The way a person can overcome the world is to overcome himself, and we have read this sentence countless times, but we have never been able to understand the meaning behind this sentence. How a person beats himself, how to overcome himself, this is indeed a difficult problem.
An animated short film called "You Look Terrible" explains to us comprehensively and gently what is called "victory over yourself is victory over the whole world". "You Look Terrible" is about a crocodile who goes to the dentist when the toothache needs to be extracted, and the dentist's fear of the crocodile creature, and the crocodile's fear of the dentist. They are afraid of each other, but they don't know that all this is just a fantasy in their own minds. This kind of imagination is the biggest enemy of one's own face, and this kind of imagination comes precisely from oneself.
A large part of the fear comes from one's own imagination
Human beings are creatures with rich imagination, so they also have strong creativity and endless brain holes. But with that comes the fear of what didn't happen and the conjecture of the unknown. To a large extent, our fear of an event comes not from the thing itself, but from ourselves. When we see a bottomless abyss, we don't know what is hidden inside, but our own imagination has imagined this bottomless abyss as a bloody mouth, imagining that there may be powerful monsters hidden inside. In fact, there may be nothing inside. The creativity that this imagination brings to human beings has promoted the development of human society and the birth of a variety of creative inventions, but it has also become a source of human fear in the face of unknown creatures.
Like in the animated short film "You Look Terrible", where a crocodile is going to have his teeth extracted because of a toothache, he imagines the dentist as a very scary creature. Faced with something he had never encountered before, he felt the catastrophe. Similarly, as dentists, dentists themselves are very afraid of crocodile teeth, as if the other party can swallow themselves into the stomach with just one bite. In such a situation, the crocodile and the dentist are afraid of each other, but they do not know that the other party is also afraid of themselves. In such a frightening relationship, in the end nothing happened. At the end of the day, the crocodile is just scaring himself, and all of his imaginations to scare himself come from his imagination of the unknown.
Fear of the unknown is innate
Human beings are born with an innate fear of the unknown, and we are born with such thoughts, and this idea is further protecting human beings. Because their brains cannot control these imaginations they have derived, they can prevent human beings from trying and exploring into unknown areas, and also avoid casualties. But without such an attempt, we will not make progress, and without progress, we will be trapped in one side of the land forever. Therefore, human progress is to slowly advance in overcoming the fear of the unknown.
Of course, this kind of overcoming one's inner thoughts also requires a lot of ability and self-control. The final twist of the story of "You Look Terrible" comes to a clever twist, shaping different situations that affect people in different environments for different people. When the crocodile finished pulling his teeth and leaving the hospital, he passed by the patient area waiting for the tooth extraction, and everyone was thinking about different questions: the brown bear was also afraid of the tooth extraction, the little boy with glasses was afraid of the upcoming exam, and the little boy who finished the exam was afraid of his mother's scolding. The baby rabbit next to the brown bear is afraid of the brown bear's sharp teeth, the girl next to it is afraid of needles, and the boy next to the girl is afraid of the tool to drill the teeth.
Everyone has something they fear depending on their birth environment and the environment in which they grew up. In fact, when that day comes, it's not a big deal. We grew up in this environment when we were young, afraid of the upcoming exams, afraid of the blame of our parents after the exams, afraid of the teacher's test, and when all this really came, we found that we were not as afraid as we thought. The reason why we are so afraid is because we have a doubt about ourselves without full confidence and the unknown of the future.
The scary thing is yourself
As the name of the animated short film You Look Terrible, it reflects the story of the really scary person being himself. Our own assumptions about the unknown, our own hesitation about the unknown and exploration, our fear of what is coming, all of this is our own scare. When it really comes to that moment, we find that the truth is not so terrible.
That's why we say that the way to overcome this world is first and foremost to overcome ourselves. As long as you overcome the fear in your heart, you will find that there are not so many unknown challenges in this world. Of course, this is only for us personally, in the works of many literary artists, they have told the same similar truth, only by defeating themselves, can we better face the world.
How to overcome fear?
Fear is not such a terrible thing, because fear is also further protecting us, preventing us from taking risks in the face of the unknown, and protecting us from a lot of harm. But in many cases, fear also needs to change, only courageous exploration and adventure. The point that we will meet a better future is that we need to overcome our fears, and the way to overcome fears is to look down on everything. There are too many mysteries in this world, and there are too many unknowns in the process of human development, but we still have the help of relatives and companions, and a brave and adventurous heart, in this regard, the predecessors have left us a lot of profound lessons, which can help us explore the world in the unknown.
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