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The result of "involution" is very terrible, it can make a person at one level continue to entangle, rotate, and friction, without breakthrough growth or gradual accumulation, so it falls into a vicious circle. The more you lack self-confidence, the more difficult it is to succeed, and the more you can't succeed, the more you lack self-confidence, and in the end, you give up on yourself.

In the late 60s of the 20th century, an American anthropologist named Liverford Gates lived on the island of Java. This long-lived scholar has no intention of enjoying the poetic scenery and devotes himself to studying the local agricultural life. All he saw was ploughing and raking and harvesting, day after day, year after year, while maintaining the pastoral scenery, the original ecological agriculture stayed in a state of simple repetition and no progress for a long time. The scholar named this phenomenon "involution".

Since then, the concept has been widely used in political, economic, social, cultural and other academic research. As an academic concept, "involution" means that a society or organization has neither abrupt development nor gradual growth, but has only repeated itself at a simple level for a long time.

In our real life, there are many such "involution phenomena".

Lao Zhang has been an officer in the unit all his life, and he will retire in a few months, but he is sad. It's not that he is reluctant to work in a unit where he has worked for decades, but it is very uncomfortable to see that those who used to be in the same position and the same age as him have now been promoted, and only he is standing still. Lao Wang has also been depressed recently. Lao Wang is a section-level cadre who is about to retire recently. He is in his 30s, but he can't do it at the deputy section level, but now 20 years have passed, he is still only a section cadre, and the people he used to pick up have now become his leaders, and he is very depressed about this.

The result of "involution" is so terrible, it can make a person keep entanglement, internal rotation, and internal friction at one level, and there is neither breakthrough growth nor gradual accumulation, so it falls into a vicious circle. The more you lack self-confidence, the more difficult it is to succeed, and the more you can't succeed, the more you lack self-confidence, and in the end, you give up on yourself.

Once a society is large, an organization, or a person, once they fall into this state, they will only needlessly consume limited resources, repeat simple steps, and waste precious lives. In some rural areas of our country, especially in the marginal and poor areas, 30 years have passed since the reform and relaxation, and the peasant brothers are still living a farming life of three acres of land and one cow, and their wives and children are hot on the kang; In the same unit, some people have stepped up for a few years, while some people have always been in the same place, and there have been no changes for many years.

Many years ago, a CCTV reporter went to northern Shaanxi and accidentally interviewed a boy who was herding sheep on the Loess Plateau, so there was such a "classic dialogue":

"Why are you herding sheep?"

"To sell for money."

"What do you do by selling for money?"

"Marry a daughter-in-law."

"What do you do with a daughter-in-law?"

"Have a baby."

"What do you do to have a baby?"

"Sheep grazing."

A few words from the child outline a kind of "involution" life state. Over the years, their living conditions have not changed much, mainly because they have not thought about changing at all. The self-contained ideology and concepts make it very difficult to break the involution mode.

In some enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises and private enterprises, this involution phenomenon is particularly prominent. Some private enterprises implement family management within the family, important positions, either seven aunts, or eight aunts divide the troops, the management philosophy is "fighting brothers, going into battle father and son soldiers", with their own people rest assured.

As a result, within the enterprise, the voice of chickens and dogs is heard, the old and the dead do not get along, the fresh air from the outside is difficult to blow in, and the really outstanding talents cannot be attracted, and the measures and methods are conservative. More than ten years or even decades have passed, the plant is still the same, the machine is still the same, the scale is still the same, and there is not much change in all aspects. Enterprises have entered a typical "involution state".

Whether it is a society, an organization or an individual, the fundamental reason for entering the state of involution lies in the mental state and ideological concepts. It is often said that faith determines destiny, and ideas determine the way out. If a person always feels sorry for himself, does not think about change, does not seek progress, does not seek to open up, has no confidence in the people, and has no fighting spirit, he can only stand still, and he may even go backwards. is always simple, following the rules, and following the steps, and can only enter the state of reincarnation over and over again. The 2,000-year-old small-scale peasant consciousness can only produce a 2,000-year-old natural economy, and it is impossible to produce a market economy and a modern economy.

Why are some people destined to be only a small boss for the rest of their lives? It's not that he doesn't want to be big, it's that his ideas are stagnant at a small level. What people who live in involution need most is to change their existing ideas, otherwise the consequences of involution are often more serious.

Therefore, if you want to achieve something, you must change your self-contained thinking and get rid of the state of involution. Only in this way can we break through ourselves, express ourselves and surpass ourselves, so that our careers can show vitality.