01
The hottest topics of these two days all revolve around a god of learning.
Wei Shen, who is known as the "sweeping monk" of Peking University, Wei Dongyi.
Things are simple.
A scientific research team composed of six doctors encountered a technical problem and tossed it for more than four months without getting it done.
It just so happens that the problem of this mathematical equation is the direction of Wei Shen's research.
It just so happened that one of the friends of one of the people in the team was at Peking University, and Wei Shen was a colleague, so he asked Wei Shen for advice.
Unexpectedly, one night, Wei Shen sent the equation over.
The team tested and perfectly matched the experimental data.
The six PhDs sighed in unison:
It's so super-godly!
The team wanted to give Wei Shen money and thank him.
Wei Shen did not want to live and die, said:
"It's too simple, there's no need to ask for money."
In the end, after half a day, I had to fill Wei Shen with a traffic card.
02
This is not the first time that Wei Shen has been on the hot search.
In May last year, when he carried two steamed buns and held a mineral water bottle to the self-media interview, he once brushed the screen because of "super god".
He has an IQ of 160+.
The first and second years of high school participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad for two consecutive years, and both won gold medals with full scores.
In his third year of high school, he was escorted to Peking University.
In his junior year, he participated in the 4th Yau Chengtong University Student Mathematics Competition, and singled out Tsinghua and the University of Science and Technology of China.
Swept hua luogeng gold award, Chen Shengshen gold award, Lin Jiaqiao gold award, Xu Baolu gold award and Zhou Weiliang silver award.
He also won the individual all-around gold medal in that year's math competition.
He studied under Academician Tian Gang, refused Harvard's invitation to break the school rules, and was called "Chen Jingrun's successor".
But who would have thought that such a genius would live such a "cold" life?
He felt that killing was wrong, so he did not eat meat.
He felt that the production process of pure water polluted the environment, so he always took an empty bottle of 1.5L and went to the teaching building to warm the boiling water.
He felt that the air conditioner cost electricity, and simply put the remote control on the shelf.
He doesn't watch TV, doesn't like socializing, doesn't have WeChat.
Now that a year has passed, look at Wei Shen again, it is still the same.
Eat and drink, do not change your enjoyment.
Indifferent and pure, do not change the original intention.
Others laughed at him, "What does it mean to live like this?" ”
I think it's not that it's boring, but that many people don't understand, "Simplicity to the extreme, is great wisdom."
Simplifying complexity is not only a way of life, but also a cultivation of the mind.
As one of Wei Shen's Peking University teachers said:
"He just doesn't care what we care about.
Everything he cares about is in the mathematical world, and mathematics brings him far more fun than what to eat, drink, wear and what to wear.
For him:
Food is for the full stomach,
Clothes are used to cover the body for warmth,
The bed is for sleeping,
It is enough to eat, dress and sleep.
So don't measure and measure his happiness in terms of our happiness.
Although his material life is very simple and simple,
But his spiritual world is far more vast than the vast majority of us. ”
This is the reason why Wei Shen became a "god".
His "simplicity" is not nothing, but has long been free from tedious matter.
It is the awakening of removing the coarse and refining and simplifying the complex.
If we can't do him, please protect his simplicity and unworldliness.
03
This reminds me of a sociological law of life called the "law of simplicity":
If an event or a person makes you feel dazzled, then it is most likely wrong or false.
The most remarkable people and things are simple and elegant, simple to the point of a sword sealing the throat.
Like this photo that many people have seen.
An old man with a beard, a worn-out black coat, and a pair of cloth shoes with bare feet, was reciting the speech on Erlang's legs.
If you don't look at the seven words "University of chinese Academy of Sciences" next to it, you may think that this is an ordinary farmer.
But he is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Li Xiaowen.
As the "father of remote sensing in China", Academician Li has filled the gap in the field of geometric optics in remote sensing technology in the mainland.
A strong sense of contrast aroused people's curiosity about this "cloth shoe academician".
After a period of searching, I found that this academic hero has such a simple and simple life.
Shirts, cloth shoes, vests.
It was his most common attire.
Dozens of people wear this in small classes, and thousands of people's academic lectures are also dressed up.
When I usually travel, I carry a paper bag with me.
Or a semi-circular black bag with soil to slag and washed white.
Colleagues said that because Academician Li was not trim, he had been stopped at the door by the doorman several times.
They all thought he was a farmer who had come to sell local products.
On another occasion, he went to the college as a faculty member to receive a living allowance.
When I went, I was carrying the tattered black bag, and the student on duty mistakenly thought that he was the master who had come to repair the air conditioner, and ran here to ask for wages.
Li Xiaowen is an expert who enjoys special allowances from the State Council, and he is not without money.
But he felt that enough was enough.
Academician Li always said,
"Science itself should pursue the principle of simplicity, and the simpler everything is, the better."
Therefore, he donated his money and the 1.2 million yuan rewarded to him by the Li Ka Shing Foundation to his alma mater, Chengdu University of Electronic Science and Technology.
In the name of his daughter, who died at the age of eighteen months, the "Li Qian" scholarship was established.
In "Cai Gen Tan", it is said: Life is only tired of desire and words, and it listens to people's bondage. If the thought is clear, it is indifferent.
This is probably the gap between ordinary people and cattle people.
Proficient in the heart, simple in the form.
The world's masters are always simpler and more advanced.
04
There is a line in Forrest Gump.
"I don't think that the maturity of people's minds is more and more tolerant to cover, and anything can be accepted.
Instead, I think it should be a gradual process of elimination.
Know what is most important to yourself, know what is not important, and then, be a simple person. ”
Cai Zhizhong, a master who thought of drawing classic comics such as "Old Master" and "Zhuangzi Said".
He saved a huge fortune by relying on comics, but he lived a fairy wind Dao bone.
China Youth Network went to the interview and asked him, "What is the most proud thing you have ever done so far?" ”
Master Cai answered:
"I have lived the greatest spiritual freedom in my life, the simplest material life."
He slept only four or five hours a day.
For more than forty years, I have only eaten one meal a day, mostly white porridge and a piece of tofu milk, and I will eat two pieces when I am happy.
Sometimes you can't even eat a steamed bun in a day.
He didn't have a watch or a cell phone because he didn't want to be interrupted by someone else.
He has no bank card and only a small amount of cash on him.
Once went on a trip and found a pair of cloth shoes that I loved very much.
He bought 14 pairs at once, and incidentally bought 30 identical white shirts and 20 pairs of khaki pants.
This is what he wears all his life, all year round.
This is very similar to Jobs, who believed in minimalism.
From 1998 to the 2010 press conference, he was always black turtleneck cedar + blue jeans.
I don't think I've ever changed my clothes.
As we all know, such Jobs created the world's simplest and most convenient iPhone 4, subverting an industry.
It is also similar to Zhou Runfa, who is worth up to 5.6 billion yuan, but does not take a famous car, wears flip-flops, squeezes the subway, and visits the vegetable market.
In 2014, the iPhone6 was listed, and Fa Ge was still using the blue screen Nokia.
Hong Kong citizens joked that they love to visit the stall Silk Street, and bargained with the boss to buy 15 yuan of glue to drag the hair brother is a "base bone".
Brother Fa smiled and closed his mouth:
"The more people grow, the more they find that the real difficulty in life is not how much money they make, but how to maintain a peaceful heart and live a simple and happy life."
Cai Zhizhong said:
"Every piece of wood can become a Buddha, just remove the extra parts."
Fa Ge has long cut off the burdens in life.
Because the real texture of life is not the icing on the cake, but the simplification of the complex.
05
A big reason why ordinary people are tired and unable to "become Buddhas" is that they are reluctant to cut off their own "cumbersomeness."
The closet was full of clothes that had only been worn once, or that had not even been taken off the tag.
There are only a few that I really wear.
A steady stream of couriers came to the door, and small items that followed the trend were scattered in all corners of the home.
After three minutes of heat, ash began to accumulate.
From eating, to home, to lifestyle.
All the trivialities come together, the more stress and exhaustion you accumulate, and your energy has been drained by the cumbersome stuff.
What about thinking, how to come from the abundance of the inner world.
And life is often simpler and freer.
I remembered the scholar Thoreau, who had had enough of the hustle and bustle of the city and turned to flee.
Carrying an axe, he went alone to Walden Lake, cut down white pine wood, and built a log cabin.
Here he lived alone for two years and two months and two days.
Finally realized the true meaning of life:
"A person, as long as he meets the basic needs of life, is no longer related to fame, no longer draws from wealth."
You can enjoy life more calmly and fully. ”
Later, in Walden, he wrote:
"I am willing to dig deep into life, suck the marrow of life, and live a solid and simple life."
To eliminate all the content that does not belong to life cleanly, to force life to the extreme, the most basic form, simple, simple, simple. ”
The hustle and bustle of the world cannot withstand the preciousness of ordinary life with long streams of water.
The world's delicious food is not worth a sentence of "the taste of the world is a happy".
Those who know how to simplify their lives are the ones with great wisdom.
06
In fact, it is not only life, but also relationships.
Feng Lun, the entrepreneurial director of China Minsheng Bank, told a very realistic theory in "Barbaric Growth".
Called the "10-30-60" friend theory of interpersonal communication.
It is about a person's life, and the number of friends they interact with at the same time is very limited, 10, 30 and 60 respectively.
What does "10" mean?
For example, you encounter a very disgusting thing, lack of money.
Who would you borrow from?
If you look around the address book, you will find that in addition to your parents and relatives, you can open your mouth to ask for money and you can borrow your money without hesitation, most of them will not exceed 10 people.
These 10 people are your true friends, and you can rely on safety cards at any time.
"30" can be called acquaintances.
There will be no more than 30 people who deal regularly, who often eat, drink, and shop together without financial contact.
These 30 people also include the 10 people mentioned earlier.
"60" refers to the kind of "friend" who is more expansive, knows each other, but does not often contact, can say a few words of greeting when calling, but is always not seen for a long time.
These 60 still include the 30 people mentioned earlier.
That is to say, in this life, there are not many real friends.
You don't need to waste time on unnecessary socializing.
Like it says on the Internet,
"Although there are few friends, it is good to be sincere; although the circle is small, it is good to be comfortable."
07
Writer Sanmao said,
"I don't eat greasy stuff, I'm not full, and it cleanses my body.
I don't dream unattainable, which makes my sleep peaceful.
I don't wear high heels to torture my feet, which makes my steps more leisurely and stable.
I don't follow the trend, which makes my clothes always new.
I am not ashamed to move my limbs, which makes me healthy and agile.
I avoid overheated friendships when nothing happens, which makes me less burdened and committed.
I don't say much nonsense, which makes me feel clear.
I try not to reminisce about the past as much as possible, because the road I came cannot be turned back.
I love others carefully, because comparisons don't flood.
I cry when I like to cry, and laugh when I want to, as long as it's all natural.
I don't seek profundity, I only seek simplicity. ”
This is the truth of life and life.
The simpler the avenue, the cleaner, the happier.
END
Disclaimer: The source of this article is Mr. Wang Er (lD: huangezishiba), author: Mr. Wang Er, who does not know astronomy, does not know geography, and slightly understands the distortion of life in the middle. A middle-aged boy who can't help but roar when the road is uneven.