The world is full of uncertainty, and only "believing" can be determined. China News Weekly and its interesting report launched the Spring Festival special "You Can Always Believe in ______", inviting 10 guests to express their faith and write sincerely, bringing a firmness and clarity to this era of more challenges and unquenchable opportunities.
This is the eighth article of the Spring Festival special, listen to Fan Deng, the founder of Fan Deng Reading, you can always believe in the power of change.
Personally, there aren't many things worth believing in for a long time, and if I'm looking for one, what I believe in is the power of change.
Nothing in this world is certain, only change is certain, and that's something I can believe.
Many people want to find certainty when they are reading. Especially the fewer people who read, the more they want books not to deceive people. They hope that the book would be better to tell a real result, a definite thing. But in fact, the world is always changing, and many theories are always changing. Including the vast majority of people think that physics will never change, but in fact, physics is the most changeable.
From the worldview proposed by Aristotle at the earliest, to Newton's worldview, to Einstein, to later quantum mechanics, to the current string theory. For a person who wants to pursue the same, he may feel that these physicists are unreliable, and various research conclusions are subverted again and again. But in fact at that stage they were probably all right.
Back in life, we will find that many people are trying to pursue certainty when running a business, when running a family, and when running their own lives. We all hope that everything can be controlled as much as possible, do not have accidents, and happen and develop according to their own ideas. In this way, the final result is often pain. Because things don't necessarily happen the way people think they want to. It's even possible that not following what was previously thought of as happened is a better outcome. But because our previous expectations were too strong and our fantasies were too clear, we felt that those accidents were all challenges for us.
After talking about so many books on parent-child education, I found that the unity of all laws is one thing - parents cannot have too clear and definite imagination of their children's future. If parents ask themselves: What do they believe in? The answer of many parents is that it is much better to believe that going to school in 985 is much better; firmly believe that their children's academic performance must be good; and firmly believe that to win awards, gold medals are better than silver medals. With so much rigid conviction, it will bring a lot of pain to the child's life, and it will also bring great pain to his own life.
So for me, embracing uncertainty, embracing change, and believing in the results of change is a beautiful thing, even an attitude that can be used as a life. At this time, you will find that in fact, how bad life can be, how bad life can be, you can also slowly adapt to the situation of life, and you can also find its advantages and pleasures from it.
Behind this judgment, people today do not have enough knowledge of complex systems, and everyone learns things based on simple systems. The first reaction we see in anything is to split, refine, optimize one by one, and form this routine of solving things. This has led us to all kinds of difficulties in life.
Although we can optimize everything we want to optimize, refine everything we want to refine, in the end, you may find that the whole system is likely to be destroyed. When the internal dynamics of a living body system are destroyed, it is difficult to produce completely different results bred by a complex system according to changes.
For example, the growth of a child is a typical complex system thing. You have no idea which book changed him, you don't know which summer camp changed him, or what he did that changed him. But parents and teachers overemphasize modularity, overemphasize indicators, and it is very likely that the child will be made like an exam machine, tightly sewn, but his inner vitality is gone. What he will become in the future is already lacking in expectations.
On the other hand, if a child is given enough inner vitality: he can love his life and grow according to his own imagination, he may suffer losses, may suffer some injuries, but the process of those losses and injuries is also the process of his learning and progress. It is only then that the complexity of life and one's inner potential can be demonstrated.
This is true for a person, and even more so for a society, and its complexity is greater than that of the individual, so I hope that in the new year, you can read more books related to complex science, and complex things are ultimately driven by simple things. If you grasp this, then your life will become easier, simpler, and more enjoyable.
