Chapter 18 Why are you fooling your grandson?

In fact, the fortune teller that the young Wang Shouren met was 100% his grandfather, a liar hired by Wang Lun with a high salary, who came to fool his grandson Wang Shouren. Why do you want to fool Wang Shouren? This is because, Wang Shouren is too smart, and ninety-nine out of ten smart kids will suffer a lot when it comes to pursuing knowledge. why? Because, learning is something that ordinary people use, so the final form of expression is super simple.Smart children understand at a glance, so they don't take learning seriously. What is there to explore about such a simple thing?For example, the first sentence of the opening chapter: Confucius said, "Learning and practicing it from time to time, isn't that what you say?"This sentence, smart children and stupid children read it differently.

When a smart child reads this sentence, the first reaction is: It’s not unreasonable to learn from time to time... There are so many beauties out there that people don’t want people to see, and they have to let people read books, which is already depressing enough .But reading books is not enough, you have to learn from time to time, this is obviously sick, how can there be a reason for it to be exhilarating?Find out what this sentence means... Oh, the meaning of learning while learning from time to time means that it is very happy to master knowledge and use it flexibly in reality.That's right, I read the book, and I'm smarter than others. I was admitted to university, found a good job, and married a super beautiful woman.

Basically, when a smart child thinks of this step, it's all work. But the stupid boy is different, he is also pondering: Well, it is a joy to master the knowledge and use it flexibly in reality... But my brain is stupid, I can't master this knowledge, and it is painful if I can't master it .So how can this matter be fixed, how can it be fixed... Hey, why can smart children master it, but I can't?Why?Why?Why... Could it be that this set of knowledge is only suitable for the brains of smart children, and it is not suitable for me at all?If this is the case, then can I... well, come up with a system of thought and knowledge that suits me, and then apply it in life practice, wouldn't that be a joy?

But in fact, the vast majority of stupid children in this world are not capable of establishing an independent system of thought and knowledge.Only smart children can have this kind of ability, but smart children have been able to skillfully use the ideological system of their predecessors and profit from it, and they no longer have the urge to innovate.Therefore, in human society, only stupid children have the urge to create ideological systems, but they just don't have this ability.And smart kids have this ability, but they don't have this impulse. And the words of the fortune teller that the young Wang Shouren met had only one purpose, which was to force this impulse into Wang Shouren's head.

But since the well-behaved and clever Wang Shouren has already benefited from the ideological system of his predecessors, why did the fortune teller force him to have this innovative impulse? This is because ah, the so-called benefit from the ideological system of the predecessors is a non-existent situation, at most it is just an illusion of people. Taking Wang Shouren as an example, if he didn't make some innovations, he could easily get fame by memorizing the Four Books and Five Classics, Song and Ming Confucianism books.Then he would be a foolish little official, while fooling the common people into increasing taxes and making money out of his own pocket, while fighting openly and secretly with his colleagues, beating you to the death.At this stage, Wang Shouren will find that he does not have the slightest advantage in the officialdom. He can recite the Four Books and Five Classics, as can other officials, and they may even recite them better than him. Competing with others will definitely make life extremely difficult, and you will be exhausted if you don't die.

If you walk into the officialdom and witness all kinds of bureaucrats, you will hear them say the same thing and shout tired in unison. Why are you tired? Because they are powerless, facing many competitors, but they do not occupy the slightest advantage, how can there be a reason not to be tired? To win easily, you have to be much higher than your competitors. For example, playing chess, if you play against a super-class chess player, you will definitely lose miserably and be exhausted miserably.But if you are the one who is superb at chess, then it is someone else who loses miserably and suffers miserably.

How can you give yourself a competitive advantage over others? Only, innovation! The so-called entering the holy realm, conceiving the holy fetus, and consummating the holy fruit are all about innovation.No matter how well you memorize other people's theories, they belong to others. Only your own thinking is the beginning of the path of sages. The so-called sage is a person who can think for himself, establish his own ideological and theoretical system, and apply it successfully in practice. We can be sure that the above analysis is also the master of the wisdom of the six generations of the Wang family. This family started from Wang Gang, followed by Wang Yanda, Wang Yuzhun, Wang Jie, Wang Lun, and then Wang Hua, all of whom ate Confucius. The old steamed buns were used to dawdle, and no one with innovative ability came out in the sixth consecutive life.But in Wang Shouren's generation, this status quo of eating Confucius's old steamed buns should also end.

The historical mission of Wang Shouren's family is to innovate and create his own ideological and theoretical system. But if grandfather Wang Lun told Wang Shouren this, it would not have the desired educational effect.With Wang Shouren's intelligence, he would ask his grandfather back: Hey, why don't you, as a grandfather, not innovate, but let me, my grandson, innovate?Why do you hang around with a cane every day, and I have to rack my brains and think hard?Why should I be so unlucky?Also... my father is already the champion. Could it be that I, the son of the champion, can't play comfortably for the rest of his life. Wouldn't it be better for my son and grandson to innovate again?

It is human nature to like leisure and hate work.If the words are clear and arouse little Wang Shouren's rebellious psychology, then the inheritance of the Wang family will come to an end in this generation. So you have to say something, but the way must be clever. An ideal effect must be achieved, allowing Wang Shouren to voluntarily and spontaneously strive to innovate and explore the mysterious realm of thought.And to achieve this effect, grandpa's persuasion and father's coaxing are not as easy as finding a liar warlock on the street and stepping up to fool him with a few words.

So we can conclude that the fortune teller Wang Shouren met on the street took his grandfather's money 100% and came to fool his grandson.