To understand a person's character, on the one hand, it is necessary to see what kind of friends he makes, and on the other hand, it is necessary to see what kind of books he reads. Books are not only the gateway to the inner world, but also a mirror that reflects the people who choose books, so it is necessary for us to understand what types of books are read by the three classes of society.

Grassroots society loves to read martial arts novels.

In fact, what grassroots society lacks is not only money, but also ideas. They hope to get more wealth, but they have neither social resources nor methods, so they can only hope for the logic of "exceptional acquisition". Exceptional acquisition is a kind of robber logic, which is an abnormal means to obtain wealth, so they will go to stock speculation, they will buy lottery tickets, and even they fantasize about robbing banks. However, due to limited knowledge and ability, grassroots society can only be trapped in stock speculation; Due to the lack of basic knowledge of general numbers, buying a lottery ticket and winning the jackpot can only be a fantasy; As for robbing banks, they have neither the guts nor the means.

They hate the inequality of wealth in this society, but they don't know who to hate? When they speculated in stocks, they lost a lot of money, but they saw that the old man next to them made a lot of money, but no matter how you look at it, the kind old man doesn't look like a bad person. I have no food and clothing, but I see that those people who got out of the famous car are polite and make charitable donations, which makes people in the grassroots society even more confused. They are unhappy, but they don't know who to hate? It seems that everyone is hateful, but it seems that everyone is innocent.

So the people in the grassroots society are very confused, but they are still a little unwilling, what should I do? I can only look at martial arts novels. Some people call martial arts novels "fairy tales for adults", which is a very apt description, because martial arts novels have the following characteristics: 1. The martial arts of heroes are strong. Second, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away. 3. People in society are clearly divided into good and evil. Let's talk about the first point first: The heroes in martial arts novels are all good at kung fu, they can kill whoever they want, they can rob whoever they want, everything is by force, which is not fast for people in the grassroots society who are controlled everywhere! The second point: The mountain is high and the emperor is far away, you don't have to pay for your life if you kill someone, you are not afraid of being wanted if you rob the money, and you can spend it casually, isn't that very cool! The third point: people in society are clearly divided into good and evil, and the rich are not benevolent to the rich one by one, unlike now when they do charity at every turn. The rich people in martial arts novels not only don't do charity, but also put money like Zhou Papi and don't spend it, and Zhou Papi doesn't sleep lazily like the rich people now, and go to leisure at every turn, Zhou Papi is very dedicated, he has to get up early every day to get up in the middle of the night to learn how to crow, and use this method of "harming others and not benefiting himself" to exploit the poor, isn't this kind of wicked person bad to the family! It is really reasonable and happy to kill the rich and help the poor with a knife! Therefore, martial arts novels completely sweep away the confusion of people in the grassroots society, strong martial arts means ability, and the emperor of the mountain is far from being able to rob at will, and it is reasonable for the society to distinguish between good and evil. Where can I find such a good thing? There are only martial arts novels! This logic is both simple and naïve, so it can only be called a fairy tale, and if adults love to watch it, it can only be called an "adult's fairy tale". It is not so much that the grassroots society loves to read martial arts novels, but it is better to say that martial arts novels entrust too many dreams of the grassroots society, so when people in the grassroots society get martial arts novels, they are like dry firewood, and they hit it off, and they naturally can't let it go.

Of course, this can't be generalized, martial arts novels, as a subject matter of writing, can express a thought, an emotion, and a feeling. But there are fewer and fewer in-depth martial arts novels like that, and many people write scribbled in order to make readers get psychological satisfaction, and readers read it with relish, regardless of whether those words make sense or not, so it is very difficult to find a philosophical martial arts novel now.

The middle class loves to read books on business management and interpersonal relationships.

The middle class is more clever than the grassroots society in that the middle class will not live in fantasy, they will overcome obstacles in reality, so they often study people's psychology, they are scheming, good at sophistry, good at strategy, and focus on gains and losses. And if this society wants to have capital, it must have knowledge, and the middle society knows that people are unreliable, and it is better for others to have knowledge than to have knowledge themselves, otherwise they will not know when they are sold by others. So they desperately read books on business management, interpersonal relationships. At the same time, this is also for the need to start a business or keep a business, in order to make money, they must contact more people with level and taste, so they themselves must look like a person with taste, so they have to read some books that they can't even understand. If this is the end of the story, it will be enough, but they dare to use some words that they themselves do not understand, and use famous sayings that they themselves do not understand, so they make many jokes that do not reach the meaning of the words. Fortunately, most of their social circles are also half-hearted people, and no one breaks anyone for each other's interests.

This behavior of the middle class reminds me of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale: the emperor's new clothes. It is said that there was an emperor who did not do his job every day, and did not think about how to govern the country, but he liked to show off his new clothes everywhere, and one day a tailor said that he had made a special dress, which was worn only by wise people, and not by stupid people, so the emperor asked the people around him: "Can you see my clothes?" In order to prove that they are not stupid, others can only say, "You can see it." The truth of the matter was that the tailor was playing tricks on the emperor, who had no clothes at all. We have laughed at the stupid emperor when we see this fairy tale since we were children, but in fact, aren't the current middle-class society that pretends to be elegant just the epitome of that emperor?

Many middle classes are like two people who are both wearing "the emperor's new clothes" complimenting each other. Although they love to read, in order to protect each other's vanity and interests, they will not point out and improve each other, so no matter how many books they read, it will only be in vain, just learning a few more words taken out of context, and will not be of any help to them in expanding their cognition of things and the pattern of their thinking. But the middle class doesn't care about this, for them, making money is everything, studying, just for show, the purpose is to occasionally break out a few blunt terms from it to improve their worth.

The upper echelons of society love to read the classics of the sages and philosophically inspired books.

People in the upper society are people who like to think and are good at thinking, and they can often see the essence of things from the appearance of things, so the high society likes to read some books with strong philosophical sense. But not everyone likes to read these books, because most people have a common problem, that is, they don't like to use their brains. Therefore, people in the grassroots society are addicted to martial arts novels every day, while people in the middle class will read some highly skillful social books. But I would like to say one thing here: "All the food that comes is tasty, and it is not suitable for oneself; Only by relying on the experience and methods summarized by independent thinking can we find a path that suits us. "The books read by the middle class are like food that comes to them, and others summarize them and then give them direct answers, and the middle class still thinks that they have gained a lot of valuable experience, but the result is not applicable to reality at all. And that's not the worst thing, it's the worst thing is that these books stifle the middle class's ability to think independently and solve problems creatively.

So we have to remember the saying: "Books are not for you to find answers." Books are always there to inspire you and make you think. "If a book makes you stop thinking, then the book loses its meaning. If reading is not for thinking, but for the sake of dogma, then the meaning of reading is lost. Including the book I wrote, it is not a golden rule, but gives you a direction to think about, so that you can find a method that suits you.

Therefore, when the high-level society encounters problems in business warfare, it is not to look at the complete set of strategies, but to read "The Art of War", "Tao Te Ching", and other books that inspire people's wisdom, and we must remember one sentence: "No rigid dogma can really solve practical problems." Otherwise, it would be "dead reading" or "reading dead books", which would be useless at all.

And it is precisely the books of philosophy that seem to the grassroots and middle classes to be useless books. There is a saying that "the useless is for the great." Although philosophy does not specifically refer to the "art" of all walks of life, it points out the "Tao" in various fields. There is no way to do it, and it stops at the operation. "Philosophy is not about intriguing people, but about telling people the basic principles of how to behave in the world. Therefore, the more primitive the truth, the more complex things can be explained, which is called "all changes are inseparable", and philosophy is to grasp the most critical point of things. And those books that seem to be very specific often fail to grasp the essence of things.