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Some hot words about office workers have attracted everyone's attention, such as "social animals", such as "996", which reflect the current state of young and middle-aged people being bound by work.
Many people ask: How do you get out of the "social animal" state when you are bound by work?
Indeed, in recent years, some large companies have mentioned "996", working 6 days a week, every morning from 9 am to 9 pm, similar regulations are very stressful.
The "social animal" state is a situation that a person is very easy to encounter in the stage of youth and adulthood, in order to support his family and develop himself in social work.
Philosophically we can refer to some points of view to see if it helps.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11">1 Know what you're living for</h1>
Nietzsche once said: "A man who knows what he is living for can endure all the torments."
Knowing what you are "living for" is worth noting. On behalf of what purpose I have in living, I can endure all life.
Because there are many places in life that really need to be patient, repetitive, tedious and hard, but I know what I am living for, know the purpose of my life, and I can accept all this.
This can be compared with Confucius, who had a student Yan Yuan, who was highly evaluated by Confucius.
Confucius once said: "Yan Hui is really remarkable, eating a bamboo basket of rice every day, drinking a little boiled water, living in a dilapidated house, others can't stand that kind of sorrow, but Yan Hui did not change his happiness."
Life is so poor, it is true that people can't stand it, why didn't Yan Yuan change his happiness?
Because he knows what he is living for, the answer is that he listened to what Confucius called the "Tao", which is the path of life, and he knows that life is going to be lived like this.
Yan Yuan knew that Confucius's "Tao" was to walk on the right path in life, so we must first understand that human nature is good, try to choose good and stubborn, and sacrifice for good, that is just right.
Because the purpose is to realize the power of human nature to be good, at this time life is not only not a trouble, but a kind of tempering.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="132" >2 What do you dream about? </h1>
For this paragraph, you can also refer to a similar background in the Book of Zhuangzi.
Confucius said to Yan Yuan: "You are well read and cultivated in all aspects of virtue, so why don't you become an official?"
Yan Yuan said: "As long as we ordinary people are a man, the government will send some fields, I will have porridge to eat when I cultivate the fields myself, plant a few mulberry trees in the courtyard of the house, raise some silkworms, and in the future I can weave cloth and wear clothes."
The main thing is that I have a teacher's 'Tao' that can make me happy.
As for being an official or not being an official, that is the case when others do not want me, so why should I have to pursue it? ”
This is the image of Yan Yuan in Zhuangzi's heart, and indeed he understands the Tao of life.
In fact, the same is true of Zhuangzi's own situation.
Zhuangzi also worked as a short-term civil servant in the Song Dynasty, managing a lacquer garden, and the sap of this tree could be used as an adhesive to make tables and beds.
This kind of work is not high, it is quite hard, and there is no sense of achievement.
Zhuangzi refused to bend his waist for five buckets of rice, and then he lived by ploughing the field by himself and fishing, and he was also very poor.
But everyone in the world knows that Zhuangzi is very happy, he becomes a butterfly as soon as he dreams, and we can't dream of butterflies when we dream, but we dream of a lot of strange and terrible plots.
You can understand that Nietzsche's words make sense, and that one must know what he is living for.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="133">3 What is left of work besides making money? </h1>
Therefore, to return to the "social animal state" mentioned at the beginning, we must first break the concept of "I live to eat, I work to make money", and to transcend this concept.
Of course, on the surface we really work to make some money and improve our lives, but work itself has its purpose.
The American philosopher Russell said: "My life is to make my career a joy, and to make my joy a career."
To put it more bluntly: I make my work happy.
For example, when I go to work every day, I have to think that this is an extension of my ability, and I have a special talent in this area, and I have to show it. In fact, every profession has a social necessity, the diversity of the whole society, and the opportunity for self-realization for everyone.
Russell also had to turn work into happiness, which seemed difficult to learn.
But it can be imagined that in the work, with the growth of age, the increase of experience, the accumulation of knowledge, slowly more and more certain about the work, in the end your happiness also lies in the work.
It is as if Confucius said that "those who know are not as good as those who are good, and those who are good are not as good as those who are happy", knowing that certain knowledge is not as good as liking certain knowledge, and then further enjoying it.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="134" >4 "996" How to survive in quality? </h1>
So, what if you are bound by work and are in the rhythm of work like 996?
There are two angles to consider:
The first is time.
Find an hour a week for at least twenty minutes a day to read, think or listen to music, and do leisure activities.
The main thing is to read and think, if there is not a little time in the day to think about what happened today, people are prone to make similar mistakes, there is no change in personality, and it is difficult to improve the situation with others.
We all know Mr. Fan's "Four Precepts of Fan", and many people are reading this book. How did Yuan Yifan cultivate himself?
It is to write a meritorious deed, reflect on what you did today at night, which can be regarded as meritorious, and what you did today can be regarded as having done. Carefully examining his words and deeds, he later found that he had more and more merit and less and less.
Then your own understanding of yourself is like this, others look at you in a similar situation, find that you are indeed in a constant transformation, others naturally respect you, will also like you.
The second angle is space.
Find a corner of your own, where you can be undisturbed, put everything down for a while, and take a breath inside.
Westerners love to say "take a breath." It is equivalent to allowing me to change my mood, working so hard every day, I need to change my mood regularly and adjust my focus.
So they like to think about leisure activities, and leisure also has two understandings:
The first is to purely kill time and consume time; the second is to recreate vitality.
These two are obviously different, the previous killing time is kill time, kill time;
Later recreate vitality, which is recreation, I can re-emerge a kind of create creative power. It is a very popular saying "rest is to go further".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="135" >5 Taoists teach you to solve difficulties</h1>
Further, when it comes to getting out of the "state of social animals", we can refer to the Taoists, and Zhuangzi's enlightenment to modern people is four words:
First, be at peace with yourself.
Content with where I am, knowing that all this has happened, I accept it with peace of mind.
Second, be with others.
Externalization is externalization and not internalization, the appearance is the same as others, in the heart of its own a world, to find a time space of its own.
Third, be happy with nature.
Get close to nature, use leisure time, natural flowers and trees, birds, animals, insects and fish, can bring people a very deep joy.
Fourth, with the avenue to tour.
To be able to learn Taoist thought, one feels that there is great beauty in heaven and earth without saying a word, and although human life is in a great constraint of having to work every day, as a human being, you can still freely choose where to develop.
At this time, you can adjust it, not to develop all towards the level of physical visibleness and quantification, but also to turn in one direction, towards the spiritual level, to improve yourself.