#头条创作挑战赛#
Author: Sui An (rich book author)
Scientists once did an experiment called "Rats are crazy".
Scientists attach an electrode to a mouse, and when the mouse presses a button, a tiny electrical current stimulates its brain.
Scientists thought that the rat would quickly dodge after being electrocuted, but the rat not only did not dodge, but became more and more excited, pressing frantically 7,000 times in 12 hours, and finally died of exhaustion.
The scientists concluded that the electrodes stimulated the rat's pleasure center, causing it to produce excitatory dopamine, which eventually led the rat to fall into the "pleasure trap".
If you look at most people, why not the crazy mouse?
I know that I will be addicted to playing games and watching short videos, but I still can't help but play;
I know that smoking is harmful to my health, but I still can't control it;
I know that eating junk food will make me fat, but I still can't keep my mouth shut.
In the end, in the enjoyment of cheap pleasure, he lost his independent consciousness and thinking, and became a prisoner of desire.
A classic quote in "Entertainment to Death" is thought-provoking:
"It's not what we hate that destroys us, it's what we love."
When you indulge in dopamine and indulge yourself in short-term pleasure again and again, then "cheap pleasure" is quietly dragging down your life.
Entertainment products are sometimes like drugs, which can become addictive and difficult to quit if you are not careful.
Share a true story from someone close to you.
Xiao Fan was my high school classmate, and he had excellent grades in school and often represented the school in various competitions.
After the college entrance examination, Xiao Fan was admitted to a key university with excellent results.
We all thought that his future was bright and bright, but a chance chance changed his life.
One weekend, the roommates encouraged Fan to go to an Internet café to play games.
In order to improve the relationship between roommates, Xiao Fan agreed.
He has never been exposed to online games, and since then he has been out of control, and he is immersed in the thrill of the virtual world.
Playing games all night in an Internet café at night, groggy during the day, having no intention of studying, sometimes becoming addicted to the Internet, skipping school and playing games in an Internet café all day, so his grades plummeted.
In his sophomore year, he was ordered to drop out of school because of his lack of discipline, repeated teaching, and too low credits, so he only passed one course exam.
With no academic qualifications, he has been repeatedly frustrated in finding a job.
Later, he simply put it on the, lived in an Internet café, and comforted himself with games.
A few years have passed, and the former college classmates have all had a prosperous life, but Xiao Fan is a mess, and a good hand of cards is played poorly.
"Cheap pleasure" is like a warm trap that makes people involuntarily fall into it.
Before going to bed, I thought about playing a game and going to sleep, but I still refused to put down my phone at two o'clock in the middle of the night;
After work, I thought about going for a run, but the fragrant barbecue on the side of the road made you stop, and the barbecue was skewered one after another;
On the weekend, I wanted to watch a 10-minute short video to study, but as soon as my finger went up, the day passed like this.
It has been said: "A person's greatest enemy is himself, and if he indulges his nature, he will slowly ruin his future in the process of constantly satisfying his own enjoyment." ”
You know, those advances of pleasure will sooner or later need to be repaid with double pain;
What obsesses you will one day push you into the abyss.
There is no free lunch in this world, and all the gifts given by fate have already been secretly marked with a price.
If you don't escape from the trap of cheap pleasure, you can only be bound in it and wait for the end of destruction.
Dr. Wu Jun once said, "The upward road is destined to be difficult, but the downward door is always open." ”
The process of a person's upward movement is often accompanied by feelings of unhappiness, discomfort, and even pain, but they will become the cornerstone of your upward movement.
I once saw a story shared by a netizen on Zhihu.
After graduating from university, he and his classmate Xiao Chen entered the same company for an internship, working from 9 to 5 every day.
On weekdays, Xiao Chen, like most of his colleagues, brushes short videos, goes shopping on Taobao, watches dramas, and chats after finishing the work at hand.
Netizens persuaded him to use this time to improve his skills, but Xiao Chen perfunctorily agreed every time.
Later, netizens stopped persuading, and he spent all his time on obtaining the required certificates.
Two years later, the economy was not good under the new crown epidemic, the company frequently laid off employees, and Xiao Chen, like those colleagues who were messing around and had no skills, was dismissed.
And netizens stayed because of their skills.
A Weibo blogger said: "Many times, it is not luck or intelligence that widens the gap between people, but those temptations that people cannot perceive." ”
Cheap happiness does not bring any growth to people, it only invisibly widens the gap between you and others.
Only by getting rid of the shackles of cheap happiness and taking that step can we continue to improve and become a better version of ourselves.
Writer Li Shanglong once shared a story.
When he worked as an English teacher at New Oriental, he had a meager income and a difficult life.
Every day, I work at sunrise and sunset, work for more than ten hours, and drag my tired body back to the dormitory at night.
Most of my colleagues play games, swipe their phones, and go shopping after work to distract from exhaustion.
But he insisted on reading a book for an hour every day, watching a movie, and recording his thoughts and thoughts on the computer.
After two years of perseverance, he published his first work and successfully transformed into a writer.
Xiao Fang, a former colleague, saw that Li Shanglong had changed his life through writing, and he also said that he wanted to learn from him.
However, every day after work, Xiao Fang still nests in the sofa as always, watching variety shows, playing games, and browsing gossip news.
A few years have passed, Xiao Fang is still receiving a meager salary in his original unit, while Li Shanglong has published several books and has become a best-selling author.
A famous person said: "The history of human progress is a history of restraining desires." ”
It is true that at whatever level your desires are, then at that level your life is.
I agree with a sentence: true happiness is not loneliness after carnival, but a full sense of fulfillment and accomplishment after hard work.
Choosing to relax yourself with entertainment can relieve the pain of the moment and obtain short-term happiness, but those happy enjoyments will lead you to a worse life in the slack day after day.
And choosing a difficult path to improve yourself, although it will be painful, but those pains will become the cornerstone of upward movement and lead you to a higher stage of life.
Overcome the nature of desire, stay away from "cheap pleasure", grit your teeth and persevere, delay gratification.
Only then can you enjoy a higher level of happiness and embrace a new life.
Blogger @evolution said: "There is not a big gap in talent, but the ultimate achievement is far from the same. In addition to circumstance, luck, etc., the most fundamental thing is that some people are on the path of pursuing dopamine, while some people choose endorphins. ”
Paralyzing the pain with the pleasure of dopamine will only keep us apart from our peers as we spend time after day.
If you want to change the track and change your fate, you must turn your desire into an upward self-driving force.
Illustrator "Lu Mao" told a personal experience of his own.
After graduating from university, he joined a company as a 3D animation trainer.
After work, his colleagues went shopping, played games, watched entertainment programs, and he was immersed in his fantasy world at home with a paintbrush;
On weekends, colleagues go on outings and fishing, and he takes his sketchpad to the mountains to sketch and publish his works.
In this way, day after day, year after year, the braised cat ushered in the moment of transformation in life.
A publishing house approached him to sign a contract and help Lu Mao publish a series of picture books. Today, he is one of the most well-known illustrators in the country.
Mal Ques, the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, uses this method, when he writes: never go out.
Even if you can't write and tear down the door in anger, you will never take half a step out of the door.
Someone curiously asked him why?
"The outside world is so colorful and enchanting, and once I'm out there, I don't focus on writing," says Mar Ks. ”
It was this habit of his that led Marques to write one masterpiece after another.
Haruki Murakami said, "Low-level pleasures can be obtained through indulgence, and high-level pleasures can be obtained through suffering." ”
In this age of entertainment to death, everyone is immersed in short and fast enjoyment.
But as long as you take the initiative to suffer, resist temptation, and persevere to the end, then you will naturally be able to excel and embrace a better version of yourself.
Writer Li Siyuan said: Happiness in time is good in "timely", and the bad thing is that in addition to the happiness of the moment, the rest is all pain. Delayed gratification, the bad thing is "delay", the good thing is that in addition to the pain of the moment, all that is left is happiness.
There are thousands of people in the world, but what really widens the gap between them is actually whether you choose to have fun in time or delay gratification.
You have to believe that restraint is always the key to the door to happiness.
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