Mao Sui Recommends Himself
平原君要选人出使，毛遂自我推荐。众人怀疑，毛遂以锥处囊中为喻：才能若在，终会显露；此刻正该自荐。最终他在楚廷促成合纵。成语鼓励有准备的自荐。
When Lord Pingyuan needed envoys, Mao Sui volunteered. Doubted, he compared talent to an awl in a sack—it will pierce through; now is the time to step forward. He later helped secure an alliance in Chu. The idiom praises prepared self-recommendation.
真正的自荐建立在实力与时机上，不是空喊。
Self-advocacy works when backed by skill and timing, not noise.
After the moral, ask one question: if a similar choice showed up today, where does the story snag? Name that tension first—then take your own step. You need not copy the ancients, only borrow their clarity.