In the past two years, I have overcome the forced download very well, and basically did not allow too much data to accumulate on my computer. The saved data was basically digested in a timely manner and added to my knowledge warehouse, and Weibo just regarded it as a As a convenient observation tool, make full use of scattered time.
I don't know how are you all doing now? Today, I am sharing an article published by Wang Di on "College Students • Chinese Campus" - seemingly positive, but actually anxious. Discuss with you how to make better use of your energy and resources.
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I have a friend D. She skips breakfast, occasionally skips classes, often stays up late, and is skeptical of the significance of her major. Pick 10 random people on a college campus, and 8 are similar to her.
One day, I borrowed a mobile hard disk from her and found that the 500G space was almost completely filled. All content is categorized and placed in a dozen folders. Except for movies, the rest of the content is almost all related to learning - open classes, documentaries, English listening, e-books... Ask her, how many of these things have you seen? She replied, less than a third, with a look of shame on her face. It took a lot of time to download, but it's all useful stuff that may be used in the future. She added another sentence. In fact, we know each other well that the remaining two-thirds may never see the light of day again.
A few days later, I heard that she had bought a new portable hard drive, and those resources that were queuing on the "download" list finally found a place. As a result, a new round of 500G filled journey started again with great ambition and interest.
This scene should not be unfamiliar to modern people. Who doesn't have a few or a dozen gigabytes of folders in their computer or hard drive that may be useful one day but will never be opened again. Whenever we encounter resources online that can fill the gaps in our knowledge network, we will subconsciously feel like As excited as playing chicken blood, the finger will click the right button without hesitation and "save as". However, once it is known that it is lying somewhere on the hard drive, the honeymoon period between them will also end at the speed of light. The next second, our smiles are dedicated to another "it".
On Weibo, I reflect on my knowledge anxiety and my "seemingly positive life", but I don't know that Weibo is a major murderer of anxiety and seeming positivity.
Renren, Kaixin, Weibo, Douban... These websites with different social natures constitute most of people's virtual life and begin to control more and more channels for people to obtain information. On social networking sites, our time is divided by the breath between swipes, measured by status, photos, and videos. Little by little, it erodes our patience for reading and logical thinking about factual judgment. We are willing to be filled with the freshest news, the most popular jokes, the most obscure jokes; we are used to drawing conclusions quickly, we are used to finding outlets for venting, we are used to dancing with the majority... We mistake information for knowledge , and mistakenly equate knowledge with wisdom. We strive to keep pace with the times, but in fact we have already left our ego behind like a shadow.
One summer vacation, my roommate took the BEC (Business English Test) at New Oriental, and almost all the students in the class were college students. The girl sitting next to her is a freshman at a university in Tianjin. She was staying at a relative's house and made a special trip to Beijing to learn English. She studied BEC in her freshman year, which sounds very good and active, but the reality is that she is very tired in class every day and lacks energy. After more than ten days, half of the time was spent sleeping.
The roommate chatted with the BEC listening teacher after class and learned that such a situation is not an isolated phenomenon. The listening teacher pointed to the point and analyzed that today's college students have an illusion of learning, probably thinking that if they signed up for a class, it was equivalent to mastering that knowledge. Putting the ceremony of completing the study in the first place, it doesn't matter whether you listen to the lecture seriously or not. Most of the students who take the full course can pass, the problem is that many students can't stick to it.
Behind the attitude of active pursuit is inevitably the support of desire. It is human nature to desire everything to be better for study, career, life, and the future. However, just like execution is an important indicator for measuring a team, no matter how good the tactics arranged by the coach are, it is in vain if the execution is not in place. Once desire exceeds the controllable range of ability, people will not only resist a large amount of half-understood knowledge, but anxiety will also follow the trend, dragging them directly into a bottomless black hole.
This kind of learning anxiety disorder is not uncommon, and I am myself. I often use my computer to download various resources while gobbling down the book list given by the teacher. This situation intensified, until one day in the reading class of intellectual history, the grizzled teacher shared his reading experience with us. He said that when I was young, I had to take reading notes every time I read a book. Later, I couldn’t read it because I read too many books, and I couldn’t finish the notes alone. It's better to stop, pick a few books, and read them slowly and steadily. The change in thinking will be more obvious.
These words kept going back and forth in my head. I went back to the dormitory and dug out the books that were pressed on the bottom of the bookcase. Their content has long been forgotten by me, I only know that they are well written, and I know it at first glance. Pushing aside those "to be read", "to be downloaded", "to be completed", today I just want to wander aimlessly in the pile of old books.
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