On the evening of October 7, Huawei's internal employee community platform Xinsheng Community issued an obituary saying that Ding Yun, vice chairman of the company's supervisory board, died of a sudden illness in the early morning of the same day, at the age of 53.
● Ding Yun, Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Huawei
Born in 1969, Ding Yun has worked at Huawei for 26 years and is one of Huawei's key managers, currently serving as Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Director of the General Cadre Department, President of Enterprise BG, and President of BG of Operators.
Among them, only two enterprise BGs and carrier BGs can contribute about 400 billion yuan of revenue to Huawei every year, which are Huawei's two core businesses.
Ding Yun loved sports before his death, "almost all the rest time is used for running", and he also led employees to run and train during the National Day, which has always left a positive and healthy impression.
Therefore, his sudden death is not only a major loss for Huawei, but also a surprise shock and a deep regret.
Coincidentally, in recent years, the sudden death of young and powerful business elites is not a minority.
Since 16 years, there have been the sudden deaths of Sun Jian, chief scientist of Megvii Technology, Liu Xianwu, chairman of Longke Intelligence, Li Bo, deputy general manager of Tuniu, Zhang Rui, CEO of Chunyu Doctor, and Ou Jiliang, former data director of Alibaba Group.
Moreover, many of them, like Ding Yun, have maintained the habit of high-intensity fitness for a long time.
In June this year, Sun Jian, chief scientist of Kuangshi Technology and president of Megvii Research Institute, suddenly fell ill and died of ineffective rescue, at the age of 45. According to reports, he is also an avid athlete, has a night running habit, and the onset of the disease is also after returning home after the night run.
In our general perception, loving sports often means being healthy. Why do these people with good exercise habits die suddenly? The relationship between exercise, health and work may not be as simple as we think.
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The multi-faceted nature of motion
Is sudden death related to exercise?
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First of all, the long-distance running that elites love is indeed a sudden death-prone zone.
Long-distance running is a hone of people's endurance and has high requirements for cardiorespiratory fitness.
According to a study in Nature, middle-aged men between the ages of 35 and 65 experienced sudden cardiac death in endurance programs at more than 40 percent.
In the mainland, long-distance running is the sport with the highest incidence of sudden death in sports.
However, some clinicians have pointed out that strenuous exercise can lead to sudden death because the person already has certain diseases, and exercise only promotes the occurrence of death, not a direct cause of death.
A number of domestic and foreign studies have pointed out that the greater the amount of exercise, the better.
Within a certain range, endurance sports such as running are good for good health, but exceeding a certain amount will increase the risk of sudden cardiac death.
Therefore, we don't have to be too nervous and talk about sports. As long as you maintain a reasonable intensity, exercise must be beneficial to health.
However, just as many so-called artists rely on heroin to keep their inspiration alive, the modern middle-aged middle class relies on high-dose exercise to keep their work alive.
They are in high positions, and high-intensity work keeps them under stress for long periods of time. Participating in sports can liberate their spirits for a short time, while keeping them physically and mentally energetic in order to be better engaged in work.
At this time, the purpose of exercise is not entirely for health, but to play a role in paralysis and excitement.
Some people's pursuit of high-intensity exercise may even reach the point of exercise addiction. If you don't exercise on any day, you feel uncomfortable.
With the accumulation of sports experience, they will also continue to improve the intensity of sports and enjoy the sense of achievement in self-breakthroughs again and again.
When life revolves around work and movement becomes the fuel for work, we may understand the promotion of movement as an ideological construction that follows modern work ethics.
#02
Sport like work
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In modern society, we have taken work for granted, people who lose their jobs will feel anxious, and those who do not have jobs will be seen as unmotivated, incomprehensible, and even shameful.
Even a short window of time is repeatedly asked by HR during the interview, as if the risks it implied could erase all the experience accumulated by other previous experiences.
● Netizens' discussion about the empty window period
But people are not born to work. We must work, such an idea is also constructed by various social factors, and then subtly instilled into our minds.
The famous British sociologist Sigmund Baumann, in his book Work, Consumerism and the New Poor, explores how modern society has made us take for granted the dominance of work over life.
He proposed that the essence of work ethics is a precept:
In order to sustain a life and be happy, everyone must do something valuable that others agree on and reap the rewards;
It is shameful to be content with the status quo and not to think ahead;
Work is justice, and not working is a sin.
This precept is built into the head of every modern migrant worker and occupies a primary position.
And the sporty fashion in our mass culture today must also serve this work ethic. Therefore, if you carefully analyze, you will find that the movement and self-discipline sought after by the public today almost perfectly echo the pursuit of work in modern society.
To put it bluntly, we exercise for work, not for the movement itself, we through sports, to prove that we are very good at work, express that we have a strong ability to work.
First of all, regular fitness means that a person is very self-disciplined and has the ability to manage time at the same time.
In this era of pursuing efficiency, pursuing punctual commuting, and everyone puts "becoming a better self" on their lips, self-discipline is undoubtedly a noble virtue.
Being able to arrange your time wisely also means having full control over your life, which is a proof of reliability and ability.
Secondly, with the help of developed social media, people can not only post their daily punch cards, accumulate kilometers and many other fitness achievements, but also show their figure and create a positive image.
● Various self-discipline achievements display on social media
I have received a wave of praise and recognition from my friends, and completed the construction and display of my self-image; Others were also stimulated, driven by herd mentality, to gain the motivation to join the movement, forming a perfect closed loop of sports motivation.
Therefore, fitness is also gradually becoming a symbol and identity of group identity - this is actually the ethical need of teamwork and collaboration in the modern division of labor society.
Every once in a while, there will be a new form of movement popular among urban people, such as the recent new popular sports Frisbee, Lu Chong, these sports that are relatively unfamiliar to the public, have become a symbol of a certain social status, life taste, and its participants have demonstrated their own identity, and separated themselves with positive life attitudes, certain consumption ability and good life tastes from others.
This phenomenon is even more pronounced among elite groups.
Moreover, we cannot ignore that exercise does bring happiness.
Where we don't perceive, running causes endorphin levels in the blood to rise, which can lead to a range of effects such as emotional uplift and happiness.
And visible to the naked eye, a healthy body and a good physical and mental state, will also make us feel self-satisfied and accomplished.
When we complete a goal, such as running 10 kilometers, and each step we fall receives a solid and steady feedback, the thrill of "I did it" is not the cold number of how many calories have been consumed.
Movement, therefore, replenishes energy to work and echoes the pursuit of a sense of accomplishment in work ethics.
In fact, just as it is shameful not to work, there is also a popular idea in the modern elite middle class that it is shameful not to exercise, so the humiliating words of big belly and greasy uncle have appeared.
Therefore, the essence of the ethics of movement is actually a simple sentence: movement is justice, and not exercising is a shame or a sin. And this almost coincides with the work precept of "shame without work", and can even be said to be synonymous.
According to data from a gym, 12.3% of the members in the whole of Beijing are still working out from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. the next day.
Therefore, contemporary professionals have completed the high-intensity work of 996, walked out of the office with starlight, turned a corner and walked into the gym, and even stayed up late to complete the fitness plan.
When we fully accept such a set of logic, regard fitness as a body management work, to achieve the goal of health and fitness, and finally hand over the numbers to assess their own completion indicators, we will follow the same self-alienation logic as the work, numbing the feelings of the self.
Work hard during the day, exercise hard at night, and fall into the endless cycle of day and night change in modern society.
And in this seemingly endless cycle, life quietly passes.
#03
Get back to your physical awareness
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Looking back at the history of fitness is not very pleasant.
In 19th-century Britain, engineer William Cubitt invented the world's first treadmill in order to rehabilitate hard-working criminals in prisons.
Because the use of the method at that time was too cruel, every year there were prisoners who died of labor or even had a mental breakdown.
● The prisoner was powered by the treadmill at the time
For a long time after that, due to the backwardness of technology and ideas, gyms were synonymous with "spending money to buy guilt".
Even now, once there is no job, no pressure, very few people are willing to do sports.
Since the first industrial revolution, from the change of productive forces marked by machine production, general physical labor has gradually been replaced by mental labor, and the degree of physical participation in the work that occupies 1/2 of our waking time has gradually decreased.
Cutting-edge science fiction is already boldly exploring how to survive without the body and on consciousness alone. The development of various virtual technologies in reality has also made our perception of the body weaker and weaker.
It was as if we only noticed what our body felt when we were in pain, and suddenly realized, oh, a certain part of my body is called this name, what should be done to it better.
It can be said that we have neglected the body for too long.
Under such a premise, the urban middle class really has to use sports to regain the perception and control of the body.
So on the one hand, we say that it is not advisable to do extreme sports in order to release work pressure, or even make people die suddenly, but on the other hand, exercise itself has no original sin, on the contrary, most of the modern middle class just lack exercise, lack of perception of the body.
However, the movement of the movement, the work of the work, do not regard the movement as the anesthetic of the work, the propeller, but need to do the body's beneficial exercise, the appropriate amount of exercise, back to the movement of the body to perceive the essence of the body.
Unfortunately, most of the situation we see today is that the intensity of exercise often rises with the pressure of work, and the "advanced degree" of exercise almost matches the ability to work. Movement is a slave to work.
For example, the long-distance running, which is favored by the middle class, seems to have no threshold, but the senior participants in it are often hidden.
According to Nielsen's data, the average Chinese runner spent 11,418 yuan in 2019, mainly on running equipment and event expenses.
Obviously, buying equipment and playing around means that the participants are rich, hard-working, and long-term elites.
For the materially abundant middle class, the experience of suffering is relatively strange, so they use movement to amplify the perception of the body, complete their own experience through appropriate pain, and feel the existence of the self. This is understandable, even necessary.
When we feel that through movement, the limbs become more powerful, we perceive the presence of our own body. And that's what sport is all about.
After all, the original intention of exercise is to be self-health and happiness, not to blindly pursue results, not to inject stimulants for high-intensity work, and of course, not to pursue excellence in the eyes of others.