人才使用,当用其所长,避其所短。从长处看人,世无无用之才;从短处看人,人人难逃平庸。西邻五子食无愁在《泾野子内篇》一书中,记录着一位西邻。此人有五子,但五子“各有千秋”:长子质朴,次子聪明,三子目盲,四子背驼,五子脚跛。按照常理看,这家的当家人日子很难过,可是西邻有方,日子过得还蛮不错哩。细一打听,原来他对自己的五个儿子各有安排:老大质朴,正好让他务农;老二聪慧,正好让他经商;老三目盲,正好让他按摩;老四背驼,正好让他搓绳;老五足跛,正好让他纺线。你看,这一家子人,各展其长,各得其所,“不患于食焉”。试想,如若西邻仅仅考虑三个残疾儿子的问题,还不把自己愁死吗?但他转换一个思维角度,从用长避短的角度出发,发现 Talent use, with its director, to avoid its short. People from the point of view, there is no useless world; people from the shortcomings, everyone can not escape mediocrity. Five children eat food without worry in the West, “Ino sub-chapter,” a book, recorded a west. This person has five children, but the five “different”: the eldest son is simple, the second son is clever, the third son blind, four back llamas, five feet lame. According to common sense, this family’s day is very sad, but the west is good, life fantastic. Carefully asked, so he had his own arrangements for the five sons: boss simple, just let him farming; second smart, just let him business; the third blind, just let him massage; the fourth camel, just so that He rubbed the rope; the old five-foot lame, just let him spinning. You see, this family, each show its own length, have their own place, “do not suffer from food Yan.” Just think, if West only consider the issue of three disabled sons, do not worry about yourself? But he converted a thinking point of view, from the long-term perspective, found that