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When the whole network was bullied by Gu Ailing, yesterday morning my dad sent a message:
Sweden's performance is also good! The Winter Olympics ranked first in terms of medal count (although today it was overtaken by Germany and Norway).
My first reaction was a bit surprised, after all, Sweden is a small country with a population of 10 million. But when I look at the four events that won the gold medal, I feel reasonable.
Every country will have an iconic sport that the whole nation loves.
I guess that in Northern Europe, the whole people like ice and snow sports as a last resort.
Living in a country where they are afraid of being blocked by heavy snow when they wake up in the morning, "cross-country skiing" is a competition for us, and for them it is to go out and turn right.
Don't talk about adults and children, even dogs have to learn speed skating when they go out.
A video of my Swedish mother-in-law walking the dog
The Mongolian plateau eats meat and drinks wine, and the Sichuan basin chews spicy. One side of the water and soil to support the other side, but also to cultivate the local sports culture.
While winter walks and athletics are two completely different concepts, there's no denying:
Once a certain type of sport has its rooted popular culture, it will be easier to discover and create more excellent professional players.
I remember the first time I skied when I was in my 20s, at the Huairou ski resort in Beijing.
There are far more opportunities to ski in the north than in the south.
Gu Ailing's mother is a native of Beijing and is a ski enthusiast herself. Growing up in San Francisco, Gu Ailing also learned to ski on the natural slopes of Lake Tahoe, not far from home.
Talent is talent, and hard work is hard work. But if there is no environment and atmosphere, the genius is probably a passerby
Because of Gu Ailing, domestic ski resorts have ushered in a wave of peaks, and people's snow sports have also begun to be popular. Although not everyone expects to produce the next Olympic champion.
But I understand everyone's mood!
The love of sports and the pursuit of self-transcendence - every mother wants to give her child a beautiful quality after being stimulated by Gu Sanshiro.
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yes! The sports girls are all beautiful, not just Gu Ailing.
The 27-year-old Swedish girl I followed on the FB, Jonna Sundling. Just won the gold medal in the Cross-Country Skiing Winter Olympics, but her fb fans are only 5450...
I flipped further and saw a picture of her when she was ten years old when she was in a ski race. She writes:
"17 years later, I still sled on my feet and fight with snow pestles."
Although Jonna does not have the aura of Gu Ailing's beauty, in them, I see a little girl's love for sports persistence, the pursuit of self-transcendence, and the cuteness of letting go of the aura.
After the girl won the championship, she sent a naughty state:
"This is a day I will soon forget!!"
After watching the Olympic champions, let's take a look at the ordinary Swedish people around me.
Two- and three-year-olds are taken out for skiing by their parents, and it's not just geniuses who do it.
Little 7 Dad and three younger brothers go to the snow field, all of which are non-"underworld" and do not skate (the highest pistes difficulty for amateur players). So every time I asked him to take pictures of the scenery at the top of the mountain, I showed it to those who couldn't go up.
Little 7 Dad photographed Mount Mishima at the top of the ski resort last week
My seventy-year-old mother-in-law, in the winter, even if she does not sleigh, she has to go to the woods every day with a pestle and a snowball.
There is only one Gu Ailing in the world. The media coverage we read can't be the whole of her upbringing.
Rather than copying and pasting across the screen to imagine Ailing's path to success, I feel like I have more say in the Nordics born on a sleigh.
It doesn't matter if you don't go out on the slopes, or the talent of being born on a sleigh.
What is relevant is:
Is the "underlying character" under motor skills something we have given to our children in life and education?
It's like the enlightenment of the mind that I always talk about:
As long as the underlying "cognitive ability" and "thinking habits" are cultivated, no matter what they learn in the future, the children can go up on their own!
As a ten-year-old Swedish daughter-in-law, I summarized three points of Life Habits of Nordics that I once described as "cultural differences."
It is these living habits that reflect the difference in the underlying logic of the East and the West, which partly creates the "bottom difference" in our education pattern:
1. Pay attention to appearance and body shape: self-discipline
2. Suffering from flesh and skin: perseverance
3, as close as possible to nature: return to reality
self-discipline
Focus on appearance and body shape
If you've been to Stockholm, you'll find that walking in the so-called "rich districts" feels a different atmosphere.
The people who live there, regardless of age mostly in stature and mental state, are well maintained. No matter what the morning of the season, you will see professionally dressed runners on the side of the road.
There are a lot of Swedish girls who dress up in running tights for their daily routine.
When people reach middle age, they will naturally know that to maintain a good figure or even shape a little line, less "self-discipline" is definitely no play!
On the surface, it pays attention to appearance and figure;
In fact, it is a deep pursuit of health and quality of life.
With this self-discipline, even if you can't cultivate an athlete, you can raise a healthy adult.
Since five years ago, Little 7 Dad has turned on the regular exercise mode. When he doesn't go to the gym during the epidemic, he will also find ways to make "weight" for himself at home.
One weekend a few years ago, Little 7 Dad suddenly grabbed a stopwatch and started doing push-ups and sit-ups at home.
It turned out that one of the younger brothers had launched a challenge between the brothers:
See who can do 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, and 100 descents in the shortest amount of time (I may not be able to translate it correctly, it's called "dips" in English).
Swedes feel that it is not a disgraceful thing to manage even their own bodies.
No more than money, more than the body.
My Swedish father-in-law started using the "5-2 diet" to stay fit and healthy four years ago — two days a week, resolutely avoiding more than 500 calories of food.
Even when he came to see us in Japan, in the face of a rare table full of food, he still calmly took out two carrots from his bag.
With this carrot-eating self-discipline, the 37-year-old started university with four children on a state loan and is now a professor of environmental law at Sweden's best university.
In such a family culture, even if you can't become "Tani Sanshiro", you will at least become a tenured professor in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial University of Japan, right?
In contrast, many families around us are "self-disciplined children, adults are at will", do we dare to take our own knives first?
Perseverance
Suffer from flesh and skin
Sweden has two traditions that allowed me to see the vikings' strong genes.
Everyone knows that half of this Nordic power is covered by forests. What is the most summer in the forest?
The answer is mosquitoes.
In particular, the first bag that was bitten in the summer was the size of a "cream bun".
If you have a chance to travel to Sweden in the summer, you will see a local specialty called "Mygga" (mosquito repellent water) sold in the pharmacy.
But Little 7 Dad told me that "Mygga" is not the best anti-mosquito weapon. So what is it?
When there are mosquitoes at the beginning of the summer, go to the woods to take a sauna. Just after steaming the blood spurt, immediately went into the woods bare-chested and sat there to provoke mosquitoes to bite.
As long as you have been bitten once, the body will automatically develop immunity. After being bitten again, at most there is no feeling like a small red dot.
This is a strange tradition of the Swedes.
Writing this, you may understand their "natural herd immunity" approach a little more.
There is also a tradition that is not so strange - winter swimming, but the lake water in Northern Europe in winter is frozen.
My personal record is at most a swim in water of about 5 degrees. That sour, I can't forget it for a lifetime
Since last year, my "don't toss and don't live" father-in-law has launched a challenge at home – to go to the river in front of my house every month and take a bath at least once (after the bath is finished, I will take a sauna).
This is a selfie he posted last month in his family group, and you can see the lake behind him.
The juniors sent out praises: "I'll go!" Take a bath now? You're too strong", "Good, very brave!" ”。 My father-in-law is proud of heaven!
There are conditions that are too refined, and there are also courage that are too rough. Eat bitter flesh and skin, and be a superior person.
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Get as close to nature as possible
Don't look at the high income and high welfare of society, but Swedish villagers will deliberately live a rough life.
When we returned to Sweden two years ago, we found that two new fashions were beginning to catch on at home:
Shampoo without shampoo (mainly men)
Brush your teeth not every time with an electric toothbrush
No shampoo is still easier to understand, anyway, men's hair is not much, clean water washing is both environmentally friendly and natural.
But swedes are so protective of their teeth that when My Grandfather saw me for the first time, he showed off: he was almost 90 years old, but his mouth was full of his own teeth!
So "brushing my teeth deliberately not brushing the cleanest" is really amazing to me! Because their reasons are:
If you brush your teeth completely clean, it will destroy the normal natural bacterial environment in the mouth, which is not conducive to protecting the teeth.
So my little 7 dads are two toothbrushes, usually manually brushed carefully, occasionally automatically and thoroughly.
Get as close to nature as possible and get into every aspect of Nordic life.
Celebrate the birth of a granddaughter and go to the woods;
Weekend dinner, go to the woods
Propose, go to the woods;
Get married, go to the woods;
walking, going to the woods;
Picking fruits, going to the woods;
Vacation, go to the mountains or the sea.
If you don't understand, you just think they love nature.
But if you have the opportunity to deeply observe their outlook on life, you will find that people who are as close to nature as possible can better grasp the balance between "self" and "self".
Regardless of success or failure, they always carry a little lightness and indifference that makes me envious.
Know who you are, know what you want and don't want, and then fully embrace it.
No one can teach this attitude, and can only try to live it out.
Self-discipline, stoicism, and authenticity.
These three "cornerstones of the establishment of people" can be seen in any excellent idol with charisma. Whether she's an athlete, or something else.
The bad news is that these three points cannot be taught in schools, and there are no shortcuts.
The good news is that these qualities can be influenced and shaped little by little in ordinary life.
Take the small matter of "eating" as an example. Even children with the best appetite will encounter several foods that they don't like to eat.
So how should we encourage this time? How to constrain? How to bootstrap? How to cook? ...... In this process, the qualities of "self-discipline, perseverance, and authenticity" are all exercised or reduced day after day.
Life sees education
Life is education
It is said that the Nordics were born on a sleigh, well, my Swedish daughter-in-law told you the truth.
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