Chapter 8 Shi Kang: Look, this man

Everything about human beings comes from the universe, and it exists in all the material universes that make up human beings, and maybe this material combination universe called human life also exists. The characteristics of life are heredity and variation, and the characteristics of human culture are imitation and innovation. At present, nothing else seems to be of interest to man but man himself. Apart from continuing to exist in the universe, human beings have no so-called common goal.As for the ultimate goal of human beings, it is a misuse of words, since the word "ultimate" has no content, and human beings can only see or speak of a finite future.

The culture created by human beings can be generally summarized as the responsibility to human beings themselves. The human brain is a dreaming machine. It cruises between the self and the environment without bounds. It tries to figure out the relationship between the two. Open, can be understood from many aspects and perspectives.But human consciousness has its direction. When he concentrates his energy to pay attention to a problem, he can have the opportunity to simplify it, make that problem gradually clear, and solve it. This is the foundation of human survival, and it is also source of intelligence.

People can form a community based on common beliefs and dreams. This community has a division of labor like human hands and feet, and uses agreements and systems to cooperate with each other to make people's work more efficient. Man is evolving, which means that the state of human consciousness can be improved, which is manifested as faster adaptation to the environment, higher intelligence, better physical strength, stronger ability to ask and solve problems, and more Good insight is the ability to foresee. The joy of human existence is mainly derived from the capture and abandonment of meaning, and in this way, all aspects of culture are formed.

Human beings' philosophical debates mainly revolve around two issues: one is the language issue, and the other is whether human insights are aimed at the inevitable future or the probable future. This is what religion, philosophy, and science always try to achieve. Answer the question. Well, what we talked about above is what we humans already know, let’s simply say it is human nature.Starting from here, I want to talk about the "meaning of life". Of course, you can understand the meaning as "fun" or "importance", whichever way you say it works. For me, it makes far more sense to see life as a challenge rather than a makeshift, as it makes me more aware of my imperfections and helps me improve, especially as it inspires me to fight , makes me feel that life is filled with a certain meaning, in fact, I think that meaning is the product of our interaction with the environment.

I have noticed that in the past, whenever I learned something to enrich or play with others, and others were not serious, I would get angry. In my opinion, although the difficulties encountered in the process are obvious, it is difficult to overcome them. It is also obvious that there will always be a way over those obstacles.But I found that most people are not interested in it. They get over the difficulty mostly by luck. If they don’t get over it, they mostly make various excuses. Finally, when they can’t retreat, they lose interest in that matter. In short , they project their disappointment on themselves onto what they do.

When I was in middle school, I participated in the wrestling team of the sports school. I was given a sparring partner. I was forty kilograms at the time. He was the same height as me, two years older than me, but ten kilograms heavier than me.Before joining the team, he practiced weightlifting, and I practiced high jump. He joined the team a month earlier than me. Because he always hurt others, no one wanted to be with him. The coach assigned him to me. At first , I was used as a sandbag and let him beat me. I noticed right then that he hurt me very much, and his movements were very stiff.Two weeks later, the coach taught the movement, and I found out that his movement was wrong. I told him, but he didn't take it seriously, because he can easily beat me every time, and he has great strength. I can't move at all when it's holding me.

After a month, I found out that his strength was not constant. When I wrestled with him for a minute, he couldn't catch me, so I had the opportunity to use the right wrestling moves to bring him down.At first, he was very surprised, but he still didn't believe that his movements were wrong. I broke down and showed him step by step, and let the coach see. The coach said that I was right and he was wrong, so he asked him to follow my movements. He changed, but he didn't change at all. Later, when I wrestled with him, the chances of winning became bigger and bigger. Later, it developed to the point where I could win seven to eight times in ten wrestlings.He is ten kilograms heavier than me, and he competes three levels higher than me. He should beat me every time, but he doesn't admit this obvious fact. I left the team and he has never been able to drop me.This incident made me very puzzled. Obviously, he could easily win me by changing his moves, so why didn't he change it?Besides, he is very competitive and always wants to win, even more than me.What puzzled me the most was that in the end he would rather admit that I fell better than him, but not admit that his action was wrong.What made me even more angry was that he avoided me in the end and didn't like to fall with me, because I always urged him to change his movements, and he was annoyed when he heard it.

Winning him didn't make me happy at all, on the contrary it made me very angry. I called him an idiot, and he was anxious to me at the beginning. We fought twice, but in the end, we couldn't beat me, so we stopped even resisting. , just ignore me.We practice embarrassingly every day, and he allows me to fall again and again. By the time I leave the team, he has fallen ten times and lost ten times. He has no confidence in competing with me. I think he lacks the ability to learn, that is, the ability to correct mistakes, he is like a machine. I remember the physicist Feynman said that in a sense, mathematics is counting. The ancients could count by counting beans. The essence of many modern mathematics is still counting beans. There is a way that you can count as the ancients. There is another way to do calculations by counting one by one, that is, you spend more than ten years learning some calculation skills, and relying on these skills can help you count quickly.Many people always think that these two things are the same. I think that one of the wisdom of being born is to find a way, that is, to improve your skills in doing a certain thing, so that you have better resilience capacity and efficiency.

For mastering those skills, many people have tried and experienced failures, and secretly feel that it is very difficult. The vast majority of them do not try to overcome the difficulties, but use words to resolve the difficulties, or express the skills. Very meaningless.I think they fundamentally don't believe that they are an intelligent person, they don't believe that they can achieve their goals through hard work, he is more inclined to a kind of naive childlike thinking that the boat will be straight when it reaches the bridge, and when they hit the bridge Afterwards, they blame bad luck, and even metaphysically believe that life is essentially a kind of luck. They completely ignore human free will. In fact, what they really need is to calm down, spend some time and work hard to master a little Skill.

For me, it makes far more sense to see life as a challenge rather than a makeshift, as it makes me more aware of my imperfections and helps me improve, especially as it inspires me to fight , makes me feel that life is filled with a certain meaning, in fact, I think that meaning is the product of our interaction with the environment. I have noticed that in the past, whenever I learned something to enrich or play with others, and others were not serious, I would get angry. In my opinion, although the difficulties encountered in the process are obvious, it is difficult to overcome them. It is also obvious that there will always be a way over those obstacles.But I found that most people are not interested in it. They get over the difficulty mostly by luck. If they don’t get over it, they mostly make various excuses. Finally, when they can’t retreat, they lose interest in that matter. In short , they project their disappointment on themselves onto what they do.

In my life, I also found that anyone who has succeeded in one so-called "difficult task" can easily succeed in other difficult tasks.And the vast majority of people are the kind of people who have never succeeded in any "difficult thing". In fact, they only need to work hard once to change the whole situation. I think they fall into a kind of paradox, they refuse to correct their mistakes, they project their failures onto something external, they see everything as a failure, it never occurs to them that when they succeed , life will show another look.