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Discussing with friends whether interests are important or not, there are different opinions.
A person's interest comes from his natural curiosity, from the instincts of the depths of life. Isn't the biggest problem of our education at present rudely stifling the instincts from the depths of human life?
Parents do not respect their children's interests, teachers do not respect students' interests, and children/students do not know how to respect their own interests from an early age.
If you don't know how to respect your interests, how can you tap into the potential of your life, and how can you be motivated to urge yourself to achieve mental maturity through self-discipline?
My point is: interest matters. Parents and teachers should tell their children that people who respect their own interests are self-respecting people, and to follow their inner voice throughout their long lives, they must know how to create an environment for themselves to survive, and know how to cooperate and help each other in the competition for survival. Only by living better can you always have the opportunity to do what you are interested in. In order to always do what interests you, you need to have strong mental capacity to help you cope with various dangers in the competition for survival. To have strong mental capacity, you need to train your self-discipline from an early age, specifically, you need to start by postponing gratification. That is, in order to do something that interests you, you must first do something that does not interest you. Just as in order to be free, you must first accept constraints. (To give an analogy that may not be appropriate: in order to write a running or cursive script with dragons and phoenixes, and to achieve the state of writing as you like Huai Su or Wang Xizhi, you must first practice regular script on the square grid in a regular manner; In order to have a good martial art, you have to practice pile skills and horse steps in an orderly manner. ）
Only by attaching great importance to interest can you voluntarily endure hardships and be constrained for the sake of interest, so that you have the ability to take care of your interests and do things you are interested in more freely.
On the other hand, those who hold the view that "interest is not very important" may have been poisoned by utilitarian education, and they have not yet been completely detoxified (they have a strong utilitarian mind when they do things), so they still have the existential fear brought about by the utilitarian poison in their hearts. Therefore, holding the same view as the educational system that poisons oneself, it is more crude to deny the instinct of interest from the depths of life, and only "wake up" the reader with fear (because it is possible that the author himself is "awakened" rather than "awakened"), rather than first awakening the reader's latent life instinct with a heart of hope.
It is impossible for people to achieve long-term growth in fear, because the essence of life is to pursue happiness, not to succumb to fear. Fear can make people suppress the pursuit of happiness in a short period of time and endure hardships. But once the threat of survival is lifted, life will lose the eternal pursuit of growth.
Here, I thought of a Jordan self-report I had read. Jordan compared himself and Pippen. He said Pippen plays well under pressure, while Jordan himself can play well in good and bad times. Now that I think about it, this is the difference between excellence and excellence: permanent growth comes from the pursuit of inner freedom, not only from the fear of survival.
This kind of speculation brings me great value. The following is a fragment of my thoughts posted on Weibo early in the morning:
Only those who know how to respect their own interests will truly become mentally mature. The growth obtained just to survive and be "scared" is often not easy to last. It is said that interest is not important, most of them are still afraid of survival.
Helping "Programmer" magazine write for the "Born in the Seventies" column, one article after another, those born in the 70s who have found true happiness in their careers and made solid achievements are people who have always followed their inner voice and fully respected their interests. They respect their own interests, so they know how to respect the interests of others, and help others understand why only by constantly cultivating their minds can they take good care of their interests, create and be happy.
I often think that only those who are truly liberated from their bodies and minds, and who really no longer have the fear of survival in their hearts, can truly write books on mental growth. Many times, the mind that thinks it is mature is really just self-thinking. But the inner fear of survival will come out between the lines from time to time.
In my many years of publishing career, I have experienced that those authors and translators who can persist until the end and strive for excellence do not put "occupying a territory" in this field first, but really have the enthusiasm for knowledge first, and they are also very competitive in their own territory, and they do not need to rely only on writing and translating books to obtain territory. In this way, writing and translating books really becomes fun, and we are willing to spend time to constantly strive for better.
Therefore, when you are an editor, you can tell the author to summarize your own experience, which can make you more competitive in a certain territory, but you must not mislead the author into thinking that if you don't write it, you will have no territory. Writing is the icing on the cake for the author, and it will become more and more fun; If you send charcoal in the snow, it is inevitable that you will be at a loss.
I have worked on first-class good books, none of which were written under the pressure of survival. They are all the result of the author's respect for his own interests. Because these authors respect their own interests, they know that respecting interests requires capital, and this capital is a mature mind. So they know that they must show respect for their interests with actions, which is: write out their interests.
It can be seen that those who have too many personal purposes for writing and translation instead of putting the pursuit of truth first are easy to give up halfway. Some people with strong endurance may try to finish things for them, but what is written and translated will always seem less natural and not smooth, and it can be done, but it is difficult to do it well.
People who have seen darkness for a long time often forget what light looks like. I have fear in my heart, so I think others are just as afraid as I am. The most amazing thing is that people like Mandela and Schweitzer, in what kind of darkness, they see light.
A truly strong person is good at combining his interests (motivation) with his footprint (pressure), and he knows how to survive well in order to develop his interests. But at the same time, he also knows that if he only does things for survival and does not pay attention to his personal interests, he will eventually get tired of even survival. Those with immature minds often only look at one side, either using interest as an excuse not to strive for better living conditions, or leaving their interests aside.
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