The involution phenomenon of college students, such as "watching the computer while riding a bike" and "writing a paper in 5000 words 10000 words", is no longer news. Involution has begun to permeate all aspects of college life, from taking a seat in class to textual research, postgraduate entrance examination and employment.
Many students majoring in Chinese language and literature are taking the accounting qualification examination. Although I know that the exam has little to do with my major and future employment direction, I still signed up. Xiao's reason is that "if I pass the exam, I can prove one more skill and find a better job in the future", so she unconsciously "involved" in an exam that is neither valuable nor interesting for herself.
There are countless "small A's" in universities, wrapped in various internal volumes. They thought it was hard work and progress, but found that they were tired and got nothing from the next time. Some people summarize the performance of "involution" as the following seven points: meaningless Excellence complicates simple problems, uses low-level imitation and replication to escape the responsibility of passively responding to work that seriously deviates from the expected goal, and endless excavation and research on the same problem limits the internal competition of creativity, which is a kind of institutional involution.
# How do college students participate?
1. external environmental factors-bad competition has experienced the baptism of the college entrance examination, and every college student is the winner in the college entrance examination army. However, when they entered the university, they found that there were still many people better than themselves in the school. The most terrible thing is that these people who are better than themselves work harder than themselves.
Behind this unhealthy competition is a single value. On the university campus, many people agree that the accepted values are single-success depends on getting a scholarship and being admitted to a graduate school, and success depends on entering the world's top 500 enterprises ... Single values put "success" before "success" and "growth", and limit the definition of "success" to the level of test scores, the number of certificates, the offer of graduate students from famous universities and the world's top 500.
2. Internal factors-no sense of planning and direction. The external competitive environment will inevitably bring people a sense of panic that others may be isolated and surpass them, and a sense of crisis that they want to seize more resources and win the initiative.
# How to treat involution
1. Face it with a normal heart and realize that competition exists naturally, everywhere and all the time. Don't have the idea of eating and drinking.
2. Focus on the long term. Don't take the status quo and short-term goals as life goals. For example, being admitted to Tsinghua of Peking University is not the goal, not the end of life, but the starting point. When you take being admitted to Peking University Tsinghua as your life purpose, your life will be over when you are admitted. You will enter out-of-control mode later.
3. The opportunities are limitless. There will always be other opportunities. Don't focus on the opportunities provided by others, such as the number of places for insurance research and the position of a certain unit. There will always be enough opportunities in an open society, and there will always be many ways to develop an open life.
It is definitely wrong to refuse to lie flat, give up, admit defeat and let others win easily. People can relax, put down, and don't lie flat.
5. Break the rules, change the rules, and be free from the rules. For example, after graduating from college, in addition to graduate students majoring in insurance research, there are also graduate students from other schools and other majors, research institutes, enterprises, entrepreneurship, partnerships and institutions.
6. Give full play to your own value, don't passively accept tasks and accept assignments. Actively seek opportunities and solve problems. In any position, the choices before you are actually endless. If you passively accept the task, you actually didn't choose the tower. But you gave up on yourself.
7. Empathy The diversity of society is natural, convergent thinking leads to involution, and creative thinking brings new opportunities, so we should always be curious, think from another angle and try new solutions. No matter academic or industrial, innovation is the right way.
8. Learn to let go If you have lofty ideals, but you are at a loss about the involution in front of you, then you must learn to let go, have a normal heart and be an ordinary person. Most science and humanities are not involved. When you participate in the involution, you become ordinary. Since you are an ordinary person, why don't you feel at ease and be a mortal? Be a good mortal first, don't care about many things, and then slowly work towards your goals, don't expect to succeed in the short term.