Chapter 2 Chapter 1 Building Your Own Mental Advantage

The society that mass-produces "house slaves", "children slaves" and "card slaves" is also a factory that mass-produces "mind slaves". What is a "heart slave"?Quite simply, a man is a slave to his mind. Where there are slaves, there are slave masters.The key is, who is the slave and who is the master? If we are unfortunately reduced to "heart slaves", then slave masters are those who can manipulate our psychology and influence or even dominate our destiny.They are bosses, clients, colleagues, friends, businesses, passers-by, media, celebrities, politicians, Internet celebrities, propaganda agencies, and anyone who comes into contact with us and wants to take advantage of us.

You can not believe in God, but you can't avoid dealing with these people.This is where it gets fatal. For "house slaves", "child slaves" and "card slaves", a fairer system, or a pile of money falling from the sky for them to pick up, is the most effective declaration of slave emancipation.As long as someone points out that there is a promised land of a happy life ahead, and raises their arms and shouts "Follow me", they will often jump up in depression and anger, lurking in every corner of society. But for "heart slaves", although justice and money can also give them infinite desire for liberation, they are not a panacea for freedom.Unjust social systems and a sense of deprivation are just the catalyst for their descent into slavery.Psychological weakness is the root cause of a person's strides towards becoming a "heart slave".

When a mentally weak person gets into trouble, he will often attribute the reason to the interference and destruction of others or his own incompetence. The reason why a drowning person will cling to any floating object in front of him is that the fear of death leaves him with only the instinct of survival.People who are psychologically "drowning" will do the same. Two years ago, an old acquaintance A of mine called me with an attitude towards God: "As long as you can help me write the article well, I can kneel down and call you dad, please!" At that moment, I was knocked down.We strongly condemn the behavior of being someone else's father.Similarly, enjoying being respected by others as "father" should also be despised-according to ethics, this is morally "undeserved".Isn't it just to help him write an article well, is it necessary to be so exaggerated?Even when the triads were fighting each other, they frightened the cowards so much that they ordered them to "kneel down", and they only asked the latter to shout "Master" without adding a sentence of "otherwise I will kill you".

I listened quietly to his cries, and two figures flashed quickly in my mind: one was Gregor, the hero of the Austrian writer Franz Kafka, who was tortured by his boss and turned into a big beetle; In Khove's "Death of a Civil Servant", Chervyakov, the protagonist, thought he had offended an official, and finally died of fright. Student A is their hybrid version. He works as a publicity officer in the publicity department of a large state-owned enterprise, and is responsible for telling everyone where the leader has gone to inspect again, and that the production situation is very good.

This job looks easy, but in fact it is a kind of murder to human nature.Many times, the work we do has to sell our self-esteem, but this profession sells our soul. At the same time, this profession has a strong sense of dependence and insecurity.Because your work ability is not evaluated by the market, and the evaluation of the leader is not affected by the evaluation of the market, but depends on his personal will and preferences. If a person can influence and determine the situation and destiny of another person just by his own will and preferences, he must like to do it. Conversely, people whose fate is held in the hands of others must be cautious and trembling.This is the self-preservation instinct of little people like student A.So, just because the leader said some words and sentences in his article were wrong, he was frightened into a fool and wanted to call me his father.

Let's analyze this situation.On the surface, it seems that the root cause of A's panic is that the leader's bad evaluation of A's classmate may affect his fate, but this is not the case. After reading his article, I laughed. There is no problem with his "working ability" at all. The problem is that A does not know how to act as a supporting role to cooperate with the leader. It is his psychological trouble! A obviously does not understand that performance has always been a means for a leader to maintain his authority, and pointing out the shortcomings or mistakes of his subordinates is an opportunity to show his power.When a boss does this, his real purpose is not to prove the subordinate wrong, but to prove himself as the leader absolutely right.What the subordinates need to do is not to panic, but to cooperate with the boss's performance, for example, deliberately leave some innocuous problems for the boss to point out.

Admitting this is really painful. For student A, in the fear of feeling that he cannot control his own destiny, he can no longer believe in himself, and is only used to judging his destiny based on the attitude of the person who can control his destiny. Ups and downs. Therefore, a word of praise from the leader can make him feel like he is in the sky; but a word of criticism from the leader can make him fall into hell.As long as he is in this state of mind, he is a slave controlled by others with language, expression, demeanor, and actions—anyone who can affect his interests and destiny can control him, devour him psychologically, destroy him.

At the same time, he also believes in the so-called authority that seems to save him from the outside, for example, he called me for help.The more a person feels that he is about to fall into disaster and his weak self is vulnerable, the more he needs someone who can affirm his value or take him away from a place of psychological danger.The more fearful he is, the more God-like the man is.