Enlightenment means to be aware, to be enlightened. Sometimes, when you see a sentence, you suddenly become enlightened.
1. The problem of capitalism
"Capitalism reduces us all to one thing: the consumer"
Therefore, everyone becomes the target of capitalists' temptation, manipulation, and hunting.
At the same time, money has become the god of the whole people, and wealth has become the highest virtue.
People seem to be free, but they are actually controlled by capitalists or business owners. If you are an employee, you are controlled by the company's attendance and performance. If you are outside the company, you will be surrounded by the company's publicity and promotion.
Portuguese novelist Saramago said: "Capitalism reduces us all to one thing - consumers. Writers are no longer authors, but content providers. If we start saying that Camões or Shakespeare are content providers, Then there is a problem."
The French philosopher Diderot said: "Wherever talent and virtue do not bring about the promotion of status, money will become the god of the people. Wealth will become the highest virtue and poverty the greatest evil. A few people show them riches, most cover their poverty, and all degenerate."
American novelist David Foster Wallace said: "Every day, I am exposed to 250 advertisements and countless entertainment choices, most of them funded by companies who want to sell me things. This is the world The way it has affected me. The daily life of human beings has changed."
Han Bingzhe, a Korean-German philosopher, believes that after the society enters "neoliberalism", people seem to be free, and everyone thinks they are free, but in fact they have entered a "performance society" full of competition, and people are willing to exploit themselves. From the understanding of Hegel's master-slave dialectics, everyone is both his own master and a slave of self-extraction. From this, people have entered a "burnout society".
Tags: politics, business, freedom, money
2. Schedule time instead of saying "no time"
There is a best-selling book in the United States called "Four Thousand Weeks". Its main point is: there are about 4,000 weeks in life, and it is wrong to use such a limited life to pursue efficiency. You were thinking great, working hard, getting things done early so you could enjoy the rest of the day at leisure. 1
But in fact, the more efficient you are, the more work you get, and the amount of work the world can offer you is practically unlimited.
The solution is to identify those things that are important to you, schedule them, and make them a higher priority instead of putting them off.
Nawal said in "Nawal's Collection": "When you are young, you have time and health, but no money. In middle age, you have money and health, but no time. When you are old, you have money and time, but no money. No health. The big winner in life is having time, health and money at the same time. ”
Why do middle-aged people have no time? Usually they are busy with work or career.
But time can be scheduled, and if you don't schedule time for something, you don't pay enough attention to it.
I rarely hear people say that he has no time to eat and sleep. No matter how busy he is, he still arranges time to eat and sleep because he knows that these are very important.
But people always say that he doesn't have time to exercise, spend time with his family, or study. At the root of it, he doesn't think these things are so important, at least not as important as his "career".
British economist Keynes said: "The main purpose of a person's life is love, creation and enjoyment of beauty, and the pursuit of knowledge. Among these three, love is definitely the first."
Nineteenth-century British philosopher Sidney Smith said: "Human beings are always happy with the happiness they once had. Therefore, if you can make them happy now, you can make them happy in the next 20 years." Bliss from memories."
If you truly want your family to be happy, you will schedule time for them to feel the love and happiness that comes from your involvement.
Tags: work, time, productivity, freedom, important
3. Food manufacturers always want you to eat more
Studies have found that highly processed foods make people eat more and put on weight. 2
Here's why: Deeply processed foods often trick the nerves in your gut into sending the wrong signals.
Natural carbohydrates are usually accompanied by a lot of cellulose, but the cellulose in highly processed foods is either very little, or it is not the same type as in nature. The human intestinal nerves cannot detect enough cellulose, so they send a signal to the brain. Instructions to continue eating.
Small believes that highly processed food is essentially the drug of modern man. In order to make a profit, food manufacturers have come up with various ways to increase the addiction of food, so modern people are getting fatter and fatter.
Ultraprocessed food refers to over-processed "convenience" foods such as cakes, biscuits, instant noodles, sausages, potato chips, luncheon meat, candy cookies and carbonated drinks, as well as bread in plastic bags on supermarket shelves kind.
This type of food has three distinctive features: first, its main ingredients are food extracts such as starch and fat, and the original food is basically invisible. Second, most of these foods bear some kind of trademark, indicating that they are likely to come from the production workshop of a certain food factory. Third, it often contains a large number of food additives, including colorants, emulsifiers, preservatives and flavoring agents, etc.
Labels: health, weight, business, diet
4. The importance of communication between people
An American research team pointed out in "Communication Research" that a social and physical and mental health experiment conducted on a group of college students showed that it only needs to have a short but high-quality communication with one person a day, even if it is just to tell a joke Well, even simply being an obedient tree hole is enough to improve Baishen's emotional state for a whole day.
Very similar to this, even if you do high-intensity exercise for only a few minutes a day, you can reduce the risk of all-cause mortality by 38% to 40%.
In other words, you only need to do a few "small kindness" every day, which can bring great benefits.
Communication between people can not only improve mood, but also have benefits beyond expectations.
American computer scientist Richard Hamming mentioned in his famous lecture "You and Your Research" 3 : 
Scientists at Bell Labs have their own offices. I've noticed that if you close the door to your office, you get more done today and tomorrow, and you're more productive than most people.
But 10 years later somehow, you don't quite know which problems are worth solving; the importance of all the hard work you've put in doesn't matter.
The man who opens the door is subject to all kinds of distractions, but he also gets occasional clues about what the world is, and what might be important. I think there's a pretty good correlation between those who open doors for work and those who end up doing important things.
Even though those who work behind closed doors generally work harder, somehow they seem to be doing something wrong, not a big deal, but enough to make them miss out on great accolades.
This way, you can know what people care about and what people think is important , which can be very helpful to your career.
Tags: health, social, productivity, success
5. What is "Heaven and man as one"
People often tell themselves, comfort themselves, and mobilize themselves. This is the communication between human consciousness and subconscious.
The subconscious mind is actually "Heaven", and the conscious mind is "human being". If your conscious mind and subconscious mind cooperate well, you will achieve the "unity of man and nature".
You need to understand your subconscious personality, habits, and preferences, and you need to constantly adapt and adjust your relationship with it. In the end, you can trust and rely on him, and you can also guide and mobilize it.
What heaven is is something that you don't quite understand, is very powerful, and can directly affect your interests.
Simply put, there are at least these types of heavens: yourself, your parents, everyone, and the universe.
The Puritans believed that labor and restraint were the necessary conditions to be loved and rewarded by God. They opposed showing off and vanity, and advocated a simple way of life.
God loves this, and so do people.
Labels: philosophy, self-cultivation, investigation of things
6. Only with enlightenment can "knowledge and action become one"
Wang Yangming's "unity of knowledge and action" refers to:
What kind of knowledge do you have, and what kind of action you have.
The "knowledge" here refers to the knowledge deep in your heart, the knowledge at the subconscious level.
Instead of the knowledge you heard from others in your mind, including the knowledge told in this article.
You can only turn the external knowledge into your real knowledge through your "awareness" and "enlightenment".
Otherwise, you will forget it after hearing it, and you will not be able to hold it at all.
Labels: learning, enlightenment, epiphany
7. The fastest way to grow: face your fears
Russell said: "The fastest way to change yourself is to do what you are afraid of."
Most of the things we are afraid of are not so terrible, but your fear will bring you too many adverse effects.
Because fear keeps you from facing it all the time, makes you worry and anxious, and keeps you in a low-energy state.
And when fear disappears, self-confidence grows.
Confidence and love make people full of energy and charisma.
Labels: emotions, fear, growth, confidence, energy, love
8. The childishness of great men
Many great men are really like children, especially the very famous ones.
Because a person who can really do things must have his bias, his stubbornness, and his disregard, otherwise nothing can be done.
The so-called adult world is actually a group of grown-up children.
How much is the difference between adults and children, just live more than ten or decades.
This makes them sophisticated at best, not mature.
What most of us think of as "very mature" people can't actually accomplish much.
He often thinks too much, has too many scruples, and finally dare not take action.
From the point of view of his "fear", he is actually like a child.
On the contrary, people with a "childlike heart" tend to be more mature.
Tags: success, personality, innocence, maturity
9. Big problems for big companies
The height of the top leader of a large company is the company's ceiling.
Hacker News user cm2187 posted a post 4 : "I have worked in large companies all my life, and I am too familiar with their operations. Many people would rather the company go bankrupt than challenge internal policies made by their superiors. Completely ignorant and caring about the implications of its policies."
In a big company, people just listen to the leader, because "not in the position, not in the government" is the golden rule in the workplace.
Therefore, the path of the company, how it goes, is completely determined by the top management.
If the top management is wise, it will go well.
If the top management can't do it, the company can't do it.
The top management is the ceiling of the company's wisdom, no matter how many smart people the company employs.
Labels: business, work, leadership, innovation
Text｜Wei Jianfan
http://www.ruanyifeng.com/blog/2023/04/weekly-issue-249.html
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