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In recent years, "involution" has become a high-frequency word.
The intuitive feeling of us ordinary people is that all walks of life are showing an overly competitive state: we need to put in more effort than before, but we may not be able to get the expected returns, and in the process we often face great pressure and uncertainty, resulting in physical and mental exhaustion, exhaustion, and the joy of life is gradually disappearing.
So how to define "involution"? What is the reason for this? What is the enlightenment of Liu Bang's story on the issue of "involution"?
In this article, we will analyze these issues.
Involution begins with the solidification of the boundaries of the team's interestsThe nine sides have a definition of involution, and I will quote it: the so-called involution refers to the phenomenon that after a certain stage of development of a social (cultural model) reaches a certain certain form, this form stagnates and is difficult to transform into another high-level model, so as to lock the self in a low-level state and cycle over and over again. This definition is applied to our life today, that is, the previous stage was driven by urbanization, and the economic model of real estate driving the rapid development of all walks of life in society has reached a bottleneck, so we need to adjust. But this adjustment requires a process, and we have been in this process in the past few years, so everyone will have a feeling of involution. If this definition is applied to Liu Bang's period, it is also applicable. Liu Bang's team has been in a stage of expansion since the Peixian uprising. At this stage, the brothers are constantly conquering the city, and Liu Bang, the leader, has clear rewards and punishments, so everyone's interests have been growing. The first time the development of Liu Bang's team really entered a bottleneck period was when Liu Bang was named the king of Han. After the Hongmen banquet, Xiang Yu divided Liu Bang into Bashu and Hanzhong to become the king of Han, and at the same time reduced the 100,000 troops in Liu Bang's hands to 30,000. When they arrived at the fiefdom, Liu Bang's team faced the situation of solidifying the boundary of interests for the first time. Many of his generals and soldiers fled. If Liu Bang becomes the king in a corner of peace, then the various forces in his team will also face the situation of involution. Fortunately, Han Xin, Chen Ping, and Xiao He persuaded Liu Bang to lead the team to continue to expand outward. So we see that the Han army quickly recovered Guanzhong, and then went east to compete with the Chu state. So in this process, Liu Bang's team once again entered the stage of business development. Therefore, if you want to avoid involution, development is the last word. As long as the cake can continue to grow, the main contradiction is to expand externally, not internally. Therefore, we can say that in order to avoid the problem of involution, it is necessary to keep the boundary of team interests open to the outside world, and use development to point the arrow of contradiction outward. 
What happens when the boundaries of team interests are irreversibly solidified? The cyclical law of history tells us that the world must be divided for a long time, and it must be united for a long time. No team can expand the boundaries of its interests indefinitely, because the world's resources and people's lifespan are limited. What do we do when one day, the boundaries of the team's interests inevitably solidify? Liu Bang competed with Xiang Yu for the world by going out of the customs and developed his team to another level of platform. But there will always be a time when the war will end. In the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang joined forces with the princes' armies and defeated Xiang Yu at the wall. The world has been decided, which means that the contradictions of Liu Bang's team have changed from outward expansion to internal struggle. First of all, the struggle between the old team of the PlaNet Finance faction led by Xiao He and Fan Xu and the surrendering faction led by Han Xin and Zhang Liang was mainly manifested in the struggle for meritorious service and rewards; Later, it developed into a struggle between Liu Bang's royal power and a king with a different surname, which manifested itself in rebellion and rebellion; Later, it developed into a struggle between Liu Bang's successor to the throne and the Lu family's foreign relatives. Among them, many people regard Liu Bang's abolition of heroes with different surnames as his political stain, which is actually to evaluate royal politics by the standard of secular morality, which is not rational and comprehensive. Judging from the course of history, Liu Bang has realized that it is imperative to strengthen "centralization". However, the lesson of the rapid demise of the Qin Dynasty also made Liu Bang soberly realize that the time was not ripe for the county system to completely replace the sub-feudal system. Heroes need to be rewarded and appeased, which is a kind of credibility as a team leader. The county system is a general trend of historical development, so combining the two is the best choice. Therefore, at the beginning of the founding of the country, Liu Bang implemented the "parallel system of counties and states" at the local level. As for the series of political struggles that followed, it was just a manifestation of the gradual strengthening of centralized power, and its purpose was still for the stability of the world order. Therefore, Liu Bang's story tells us that the more involuted, the more the leader of the team needs to centralize rather than delegate power, because if the forces of various factions in the team are too balanced, it can only be more serious. Regarding this point, we can refer to the Tang Dynasty After the "Anshi Rebellion", the centralization of power was weakened, and the division of feudal towns in various places intensified, and then after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, it entered the super involution of five dynasties and ten kingdoms for more than 70 years. Of course, strengthening the centralization of power is a crucial first step. Next, it is necessary to carry out reasonable reforms in the distribution of internal benefits, and at the same time mobilize resources to improve productivity and promote development; In addition, it is necessary to open up to the outside world and actively seek new boundaries of interests from the outside world. 
In the face of involution, what should ordinary people do? Whether it is involuted or not does not depend on the subjective will of us ordinary people. But we can decide what kind of attitude and mentality we want to face the reality of involution. That.
First, what we need to do is to keep learning and constantly improve ourselves. This is a fundamental measure for individuals to deal with involution. Because through learning, we can improve our cognition and avoid low-level troubles that consume us; You can strengthen your professional skills and improve your work efficiency; You can discover new areas and channels and broaden the boundaries of your interests. That.
Second, we need to take retreat as advance and clarify our core interests. What are the core interests of people? Survive and thrive. The most important thing for survival is physical and mental health, so when we encounter a bottleneck in our career and fall into involution, we must be sober and give priority to our physical and mental health, exercise, study, and ensure sleep, so as to cultivate our body and mind and accumulate strength for future breakthroughs. That.
Third, we need to keep an open mind to the uncertainty of the future. The more we are in the environment of involution, the more we must dare to try new methods and strategies and break the routine. Because involution itself means that the efficiency of the old way or mechanism is reduced, innovation is the only choice to get out of involution. Lifelong growth is the ultimate topic of our time, and reading is the only way to grow for life. Yaqiu will always be with his friends on this path, reading books and studying together. Let's get out of the involution and grow together! (End of this article).