A professor at the Fudan Institute of Philosophy said: "The richer the people, the more anxious they are, and the more they need the comfort of the soul." ”
Ordinary people are anxious about their livelihood, rich people, their anxiety, is the lack of inner peace.
The nature of anxiety is the way of thinking
"The essence of anxiety is not ignorance, the essence of anxiety is the way of thinking. Only by reading books can we better face the world. ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > anxiety comes from constant comparison</h1>
It is not yourself who is promoted and raised, but colleagues;
People around me have bought a house, and they are still renting;
A friend's child went to a key school and got better grades than his own.
Anxiety comes from not comparing
Anxiety comes from constantly comparing with the heart, hoping to be excellent and better than others.
When you earn 100,000, compared with the 100,000 people around you, when you earn 500,000, you will see a higher rank, and anxiety will arise compared with them.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" > anxiety stems from changing too quickly and worrying that you won't be able to adapt</h1>
Poverty itself does not make people anxious, "poorer than the people around them" is really anxious. The people you didn't look up to in the first two years were suddenly stepping on the wind this year, leaving you behind.
Anxiety comes from changing too quickly
When forced out of their comfort zone, the lack of knowledge is worrying. The way of survival that has remained unchanged in the workplace for more than a decade has been transformed by the sudden Internet technology, facing the risk of knowledge upgrading or elimination.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" > anxiety stems from self-loss</h1>
The rapid growth of wealth and career does not allow true inner freedom and peace of soul. When you throw off your previous competitors and move up to the next dimension, you always find that there is another wave of peers who are doing better than you.
Anxiety comes from self-loss
In essence, it is to lose oneself in the external world and fall into the whirlpool of public opinion created by the flashy world. What we need to do is to shift our focus from the exploration of the external world to the cultivation of the heart.
Anxiety arises within, and self-awareness is not as easy as looking in the mirror. Combining mental astrology may provide some inspiration.