After school, Chen Jie and Gao Geli were walking slowly on campus. Chen Jie saw that Gao Geli seemed to have something on his mind, so he asked, "What do you want?" Let's hear it. ”

Gao Geli smacked his lips and said with some embarrassment: "I was instigated by Teacher He today, and some words are still not spit out and unhappy. But last time, the two of us had a very unpleasant conversation because of this, and I was a little hesitant to say it. ”

Chen Jie understood what Gao Geli wanted to talk about, which was nothing more than a matter of future planning.

The last time the conversation was unpleasant, mainly because Chen Jie only considered the issue of feasibility, but after a recent period of time, he has gradually figured out the meaning of this choice, and he is no longer worried about blushing and having a thick neck when chatting anymore.

"It's okay, let's talk calmly today, just say whatever you want."

"Hmm." Gao Geli nodded.

"Actually, I still think it's not good to do something with your learning ability, even if it's not like Teacher He said to be a mathematician, do something else, why do you have to take the path you told me, I always feel that I haven't brought your value into play."

Seeing that he cared so much about himself, Chen Jie's heart suddenly warmed a little, and he smiled and said, "Let's think about this question deeply, let's take mathematicians as an example, what is the ultimate goal of researching a new theory?" ”

"Apply."

"Apps are all about improving people's lives and making them happier, right? But happiness is a subjective feeling, so the improvement on the material level must be reflected on the spiritual level in order to achieve the ultimate goal. If the material standard of living has been improved for half a day, but it cannot be reflected in the spiritual level, then what is the significance of this improvement? To put it bluntly, although the common people are rich, but in the end they find that they are still unhappy after being rich for half a day, so where is the meaning of being rich? ”

In fact, in Chen Jie's view, there is no inevitable connection between wealth and happiness in itself, and even if Yan Hui, the proud disciple of Confucius, lives poorly, he is not happy every day? The parents of the great mathematician Gauss were also poor, but that did not prevent him from making outstanding contributions in the field of mathematics!

There are many complicated reasons behind the reason why modern people associate wealth and happiness, but it hasn't been talked about here yet, so Chen Jie didn't explain much.

Gao Geli replied assumedly: "When life improves, people will of course be happy, it's a natural thing." ”

"Not necessarily." Chen Jie shook his head.

"Your family is considered a middle-income family among your peers, right? Otherwise, I won't rent a house in Xinmin Yuan as soon as I finish the high school entrance examination, and families with average conditions will only live in the third year of high school when they pay attention to education. Your dad has a job that everyone envies, but he's not middle-aged yet? Your family's life has improved, but is your dad happy? ”

Gao Ge Lixin said that if it weren't for the family's previous stock loss, his father's pressure would definitely be much less than now, and he didn't agree with Chen Jie's statement. Rebuttal:

"My dad is unhappy because the family doesn't have enough savings, and our family's material conditions are not improved at all, at most they can barely make ends meet."

Chen Jie replied: "I think your father's unhappiness is not so much because he doesn't have enough savings, but because he is worried about the uncertainty of the future, worried about being eliminated, worried that the current status quo cannot be maintained, if the certainty of expectations is high, he will definitely be much happier than now, do you believe it?" ”

"That's why I said that when life improves, people will naturally be happy, and there is no contradiction."

"You didn't understand what I meant."

Chen Jie continued: "The source of my uncle's unhappiness is not a matter of material quantity, but a problem of a sense of crisis, and it is the anxiety and insecurity mixed with the sense of crisis that make him unhappy, and this feeling itself is a subjective feeling. If he felt a sense of security instead of a sense of crisis, he would be much happier, even if life was a little duller. ”

But only when people are in a sense of crisis can they have the motivation to struggle, right? Boiling frogs in warm water, it is easy to lose competitiveness after staying in the comfort zone for a long time! ”

"Then why would you be afraid of losing your competitiveness?"

"Needless to say, if you lose your competitiveness, you will face elimination, once you don't have a job, eating will be a problem, which is the fundamental thing for survival!"

Chen Jie hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Don't be so anxious to directly link the loss of competitiveness with survival, if you just want to survive, there are many ways, such as going back to the countryside to farm like you said, uncle's words can also go back to school to become a computer teacher, and even scavenging is also a way of survival, and as far as I know, the income of scavenging is actually not lower than that of white-collar workers." ”

Gao Geli opened his eyes wide and said, "Isn't it? You're telling my dad to pick up the trash?! You can tell. ”

"If you don't steal or rob, what's wrong with scavenging?! In the case that garbage sorting is not popular, waste picking is of great significance to the protection of the environment. ”

Gao Geli replied: "That's a nice thing, why don't you let your father pick up the rags!" ”

Chen Jie smiled: "Ha! Your emotions are finally in place, you say that you don't like people with colored glasses, but in fact, aren't you also looking at waste pickers with colored glasses? ”

"Good, good." Gogli couldn't say anything about him.

"Even if scavenging has its social significance, you also said that everyone has their own temperament, and with my father's temperament, he will definitely not do it!"

"Looks like my uncle's job is glamorous." Chen Jie said that Gao's father's current position is chief designer, which Gao Geli mentioned last time.

"It's not glamorous, it's decent at best."

"The chief designer is the biggest leader in the design team, right?"

"There are many design groups, and my dad is just the biggest leader of their group."

"It's all in this position, can't your heart be steady?"

"Private companies, when the contract expires, you are worthless, and you will terminate the contract when you say that you will terminate it. It would be better if you became a partner. ”

"Not really, right? There are also a lot of entrepreneurs who suffer from depression, and the industry competition is there, as long as the capital chain is broken, everything is like a cloud of smoke. ”

"So what do you say? In such an era, it's better to have a goal than to sit back and wait for elimination, right? ”

Chen Jie smiled faintly and replied: "Hehe, no kidding, in fact, I agree with the statement that the sense of crisis is linked to survival, but if it is only linked to personal survival, the existence of a sense of crisis will not be so common in today's society." In my opinion, this is a top-down transmission of pressure, an inevitable phenomenon embodied in the individual in the process of national rejuvenation. ”

Gao Geli looked at him with wide eyes and asked, "Huh? What do you mean by that? ”

Chen Jie said:

"We can think of all the countries of the world as members of a class."

"China has always played the role of a top-notch student in the long history of thousands of years, but in modern times, it suddenly plummeted, and suddenly became a poor student in the class, or the kind at the end of the crane."

"It's okay if we're always in the bottom grades, but who let us fall out of the top students? And the process of falling is also accompanied by the humiliation of being bullied by dogs in Pingyang, this kind of gap will hold anyone's breath in their hearts, right? ”

"The country has national fortune, the family has family fortune, and when the national fortune does not arrive, you can't do anything. Now we finally woke up and began to catch up with our breath. ”

"But catching up is not just lip service, this process is very tiring, we need to run three steps or even five steps to catch up, when this pressure from the national perspective occurs from the top down, the sense of crisis in the individual generally occurs."

"On the surface, it looks like a sense of crisis, but at a deeper level, it means that the country's fortune has arrived, and you can't be comfortable if you want to."

Gao Geli smacked his lips and said, "Even if what you say makes some sense, what does it have to do with what you are going to do?" ”

"We're running a marathon right now, and it's a team that needs to be run and someone to hand out towels and water, right? I want to be the one who delivers towels. ”

I only heard Gao Geli sneering and replied: "Listening to your analogy, I always feel that you are suspected of being lazy." How tiring you are from running, it's obviously much easier for you to just deliver a towel. ”

Chen Jingxin said that instead of condemning the people who send towels, it is better to condemn those who choose to emigrate for the sake of comfort after getting rich first. The country originally expected these people to get rich first and lead the latter to get rich, who would have thought that in the end, they would become deserters, even if it was easier to send towels, they would be better than them, right?

However, Chen Jie's original intention was not to be easy, so he corrected: "It's the metaphor itself that has a problem, so let's change the analogy, we are now in a Formula 1 car, which also requires team cooperation, both someone needs to drive the car and someone to change the tires, I want to be the one who changes the tires." ”

"Of course, this is just an analogy, but the reality is much more complicated than that. Driving a car is a competition of endurance and technology, we not only have to catch up, but also have to catch up and maintain a lead for a period of time, at least always in the first echelon, right? You can't just take the lead and be chased back again, right? ”

"But it requires not only the technical and tactical skills of the drivers on the field, but also the analysis of the off-field analysts to constantly analyze the situation of the car and the opponent, when to enter the field, when to change the tyres, what type of tyres to change, these are very particular."

"Back to real life, my feeling is that everyone is currently tired in the process of catching up, and the current society is generally filled with unhappiness, anxiety and anger, but these emotions are now supported by the national fortune and have not broken out for the time being, if these things cannot be resolved, then the sustainability of our development will be a question mark."

Gao Geli replied casually: "Listen to what you mean, you can be a psychiatrist." ”

"I think it, Chinese should play something Chinese, our concept has always been to prevent the problem before it happens, psychologists are only intervening after something happens, at this time mental illness has been formed, social impact has also occurred, at this time the cost of manpower and time invested in retreatment is too high, and whether it can be cured is still two words."

Gao Geli said with a question mark on his face at this time: "But after listening to you for a long time, what you want to do can't be compared to stock speculation?!" ”