Stand out from the crowd—Jiwa and Uijuan

Recently, the hot words "chicken baby" and "involution" have been appearing on the Internet.

"Chicken baby": Parents continue to enroll their children in various interest classes or strengthen tutoring, hoping that their children will win at the starting line or at least not fall behind.

"Involution": Vicious competition within highly homogeneous companies, resulting in a decline in the ratio of personal income to effort, and even the phenomenon of "tiger grabbing wolf for food". In layman's terms, "diploma and hard work" are devalued. The original "no pain, no gain" has evolved into "no pain, no gain".

There is an old song "I am a little bird" sung by singer Zhao Chuan that can perfectly interpret the voices of these "chicken babies".

Sometimes I feel like

like a little bird

I want to fly but I can’t fly high

Maybe One day I perched on a branch

...

I searched and searched for a

warm embrace

like this Are the requirements too high?

Parents all hope that their children can "stand out from the crowd" and surpass their peers, and in the future, "one crane soars into the sky" and become a dragon or a phoenix among people.

The reality is that everyone is working hard to "chicken baby", but the "involution" phenomenon is becoming more and more serious:

For example:

1. A certain person in Shenzhen Jingran, the deputy director of a sub-district office in the district, is a Harvard postdoctoral fellow; many teachers recruited by Shenzhen middle schools have master's degrees or Ph.D.s from northern Qing Dynasty.

2. Many government agencies and large enterprises require a 985 or 211 bachelor degree or above to recruit people.

3. A certain tobacco company’s workshop hired several 985 graduate students in a competition to recruit operators.

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On the other hand, the more "involution" forces the more "chicken baby":

Many high school graduates do not meet their ideal scores in the first college entrance examination. If the scores of top universities meet the required scores, you will choose to repeat your studies, and you will not give up even if you are not admitted to your ideal university. There is a college entrance examination madman named Wu Shanliu

He repeated the college entrance examination eight times and finally got admitted to Tsinghua University at the age of 32. However, he failed to find a good job after graduation (due to his age) and could only go to Tsinghua University. Working as a mathematics teacher in a private middle school (he was admitted to Beijing Normal University twice but gave up), he felt a bit like "Fan Jin passed the exam", which is disappointing.

It is difficult to get along at home, and many students have chosen to study abroad. In 2019, the number of people studying abroad in China exceeded 700,000. Students hope to exchange their foreign master's or doctorate degrees from prestigious universities in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada and other countries for a better personal development prospect, but involution is also on the way...

“I urge God to be courageous and send out talents of all kinds.” Talents do not necessarily have to be highly educated, because in the end not everyone will engage in academic research. As the saying goes, "Three hundred and sixty years of work will lead to a top scholar." Skilled craftsmen are also talents (many German craftsmen earn more than university professors); Less than twenty people were selected. It can be said that the excellence of these future pilots is no less than those admitted by Qingbei; the 14-year-old Olympic diving champion Quan Hongchan chose the diving path because of poor study. Doesn’t she count? Talent?

It can be seen that the "Crane Babies" (those with extraordinary talents in cultural learning) and the "Chicken Babies" (those with average cultural learning talents) have their own destiny, and each has his or her own path.

"Dare you ask the direction?" The road is at your feet...