As 2023 draws to a close, it is rare to look back on or summarize the year's experience at the end of the year, in the final analysis, because I have not delved into my inner perception and have not seriously talked to myself. At the end of this year, I want to share my self-perception as a technical person and a middle-aged person. It has nothing to do with anything else, it's just a self-thinking **.
Knowing oneself psychologically
This is the year when I started to really think about myself and know myself, which was a question that I hadn't thought about before, until I started to feel some changes in myself. For example, I began to like to understand history, especially the evolution of historical dynasties and the change of characters. A typical scene is in the past, the elders in the family liked to hold the radio to listen to the commentary, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Romance of the Ming Dynasty and Zhu Yuanzhang, etc., at that time it sounded like it was just a gong and a drum, I didn't know what to do, and I couldn't understand why they could listen to it for a day.
Now I also know artists such as Shan Tianfang and Yuan Kuocheng, and I am also listening to their history, so it is a rare opportunity to relax and sit and listen all afternoon. In turn, my next generation is resolutely not listening at the moment.
It's like a reincarnation, what you once disdained to do, didn't understand, and didn't agree with, now you can slowly accept it, this may be growth, growth is not just the growth of age, if you don't fully understand yourself, feel yourself, but just get older.
Growing up is overcoming nature, a phrase that I have heard for a long time, but it is only recently that I can really perceive it.
Only true self-perception is comprehension. This is far from being something that can be given by chicken soup from the outside, everything needs to be done from the heart.
The heart is reason. Ideologically independent personality
Another change is to start thinking thoroughly about the independent personality and to begin to understand the true meaning of the independent personality. I wrote an article before: The Technique and Tao of Technology Practitioners. In the article, I define independent personality as the path of personal cultivation, and I think that having an independent personality is a sign that a person is really beginning to mature, and this is the fundamental thing that makes a person truly different from others. Independent personality reflects a person's inner pursuits, which may not manifest themselves outwardly, and only when each person perceives existence to be truly existent.
There is a certain element of idealism in this sentence, but the world is actually what it is, you perceive that the world exists, so it exists.
When Wang Dongyue talked about philosophy, he talked about a point of view: whether a person has the potential to become a philosopher, he must first answer a question, do you think the world is real?People who believe that the world is not real are philosophically gifted.
What I want to convey is that everyone needs to follow their inner feelings, find their true inner being, and then drive themselves from the inside out. The return to independent personality can be equated with self-motivation, which is different from the passive power generated by external survival pressure and social pressure. Understanding this essence and having an independent personality, your actions will no longer be compulsive, but spontaneous, and spontaneous actions will allow you to generate tremendous energy that will turn your life upside down.
The establishment of an independent personality can lead to a series of changes in our thoughts and actions, including the following, which is something that a technician should pursue throughout his or her life.
1. Long-term thinking: not trapped by the short-term environment, only according to their long-term goals, do not measure and evaluate personal value by secular standards.
2. The spirit of the origin: the pursuit of the origin in case of trouble, not confused by the superficial phenomenon. Explore the underlying logic and interrelationships of things, and understand the meaning of what things really produce.
3. Adhere to the principle: follow the inner principle of self-conduct, not arrogant, not impatient, not humble or arrogant.
4. Continuous learning: Constantly expand the breadth and depth of knowledge, and build your own knowledge system and ability map.
Zhilan was born in a deep valley, and she is not unpleasant.
Weak behavior
This is the most important way of behavior for me in 2023.
Lao Tzu expounded the following sentences in very concise language: great straightforwardness, great ingenuity, and great argumentation. We can put this wisdom into the personal way of dealing with people and even in work and career, it emphasizes the philosophy of life in action, exposing weakness on the outside, and cultivating skills on the inside.
Technical practitioners, including development, implementation and pre-sales, etc., will have some of their own stubbornness and persistence in their bones, some people will be very prominent, this group has a typical straightforward character, not tactful enough, easy to bring emotional distress to themselves and others, and often they themselves are not aware of it.
When we look at it from the perspective of actually solving a problem or achieving a goal, we will find that tough behavior, obvious cleverness, and domineering momentum tend to be offensive to others, and most of these behaviors will not lead to good results. And if the team is full of such strong people, the team will fall apart, which will directly lead to the project getting out of control, let alone performance to talk about.
On the other hand, if we change our behavior, with our goals in mind, and lower our posture in behavior, instead of showing strength, wisdom and ability, this way will be more acceptable and avoid excessive attention. I believe that it will be more conducive to achieving what you want to accomplish and what you want to achieve. Remember what your origin is, this is the most important thing, and your actions should be subordinated to the goals of your heart, and you should learn to endure in order to achieve things.
Knowing how to be humble and show weakness will make you walk more smoothly and encounter less resistance, which is worthy of deep thinking for every technician.
The softest in the world, the strongest in the world.
Technically, the underlying logic
The lower the layer, the more stable, and the more top, the more precarious. This is a very low-level cognitive logic, from human civilization and culture to the material microstructure, which is extremely applicable, and it correctly summarizes the fundamental laws of things.
Returning to the technical field, all technical personnel should also think carefully about this problem, and need to summarize and refine the underlying logic from the daily complicated work things, and cultivate the underlying technology, whether it is the business bottom or the technical bottom, is the core of dealing with various new things and new technologies. The information age is changing rapidly, new things are emerging in an endless stream, and the lack of underlying cognition will make us fall into the torrent of information, unable to distinguish the true from the false.
Looking back at the entire market, in recent years, it has been filled with all kinds of fresh concepts, such as industrial Internet, industrial metaverse, industrial cloud platform, industrial big data, various empowerment manufacturing, and various capability upgrades.
There is a joke, not to talk about empowerment, the height is not enough. Not to talk about upgrades, the pattern is not high.
Putting down these business factors, today, there are several domestic manufacturers that can do PLM well, how many manufacturers can do CAD, how many manufacturers can do SCADA well, and how many manufacturers can do real 3DHow many vendors can implement MRP clearly?
Why do most Chinese people not start from the bottom, but tend to like integration to achieve so-called innovation?Recently I finally had the answer to this question.
Western thinking is philosophical thinking, and Chinese thinking is technical thinking. Philosophical thinking emphasizes theory, will establish a strict theoretical model, verify it through scientific experiments, constantly falsify, and constantly upgrade theories. In China, the technology is the first, the first to make it, according to the real thing and then change, what is sought is the real thing, basically do not form a theoretical model. This is the underlying difference in thinking, and even now this thinking is still imprinted on the behavior of Chinese people from generation to generation, which shows how deep the influence of culture is. (From Wang Dongyue's research on Chinese and Western philosophical theories).
It is expected that all industrial technology practitioners will be able to see through the source and start from the bottom of the foundation. Master the theory, sink down to practice, move forward step by step, don't always want to overtake in a corner, this is an ideological leap, and reality does not exist at all. It takes decades from the birth of each theory to the promotion of practice, and not a single minute of the input of a generation of leading technical experts is wasted. If you don't study and practice deeply, you won't be able to take it if it is given to you.
The wood of the hug is born at the end of the millennium. The nine-story platform starts from the soil.
Family comes first in life
The first important thing in this life is family, and the bond of family affection is like gravity, subtle and endless. When people reach middle age, they have a strong feeling that they want to return to their families, provide a quiet and peaceful living space for their families, and strive to create a better living environment for their families. Human beings are emotional animals, and with bonds, they also have a psychological belonging, and they also have the meaning of existence.
Parents should be given full freedom. When people reach old age, their psychology will return to the nature of their childhood. We should understand and support their behavior, just as they were with the same tolerance and love they once did for us. After I have a next generation, I deeply realize that the love and dedication of parents to their children is far beyond what their children can repay, this is a cycle of life, and all the love of your next generation will continue to be given to her children.
Be respectful to your partner. Long-term companionship is the most difficult, don't cause emotional estrangement because of verbal quarrels. Emotional understanding, tolerance and respect, and emotional comfort and peace are paramount. People who are often on business trips can best experience the warmth of home, which is a sense of calm, peaceful, and bland freedom.
Give enough care to growing children. Exam-oriented education has brought great pressure and challenges to children, and the differential treatment of teachers and the anxiety of parents eventually fall on the children's young minds, making them depressed and depressed who have lost the joy of childhood, and they are also very prone to various psychological problems. The short teenage years are fleeting, and with them comes the cruel society that will be faced. As a parent, you should first cultivate yourself, and don't pass on your anxiety, panic, and uneasiness downwards without reservation, which is extremely irresponsible. No matter what the external environment is, your encounter is a great fate, and it is most important to give them a healthy and safe living environment, and to give them a happy and prosperous spiritual world.
Running a family is the top priority.
Reflections on life
What is the true meaning of a short life as a human being?This life starts from family affection, moves towards friendship, love, and finally everything returns to family affection. In this short life, we need to taste the joys, sorrows, sorrows, ups and downs, reunion and separation, ignorance and awakening, ignorance and maturity, warm and dead silence, and all cause and effect go back and forth endlessly.
At this moment, my understanding is that seeking what the heart desires and having a harmonious family is the meaning of human existence. Missing one, it may not be perfect, but incomplete is the real life.
This heart is bright, and there is nothing more to ask for.