Why choose Singapore for tourism conferences?

Author: Mao Mi Source: Zhihu

Parents in East Asia will tell their children.

If you want to be a master, if you want to succeed, you have to work hard, study hard, fight for scarce resources, get into a good university, find a good job, and then compete to become a Top talent.

It seems that all factors are related to diligence, and as long as you are diligent, you can solve all problems.

But it is essentially laziness to think that all problems can be solved by a single factor.

Relying on only one way to solve a problem is itself an escape from the complexity of the world.

Just like Lei Jun said.

Don’t use tactical diligence to cover up your strategic laziness.

Why does our culture have such logical habits.

Always want to solve everything with diligence?

We need to delve deeper into the reasons, and then we can discover why we have always advocated words such as advocating heaven and rewarding those who work hard. In fact, they all have historical roots.

This root continues to influence our values ??today.

But is there really a necessary relationship between diligence and success?

Does diligence really have a lot to do with success?

Anyway, I never believe that hard work alone can make a person successful.

If this is the case, the most successful people in the world should be farmers and workers.

They are really much more diligent than us urban white-collar workers, but why don’t they get corresponding wealth?

What’s even more awesome is art. Scientists, writers, musicians, and makers only need to invent and create a few good things to sustain themselves for a lifetime and create huge wealth for the world.

Whenever I raise this question to people of the older generation, they are speechless.

Then you say this is a fallacy.

It’s not that what I said is a fallacy, but that the older generation is unwilling to believe that hard work to create everything is wrong.

When they face such a problem, they subconsciously choose to avoid it and choose to be irrational.

Some things they believe deeply cannot tolerate doubt in their eyes.

Especially things in our traditional culture such as filial piety, ethics, diligence, etc.

Whenever it comes to these issues, our older generation starts to talk about emotions instead of logic.

Anyone who violates these things is wrong.

Because things like self-subversion are essentially a very painful process.

This means you have to deny the past.

American education has a very good way of thinking.

It’s called critical thinking.

It is rational to view everything with skepticism or a critical attitude.

The more you believe something without thinking, the more you should doubt its correctness.

Then the question comes.

Why do people in East Asia value diligence so much?

That’s because we have been in a state of scarcity and scarcity for a long time.

As for how this state came about.

This brings us to geographical determinism again.

We in East Asian countries have had a rice-intensive farming economy for thousands of years. On the one hand, we can support many people on the same farmland, but it also requires greater labor and competition.

The most typical one is Japan.

They have very little arable land. Only diligence and thrift can allow them to survive, otherwise they will not be able to survive.

This problem does not exist in Europe and the United States.

Their resources are abundant.

Some of them don’t even need to compete for resources so much, and they are in a state of not being too scarce.

Civilization and culture have come to the forefront because of the relative abundance of materials and latitude.

The sense of lack among East Asian people is something that Southeast Asians, Europeans and Americans cannot understand.

This is why Marx said that environment determines people.

All cultures were extended for survival at that time.

We also have a saying in Chinese proverb.

There is water and soil on one side and people on the other.

The reason is very simple.

Why geography determines the different directions of human beings.

Because humans were born in Africa from the earliest beginning.

Everyone’s ancestors are all Africans, but they later came out, some to Europe, some to Asia, and some to the Americas.

The same kind of people, but different environments have evolved over a long period of time and become different races.

Many people say that Europeans and Americans are genetically nobler than us, but this is actually inaccurate.

It is not that their genes are good, but that the long-term effects of material conditions on them have modified their genes.

Our ancestors are all the same, just because the environment shaped them differently.

The so-called people are the products of environmental transformation.

All human social evolution has its own objective laws.

When our ancestors came to the Loess Plateau, the Chinese civilization was born. Because it was rice-intensive, it required continuous farming and labor, and at the same time it had strong reproductive capabilities, and slowly the industrious people were born. A civilization that creates wealth.

Because if you are not diligent, you will starve to death, but if you are diligent, everyone can survive.

Because I live in Chengdu, but why is Chengdu so lazy?

It is because the land resources and arable land resources here are completely self-sufficient, and the material is rich, people can survive without being so diligent, so they should like to be more comfortable and not like to struggle.

Everything is for survival, or to survive better.

The Japanese are worse off than we are. Not only are their cultivated land not productive enough, but they are also suffering from disasters one after another. This is why the Japanese are indeed more diligent, frugal, and have a strong sense of crisis.

We often see apocalyptic anime from Japanese anime, and they love to think about philosophy. This is also because they often deal with death.

Our geography determines our culture.

The diligence advocated by our fathers comes from the agricultural era.

But now we have slowly advanced from the industrial age to the information age.

Using diligence to solve everything is no longer applicable.

Learning to adapt to contemporary society is the most important thing for young people of our generation.

If you embrace old thinking, you can only get the old path, but the current new path will not work.

Why hard work alone no longer applies.

Take learning as an example.

The phenomenon I have observed is that those who do well in studies do not do well because of their diligence.

It is concentration, attention, a thinking brain, and a little interest that determine their good grades.

Of course, this is relatively good, not absolutely good. The situation of unequal educational resources is not considered.

A person without concentration will not be able to work hard no matter how hard you ask him to.

Because learning this matter still requires using your brain, it is not a simple repetitive mechanical work.

If you can’t focus and find fun, you won’t be able to work hard.

But concentration is a scarce resource that not everyone has.

I have always believed that diligent study is a talent in itself.

Some people can study well, but some people really can't do it because they have poor concentration.

There are also those who can learn, who can think and solve at least exam problems.

Diligence is only a means to solve problems, but it is not an absolute means.

East Asian civilizations strongly promote diligent learning.

The actual purpose is to compete for these scarce educational resources.

Just to go to a good university.

If you cannot enter a prestigious university, you will most likely not be able to maintain your current class or enter a better class. In short, it will have a huge relationship with your class mobility.

For a large number of middle-class children, the meaning of struggle is to maintain the status quo and not fall to a lower class, rather than to enter the wealthy class.

Everyone is working hard to study, go to famous universities, go to foreign Ivy League schools, etc.

Then holding a good diploma is to be able to compete for a good position.

This is the general way to solve problems through diligent thinking.

It is also a general solution consistent with this social system.

But such a product of East Asian education has largely suppressed the driving force for creating value for society.

We only solve problems generally, but creative solutions are greatly suppressed.

Just getting into a prestigious university is actually a product of this exam-oriented education.

Talents who can really create value for society have been greatly suppressed.

However, after such assembly line-like educational products enter the society, they continue to do the same work and maintain a survival.

So, in fact, most people’s potential has hardly been developed.

They are all bound by the beliefs and concepts created by society.

Our education system is a combination of the imperial examination system and the Prussian system.

The combination of two and one, the scarcity mentality is also brought into education.

At the same time, the Prussian educational method of finely classifying subjects was also brought in.

To be honest, our education is not for cultivating talents, but for screening talents.

After being screened out, you can become a superior person and enter the high class. If you do not meet the requirements, you will be eliminated by this system.

So education has become a tool for class stratification.

But it has not created much value to society.

It is the same as the imperial examination in the past.

Just to compete.

Not much difference.

The things I studied seemed to be better, but after the college entrance examination, I forgot a lot of things, and I believe most of my classmates were the same.

The purpose of learning is not to learn, but to compete.

But our education is indeed unable to adapt to contemporary society, but you cannot pray for it to change.

Either you adapt, or you have to change yourself.

Including myself, apart from the arithmetic and Chinese I learned in elementary school, I still have some common sense knowledge. I almost forgot all other knowledge after passing the college entrance examination.

Especially in mathematics, physics and chemistry, all I learned was test-taking skills.

I have not learned that kind of logical thinking and rational thinking.

My subsequent studies were all learned by myself in college. Because I was interested in reading books and dabbling in a lot of knowledge, and then integrating them with my own experience and thinking, I gradually developed something unique of my own.

I found a method that suits me.

During this process, I also discovered people who can truly create value for this society.

It is often a state where life energy is turned on.

They are passionate about learning, excited about solving problems, and full of desire for success.

Those who have won the Nobel Prize, without exception, love what they do, engage in research of their own interest, and create creations that they like.

This is the true Tao.

Diligence is a hard process, but creation is a blissful process.

When creating something, it is easy to enter the peak experience as Maslow said.

Because at this time, the human brain is very closely connected with the universe.

First of all, why creation has become so important in this era.

First of all, let’s analyze it from the simplest economic principles.

What brings economic development to this society is the improvement of productivity and the renewal of organizational forms.

The biggest change in productivity comes from science.

However, the renewal and enrichment of organizational forms is not only a change in productivity.

It is inseparable from the establishment of enterprises, the emergence of art, the transformation of business, the update of technology, and the innovation and development of various industries.

All these values ??are directly related to creation and have no necessary logical relationship with diligence.

Diligence can only ensure a certain level of efficiency in the industrial age.

But in this era, the value generated by hard work alone will slowly be replaced by machines.

The biggest difference between real people and computers, machines, or artificial intelligence is imagination and creativity.

In other words, we need more development of the right hemisphere.

More importantly, it is a way of thinking.

Diligent single-factor thinking cannot better adapt to modern society.

Just thinking about relying on diligence will undoubtedly make you give up thinking.

We should have a new way of thinking.

That is creative thinking.

Faced with the same problem.

We must use our imagination and use various resources to achieve it.

Instead of just being stupid and diligent.

There are at least three solutions to the same problem.

For example, big problems such as love, career, marriage, family, and work, small problems are still the same.

The important thing is to solve the problem. There are many ways to solve the problem. Find the most suitable method, or create a new method yourself.

Create methods that suit you and solve corresponding problems.

Strictly speaking, everyone’s path is more or less created by themselves.

Everyone’s way of living is also created by himself.

Creation first requires courage.

Because East Asian culture has rarely mentioned creation for thousands of years.

Those mentioned are kings, kings and ministers, fathers and sons.

Follow the rules.

So those who dare to create and break the rules will not be supported by society, and will even be severely opposed.

If you take this path, you must first face your life bravely.

When faced with specific problems.

When you want to solve problems, such as in study, work, or career, you not only exert your creativity, but your diligence itself is also driven by the pleasure of solving problems divergently. Naturally Will be very diligent.

When you create a piece of art, start a company, or research an interesting project, I think the probability of you being lazy is very small.

Because this is the process of you exerting your life energy again. This is happiness, a deeper happiness, and you will not let laziness stop you.

Another example is planning for the future and how to create your own future.

Those who did not go to prestigious universities did not find promising jobs.

Most of them are doing repetitive white-collar jobs or blue-collar jobs.

It is impossible to get ahead in days like this.

If you just rely on hard work, you will never be able to succeed in your life.

Because the resources have been grabbed by those who should be grabbed.

Moreover, China’s class system has become more and more entrenched. The second generation of wealthy officials and the second generation of government officials have taken many resources for themselves.

Only by blazing a path for yourself can you succeed.

But creating this is indeed not an easy task.

But we can start with small things, or do it in a way that interests you.

I can give you some suggestions on new ways to play.

There is probably a lot to do.

Try the combination of Internet and traditional industries. Write, make music, make movies, do business, learn foreign languages ??and go abroad. Learn a skill that interests you and focus on research, and work in different positions. Find your own direction, fix one direction, learn relevant knowledge in different positions, and become a multi-professional person.

Traditional society advocates staying in one job for a lifetime, but in modern society, first of all, people's life span has been extended.

The advent of the free market economy is simply difficult to achieve by staying in your job for a lifetime.

On the contrary, accumulate work experience and learn things in different positions. If a person does 20 different jobs in his life, in fact, I think he is likely to use these 2 work experiences to create a Something comes out.

I know someone who does this.

Some have e-commerce experience, outdoor activity experience, marketing experience, and tourism experience, so they created self-media for travel clothing based on the Internet.

There are also people with food experience, travel experience, literary skills, and artistic skills who become travel experiencers, travel around the world, and then write experience reports.

There are also people who come out of Alibaba and McKinsey to start businesses and do freelance work.

The world is so big that there is everyone for everyone.

In the modern world, due to the arrival of the Internet, we can connect with others more easily.

Use the resources that are available now, it is best to combine them with the Internet, because it is the easiest to do something innovative and use your creativity.

In this way it is possible to escape from the original environment.

For example, now we are engaged in self-media, writing, video, comics, music, makers, various experiencers, online training, buyers, photography, customization, etc.

All are possible.

But everything has to be given. If you want stability, then there is no need. But if you want a wonderful life and realize the value of life, I think you can try more things you have never done before. matter.

I have said so many things that can be done.

But creating things is actually secondary.

You only have one life, no reincarnation, no next life, really.

This time, think about it carefully so that you will not regret living like this, only then will it be meaningful and worthy of living as a human being.

When you think about it, just create your own life.

Although this road is paved with thorns, it is extremely free.

Of course, only a few people take this road after all.

But only a few people are worth learning.

Because they are leading the future.