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First, how to treat the phenomenon of "involution" among contemporary college students?
1, college students "involution" phenomenon
? I don't remember when the word involution became popular, and I don't know what involution really means, but now everything has something to do with it!
? Xue Zhaofeng once said, "It is not your boss who makes you work overtime, but other colleagues who are willing to work overtime." Yes, it is not the exam that makes you study hard, but other people who study hard. This is a typical involution. You can't predict when you will be eliminated by your colleagues, so you can only keep learning, improving and competing.
? In this way, an increasingly competitive field has been staged around us.
? Sitting in front of the class in advance is called "involution", going to the study room and library every day is called "involution", taking part in many competitions is called "involution", and studying hard for a certificate is also called "involution" Are these really called involution? What is a real involution?
2. What is involution?
? Involution originally refers to a cultural pattern, which cannot be stabilized or transformed into a new form after reaching a certain final form, and can only become more complicated internally. Now it is interpreted as "irrational internal competition or" voluntary "competition.
? I understand that involution is a kind of blind conformity, and it is a vicious competition to disrupt one's plan because of others. Seeing that others are studying, but I didn't study today, then I will study quickly; If someone else takes a certain certificate, I will take it, which will eventually lead to psychological internal friction, and everything I do is influenced by others.
3. Causes of involution
? In such a fast-paced era, the involution of college students is a normal reaction to competition, because everyone wants to be better. So, why is the phenomenon of involution among college students so serious now?
(1) to achieve the so-called "excellent rate"
? Since 2007, the assessment standards of students in universities have gradually tended to a normal distribution, that is, the excellent rate of students generally does not exceed 30%, and the unqualified rate generally does not exceed 10%. Therefore, in order to achieve the so-called excellent rate, college students have to compete with their classmates desperately.
(2) Limited resources
? Simply put, the cake is not big. For example, in the home appliance industry, in the early 1990 s, every household had no home appliances. At that time, the market was empty, the cakes kept growing, and the market was not saturated, which was enough for every newly opened electrical appliance factory to live comfortably and everyone earned a lot of money. But by the end of the 1990s, every household had electrical appliances, and the frequency of purchase was reduced only by upgrading them. As a result, many electrical appliance factories have appeared. At that time, the market was limited and the cake no longer changed. It was not until later that the household appliance industry began to develop globally and sought a bigger cake that it gradually changed that trend.
? Contemporary college students, in the fierce competition environment, can only insist on making more efforts in order to fight for limited resources.
(3) the goal is unclear
? Students caught in a tangle. Seeing that other students are working hard, they will keep up with the pace of outstanding students, but there is no clear goal and plan.
4. The influence of "involution"
? Of course, involution has become a hot topic, not only because of its competitiveness, but also because we are all victims of this situation:
-Mental internal friction
? Mental internal friction is also called psychological internal friction, which means that people's self-control needs to consume psychological resources. When psychological resources are insufficient, individuals are in a state of internal friction.
? In this era of involution, internal friction may be more terrible than involution. Because the involution is about the competition between people, and internal friction is more like a person's struggle with himself. Don't wait for others to start work, consume yourself.
Of course, the most terrible thing is that some people are trapped in internal friction and have no clue.
-Anxiety and sensitivity
? Involution will make people frequently fall into anxiety and meaningless feelings, and will pay too much attention to others. This phenomenon is reflected in: I feel that I have been working hard, but I always can't reach my goal; I can't stop being harsh on myself, and it's painful when I blame myself, but I still blame myself for a problem.
-blindly follow the crowd
? Many students who don't have a clear goal, after seeing that most of the students around them are participating in the article. In the spirit of not falling behind, I also rolled with them. But the consequence may be: after graduation, I found myself as if I was busy every day, but I didn't make any remarkable achievements.
5. Self-experience-why is effort called "involution"?
? I read a sentence in Zhihu, "Once, there was no word involution. Everyone just works hard for their own future, simple and pure. " Instantly poked my tears.
? The first time I came into contact with "involution" was when I was doing a problem in the dormitory last semester of my sophomore year.
At that time, I also checked the case of involution online: there was a subway station with a large flow of people, so it was difficult to get on the subway in the morning rush hour. One day, a person decided to take a stop in the opposite direction and get on the subway in advance to prevent crowding. Later, more and more people did this. Everyone spent more time and energy, but got the same result.
? As for the word "involution", I have different experiences.
? As a candidate in Jiangsu, when I took the college entrance examination, we chose two elective courses because there was no reform in the college entrance examination policy. Although I am a girl, I have a mind for science, so I chose physics and biology. Because I failed in the college entrance examination, I had to follow my parents' arrangement-to study medicine. However, the scores of medical colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province are too high, so even if they pass a line, they can only choose medical colleges with poor performance in the province, so they choose to apply for pharmacy outside the province.
? As a competitive girl since childhood, I want to try my best to change my life. I joined the student union at the beginning of college and was elected as the vice president of the class, but these were not satisfactory to me. When I was a sophomore, I stayed in the student union and ran for the league secretary in my class. And I know that if I fail a subject, my efforts for a year and a half will be in vain, so I must use my trivial time to study. But I didn't expect to learn more and more difficult subjects, especially those who didn't choose chemistry in the college entrance examination (pharmacy major is chemical biology). And slowly, the study room, canteen and classroom have become places outside my dormitory except my sleeping time every day.
? And that's how I became the "king of rolls" in the mouth of my roommates. But in fact, I don't have much time to study and I can't explain it to them.
? At that time, I didn't understand why those efforts to improve themselves without deliberately competing with others should be called "involution". Is the pursuit of self-improvement involution? Have higher requirements for yourself and be treated differently by others?
? In fact, when I study hard, I am not competing with others, but reconciling with myself. I only hope that when the result is not perfect, I only regret it. I never think that anyone's efforts, like the definition of involution, "paid time and energy, but got the same result as before". There are still people in this world who are living the life you want, so we never give up. We always have to endure for a period of time before we can truly become our own success. I prefer to work hard before being generous.
? At present, memorizing English words before the exam on various short video platforms is called internal exam, and going to the library for self-study after the exam is also called internal exam; Reading in the dormitory bed at night is also called antithesis. Those who work hard bear the most vicious meanness, while those who lie flat occupy the peak of public opinion.
? Behind the characters in these short videos are you, me and thousands of little people in Qian Qian around us. We are not those who take the subway in the opposite direction in vain. Are we high school students eager to enter an ideal university or college students unwilling to be mediocre? Learning to automatically block out the discordant sounds around me is a new skill I have mastered since I went to college. Ignoring "involution" is my best counterattack.
? I have always been glad that "involution" has not been abused in my 12 years of cold window. I miss the way we wrote the ideal university on a small note in high school, and everyone was more positive than studying in the classroom. Everyone is just trying to be simple and pure for their own future.
? I don't know how long "involution" will be abused, but I just want to tell you that you can't let go of what you want to be.
? In fact, hard work is not equal to involution. People who call everything involution are really terrible people. It is not so easy to get what you want by teasing others with involution and summarizing others' efforts with the word involution. What's the point of life if everything is easy?
6. How to balance "involution" and lying flat?
? Last year, Inner Volume was a hit. Students roll their scores higher and higher in order not to be eliminated; In order not to be eliminated, office workers roll up their academic qualifications higher and higher.
? Then lying flat is also fire. To put it bluntly, involution is the ultimate competition. People who can't compete will think: should I not fight, then suppress my desire and lie flat?
? Extreme involution will only bring waste of various resources. After all, gatekeepers really don't need a postgraduate degree according to common sense.
? But it is not advisable to lie flat completely. Because lying flat completely means giving up your own development completely, which is also completely undesirable from a philosophical point of view.
? So be alert to involution and lie flat. Don't do meaningless involution, don't exclude reducing desire, but you can't give up the improvement of your own quality. Although the opportunities are much less now than they were ten years ago and twenty years ago, if they do come, your usual promotion may become the key to success.
? Students who are studying may wish to do more questions every day, college students may wish to stay in the library for a while, and on-the-job staff may wish to take the on-the-job postgraduate exam. I believe everyone can have a bright future.
Second, how to deal with it? -Anti-involution
? We are the initiators, participants and victims of involution. In such an involution environment, involution is inevitable. In fact, involution is also a sign of progress. We need to keep a steady mind and find a suitable learning rhythm. So how should we deal with it?
1, straighten your mind and tap your potential.
? With the arrival of the era of involution, most people in society are in a state of anxiety. In this regard, we might as well adjust our mentality and accept our mediocrity and limitations. When some set goals are too high, we should make some adjustments, think about the worst result, let go of our obsession and learn to accept it. Reflect on your own way of thinking and behavior habits, find your own core competitiveness, focus on training, and combine the needs of society to do a career that suits you and is helpful to social development.
2. Focus on the present and shield others.
? In fact, many times, we don't need anxiety at all. So where does the anxiety we feel now come from? It is brought about by some comparisons between people. Practice anxiety, graduation anxiety, age anxiety, appearance anxiety, housing anxiety. And many times, people who express these anxieties are not ordinary people like us, but often come from people who have certain status and wealth in society-commonly known as "Versailles masters."
3, pay attention to the choice, clear goals.
? In the big environment, each of us has limited choices. The purpose of the competition is not to defeat others, but to stimulate one's potential. Find out what you like, what you are good at and what you are not good at in the process of competition.
Is to do a good job planning as soon as possible, don't worry blindly, go with the flow. You can use the time saved after the exam to cultivate your hobbies. Cultivating your core competitiveness and striving to become a compound talent will also be of great benefit to your future social development.
4. Cherish time and learn for life.
? We should make full use of our time. What a blogger said is very reasonable. She said, "Age is the greatest competitiveness when the educational background is similar.". If you are still young, you must not waste time. Time is your greatest asset. Work hard while you are young. You'd better have a clear career plan. Don't work for years before you know it's not what you want. You can design several life plans, but try and make mistakes quickly. Want to know how to investigate, you will choose. For example, when Wang Manni makes a decision to study abroad, it is best to contact people who are studying abroad or returning from studying abroad and ask them what their study and work life are like. If she goes abroad, she will find that she needs to wash dishes to support her life and tuition. Can she accept it? While you are still young, you need to define your life. Without positioning, you can't move forward normally, always standing still, and people who have made life plans surpass you.
? The lower the threshold, the fiercer the competition. Therefore, we can't stay in the comfort zone. If you don't learn new things, latecomers will catch up. The more you know, the stronger your vulnerability resistance will be, and it will not be easily eliminated. Moreover, the world is changing so fast that we have our own knowledge framework. Only by learning can we expand the boundaries of resources. "Fragmented learning" is not easy to form a system. Learning systematically and then applying what you have learned is a kind of positive feedback.
? Finally, I send you my favorite sentence: "Be a star, angular and luminous!" "