Be a person who loves to learn and is willing to grow with me
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Do you know about society when you go online?
Text/Yan Lingyang
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Do you think that if you learn about society online, you can "understand"?
A lot of people really think this way, including my mom. They believe that everything they learn online is what society is.
However, I will ask you: Is that what is said on the Internet all there is?
Not really!
Everything on the Internet is what others are willing to let you watch and want you to watch.
For example, I have been in the financial industry for more than ten years, and I can and am willing to speak out now, less than one-tenth.
I don't have much to tell about the industry I work in, and even when I go out for a meeting, I can't tell a lot of it.
In real life, you must have contact with real people, and have a certain level of friendship with these people, so that people will tell you the truth.
It's not that I discriminate against housewives or students, but I don't know how to answer when I hear them tell me, "I don't know more about the world through the Internet every day than I know more than office workers."
IMHO, you really may "know" and "realize" less than others, and much less. Don't underestimate the impact of the environment on people.
Whether it's the Internet or books, it's just a little mirror.
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To be honest, I think that a blogger may be noticed just because what he says is of some value to others (e.g., interesting, useful, and solvable), but it doesn't mean how awesome the blogger is.
Among the fans, there are many people who are better than the bloggers. This point must be clear to bloggers who have had deep contact with fans offline.
Being a blogger, to some extent, is also living in an information cocoon. You come into contact with those people every day, accepting compliments from others and accepting abuse from others......... But overall, I think this kind of working environment is relatively closed.
The information available online occupies only a small corner of the vast reality. Many times, we still need to go out and go to different places and meet people from all walks of life......... The real world is bigger and more exciting than the world on the Internet.
That's one of the reasons why I've been doing a business (entrepreneurship) that lays a foundation for a long time and has a long return arc. I really don't want to be a scrap that only brags about it online and in books.
Picture 1 is a Weibo post posted in June 2022, I went to Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi, and it was very late when I arrived, we took a taxi, and we were still running on the road at one o'clock in the morning.
The picture below was posted at 11:37 p.m.
The following picture is also the daily life of the entrepreneurial dog.
To be honest, if it weren't for the business, I probably wouldn't have been to these places for the rest of my life...... A lot of times it's so hard that I break down, and it's still useless.
There are also many people who ask me about my source of income. Well, most of my income comes from real estate appreciation (the start-up income of real estate appreciation comes from the salary accumulation of more than ten years in the original job), part of it comes from running business all over the country (which is also quite hard), and bringing goods is only a small part and more to resist network malice (advertising can make sunspots unhappy)...
I don't want to be a person who just brags about the internet, I need to link with all walks of life and keep a touch of the real world. But I do wonder where the income of people who don't seem to work much on the Internet comes from.
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The Internet is our window to the world, but we can't just learn about the world through the Internet. A lot of information can't be said publicly over the Internet.
I think it would be terrible if I became a person who only crouched on the Internet and bragged...... Work is one of the ways I stay connected to the real world.
So, I love to work.
Yesterday, I swiped a remark (I can't find the source here), which probably means: intellectuals will only sit and talk about the Tao, build a set of their own knowledge system in their minds, and be able to justify themselves; And the practitioner is to rely on practice to win the world, once you do wrong, reality will teach you a lesson, you hit the south wall and it is impossible not to look back.
I think that makes a lot of sense.......
I used to want to make a living from writing, but then I found that I was not at all "talented and rich", and my writing ability was not good (compared to the high standards I believed, not with you), and if I had been only understanding and touching the real world through the world I had built, I would lose my "practicality" and "practicality".
Is it hard to start a business? Of course, especially being Party B, it is really hard, and I am often pressed on the ground and rubbed by Party A.
But I need this opportunity to connect with the real world, this practice and experience...... I don't want to be stuck in a world of "taking things for granted", and I don't want to be surrounded by people who are chasing me.
Grab and kill.
Obsessed with something, that object is your "obstacle".
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Author: Yan Lingyang, born in the 80s, emotional columnist, author of new feminism, member of the Chinese Writers Association. He is the author of the best-selling books "Those That Make You Miserable, One Day You Will Say It with a Smile", "May You Let Go of the Past and Be Worthy of the Future", "May You Have a Journey and a Way Out", "I'm Divorced", "With Your Rivers and Lakes Are Not Lonely - An Alternative Interpretation of Jin Yong's Martial Arts Novels" and the children's picture book "Mom's House, Dad's House". With 13 years of experience in financial industry (management), he is currently the founder of a cultural information consulting company in Guangzhou and the co-founder of a cultural media company. Born in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, he now lives in Guangzhou.
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