Author: Gong Jinhui
Recently, foreign media published the full text of an interview with Musk, the world's richest man, in which he answered many questions related to space, cryptocurrency, Tesla, brain-computer interface, consciousness, AI, history, life and philosophy in a 2.5-hour interview, and also brought a lot of practical advice to young people.
Musk said that he should try to do something useful and beneficial to humanity and the world. Of course, doing useful things is hard, very hard. He likes to encourage others to expand their lives with physical tools of thought, which is the best tool. I hope that people will read more books, digest as much knowledge as possible, and establish a general view of knowledge, and find ways to find the intersection of talent and interest.
In fact, Musk is not the first tech tycoon to advise young people to read more, and Zhou Hongyi, the head of 360, has also made similar suggestions. He kindly reminded that ugly people should read more books, and developing the habit of reading quickly and massively can benefit you for a lifetime.
Zhou Hongyi took himself as an example, bluntly saying that he had many bad problems, no patience, short temper, sometimes with people, immature, but from an early age love to learn, develop a good habit of loving to read, so a large number of dabble in a variety of books. He believes that reading books not only benefits him a lot, but also promotes the development of the company.
"Back in the past two years, it is true that because the company is busy and exceeds my bandwidth, so the two years have not improved much, because I have read less, and I can still read dozens of books at least every year before two years." Zhou Hongyi put forward the soul torture, now that mobile phones are becoming more and more popular, in addition to making us quickly blind and staying up late every day, do we really get a lot of wisdom from fragmented reading?
Now many people are full of tension and uneasiness when reading every day, always feel that there is more information left unread, afraid of missing something. "But information is not equal to knowledge, knowledge is not necessarily wisdom, I still give myself encouragement or meet with everyone to say, maybe we still have to take some time to read a paper book." 」 He suggested.
I think there is nothing wrong with Zhou Hongyi' remarks, and he very much agrees with the view that "information does not equal knowledge, and knowledge is not necessarily wisdom". Many people have a bad habit of reading: they only like to look at short articles that beat the eyeballs but have no nutrition, but they reject in-depth articles with opinions and arguments. To put it bluntly, the purpose of their reading is entertainment, not learning, in this case, let alone the inability to form wisdom, even the acquisition of knowledge is very difficult.
Taking a step back, even if you can add wisdom to reading a lot of information, reading still has an irreplaceable and unique role. You know, at the moment when personalized recommendations are popular, if you only rely solely on obtaining information from various news clients, it is easy to weave an information cocoon, that is, only look at your favorite and interested content, invisibly narrowing your vision. And reading allows you to step out of your own small circle and understand the big world outside.
In the final analysis, the ancients often said that "there is a golden house in the book, and there is a beauty like jade in the book", there is still a certain truth, and we as the descendants should learn from it. Do a small survey: This Spring Festival holiday, have you read a book?