In Santiago, there is an old hotel: the Grand Hotel Cote.
With the increase of passenger flow, the elevator designed by the hotel can no longer adapt to the new needs due to its small and old age. The hotel owner is ready to remodel a new elevator. He paid a lot of money to bring in the country's best engineers and architects to discuss how to renovate it.
Because they all have very rich experience, after discussion, everyone reached a consensus: from the installation of the elevator to the commissioning, the hotel needs to be closed for at least half a year. Faced with such a situation, the boss frowned, and he asked seriously: "Is there really no other way?" If it is closed for half a year, the economic loss of the hotel will be too great..."
The architect and the engineer said in unison: "It has to be so, we have been doing this for so long, and from experience, there can be no other solution." ”
At this time, a cleaner in charge of cleaning happened to pass by. After listening carefully for a while, he stopped what he was doing. Glancing at the determined expert and worried boss, he timidly said: If it were me, I would install the elevator directly outside the house. "What an ingenious method!" After the boss listened, his eyes lit up.
The engineer and architect listened, so surprised that they could not speak, and then both men lowered their heads in shame. Soon, a new elevator was installed outside the house. And this elevator also became the first outdoor elevator in the history of world architecture.
There is a sentence in "The Shawshank Redemption":
"This world penetrates everything that is high in the walls, it is deep inside us."
What really traps everyone is not the Shawshank prison that cannot be escaped, but their cage mentality.
"Institutionalization" is like a pair of anesthetics
Corroding everyone's mind
In Shawshank prison, some people want freedom outside the walls, while others are content with the comfort inside the walls. Librarian Bruce clearly falls into the latter category.
He was released on parole because he was isolated from the world for many years and was at a loss for the outside world. The endless traffic on the street and the towering buildings made him feel suffocated.
In prison, he was a cultured and decent man. The prisoners respected him, and the guards talked and laughed with him. In his daily work, he only needed to push a cart for prisoners to borrow books; But in society, he is a downtrodden "superfluous man".
After he was released from prison, he was assigned to work in a supermarket, but his aging and slow actions were always complained by customers, and he lived under high pressure, and he could not even sleep. Living in fear every day, he committed suicide a year later.
As a line in the movie says:
"When you first went to prison, you hated the walls around you; Slowly, you get used to living in it; Eventually you will find that you have to rely on it to survive, which is called institutionalization. ”
This "institutionalization" is like a pair of anesthetics, corroding everyone's mind. Whether it is institutionalized or not lies not in the environment, but in the state of mind.
Andy, by contrast, spent 27 years in Shawshank prison and never lost touch with society. He used the prison guards to file taxes and finance, and constantly updated his skills; He used the state government's subsidy to help the library buy many books and newspapers, and he also used this window to understand the constant changes in the outside world.
After a long period of silence, life will become a deep pool of stagnant water. Only by running forward can we reach the magnificent sea like a great river.
Once bow to life
Life loses the opportunity to turn around
The contrast between Red's two parole hearings is impressive.
The first was the 20th year of Red's imprisonment. When he faced the 5 judges, his hands kept fiddling with his hat, probably feeling inappropriate, so he hid his hands behind him, but he still felt inappropriate, and put his hands on his side, desperately hiding his cramped anxiety. At that time, the flame of hope in his heart was still not extinguished, and he longed to get out of prison.
The second time was the 30th year of Red's imprisonment. His mentality has changed dramatically, believing that hope is useless and that it is better to accept his fate. When facing the judges, he perfunctorily recited the "lines" he said 10 years ago, no longer expecting pity.
As you can imagine, he was denied parole again. After a long period of torment in prison, Red no longer fought and was appointed to the mercy of Yun. What you believe, what will happen, what the heart thinks, there will be an echo.
Also in the cage, the prisoners' hearts are like withered, but Andy's heart is like grass and trees, born into the sun. When talking about the future, Red and several others scoffed, and their lives were dark as far as they could see. But Andy is different, although he was sentenced to life imprisonment, he was full of hope.
The classic quote from the movie:
"Some birds are inherently unstoppable because their desire to fly is never extinguished."
Andy is the bird that never forgets that he is a bird soaring in the sky wherever he is.
Destiny, half in heaven, half in man. Once you bow to life, you lose the opportunity to turn over.
Blindly want to take shortcuts
Coming to the end can be a desperate situation
Tommy is young, but he doesn't do his job, stealing for a living and making prison his home. He often squats in various wealthy neighborhoods to steal color TVs or valuable items.
After arriving at Shawshank, Tommy learns that Andy has helped his cellmates get advanced degrees, and hopes that Andy can help him.
But when studying, Tommy can't hold his breath and can't bear to be annoyed; While learning the 26 letters, he frowned and sighed after a while; When doing the exam papers, I couldn't help but get upset when I encountered problems, and directly crumpled the exam papers into paper balls and threw them into the paper basket, Tommy was a clever young man in the eyes of his fellow inmates, but he never worked hard to get down to business...
The Harvard School of Psychology has gone deep into American prisons to study the psychology of criminals. They found that whether it was a pickpocket who picks locks and steals a car, or a robber who picks cars to steal money, there is almost one commonality: they only want to take shortcuts, they only want to get something for nothing, they have no patience for their careers, and they have no perseverance.
Eager to become a human being, but unwilling to plow himself down to earth, in a vain attempt to ascend to heaven in one step; I hope to be rich and free, but I can't endure hardship and fatigue, and I play all kinds of thoughts to make quick money.
If you want to take a shortcut, it may be a desperate situation to come to the end.
Andy makes this point:
"If a person knows how to use time, even if there is only a little bit of time at a time, little by little, how many things can be done."
He believes in the power of perseverance.
Write at the end
The philosopher Bacon said in The Treatise on Habit:
"Thoughts determine behavior, behavior determines habits, habits determine character, and character determines destiny."
The way of thinking is the core point of thinking about the problem and the root cause of the gap. If you are stuck in a mode of thinking for a long time, your vision will also be limited. Without freeing yourself from "self-captivity," it is difficult to achieve effective growth.
"Zhou Yi" says:
"Poor is change, change is flexible, and general is long."
This means that if you want things to keep moving forward, you have to keep changing your thinking. Human potential is limitless, and to achieve breakthrough growth, you must break down the walls of thinking. As the saying goes: tear down a wall, and life has another way.
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The more I know about the world,
the more I know about you.
Poverty is change, change is flexible, and general is long