fang Zhongyong went from bad to worse, because he only relied on a little "genius" and did not learn the day after tomorrow. By the age of twenty, all his talents had disappeared, no different from ordinary people. Unfortunately, a talented teenager turned into a mediocre person in the end.

From this fable, we can see that a person's innate wisdom will attract people's attention and admiration, but it is not enough to pay attention to the acquired learning and accept new knowledge, and will only lag behind others in the end. There is a saying: Genius is equal to 1% talent plus 99% sweat. Only talent, no sweat, it is impossible to become a permanent talent. Moreover, both genius and ordinary people should learn the good habit of studying all the time. Don't think that you are already smart and don't need to study any more. To be honest, there is no best, only better. There are more than two sentences that can prove that Fang Zhongyong's father is wrong. For example, if the brain is not used often, it will rust. Just because he was smart when he was five, just like Fang Zhongyong, doesn't mean he will be smart in the future. The poems he wrote at the age of thirteen are much worse than before.