"Shortcuts" are precisely the farthest road in the world
From a human point of view, there is no one who does not want to take shortcuts.
Because taking shortcuts saves effort and trouble.
As long as it is a person of right mind, he wants to get the maximum reward with the least investment.
The same destination, the same distance, of course, the nearest road is the most cost-effective.
Optimizing the input-output ratio is what people do best, and this is something that anyone but a fool can take into account.
This is not only the strength of human nature, but also the weakness of human nature, and laziness often stands in front of diligence in the objectified genes of human nature.
But the world has its own logic, the complex nature behind its simple phenomena, always full of tests of human nature, the road paved with flowers, you don't know where the trap is hidden?
You don't know how many turns there are in the shortcut across the mountain, and you don't even know if you can reach it.
* It always tests people's concentration, intelligence and wisdom.
Many people take detours because they are obsessed with shortcuts and end up paying a greater price.
First, there should be leisure and leisure.
There are four benefits of leisure: one can reduce fatigue, two can reduce troubles, three can bear failure, and four can get rid of life and death.
You will connect what you do with all mankind and the whole universe, so that your life can be free to pass through the winds from all directions, and you will achieve a great transcendence.
It is easy for one to become so engrossed in our own pursuits, so to the point of forgetting that what we do is a drop in the ocean of all human activity, and that there are many things in the world that are not affected in the slightest by what we do.
Therefore, no matter how busy you are, no matter how much happiness you can get in your own small circle, you should maintain a heart of pursuing "leisure and leisure", so that you can jump out from time to time and look at the wider world.
Life is not long, and a person needs to maintain a basic curiosity about this strange planet and its place in the universe, and know everything he should know. Only by connecting what he has in his hands with a broad picture of the world can he attain down-to-earth happiness.
The real world is full of tragicomedy, heroes and strange things. Those who lack interest in the spectacle that the world has to offer, like going to the theater and not listening to the play, are undoubtedly giving up the privileges and privileges that life has bestowed.
Relaxation allows us to step out from time to time to see what unrelated people are doing, to see another world that you never noticed. In addition to being a kind of rest, we often feel tired while pursuing happiness, and leisure can make us change our minds, or even use our brains, and can also give us peace.
For example, even in the luckiest of lives, things can sometimes go bad. There are very few people who have not quarreled with their wives except for bachelors; Few parents have not been worried about their child's illness; There are very few businessmen who have not experienced economic difficulties; There are few professionals who have not faced failure. At this time, it is an excellent quality to be able to turn one's interest to qualities other than worrying about things.
At such times, when there is nothing to be done but worry, some go to play chess, some read detectives**, some become obsessed with ordinary astronomy, and some read material about the excavations of Babylon. All four of these people are acting wisely. On the other hand, those who do not distract themselves with their pastime and allow their anxiety to cling to themselves are acting unwisely, and when the time comes for action, they are no longer able to cope.
It is appropriate to introduce it into a new channel, or at least a channel away from the present misfortunes, but if a person's life has always been indulged in only one area, and that few areas are now full of sorrow, it will be difficult for him to divert his mind.
There is no wiser way to endure bad luck than to cultivate a fairly wide range of interests in the midst of happiness, so that the mind may find a place of tranquility in which it evokes other associations and thoughts than those which make the present unbearable pain.
Because we live in a small corner of the world, we are all prone to become overly excited, overly nervous, and overly valued.
This over-excitement and over-estimation of our own importance is not beneficial in the slightest.
At this time, people forget everything else for the sake of one or two important things, and think that in the pursuit of these two major things, the collateral damage to other things is insignificant.
The best way to prevent this fanaticism is to learn more about human life and its place in the universe.
Why do people have such a "big" pattern, and even have to expand the small circle to the human universe?
For example, the perfectionist in a civilized society often imagines a portrait of what he is doing, and when something comes to desecrate the painting, the owner becomes angry.
The best way to deal with this kind of irritation is not to imagine a picture, but to expand it into a gallery and pick whatever picture you encounter.
In addition, the destruction of the "sense of role" is also a cause of annoyance for many people, and of course, if you can completely forget about yourself and not play any role, it is really enviable.
However, if role-playing has become second nature, you should think that you are performing all the shows, not just one, to avoid the fear of crashing the show.
The doctrine of the supremacy of efficiency often leads us to overly value the goals of the individual and ignore the fundamental purpose of expanding the space of the human mind and mind.
If your vision is limited to immediate interests, you are likely to resort to "immoral" means, relying on which you may be able to achieve the planned victory in the present and the outcome in the future is likely to be a complete defeat.
Conversely, if your mind is filled with the past of humanity, the slow and one-sided process of civilization in which humanity evolved from a state of barbarism, and the ephemeral existence of humanity in comparison to its astronomical age.
If, I suppose, these thoughts have become your habit, then you will realize that the temporary struggle you are engaged in is by no means so important as to warrant us to take so much risk that it is possible to retreat back into the darkness in which we have so far been able to slowly protrude.
A person with a heart will not see the world too narrowly, will not have a worldview that makes it difficult for people to escape doom, and let one or several failures knock him down.
You can still afford to fail now because you know that failure is only temporary, so you don't want to use those vile and shameless **.
Above your present activity, you will see certain goals that are unattainable, but gradually become clear, in which you are not a lonely individual, but a member of the army that leads humanity to civilized life.
If you have this view, some kind of great happiness will always be with you, regardless of your personal fate.
The greatest failure of fate is the imminent death of which all our emotions are at the mercy of death, but we should not become so narrow in scope that we leave the whole meaning and ideals of our lives at the mercy of chance.
Although it is impossible to avoid the fate of disillusionment with purely personal hopes, the disillusionment of individual hopes cannot be a complete failure if they are only part of the great hopes of humanity.
As long as he is concerned about the fate of humanity, not just whether he can participate in it. At this time, life will become a sacrament shared with the great men of all ages, and the death of the individual is but a small interlude.
Once a man has understood what makes the soul great, however brief and brief, if he is still vile and intolerant, selfish, still troubled by small misfortunes, and still afraid of the arrangement of fate, he will never be happy.
Anyone who has a great soul has an open heart and can let the winds from all directions of the universe blow freely.
Within the limits of human beings, he will know himself, his life, and the world as authentically as possible; While realizing the transience and insignificance of human life, he realized that all the value of the known universe was condensed in the heart of the individual. And he knew that the person whose mind reflects the whole world is, in a sense, as great as the world.
Once he is freed from the fear of being manipulated by fate, he can experience some kind of deep happiness, and after all the vicissitudes of external life, deep in his soul, he is still a happy person.
Second, the secret is in time.
The importance of time in life seems to be clear at a glance: the passage of time changes the scene of life, and the length of time sets off the transience of life. However, time is also an eternal mystery, an absolute paradox.
We cannot understand that it exists in the form of transience, because transient means a transformation into non-existence. Nor can we understand that it exists in the form of eternity, because eternity means transcending time.
We can't even tell if time actually exists and what it really is. But it's too important for us not to talk about it, even if it's just about our confusion.
All definitions of time are either literary descriptions and metaphors, such as "passing", "stretching", etc., or mathematical measures, such as years, months, days, etc. It is impossible to give a philosophical definition of time. The reason for this is that time has no essence; Or, to put it more bluntly, there is no such thing as time.
Our imagination of time cannot be surpassed by these two ways. So, for example, we can't imagine the kind of timeless and immeasurable that God sees as "eternity."
The only time we can understand is history. The history of mankind, or the history of nature in the eyes of man.
History always involves a thing that comes into being and dies, and the world itself is a process without beginning or end, and it doesn't matter what history is, all history is just a fragment of the world process that human beings have intercepted from the world process with their own eyes.
Our sense of time is rooted in the temporality of individual life, and if man could not die, we would not feel the passage of time.
The reason why we divide time into past, present and future is because we are aware of the fact that one day we will no longer have a present.
If life were eternal, we would have an eternal present with an endless past and an endless future, and we would not feel the illusion of time and time.
Since ancient times, many people have asked: What is time? Is it in **? People ask questions and think hard in time, but they can't get answers, and they are taken away forever by time.
Time in**? The people who were carried away by time are in**?
In order to measure time, our ancestors invented the calendar, so that humans have history and individuals have ages. Age represents the amount of time an individual has had since birth. Do you really have it? Are they in**?
It's always like this: because we lost our childhood, we know that we grew up; Because of the loss of time, we know that we are alive; Because of loss, we know time.
We call what has been lost the past, what we have not yet gained the future, and what remains in our hands the present. But how can time stand still, now that it is in the past, what do we have?
How many late nights, we stayed under the lamp, unwilling to let the day end there. However, even though we stayed up all night, the day was over. There's nothing we can do to save time.
We can never possess time, which holds our destiny. In its vast palms, our short lives are presented at the same time, regardless of the past, present, or future, our life and death, happiness and calamity have long been recorded.
However, since the past no longer exists, the present is fleeting, and the future does not yet exist, is there really time in the world? Who is this invisible person who manipulates the power of life and death of all living beings in the world?
The secret of life is all in time, in the magic and deception of time, and in the truth and essence of time. Time gives life all kinds of fun: memories, fantasies, hopes, forgetting......Life is too dependent on time, but time itself is an out-and-out nothingness, an absolute repetition, and a fiction of the human heart. There is no more difficult knot in philosophy to untie.
Everything we have is there for time, and we have spent a lot, and there is still some left, but we spend it at the same time as we withdraw it, and we have nothing left in our hands.
Human beings live at the intersection of time and space, looking at eternity in two directions, but what they get is always only fleeting.
The Greeks had an instant, and the medievals had eternity. Modern man has neither instantaneous nor eternal, he lives at the intersection of the two, living in time.
Both instantaneous and eternal are non-temporal and super-temporal. Time exists in the relationship between the two.
People have two impulses. One is the aesthetic impulse, to revel in the unique feeling of the moment. One is a metaphysical impulse, a desire for eternity.
The greatness of every great philosopher and great artist lies in the fact that these two impulses are communicated in a unique way.
The meaning of each present state of life lies in its unrepeatability, but man still seeks a constant meaning that keeps all these unrepeatable individual states from being lost. It is precisely because we cherish the moment and hold the moment wholeheartedly that people yearn for eternity.
However, the ephemeral is irretrievable, the eternal is unattainable, which is the common sadness of art and philosophy.
A poet is a poet because he is more sensitive to the passage of time than ordinary people, and poetry is the refuge he built to escape from this passage.
There are three ways to get rid of time: live in memories and eternalize the past; Live in the passion of the present and eternalize the present; Live in anticipation and eternalize the future.
However, imaginary eternity does not prevent the actual passage of time.
So, memories are sad, expectations are confused, and the passions of the moment are mixed with ecstasy and despair.
No wonder one of the most optimistic poets also exclaimed: "The hour hand indicates the moment, but what can indicate the eternal?" ”
The poet has a tragic mission: to turn the moment into eternity, to get rid of time in time.
Who can live outside of time and truly possess eternity?
Children don't care about the passage of time. In the eyes of children, the years are endless. Childhood is nostalgic because we once had eternity in our childhood.
However, when our children grow up, we will eventually lose our childhood. Our childhood ends on the day we know that we are going to die. Since we have lost our childhood, we have also lost our eternity.
Since then, the only eternity we know is the infinite extension of time after our death, our eternal non-existence.
3. Visionaries never take shortcuts.
Stupid and smart people are two different animals in the world. Being stupid and clever is not first of all when doing something concrete, but when choosing a path.
Don't believe that there are no shortcuts in the world, there are; You must not believe that things cannot be speculated, they can be speculated. 80% of the world's successful people take the road of shortcuts and speculation.
Yet, we are often the ones who see him rise up, who feasts guests, who see his building collapse.
Why? Because he's taking a shortcut, he's too smart. And our nation needs people with a long-term vision, and those who have a vision must take the stupid road.
Some of the sewers in Europe were built in the 19th century, so why don't their cities flood during heavy rains? And most of our cities are flooded as soon as it rains? Our road is too close, and the road we built will be opened and looked at again in the second year, and that is also because this road was not fully considered when it was repaired in the first year.
I don't like "smart people" very much, and they are the kind of smart people who especially like to take advantage. There are two kinds of advantages: one is material cheap, and the other is spiritual.
In life, you are so rich, so status, you are a smart person, and you always use simple working people, I can only wish these smart people a good journey.
I'm a stupid person, I'm an honest person, and I don't want to be friends with smart people, because I often fall for smart people.
This nation needs people with a long-term vision, and they must be following a stupid path.
At least 80 per cent of speculators have succeeded in shortening their way. But the main difference is that the benefits they get are only for themselves. Are you doing these things only for your own benefit or are you facilitating these things.
The last thing we lack is smart people, and the most common thing we lack is stupid people.
In fact, there are no shortcuts in this world, and shortcuts are precisely the farthest way.
Life is like a road, and the nearest shortcut is usually the worst road.
Looking back at our lives, there are no shortcuts to growth or maturity.
Life begins with conception, and every step is indispensable, indispensable, and solid. From an ignorant childhood, to an innocent teenager, from a passionate youth, to a vigorous middle-aged, and then to a mature old age, it all needs to go through step by step, and grind it one by one. No one can skip one of these paragraphs and go straight to the other.
Everything has a rule, and to practice calligraphy, you can only practice hard every day, word by word; Playing the piano can only be improved one level at a time; To do learning, you can only go deeper step by step; To learn to behave and deal with things, you can only practice one day at a time, one by one. On the path to mental maturity, any attempt to take shortcuts will cost us in the future.
Really smart people never take shortcuts, but take every step step at a time, because they know that there is no road in vain in life, and every step counts.
Smart people work stupidly, and stupid people always want to take shortcuts.
But it is difficult to have real shortcuts in the world, and shortcuts are actually the farthest detours.
Stolen ingenuity is often fatally clumsy.
The slippery play is often a new addition.
Not taking shortcuts is the fastest shortcut.
In fact, being smart is the most fake thing in the world, and all success is all about hard work day after day and self-discipline year after year.
Behind all the clouds and clear breezes is sweating like rain.
Ding Jungui. February 7, 2024.