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Life is like sailing the sea, ideals and beliefs are the beacons on the sea, and a good life development plan is a clear waterway. To be successful, a clear understanding of yourself is essential.
Therefore, people always like to talk about ideals, and some people will always be ambitious when talking about ideals, thinking that the so-called "ideal" is often a relatively "tall" preset, the purpose is to make themselves have a goal that is difficult to achieve, even if it is difficult to achieve their ideals, they can also have good achievements.
This is actually not necessary, what you are suitable for, what step you can do and what field you can develop, in fact, you should clearly plan.
With the progress of society and the great convenience of information dissemination and exchange, people today often obtain information through various short video platforms.
One of the characteristics of this information is "short": it can impress the audience in a short period of time through some eye-catching tones, unexpected narratives, and some special style soundtracks and illustrations. This also becomes a carrier of special information - the so-called "chicken soup for the soul".
I believe that the so-called "chicken soup" videos that accompany soft background music, untrue messages, and uplifting readings are not unfamiliar to most people in this era.
Are these "chicken soups" credible? Is it necessary for us to follow these to presuppose our own lives? We might as well take a look at the views of the writer Liu Cixin.
Liu Cixin: Scientists are all outstanding academics
Speaking of Liu Cixin, people who love science fiction must be very familiar. His masterpiece "The Three-Body Problem" can be said to be recognized by all walks of life: the first film translated by Liu Yukun won the 73rd Hugo Award for Best Novel, won numerous awards, not to mention, and the film "The Wandering Earth" based on his novel also earned billions of box office in 2019.
Liu Cixin, who has achieved such achievements, said in an interview: Don't believe those so-called "chicken soup", think that learning is not the most important, and you can't become a scientist without a good university.
He also cites the example of Edison, which many people take as a guideline: "Some people always take Edison as an example, and Edison was not a scientist at all.
You look at history, you look at the famous scientists, basically people who graduated from prestigious universities and had Doctorates. ”
There is nothing wrong with Liu Cixin's statement, and Thomas Alva Edison is known for her creativity, especially in primary and secondary education.
But it is more reasonable for Edison to be called an "inventor" because his job was primarily to create objects that would affect people's lives, rather than to study phenomena and theories.
Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Stephen William Hawking and others who exist as "scientists" have good academic qualifications.
Today, when knowledge seems to be less important, our careful self-examination of these questions actually helps to face up to the purpose of obtaining academic qualifications.
Outlets, dividends and opportunities
Liu Cixin's concerns are actually justified. People's development is inseparable from the entire social environment, when the society is in a lack of innovation, attach importance to the rhythm of development, then the talent with innovative ability will naturally have greater opportunities for development; when the society is in a pursuit of stability, vigorously restore the rhythm of production, then those who have strong work ability will often have a certain opportunity.
In today's society, the high degree of development of information and media has given related industries the opportunity to "become famous overnight" or even "get rich overnight": a network sales anchor only evaded more than 600 million in taxes, and the labor it paid was only to sell to the audience on the Internet.
Some self-media people who pay attention to a large number of endorsements may get millions of benefits, which are made up by their "fans"; others can monetize their traffic by shooting videos of their own meals, while living a relatively easy life, while making a lot of money.
Ironically, many people of their age have worked hard in their posts, even "three shifts" in the factory and "996" in the office building, and the daily entertainment is to open the mobile phone and accept the output of these media and information.
The huge income of the former is contributed by the latter".
Now when you ask a student what career he wants to pursue later, there are certainly not a few people who answer "anchor" and "blogger".
The limelight of the times has given these industries a "dividend", and those who seize this "dividend" have seized the opportunity. Do we have to follow this path to plan our future development? The answer is not yes, because not everyone is suitable for these industries, and not every era has a "dividend" of development in these industries.
In the era of self-media dividends, there are not only 3 minutes of happiness, but also teenagers who are deeply in a crisis of faith, what kind of person do you want to become? Rich people, rich is enough, Internet celebrities come to money quickly, the crisis of faith is the sadness of society, is the loophole of education.
Knowledge is valuable and thinking is motivated
Liu Cixin said that it is not that it is necessary to go to a prestigious university and obtain a high degree is the necessary way to succeed, and the reason why these priorities are emphasized is because these ways can allow people to acquire knowledge.
The purpose of learning knowledge is not only to memorize some formulas and understand some theories, but to form an ability to think about problems and apply the knowledge they have mastered to social life.
As the American sociologist Charles Wright Mills wants to express in his book The Sociological Imagination, the meaning of the existence of the social sciences is to give people the ability to examine what people actually need and what they think they need.
The social sciences can help people use what they know to develop rationality in order to soberly summarize what is going on and what is going to happen in the world.
For people who are struggling for their future, whether they are students who are eager to look out of the window in the classroom, or young people who are about to enter the society in college, or people who are a little confused in middle age, let themselves sink their hearts to understand the resources they lack, improve their relevant abilities in a targeted manner, and then transform their mastery of knowledge into practical reflection for improving their living conditions, which is a more reliable way to realize the value of life.
There is no accident in life, down-to-earth management and learning can be successful.
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Author | Tommy
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参考资料：Bruk, A., Scholl, S. G., & Bless, H. (2018). Beautiful mess effect: Self–other differences in evaluation of showing vulnerability. Journal of personality and social psychology, 115(2), 192-205