We can see from the illustration there is a father talking to his son. Having heard his son’swords “Dad, I am a bit worried about disposing of nuclear weapons”, the father replies, “Ifyou can empty the dustbin here, you can do anything”, pointing the garbage can beside him.

　　Funny and common as the conversationsounds,father intends to advise his son to do smallthings before undertaking the big.Unquestionably, doing small things is the first step of success and will layroot for doing something big. By doing something small, we are enabled to accumulate experience, master skills and train ourselvesto be more patient. In other word, we can be well prepared for furtherchallenges in the course of fulfilling small things. By contrast, those who set out to do something big will be constantlyhaunted by disappointment, frustrations or even failures. As when opportunity “something big” appears, they can hardly seize thembecause of the lack of experience and confidence stems from doing small things.Taking the picture presented above as a case in point, how can the little boysucceed in disposing of nuclear weapons if he even doesn’t know how to emptythe dustbin?

　　From my perspective, under nowe undervalue the power of doing small things. Instead, wethings as the source of experience, skills and the prerequisite ofsuccess. “Great achievement only belongs to those who can do small thingsperfectly.” Aristotle once said.