I think involution is a "double-edged sword". From a simple point of view, involution can supervise us to a certain extent, but many times involution is an irrational internal competition.
Involution is a "double-edged sword"
What is an involution? ?
? The word involution originally comes from the book "Agricultural involution" written by American anthropologist Geerds, which is used to describe that agricultural socio-economic farming is becoming more and more refined, but the output has been stagnant, forming a solidified model. In 2020, the word involution reappeared in people's eyes because a few photos exploded the circle of friends of college students. After the spread and fermentation of the Internet, involution became an irrational internal competition or an involuntary competition. Because of this irrational self-deception internal competition, the individual's "income-effort ratio" declined. In popular terms, it means that peers make great efforts to compete for limited resources, which leads to the failure of efforts and income.
Involution
? The concept of involution first appeared in the book Critique of Judgment by the German philosopher Kant, and it was often used as "involution" in academic literature. At that time, people often used involution to describe that when the culture developed to a certain extent, it could not be stabilized or broken through, and it could only change constantly internally and become more complicated. From this point of view, involution is still a relatively neutral academic word, but in the period of "involution of agriculture", involution gradually became a derogatory word, because in that period, involution was used to describe futility, and it has been self-entangled and self-replicating, but it was unable to make substantive progress. Nowadays, the concept of involution has become more specific and derogatory, specifically "inflation".
What is involution?
What exactly are we "involuting"?
In 2020, the word involution suddenly exploded. At that time, I just heard a lot of people saying "xxx, can you stop involution" and "You roll S, I got it". The word involution was not only popular on the Internet, but also difficult to see its "shadow" in real life. Even though the word involution appeared in front of my eyes every day, I still didn't quite understand what involution was. So I went online to search for its meaning, but when a series of professional terms were placed in front of my eyes, I was confused again, and I still didn't quite understand it. Unfortunately, on an online video platform, I saw several "involution" pictures that I had never seen before, one person's bed was full of books, and others were reading while riding a bike. What's more exaggerated is that a person was using a computer while confessing. I once saw a man standing in line with a laptop in his hand at work in high-speed railway station. At that time, I was so shocked that my chin almost fell to the ground, because I only watched such a scene on TV, and I'm afraid I can't even write such a story about riding a bike while using a computer.
Watch the computer while riding a bike.
? At my side, the involution phenomenon is not too serious. Maybe I am surrounded by people who are Buddhist, and I am not willing to compete with others for those few poor resources. My friend who is far away from home told me about the involution life in their dormitory. Her school is an ordinary college, and there are eight people in their dormitory. At ordinary times, they are harmonious and lively. They should eat and drink, and at night, my friend. Before going to bed at night, she wanted to lie in bed and read a book. The faint sound of turning pages alarmed her sister in the upper bunk. The sister in the upper bunk quickly opened the curtain of my friend's bed and said, "What are you doing? Are you secretly studying behind our back?" Don't study behind our backs. " Therefore, my friends have to read carefully in bed. Usually, their dormitory is full of "flavor". It seems that everyone is not willing to learn less than her and refuses others to learn more than themselves.
College students who review books.
Three years ago, the word Buddhism spread all over the internet. People often used Buddhism to describe a person who is indifferent to things and does not fight for anything, but how many people are really Buddhism, and how many people are secretly involved under the banner of Buddhism. Contemporary college students are not only involved in class and study, but also in all aspects of life. On the one hand, it is very common that they are involved in the material things of life, which can also be described as unnecessary comparisons. Comparing who spends more on living expenses, whose shoes are expensive, and even who is involved in value and love. Seeing others go to the library to study, no matter 3721, they follow suit, and when they see others reading and reviewing, they quickly pick up books to fill in the blanks. In fact, college students, ask yourself how many times you were forced to get involved in others' involution. Since the word involution appeared in college students' lives, many people attributed their failure to the fierceness of involution. In fact, in my opinion, many people are using fake efforts to get involved.
Involition and Buddhism
Involution is a "double-edged sword"
Regarding involution, I am more neutral about it, because I am not a person who will involution, although I will be slightly irrational when I see others involution. Let me give you a few examples:
①? I am a sophomore. I was faced with the test of CET-4 last semester. My English is not very good, and I don't like learning English. It's boring, but I have to pass CET-4. So I had to force myself to learn English. At first, I was quite motivated, but then I spent three days fishing and two days surfing the net. I was lying in bed brushing videos and playing games on the day when I should have studied. I felt that it was early and there was no hurry. A few days later, I saw someone else taking a book to study Band 4 after class, and I felt that everyone else had studied, so I had to study a little, so I forced myself to study again. I found that I didn't learn anything in the afternoon, but I was forced to join someone else's inner paper. Later, after self-reflection and thinking, I thought it was most important to keep my own pace. It was useless to want to study, but I didn't want to study hard, even though the inner paper also prompted me to do it.
②? The second example is expected to happen to many people. Every time college students have exam week, which is the busiest day for college students, because no one wants to fail, they all throw themselves into the ocean of review. At this time, it is also the most intense time of involution. Some people sit on the stairs and read at night, while others stand in the small garden and recite aloud in the morning. I am no exception. I go to the canteen to recite the book in order not to wake my roommate. Of course, I am driven by myself (involution). In fact, this example shows the benefits of involution more, because although involution is an irrational internal competition, it will also give me some learning incentives.
Involuntary person, involution soul
I believe these two examples happened not only to me, but also to many people. In my opinion, these two things are both common and typical, and they also prove that involution is "both beneficial and harmful". Although its harm is greater than its benefits, no one can deny the inspiring effect of involution on people. For example, one afternoon at the university weekend, you planned to lie in bed for entertainment, but when you saw your roommate studying, In fact, this is the benefit of involution to a certain extent. Although the benefit is not great, it cannot be ignored because it is small. But involution, after all, is an irrational internal competition, which is still not worth advocating. When involution occurs, no one is innocent, and everyone is a victim.
Present situation of involution life
To sum up, I think involution is a phenomenon that should not exist. For me, involution is a ghost that can't be dispelled, and sometimes it scares me. I really don't like being in an irrational state to make useless efforts and compete with others for some useless internal competition, because only by keeping my own pace can I finish the marathon of my life. Admittedly, it is not only the involution among college students, but also the involution of this era. Exaggerated speaking, involution is like an exotic species, which makes everyone anxious bit by bit, but it is the inevitable result of this era. What has to be affirmed is that involution will not create any value, but will make everyone lost in this whirlpool, spending time and energy and not getting the results they want. For our college students, involution is closed, with high cost and low income. Before involution, they can also study well. After involution, everyone is "in debt" and is in pieces. The college student who is known as "Tsinghua top student" and watches his laptop while riding a bicycle, that is, the beginning of this involution war, seems to have been forgotten by people. From the initial shock and admiration, to imitation, and now to irrational internal competition, involution seems to keep up with the pace of the times, and there are traps of involution everywhere. We accidentally fall into the trap of involution, and if we don't learn to stop immediately, we have to learn to clean up for ourselves.
About involution
Of course, involution is a terrible invisible storm, so how can we be immune from the "disaster" of this era? In my opinion, involution is inevitable in this era, but as college students, as long as we do these aspects well, we can face involution with great composure to a great extent.
What can we do in the face of involution?
Recognize the involution and work hard.
Many people regard involution as self-effort, but in fact involution and effort are two completely unrelated behaviors. First of all, involution is a kind of forced behavior. Everything you do because of involution is forced to start to compete by yourself. Just like college students see their roommates studying, you want to rest because you are afraid of falling behind your roommates or being overtaken by others. You have no choice but to learn passively, and you can't help but fall into involution, so that such a learning state is also extremely poor, and at the same time you waste your rest time. And effort is a kind of behavior full of positive energy, and it is also a step-by-step process. Efforts come from the heart, and real efforts are rewarded. There are many students in the group of college students. Instead of indulging in ignorance after class, they use their spare time to study professional knowledge, or prepare to take some certificates to improve themselves better, or work part-time to achieve independence better. These phenomena are all manifestations of active efforts, because no one forces them, but there are also some involution phenomena, but those who really work hard are down-to-earth, and those who are involved will show their true colors sooner or later.
Involution and effort
To put it simply, efforts are to achieve better goals, while involution is to fight for something that you don't need. When you see that others have it, you want to have it. As a result, you draw water with a sieve, that is, you don't grab anything, and you miss what you should have. At the beginning, we also said that involution is a closed internal competition, which can not be broken, but will only become more and more complicated, and efforts are made to break through and achieve a better goal. I have the following good suggestions on how to make real efforts instead of being forced to participate in the inner paper:
①? Make your own learning goals and life plans first, whether they can be achieved or not, because we need a guide that can plan our behavior. The result is not the most important, but the process of hard work.
②? Ask yourself what you really want and what you need. When you know what you want, you can better resist the temptation of involution.
③? Change your way of thinking, because life is not a competition with others and your own competition.
④? Before trying, we need to think clearly about what the purpose of our efforts is, whether it is for ourselves or for ourselves in the eyes of others, whether we want to improve our sense of superiority or our ability. Only by thinking clearly, our efforts are real efforts rather than the involution labeled as "fake efforts".
Prohibit all involution
In short, in the face of involution, we must first recognize the difference between involution and hard work. Involution will only make you rest on your laurels, and hard work can go further and further. Only in this way can we not do some useless fake efforts in a limited time, not fall into the so-called involution, but go further and further towards our own goals and achieve a better life.
Facing the involution, grasp your own rhythm
Some time ago, by chance, I saw on TV that a boy who went to Tsinghua to go to college at the age of fourteen was being interviewed by a reporter. His words impressed me deeply. When the reporter asked him why he was so outstanding, he replied; "As long as you keep your own pace, you can finish the marathon of life." I have always remembered this sentence, because his words reminded me that our life is in our own hands. Isn't our purpose to make ourselves better? We don't have to compete with others. What's the use of involution? For me, involution will make me unhappy and gain nothing. For the vast number of college students, the great reason for falling into involution is that they are too confused, don't know what they want, and don't know what they should pursue, so they are dragged into the abyss by involution.
Keep your own pace and be the king of life.
To give a concrete example, there are two people who want to climb Mount Qomolangma. Xiao A wants to climb the summit because his dream is to climb Mount Qomolangma, and he wants to realize his dream. So in order to climb the summit, he has made a mountaineering plan and prepared equipment for mountaineering, and everything is going on in an orderly way. Why did Xiao B climb the mountain? Because he was unwilling to see Xiao A going to climb Mount Everest, and he felt that he could surpass Xiao A. Therefore, he hurriedly packed up some things to climb Mount Everest. So, two people climbed Mount Everest with different purposes. Because Xiao A was well prepared, the difficulties on the road were solved. Although it was very hard, the belief in his heart kept him going, but Xiao B just kept him going. This example tells us that the painful result of involution and the importance of grasping our own rhythm will make it possible to avoid the influence of involution when we find our own goals in life. Therefore, I have the following suggestions on how to grasp our own rhythm:
①? Be a self-disciplined college student. The reason why we are caught in the involution is that we are confused and like to follow the trend. Like a swing, only by becoming self-disciplined can we better resist the temptation of the outside world.
②? Look at things with a long-term perspective. People who take care of the overall situation can achieve great things, and those who think at a higher level will always be outstanding. Facing the involution, they will learn to put themselves in other's shoes, think in various ways, change their world outlook and values, and learn to look at things through the essence, so they will naturally not be caught in the involution.
③? The times are changing, life is changing, everything is changing all the time, and even the involution is changing constantly. As a college student, we should have the spirit of innovation, learn to break some inherent and rigid patterns, break through the demand, take the essence and get rid of the dross. Innovation is the essential development, while involution is a false appearance.
Learn to work hard.
Don't listen to the sound of beating leaves through the forest, why not sing and walk slowly?
The reason why this ancient poem is used as the title is to tell the college students that they must learn from Su Shi. As written in the poem, you don't have to pay attention to the sound of hitting leaves through the forest. You might as well chant and scream while walking leisurely. The same is true of the era we are in now. The sound of beating leaves through the forest is like the temptation around us and the involution. Only when we don't care about these things can we walk on our own road better.
Face the surrounding disturbances calmly.
Only when we recognize ourselves and treat the involution rationally can we face the involution calmly. When we are not disturbed by the surrounding temptations, we have naturally defeated the involution. Therefore, it is very important to resist the temptation. Therefore, I have the following suggestions:
①? Learn to pursue what you love. Only when you like it from the heart will you make great efforts for it, and you will want to do it well and break through yourself. Why talk about it then?
②? Learn to shield the bad signals around you, learn to filter the information from the outside world, reduce the temptation of the outside world, especially the influence of involution on yourself, balance your mentality, and reduce your unnecessary anxiety. Even if you accidentally enter the involution, don't lose your heart. Be a free and easy person even if you stop.
③? Discover your own value and give full play to your own value. When you find your own value, you will find the value of your existence and know how to take a good life path in the future.
④? When dealing with life and problems, we must learn to take the initiative. Passive waiting will only bring the involution closer and closer to you. Only active people are the winners of their own lives!
How to face the involution?
Summary: First of all, I hope that college students can face up to "involution" and look at it rationally, because involution is the product of the times and will not disappear, unless it comes to an era when people are not judged by money, education and position, it will be self-defeating. Therefore, in the face of involution, we can only avoid its influence by perfecting ourselves. Finally, I hope every reader can gain something after reading this article.