There are two things that are hardest in the world: one is to make you willingly take money out of your pocket and put it in my pocket, and the other is to implant your own ideas in another person's head.
Many years ago, when Taobao was first established, there were not so many choppers at that time, and many people were not used to buying things online. At this time, Ma Yun is thinking about how to make more people change the traditional concept that online shopping is not trustworthy, and make online shopping popular. Therefore, increase the intensity of external publicity, online advertising swept in, after a wild bombardment, Ma Yun found that the middle-aged and elderly people seem to be uninterested, but young people are very face-giving.
After that, Ma Yun made a decisive decision to abandon the middle-aged and elderly and focus on young people. For young people, the mind is more active, it is easy to receive new things, they often do not form their own system of thought, have a curious heart to the outside world. The older and more experienced people, they generally have their own thinking and cognitive system, the curiosity about the outside world is weakened, and it is often difficult to accept the ideas of the outside world.
A large part of the reason why it is difficult for older people to accept fresh ideas is because ideas from the outside world are transmitted to their minds, and they will struggle, or contradict, or merge with ideas that already exist.
Therefore, you can see that all new ideas, new theories, are generally more widely disseminated among young people and more accepted by them. For example, the young people of the May Fourth Movement more than 100 years ago, a group of young people who were mostly composed of students, were more active in the propaganda and belief of Marxism, anarchism, bourgeois theory, and so on.
For example, the rapid development of a new generation of technology companies in Silicon Valley in the United States has also emerged among a group of young people.
I am not saying that middle-aged and elderly people must be worse than young people, nor is it engaged in binary opposition, on the contrary, middle-aged people have more resources and connections, and richer knowledge reserves. However, why, when new ideas, new science and technology arrive, they often can't grasp it. What are they worse than?
Openness to knowledge, tolerance to the world.
When I was in college, my teacher warned me: Don't limit your horizons because of your hobbies.
You like literature, so you read a lot of books on literature, you like astronomical geography, you go to study astronomical geography. There is nothing wrong with that in itself, nothing wrong with that. But if you hate economics, don't look at it, you are tired of difficult philosophy, you are far away from philosophy, this is not right.
The consequence, then, will be that you lack one perspective after another, you have less eyes to see problems from an economic perspective, and you have fewer means of thinking about problems philosophically.
Admittedly, your preferences can help you, and your passion for literature has fascinated you with your studies of literature. But, too, your hobbies limit your horizons. So, don't deny a thing because of your biases, before you dig deeper.
In today's internet age, the misuse of the recommendation system will only exacerbate your biases. Recommendation algorithms, which recommend more things you like, article information or videos based on your hobbies. That's why I don't like recommendation algorithms. The recommendation algorithm binds you to your biases, like a yard with walls around it, where you can only see the sky that belongs to you, and the outside of the yard has nothing to do with you.
In the autobiography of 360 boss Zhou Hongyi, he regrets that he missed the search, and I regret it.
When Zhou Hongyi made the 3721 website, Baidu had not yet risen at that time. At that time, many people said that Zhou was doing search, and he did do a search Chinese website, but Zhou naturally had a kind of resistance, unwilling to admit that he was doing search, and biased did not want to do search. Later, Yu Jun found Zhou Hongyi and wanted to come to 3721 to do a search, and found that Zhou Hongyi did not have this idea, and he was more resistant to the search, but Yu Jun jumped to Baidu and became the soul of Baidu. Later, Zhou Hongyi said in his autobiography that he regretted missing Yu Jun and missing the search.
Later things, we also know, Zhou Hongyi has been reflecting on himself: let yourself maintain an open and inclusive mind, when you do not fully understand a new thing, do not jump to conclusions.
There is a saying that you can never make more money than you know, and I deeply agree with this.
The difference between chicken soup texts and inspirational texts is that chicken soup texts have spoons and are often not allowed to operate accordingly, so many people are disgusted with it, even disgusted, such as Mimon, who is known as the king of poisonous chicken soup. Its text, under the slogan of feminism, creates antagonism between men and women, denounces the various crimes of scumbags, transforms into a feminist fighter, treats the individual examples of scumbags among men as a whole, and attacks them, only for a moment of happiness in the mouth, but there is no sentence that triggers thinking, let alone a way to solve the problem.
I'm writing this not to give you a bowl of chicken soup, but to allow people who can see it to benefit from it, to provide a little thought, to have a little inspiration, to make a little change to a greater or lesser extent, and it is enough.
So, if that's the case, how do you know your idea is correct? How do you know your values are what you should embrace? How do you know your mind isn't going astray without knowing it?
When anarchist thought, constitutional monarchical thought, Marxist thought, and a large number of foreign new ideas were introduced into China, which theory was suitable for China, which kind of ideological theory could save China, and how we should choose.
Chen Duxiu's approach is to introduce and study new ideas, debate and analyze new ideas, and verify new ideas as much as possible through the establishment of "New Youth" magazine. Chen Duxiu's ideal is that after 20 years of founding the magazine, he will surely find a suitable path for the old China. The entire TV series is also narrated based on this concept.
Chen Duxiu did not deny any new theory of thought because of any of his own prejudices, when his sons Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian brothers were addicted to anarchism. Chen Duxiu did not criticize and blame them, but let them study anarchy theory in depth and encouraged them to find opportunities to practice anarchist theory. Enough to see its inclusive mentality.
One man with the same open mind as Chen Duxiu, in the summer of 2005, Jobs was invited to Stanford University to give a speech: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” Thirst for knowledge, wisdom as foolishness. I hope that everyone can have a curious heart, an open and inclusive mind to treat new things, and work with the king.