“Living with good people is like entering a house of orchids, and you will not smell their fragrance for a long time. Living with evil people is like entering a house of abalones, and you will not smell their smell for a long time.” The words are from Liu Xiang of the Western Han Dynasty. The theory of "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" is to expound the philosophical thought that those who approach ink will be black and those who approach Zhu will be red. This article excerpts out of context the sentence "When you enter the house of Zhilan, you will not smell its fragrance for a long time." It is obvious that its meaning has the philosophy of being confused by the authorities.
People live in the process of confusion and interpretation. There are many simple truths that are obvious to others, but people in the authority are confused without realizing it.
For example, when engaging in research or creation in a certain field, or when someone encounters something that involves themselves, many people in authority will wander around in narrow thinking. In the logical thinking of fixed things, jumping thinking will not be used. The inertial thinking logic makes him unable or afraid to adopt a reverse way of thinking that is divorced from his own emotions. He just wanders around in the fog, just like he is in Lushan Mountain and does not recognize the true face of Lushan Mountain.
Those who are in power in "Lushan" are most likely to be unable to get out of their own foggy frame in events that seem simple and clear to others. Just like a couple in love, their thinking IQ is zero but they are unaware of it. And the formation of this zero situation is caused by human nature. When thinking unfolds logical steps, each step of deduction affects the weak areas of one's own emotions, making the authorities involved in the matter unable to correctly think about the true face of things and the entanglement of their own emotional areas, and often fall into uncomplicated situations. In the confusion, and can not extricate themselves.
Such a situation involves many leaders or many confused people who are involved in the incident. For example, in calligraphy, painting and writing, many authors cannot tell the quality of their works, nor do they know what level their works are, because there is no fixed standard for their judgment. Its only criterion is to wait for the public's acceptance and praise, and no one can tell what level or grade the public's real reading level is.
If an author wants to know the grade of his own work, he does not need to blink and check the reading volume and like rate every day. He only needs to compare with similar works to have a rough idea of ??the quality of his own work. Clearly.
For example, prose works, this article uses a popular metaphor here, are like calligraphy works, divided into block letters, running script, and cursive script. The text in block letters: its expression method is square and straight, and the narration of events and people revolves around a central red line, echoing back and forth, allowing readers to understand it at a glance. Running script: Its expression technique is intermittent and incoherent with the beginning and end of the plot. The narrative is lyrical and emotionally sublime to express the author's thoughts and feelings. Cursive writing: When expressing thoughts and feelings, anthropomorphic, jumping, surreal, and poetic techniques are often used, from multiple surreal angles, but not deviating from the main line, and cohering the main line of thought.
With this popular classification metaphor, it may be able to help you get out of your own fog, and this metaphor does not mean that cursive articles are the highest grade and regular script articles are the lowest. It allows readers to find the same type when comparing similar articles, and have a rough self-assessment when comparing. If you are writing an article in cursive, you should not write it out of proportion so that readers cannot understand the essence of the article. As the saying goes: If the cursive script is out of order, gods will not recognize it.
The authorities who are often trapped in a confused predicament are unaware of themselves, just like entering a room of orchids and not smelling its fragrance for a long time. They want to get out of this predicament of having zero IQ or not smelling its fragrance. , we can only first put our own thinking outside of things, let the correct logical thinking not be disturbed by emotions, or get out of the confusion that has been immersed in for a long time without realizing it, go outside to breathe the fresh air of another world, and learn from the wisdom of others. Only by letting your roots extend farther and deeper in the fertile soil can you see the whole world and hear everything.
Written by Wancheng
May 2, 2017