In this increasingly anxious era, the prevalence of payment for knowledge will become a trend.
When various merchants are vying for dividends and paying for knowledge, it is inevitable that they will be criticized.
Some people think that paying for knowledge is a big flicker, and people pay for it by creating anxiety.
Some people think that fragmented knowledge cannot teach people to think independently, let alone depth and breadth.
Some users think that the learning experience is too bad, putting the cart before the horse, re-marketing and neglecting the content.
Some users paid for the knowledge paid service, and finally felt that they did not learn anything.
Of course, these are not groundless, and the current payment for knowledge market is indeed mixed and chaotic.
The improvement of the quality of knowledge payment requires the market to screen and adjust.
Perhaps for a long time in the future, payment for knowledge will be in a barbaric growth stage.
Regardless of whether payment for knowledge is a false proposition, becoming a lifelong learner is the general trend.
For every lifelong learner, we must learn and grow no matter whether the knowledge-paid industry is mature or not.
So switch the perspective of paying for knowledge and various learning, and perhaps you will gain more.
How to switch perspectives? You can listen to this short story in "Zhuangzi".
One day, Qi Huangong was studying in the hall, and a craftsman named Lunbian was making wheels in the hall.
Lun Bian asked Qi Huangong what book he was reading, and Qi Huangong said it was a book that records the words of the saint.
Lun Bian said that these books are nothing but dregs left by the saints.
Qi Huangong was very annoyed: "How can you, a craftsman who makes wheels, speak so eloquently, you will let you go if you tell the truth, and you will be put to death if you don't tell the truth."
Lun Bian said: I have been making wheels for decades. If I want to make good wheels, the hole of the wheel cannot be wide or tight. The skills here can only be understood and cannot be said. I have no reservations and taught my son hand in hand. Teach him to make such a good wheel.
The really useful things of the saints can only be understood and cannot be said in words, so the books you read are nothing but dregs left by the ancients.
Qi Huangong felt reasonable, so he let go of Lunbian.
This little story of Zhuangzi is not to say that learning is useless, so that everyone can think about everything by themselves.
Although Qi Huangong may not be able to learn by reading, Lunbian's son will not be able to learn under the guidance of his father.
But if they don’t read books and don’t have guidance, they will certainly not be able to learn.
Zhuangzi just used this short story to illustrate the truth of "Tao is Tao, very Tao".
This short story gives users who pay for knowledge today an opportunity to switch perspectives.
Although it is true that a lot of knowledge pays for a lot of water, is there really no payment for knowledge full of dry goods?
Many people say that they have spent a lot of money on paying for knowledge, but in the end they found that nothing was learned.
Is this really a question of payment for knowledge?
It's like Lunbian, as the best wheel craftsman at the time, taught his son's skills carefully, but his son still couldn't learn it in the end.
Is this really a problem of round bian?
We cannot say that Lun Bian is completely fine, and he may not be very good at teaching.
But if all the problems are attributed to Lun Bian, it will not make sense anyway.
The same is true of paying for knowledge. It is easy to accuse and criticize paying for knowledge, but it is more important to think about how you can gain more.
"If you don't do what you can do, you will seek your own self." This sentence in "Mencius Li Lou" is especially worthy of repeated taste.
The meaning of this sentence is: When encountering setbacks and difficulties, don't blame others, but self-examine, and find the cause from yourself.
Mencius certainly doesn't think that all problems lie with him, but we cannot change many external factors. Only ourselves can change.
Rather than scolding payment for knowledge and blaming all problems on payment for knowledge, what we should do more is to reflect on our own learning methods.
Is this paid knowledge course really useless?
Even if it is really useless, just as we can learn from failure and counterexamples, can we also learn from it?
It is the easiest thing to blame others and blame the problem on external factors and others, but it does not help personal growth at all.
It is a more effective growth path for life-long learners to go back to yourself, and to reflect on yourself.