When I was a child, I always wanted to be a hero who changed the world, but when I grew up, I realized that it was difficult enough not to be changed by the world. But when each individual continues to change in a better direction, the power of the individual can also bring together to promote the great changes of the times. In an era when the pace of life is getting faster and faster, we always like to go back and lament the changes in the world from the perspective of a witness after time has gone a long way. Others have documented these changes in writing, trying to identify future possibilities from these records. And these changes are written in the Variables series.
He Fan, the author of the "Variables" series, is an economist who says that he will do field research every year and write a book based on the experience of the research. He hopes to use the "Variables" series to document China's changes in the 30 years from 2019 to 2049, looking for small trends in the slow variables. 2022 is Variable 4. The author travels across China's east, west, south, and north, visits and surveys people living everywhere, and tells an important strategic thinking through these stories: Tengnuo.
What is Tenno? Tengnuo is a Go term that refers to finding a breaking point when the other side is in an unfavorable situation, betting on its own advantages, forming a counter-force, defeating the arrogance of the enemy, and patiently waiting for the opportunity to reverse. To summarize simply, the author breaks down Tengnuo into three moves: finding a breaking point, I hit mine, and changing the constraints.
For example, in Chenjiapu Village on the top of the hill, as an ancient village with a history of more than 600 years, there are beautiful homestays and beautiful pioneer bookstores. The breaking point of the countryside, let us see that competition is multi-dimensional, you have to do the most handy things, release greater advantages and potential.
If this book is regarded as a documentary, Tengnuo is the thread that strings together all the stories: from the tengnuo of individuals, the tengnubbing of counties and towns, the tengnubbing of enterprises to the tengnubbing of the state. Reading the vivid stories in the book, you will be surprised to find that these seem to be the stories that happen around us, and even our own stories. For we are never bystanders standing on the shore from afar, but standing in the rush of history. Great changes have come to us.
In addition, many authors can also see the author's interpretation of hot issues in the book, such as rural revitalization: the best way to revitalize the countryside is not to attract young people back to their hometowns, but to rely on the two-way flow between urban and rural areas; the future of the countryside, will become a more open community; such as autonomous driving: first do not study smart cars, but to study smart roads? - Build a new highway, this highway only take self-driving trucks, it will not work; for example, the aging society: the aging of the population, not only a society's debt, but also can become a high-quality asset.
Seemingly unsolvable problems, can you move around? Or even, another question? Many times, one problem should be solved first, rather than trying to solve all of them at the same time. If the problem cannot be solved now, you may wish to relax the time constraint, drag it out first, and wait for the time to be ripe to solve it. Exchanging space for time is also a move.
The movement of a big country also hides the way of personal movement. The book analyzes a large number of tengnuo cases, when you encounter a problem that really cannot be solved, through these cases, you may also be able to find a suitable way to move. You don't have to go one way to the black, and when one road doesn't work, try another road!