Children like to celebrate their birthdays in kindergarten, because they can share happiness with their friends, not only with delicious cake tasting, but also with the blessings of teachers and classmates, and my daughter is the same. In the new semester, two children have already celebrated their birthdays in kindergarten, each time full of joy, and birthdays have become a beautiful expectation in the hearts of most children.
On the way out of school, my daughter asked me when she was celebrating her birthday, and I told her it was April 23rd, but after checking the calendar, I told her that it was Saturday and that I had to spend it at home. She was a little lost, but just a few seconds later she told me, "Don't listen to it, I passed a day earlier, in kindergarten." What my daughter calls "it" is actually time.
Fairy tales are full of innocence and childlike fun, but sometimes they contain philosophies that are only found in the adult world. Adults will always be careful in the rules or unspoken rules, and the way to deal with the four-dimensional space such as time is often to manage or catch up, such as racing against the clock and racing against time. It seems to be absolutely true and impeccable, but it is not entirely true.
In fact, this is a matter of position, my understanding of my daughter's birthday is time, is the date, is a kind of artificial rules associated with the rotation of the earth. In fact, the daughter's date of birth is only one day, and the so-called birthday is just a commemoration, a ritual, and the product of the strong human imagination, perhaps an idea of the cake shop owner a few years ago. The daughter's understanding of birthday is to stand on her own position, as long as she eats cake with children in kindergarten, she is celebrating her birthday.
Thinking of this, I suddenly felt that my daughter's thinking was a bit like Chairman Mao's art of conducting, "You hit yours, I hit mine", full of philosophical speculation. I also have more and deeper thinking about the question of time.
The first question is about value. I would ask my daughter what was the most precious thing in the world, and she would firmly tell me, time. Yes, money can be obtained by labor, but time never returns, "an inch of time is an inch of gold, and an inch of gold is difficult to buy an inch of time." Cherishing time and not going through the years is related to a successful attitude to life. But in my opinion, the most valuable thing should be concentration, concentration is the multiplier of time efficiency, is efficiency, and is a different method. But anyone who succeeds will be very quick to "settle down," and enter into the Buddhist language, which is what we often call the state of entry. Liu Qiangdong is such an entrepreneur, when he focuses on doing one thing, he will not feel it when others pinch his thighs. Inefficient effort means ordinary, acting; efficient concentration will stand out, is a respect for time.
The second question is about choice. A true master of action is not capable of doing many things at the same time, but will find ways to avoid doing many things at the same time. It's a way of choosing, choosing the most important things, not being trapped in the minutiae, not being disturbed by the stubs. Another option is called the right thing. Doing the right thing in the right way is the only right choice. It is impossible to manage time, because it is impossible for time to listen to anyone, so the "right thing" is to manage itself, not to unnecessarily engage in an inevitable and failed struggle against time. A little deeper, if you do something wrong, the more efficient it is, the more terrible it is; if you do the right thing, even if you procrastinate, as long as it is finally completed, you can gain something.
The third question is about the focus. Albert Einstein once famously said, "If I had 1 hour to answer a question that would determine my life or death, I would spend 55 minutes figuring out what the question was asking." It's about time investment, smart people know that "thinking clearly" is the key to everything, in the matter of "thinking clearly", they are more willing to spend time than anyone, while ordinary people seem to be the opposite, like a pair of details into life torrent, go with the flow. Therefore, in the eyes of ordinary people, "it is easy to know and difficult to do", and in the eyes of smart people, it is "easy to know and easy to do". The life of human beings is nothing more than the process of encountering problems and solving problems, the reason why fates are different and endings are different, in fact, there are differences in the ability to find the key and understand the essence, and the root is whether they are willing to take the time to figure out the problems.
The fourth question is about patience. Many people, because of their lack of patience and eagerness, always want to skip the action link and seek shortcuts, until the end they find that the real shortcut is the seemingly long and inefficient road of action. We live in an age of anxiety, and the original sin trigger for anxiety is simple. As we all know, all human suffering is essentially anger at one's own incompetence. The essence of anxiety also fits this view: their desires are greater than their abilities, and they are extremely impatient, that is, because the gap between desire and ability is too large, they have anxiety, and the common incentive is to want to do many things at the same time, and they want to see results immediately. "Walk with the big picture, be a friend of time", you will also get rid of anxiety and go to the extraordinary.
Perhaps time is a solid shackle from which no one has really escaped; perhaps time is a harsh ruler, and no one has ever had an extra second. But you and I have never lost the freedom to think and act, instead of looking up to the sky and sighing, slandering and complaining, it is better to find the target, roll up the sleeves and work hard, live up to the time, and live up to Shaohua.