Reading is useless, but why read?

The ancients had a theory that reading was useless: Zhang Jie, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "Book Burning Pit" that Liu Xiang would not study before the ashes in Shandong were cold.

I remember Yi Zhongtian said at the book fair that reading is useless, but reading is for reading.

When Yue Ming wrote The Events of the Ming Dynasty, he thought that history was useless in the postscript. He said: Many people asked why they should look at history, and many people replied that they should learn from history. Now let me tell you that it is impossible to learn from history. Because I found that history has not changed, technology has changed, clothes have changed, and diet has changed. These are all shells, and nothing has changed inside. As it was thousands of years ago, the people who should be killed will still be killed. Yue Fei will die, Yuan Chonghuan will die, and in another thousand years, he will still die.

Jin Yong ran Ming Pao in Hongkong and wrote an editorial to predict the political situation in Chinese mainland (especially during the Cultural Revolution). Someone asked him what the mystery was, and he easily replied, "I have been reading Purple Tongzhi Sword for decades, and I am also studying it." "Purple Tongzhi Sword made me understand the historical law of China, and almost all people in China followed this law.

Croce, a famous historian, said: All history is contemporary history.

History is useless, but how can a useless thing spread for thousands of years? It's definitely useless, reading is useless, but why study?

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In this era, a high degree of education may not bring high income, which is an important reason why reading is useless, but in fact, reading has never taught you to make a fortune, just as the couplet in front of Huangpu Military Academy said, "If you want to get promoted and make a fortune, please go elsewhere, for fear of death, and don't enter Simen." Reading is a lonely thing, a personal thing and a painful thing. You will find that the more you know, the more painful it is. Among happy pigs and miserable thinkers, many people choose the former. Reading has a subtle influence on people. It affects your way of thinking, changes your speech, makes you see yourself better, and most importantly, it cultivates a very important thing-vision.

Why does Mr. Jin Yong's prediction always win? Because he read through history, he has a wise thinking and a keen hunch. Many people told me that college graduates are not paid as much as migrant workers? I said to him: what you see is that now, five years later, ten years later, migrant workers can only be migrant workers, and their wages may never change, but you have been rising. There is such a story that three people are building a wall, and one person asks: What are you doing? The first man said, didn't you see it? I am building a wall. The second man said: We are building a tall building. The third man said: I am building a beautiful city. Ten years later, the first person was still a migrant worker, the second person became an engineer and the third person became a mayor. This is the vision. In fact, the most important thing for a person to study is to cultivate a person's vision. It enables a person to have the ability to make progress. We may not care about the low salary, but we will find a promising job and think that strong young people will never sink.

In the Internet age, knowledge exploded, and before we left the campus, 70% of our knowledge was out of date. Refusing to study is tantamount to suicide. Bill Gates, who studies at least twice a year, and Ma Hua Teng of Tencent himself said in his speech: Every year I feel that Tencent is going to collapse, but I survived. If WeChat was not invented by Tencent, we are now at the end of the road. In this internet age, without the wisdom and overall vision of the reading church, the sensitivity of predicting the future will be eliminated sooner or later. You think I'm talking nonsense. Let me give you a vivid example. When I first went to college, Nokia held up half the sky, but when the smart phone appeared, it immediately weakened. I heard that it was acquired some time ago. Isn't the Motorola in front the same? Zhang Chaoyang 1993 of Sohu came back from MIT and decided to do the Internet. At that time, the Internet in China couldn't even see the shadow, but Zhang Chaoyang insisted on doing it. Why? He knows that the Internet is promising, and now he has become a network giant. If he hadn't studied at MIT, would Zhang Chaoyang have the keen vision and accurate prediction of the Internet today? As Mr. Jiang Yang said, all your puzzles are caused by reading too little and thinking too much.

In the 1980s, there was a saying that it was better to sell tea eggs than to build an atomic bomb, and it was better to take a pig knife than a scalpel. Everyone has their own life choices. Those who make atomic bombs may not have the wealth to sell tea eggs, and those who sell tea eggs may not have the sense of accomplishment to make atomic bombs. The key is your own choice. Reading can't teach you to get rich. It will only make you smarter and more mature. Reading is for reading. Reading can't give you everything you want, not just reading. Nothing can give you everything you want. But if you don't study, you will find that your heart is barren and blank. Refusing to read is the cancer of the soul!

Reading has never taught you utilitarian calculations, but great wisdom that needs to be carefully appreciated. Any cleverness can only be complacent for a while, and will eventually be drowned by the torrent of history.

Wisdom is grasped and elegance is shaped.

I have a particularly handsome friend who married a really ugly girl. I'm confused. How did you get such a girl? Because I know he has a high eye. He told me that this girl is full of intellectual beauty. She read too many books and was quiet most of the time, but as soon as she opened her mouth, she hit the nail on the head and attracted her attention. Moreover, he said that this girl has the beauty of knowledge precipitation, which makes her feel like a book. You can't finish turning it, and you don't know which page to turn, but all the glamorous girls he once met are too thin.

This is the charm of knowledge and this is the function of reading. It makes you not shallow, rejects vulgarity and purifies your mind.

Let's take a look at Mu Xin, Jiang Yang and Bai Xianyong who have entered the old age. The intellectual beauty, brilliance and self-confidence of knowledge accumulation are enough to shock everyone's heart. You don't have to listen to them. Looking at them quietly is a wonderful enjoyment. I watched Mr. Bai Xianyong's Kunqu Opera speech at National Taiwan University the other day. He is so powerful that he is fascinated by the fun of talking about the past and the present. This is the charm of knowledge. My classmates always say: If a boy is poor, ugly and doesn't study, then if you still want a girlfriend, why not just commit suicide? Girls often have a crush on a poor boy, not because he is poor, but because he is motivated and thinks he has a future. A calm boy is earth-shattering, and a shallow boy will only hurt spring and grieve autumn. Keep reading, those fragmented knowledge will be internalized into your aura, and there will naturally be a different kind of charm between gestures, which is incomparable to any cosmetics. No amount of exquisite cosmetics can comfort your empty mind!

I remember when Huang Tingjian chatted with Su Shi, he said: If you don't study for a day, the dust will grow in it; If you don't study for two days, it will be boring; You will feel sick if you don't study for three days.

From the heart, a calm person is not hostile to him, and a quiet and elegant person will not describe it as obscene. To paraphrase, just kidding: it's not your fault that people are ugly, it's your fault that they don't study!

If you don't believe in dreams, you can't call them back.

I remember watching the conversation between Chen Ou, the founder of Jumeiyoupin, and Xu Xiaoping. Chen Ou said: Many young people come to me for venture capital and want to open an online mall, but they don't even know about B2C. How can I give it to them? If you want to stick to your dream, you must have a basic knowledge framework about it. You have nothing, you know nothing, and you insist on something you don't know at all. Your stubborn persistence equals stupidity.

Reading will build your basic knowledge framework, at least it will tell you what you want to do. You dream of becoming a tiger trainer, you know nothing about tiger training, and you foolishly go to find a tiger, so it is estimated that the tiger's lunch will be dropped.

This is about the function of reading. A large number of cases and knowledge read in the book will accumulate an empirical framework, so that you can seize your dream opportunity when it comes, rather than miss it easily. Tell a story first. Two brothers who immigrated to the United States from Germany came to new york to make a living 1845. The two brothers felt that life was very difficult, so they discussed how to live. As an immigrant, my brother used to have a skill. When he was in Germany, kimchi was very good. My brother is too young to know anything. My brother said that it is too difficult for us foreigners to survive in a city like new york. I will go to California. I can grow vegetables and continue to cook my kimchi. My younger brother thought, I don't have any skills anyway, so I just decided to stay in new york, work during the day and study at night. He studies geology and metallurgy. My brother came to a village in California, where there was very cheap land, so he bought Chinese cabbage and used it to pickle pickles when it matured. My brother is very diligent. He grows vegetables and pickles every day to support his family. Four years later, my brother graduated from college and came to California to visit his brother. The elder brother asked the younger brother, "What do you have now?" The younger brother said, "I have nothing but a diploma." My brother said, "You'd better do it with me. Let me show you my vegetable field. " In the vegetable field, my brother squatted down to look at the vegetables, then pulled the soil under the vegetables and watched them for a long time. Then he went into the house, took a washbasin, filled it with water, and washed the soil one by one. He found some golden shiny metal scraps under the washbasin. Then, he raised his head in surprise, looked at his brother, sighed and said, "Brother, do you know? You grow cabbage in a gold mine! "

This is the function of reading. Sometimes God gives you a gold mine, and you will still be poor. How does reading teach you to seize opportunities? Reading is useless, but how do you know when it will be useful? When the book is used, you will not be so annoying. Do you still have time to sharpen your gun when you get cold feet?

Well, it seems a bit tacky. The joy of being truly immersed in the book is indescribable. You will laugh, you will cry, you will have a sensitive heart, you will be addicted like opium, you will wander around Wan Ren on the ground, and you will know how wonderful it is to have rich inner feelings!

Little prince: reading some useless books, doing some useless things and spending some useless time are all to keep a chance to surpass yourself in addition to all the known. Some great changes in life began from this moment.

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