Outlook on life is people's fundamental view on life problems. The main content is their understanding of the purpose and meaning of life and their attitude towards life, including public and private views, justice and benefit views, bitter optimism, honor and disgrace views, happiness views and life and death views. Outlook on life is gradually formed in people's life practice and living environment. Because of people's different social practice, living environment, cultural accomplishment and education level, they have formed different outlook on life. A correct outlook on life guides people to take a correct life path. Create achievements in life with your own labor and become a noble person who is beneficial to society and people. A wrong outlook on life will make people deviate from the correct life path, go astray, and even become criminals who endanger society and people.
Values are people's fundamental views on value issues, including their understanding of the essence, composition and standards of value. These different understandings have formed people's different values. Under the guidance of their own values, everyone forms different value orientations and pursues what they think is the most valuable. The connotation of value is very rich, which can be generally divided into material value and spiritual value, as well as comprehensive value and compound value, such as human value (or life value). It is very important for a person's development to establish correct values and scientific and reasonable value orientation.
Marxist world outlook, that is, the world outlook of the unity of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, is the only correct world outlook and the world outlook of the proletariat. This world outlook is the product of the development of human history and culture, and it is a complete scientific system with practice as the core. Marxist outlook on life is the only correct outlook on life. "Serving the people" is an incisive summary of Marxist outlook on life, and it is also its core, soul and basic feature. The value of producers lies in the interests of the country and the people.
How can we establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values? There are the following ways and methods:
First of all, we should study hard. To learn Marxist philosophy, political economy and scientific socialism, we should learn to analyze problems and solve contradictions with the viewpoints and methods of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, and also learn knowledge of economy, politics, law, science and technology, history and literature. Learning mainly depends on self-study, of course, necessary indoctrination is also indispensable.
Second, we should conscientiously carry out ideological reform. In addition to studying hard, the most important thing is to constantly transform yourself. This is a long and arduous process, and the most important thing in this transformation is "internal cause". If we want to remould ourselves seriously, we must always check our thoughts and behaviors, make necessary criticism and self-criticism, overcome willfulness and favoritism, and dare to declare war on all wrong ideas and decadent lifestyles.
Third, we should be good at distinguishing whether the concept is correct or not, and grasp our words and deeds. For example, hedonism believes that "eating and drinking are two words in life", seeking comfort and pursuing eating, drinking and having fun. Under its influence, some people say "Don't live too tired" and "Addicted to death". Faced with colorful food cities, dance halls and nightclubs, some leading cadres often soak in them. We should make a correct distinction and resolutely resist the wrong things. Otherwise, your original correct world outlook, outlook on life and values will gradually be replaced by these so-called "new ideas".
Fourth, leading cadres should correctly use their power and serve the people wholeheartedly. In the process of establishing the "three views", as leading cadres, we should always think about "who gave the power in our hands" and "how to use the power in our hands to benefit the people". Serving the people is the purpose that every party member should fulfill, but as a leading cadre, he has a greater responsibility and a more obvious role, and there are also mistakes in his work. We should cherish the power entrusted to us by the people, always pay attention to the warmth and coldness of the masses, proceed from the interests of the people, and truly practice the "Theory of Three Represents" thought put forward by General Secretary Jiang Zemin.
It is a long and arduous process for contemporary college students to firmly establish Marxist world outlook, outlook on life and values, and to establish and adhere to correct world outlook, outlook on life and values. They must have perseverance and even sacrifice some personal interests. Only in this way can they become a noble person, a pure person, a moral person, a person who gets rid of vulgar tastes and a person who is beneficial to the people, just as Comrade Mao Zedong said.