The word "involution" is widely circulated among college students. In the face of more intense competition, we are inevitably facing greater pressure, not only external, but also internal. There is pressure from better schools and competition with them. For this phenomenon, only by working harder can we have more advantages and competitiveness, so there is an image of involution. From turning on the light at five o'clock in the morning to the computer that is still on at two o'clock in the morning, from the toilet to the canteen, even if you go to physical education class, you will secretly bring a book. "involution" is so heavy. If you want to succeed, you must roll to the end, and the person who rolls is king.

Involution refers to the phenomenon that a social or cultural model reaches a certain form at a certain stage of development and then stagnates or cannot be transformed into another advanced model. The word originated from Gilte, an American anthropologist, "Agricultural involution-the process of Indonesian ecological change", which was introduced into Chinese from Huang Zongzhi, meaning: investing a lot of labor on limited land to obtain the way of total output growth, that is, diminishing marginal benefits. Simply understood as "irrational internal competition, internal consumption or stagnation of work or examination"

Involution is not only in universities, but also in society. In fact, talking about competition alone is not a bad thing. In many cases, competition can stimulate people's potential and creativity and make an industry develop rapidly. But vicious competition brings energy damage, but the result is still the same. Most people participated, and the chances of success did not increase much. Instead, you are hurting yourself, and the result is similar.

There is no need to worry about being caught in "involution". The reason for falling into it is that you can't jump out of your own thinking frame. Obviously, college students have worked harder in school and learned more knowledge and skills, but the judgment of "academic performance" still stays on the simple improvement and ranking, which is of course narrow. In such a competitive environment, college students should change their thinking mode, jump out of the "small circle", truly understand what they want, compare with themselves and avoid irrational competition. This will not only give you an objective evaluation of your efforts, but also prevent you from doing something useless.