I think involution is a "double-edged sword". Simply put, involution can supervise us to a certain extent, but many times involution is an irrational internal competition.

Involution is a "double-edged sword"

What is involution? ?

? The word involution originally comes from the book Agricultural involution written by American anthropologist Geerds, which is used to describe that agricultural socio-economic farming is becoming more and more refined, but the yield has been stagnant, forming a solidified model. In 2020, the word involution reappeared in people's sight because several photos exploded the circle of friends of college students. After the spread and fermentation of the Internet, involution has become an irrational internal competition, or an unconscious competition. Because of this irrational self-deception internal competition, the individual's "income-effort ratio" has declined. Generally speaking, it is that peers make great efforts to compete for limited resources, which leads to the failure of efforts and benefits.

Multiply; Complicated and entangled; rat race

? The concept of involution first appeared in the book Critique of Judgment by the German philosopher Kant, and is often used as involution in academic literature. At that time, people often used involution to describe it. When the culture developed to a certain extent, it could not be stabilized or broken through, and it could only change internally and become more complicated. From this point of view, involution is still a relatively neutral academic vocabulary, but in the period of "agricultural involution", involution gradually became a derogatory term, because at that time, involution was used to describe futility, and it was always self-entangled and self-replicating, but it could not make substantial progress. Nowadays, the concept of involution has become more specific and derogatory, specifically "inflation".

What is involution?

What exactly are we "involuting"?

In 2020, the word involution suddenly exploded. At that time, I just heard a lot of people say, "xxx, can you stop involuting?" "Fuck off, I get it." The word involution is not only popular on the internet, but also difficult to see its "shadow" in real life. Even though the word involution appears in front of my eyes every day, I still don't quite understand what involution is. So I went online to search for its meaning, but when a series of technical terms were in front of me, I was confused again, and I still didn't quite understand it. Unfortunately, on an online video platform, I saw several pictures of "involution" that I had never seen before. A person's bed was full of books, and others were reading while riding a bike. What is more exaggerated is that a person is still using a computer when he confesses. Once when I was working in high-speed railway station, I saw a man waiting in line with a laptop in his hand. At that time, I was so shocked that my jaw almost fell to the ground, because I had only seen such a scene on TV, and I was afraid I couldn't even write a story about riding a bike while using the computer.

Watching the computer while riding a bike.

? On my side, involution is not too serious. Maybe I am surrounded by people who believe in Buddhism and don't want to compete with others for those poor resources. Friends who are far away from home told me about the involution life in their dormitory. Her school is an ordinary college, and there are eight people in their dormitory. Usually, they are harmonious and lively. They should eat and drink, at night, my friend. Before going to bed at night, she wants to lie in bed and read a book. The faint sound of turning pages alarmed my sister in the upper bunk. The girl in the upper bunk quickly opened the curtain on my friend's bed and said, "What are you doing?" Are you secretly studying behind our backs? " Don't study behind our backs. "Therefore, my friends have to read carefully in bed. Usually their dormitory is full of "smell". It seems that everyone doesn't want to learn less than her and refuses others to learn more than themselves.

College students who review books.

Three years ago, the word Buddhism spread all over the internet. In the past, people often used Buddhism to describe a person who is indifferent to things and does not dispute anything, but how many people are real Buddhism and how many people are sneaking around under the banner of Buddhism. Contemporary college students not only participate in class and study, but also participate in all aspects of life. On the one hand, it is very common for them to participate in the material things of life, which can also be described as unnecessary comparison. Compare who spends more on living expenses, whose shoes are expensive, and even whose value and love are involved. See others go to the library to study, regardless of 372 1, follow the trend, see others reading and reviewing, and quickly pick up books to fill in the blanks. In fact, college students, ask yourself how many times you have been forced to get involved in other people's papers. Since the word involution appeared in the life of college students, many people attribute their failure to the fierceness of involution. In fact, in my opinion, many people are using fake efforts to intervene.

Prayer and Buddhism

Involution is a "double-edged sword"

I am neutral about involution, because I am not an involution person, although I will be a little irrational when I see others involution. Let me give you a few examples:

①? I am a sophomore. I faced the CET-4 exam last semester. My English is not very good. I don't like learning English. It's boring, but I have to pass Band 4. So I have to force myself to learn English. At first, I was quite motivated, and then I went fishing for three days and surfing the Internet for two days. On the day when I should have studied, I was lying in bed brushing videos and playing games. I think it's still early, so don't worry. A few days later, I saw someone else taking a book to learn Band 4 after class. I felt that everyone else had learned, and I wanted to learn a little, so I forced myself to learn it again. I found that I didn't learn anything in the afternoon, but I was forced to join someone else's text. Later, after self-reflection and thinking, I think it is most important to keep my pace. It's no use trying to study, but I don't want to study hard, even if the text urges me to do it.

②? The second example is expected to happen to many people. Every college student exam week is the busiest day for college students, because no one wants to fail, and they are all involved in the ocean of review. This time is also the most intense time for involution. Some people sit on the stairs reading at night, while others stand in the small garden and recite aloud in the morning. I am no exception. In order not to wake my roommate, I went to the canteen to endorse. Of course, I am driven by myself (involution). In fact, this example shows the benefits of involution more, because although involution is an irrational internal competition, it will also give me some incentives in learning.

An involuntary person, an involuted soul

I believe these two examples happened not only to me, but also to many people. In my opinion, these two things are both common and typical, and they also prove that involution is "both beneficial and harmful" Although its disadvantages outweigh its advantages, no one can deny the enlightening effect of involution on people. For example, on a weekend afternoon in college, you plan to lie in bed for entertainment, but seeing your roommate studying is actually the benefit of involution to some extent. Although the benefits are not great, they cannot be ignored because they are small. But involution is an irrational internal competition after all, and it is still not worth advocating. When involution happens, no one is innocent, everyone is a victim.

The present situation of degraded life

In summary, I think involution is a phenomenon that should not exist. For me, involution is an irresistible ghost, which sometimes scares me. I really don't like being in an irrational state to make useless efforts and compete with others, because only by keeping my own pace can I finish the marathon of life. It is true that it is not only the involution among college students, but also the involution of this era. Exaggerated, involution is like an alien species, which makes everyone anxious little by little, but it is the necessity of this era. I have to be sure that involution will not create any value, but will make everyone get lost in this whirlpool, spend time and energy, and can't get the desired results. For our college students, involution is closed, with high cost and low income. They can also study hard before they degenerate. After the match, everyone is "in debt" and they are all chess pieces. It seems that the college student who is known as "the top student in Tsinghua" and watches his laptop while riding a bicycle, that is, the beginning of this involution war, has been forgotten. From initial shock and admiration, to imitation, and now to irrational internal competition, involution seems to be unable to keep pace with the times, and there are traps of involution everywhere. We accidentally fell into the trap of involution. If we don't learn to stop immediately, we must learn to clean up ourselves.

About involution

Of course, involution is a terrible invisible storm, so how can we avoid the "disaster" of this era? In my opinion, involution is inevitable in this era, but as college students, as long as they do these aspects well, they can face involution to a great extent.

What can we do in the face of involution

Recognize the involution and work hard.

Many people regard involution as self-effort. In fact, involution and effort are two completely unrelated behaviors. First of all, involution is a forced behavior. Everything you do is because of involution, and you are forced to start your own competition. Just as college students see their roommates studying, you want to rest because you are afraid of falling behind their roommates or being overtaken by others. You have no choice but to study passively and get caught up in the paper involuntarily. This kind of learning state is also extremely poor, and it also wastes your rest time. And effort is a kind of behavior full of positive energy, and it is also a gradual process. Efforts come from the heart, and real efforts are rewarded. There are many students in the group of college students. Instead of indulging in ignorance after class, they use their spare time to learn professional knowledge, or prepare to take some certificates to improve themselves better, or work part-time to achieve independence better. These phenomena are all manifestations of positive efforts, because no one forces them, but there are also some involution phenomena, but those who really work hard are down-to-earth, and those who are involved will show their true colors sooner or later.

Involution and effort

Simply put, efforts are to achieve better goals, and involution is to strive for things that you don't need. Seeing that others have it, they want to have it. As a result, you drew water with nothing, but you didn't grab anything and missed what you should have. At the beginning, we also said that involution is a closed internal competition, which can't be broken, and it will only become more and more complicated. We should strive to break through and achieve better goals. I have the following good suggestions on how to make real efforts instead of being forced to participate in the inside paper:

①? Make your own learning goals and life plans first, whether they can be achieved or not, because we need a guide who can plan our own behavior. The result is not the most important, but the process of hard work.

②? Ask yourself what you really want and what you need. When you know what you want, you can better resist the temptation of involution.

③? Change your way of thinking, because life is not a competition with others, nor with yourself.

④? Before trying, we need to figure out what the purpose of our efforts is, whether it is for ourselves or for ourselves in the eyes of others, whether we want to improve our sense of superiority or our ability. Only when we think clearly, our efforts are real efforts rather than being labeled as "fake efforts".

Prohibit all involution

In short, in the face of involution, we must first recognize the difference between involution and effort. Entrainment will only make you stand still and work hard to go further and further. Only in this way can we go further and further towards our own goals and achieve a better life without making some useless false efforts and falling into the so-called involution in a limited time.

Facing the involution, grasp your own rhythm

Some time ago, by chance, I saw a boy who went to Tsinghua to go to college at the age of fourteen on TV and was being interviewed by a reporter. His words touched me deeply. When the reporter asked him why he was so excellent, he replied; "As long as you keep your pace, you can run the marathon of life." I always remember this sentence, because his words reminded me that our lives are in our own hands. Isn't our purpose to make ourselves better? We don't have to compete with others What is the use of involution? For me, involution will make me unhappy and get nothing. For the majority of college students, the great reason for falling into involution is that they are too confused, don't know what they want and what they should pursue, so they are dragged into the abyss by involution.

Keep your pace and be the king of life.

To give a concrete example, there are two people who want to climb Mount Everest. Xiao wants to climb the summit, because his dream is to climb Mount Everest, and he wants to realize his dream. So in order to reach the summit, he made a mountaineering plan and prepared mountaineering equipment, and everything was going on in an orderly way. Why does Xiao B climb the mountain? Because he didn't want to see Xiao A climb Mount Everest, he thought he could surpass Xiao A, so he quickly packed some things to climb Mount Everest. So, two people climbed Mount Everest with different purposes. Because I was small and well prepared, all the difficulties on the road were solved. Although it's hard, the faith in my heart keeps him going, while Xiao B just keeps him going. This example tells us that the painful result of involution and the importance of grasping our own rhythm will make it possible for us to avoid the influence of involution when we find our own goals in life. Therefore, I have the following suggestions on how to grasp my own rhythm:

①? Be a self-disciplined college student. The reason why we are involved is because we are confused and like to follow the trend. Like a swing, only by becoming self-disciplined can we better resist the temptation of the outside world.

②? Look at things from a long-term perspective. People who take care of the overall situation can achieve great things, and people who think at a higher level will always be outstanding. In the face of involution, they will learn to put themselves in their shoes, think in many ways, change their world outlook and values, and learn to see things through the essence, so naturally they will not fall into involution.

③? Times are changing, life is changing, everything is changing, and even the internal volume is changing. As college students, we should have the spirit of innovation, learn to break some inherent and rigid patterns, break through the needs, take the essence and discard the dross. Innovation is essential development, involution is illusion.

Learn to work hard.

Don't listen to the leaves beating in the forest, why not sing and walk slowly?

The reason why this ancient poem is used as the title is to tell college students that they must learn from Su Shi. As the poem says, you don't have to pay attention to the beating of leaves through the forest. You might as well recite and scream while walking leisurely. The same is true of the times we live in now. The sound of beating leaves through the forest is like the temptation around us and the involution. Only by not caring about these things can we go our own way better.

Face the troubles around you calmly.

Only by recognizing ourselves and treating involution rationally can we face involution calmly. When we are not disturbed by the temptations around us, we naturally overcome the involution. Therefore, it is important to resist temptation. Therefore, I have the following suggestions:

①? Learn to pursue what you love. Only when you like it from the heart will you make great efforts for it, and you will want to do it well and break through yourself. Then what are we talking about?

②? Learn to shield the bad signals around you, learn to filter the outside information, reduce the temptation of the outside world, especially the influence of involution on yourself, balance your mentality and reduce unnecessary anxiety. Even if you accidentally enter the inner volume, don't lose your mind. Be a free and easy person even if you stop.

③? Discover your own value and play your own value. When you find your own value, you will find the value of your existence and know how to take a good life path in the future.

④? When dealing with life and problems, we must learn to take the initiative. Passive waiting will only bring the involution closer and closer to you. Only positive people are the winners of their own lives!

How to face involution?

Summary: First of all, I hope that college students can face up to "involution" and treat it rationally, because involution is the product of the times and will not disappear, unless it comes to an era when people are not judged by money, education and position, it will be self-defeating. So in the face of involution, we can only avoid its influence by perfecting ourselves. Finally, I hope every reader can gain something after reading this article.