The so-called panic is a psychological reaction to an obvious or potential threat. Skill panic is an early warning or worry that the existing ability may be difficult to cope with environmental changes. Perhaps, some people will disdain, why panic. Nothing is difficult in the world, if you put your mind to it! In fact, no one deliberately wants to "panic", but a kind of helplessness forced by environmental changes, which is also caused by keen awareness and active adaptation to environmental changes.
Obviously, the root of skill panic lies in all kinds of "rapid changes" of the times and in all kinds of "interest patterns" of survival and development changed by changes. For example, will our fragrant "cheese" be lost? The most helpless thing is that change is the only constant in this world!
Nowadays, panic with "skills" has become a state of life. In the face of the changes of the times, it is difficult for us to have the calmness of "not as good as taking a stroll", and it is also difficult to have the leisure of "falling flowers unintentionally and running water silently". "Once and for all" and "Half the Analects of Confucius governs the world" have become distant legends. There is no realistic interpretation, and all questions and answers are in the process of adaptation. "Where is the breakfast tomorrow?" It is no longer a kind of god's chatter, but more like a kind of life vibrato of the times.
Panic is an alert to changes in the situation. To put it bluntly, it is a sense of crisis, and I can't live all day. Throughout today's global industry leaders, they are all worried. They use their own experience to explain the story of "the survival of the worried", because they will fall behind or be eliminated if they are not careful.
Panic is an unsolved problem. Outstanding cultural creators in history are drivers of change, innovation and problems.
It is said that Wittgenstein was a student of the famous philosopher Moore of Cambridge University. One day, the famous philosopher Russell asked Moore, "Who is your best student?" "Moore said without hesitation," Wittgenstein. " "Why?" "Because of all the students, only he always has endless questions. "Later Wittgenstein surpassed Russell in fame. Someone asked, "Why is Russell behind the times?" Wittgenstein said, "Because he has no more questions. "In fact, no matter for people, enterprises or any organization, no problem is the biggest problem!
Panic is a philosophy of life, which is "born in worry and died in happiness", and it is prepared for danger in times of peace. We are all familiar with the story of "boiled frog in warm water", but it may not really touch the strings of our lives. Intoxicated by the warm water temperature, the frog was finally "comfortable to death".
Faced with changes and new problems, we tend to rely on experience and habits, so that we fall into "path dependence" and empiricism. D. North, who successfully explained the evolution of economic system by putting forward the theory of "path dependence", pointed out that, to a certain extent, all people's choices will be badly influenced by path dependence, and the choices people made in the past determine their possible choices now. However, path dependence and empiricism often cast a mindset.
Popper, a philosopher of science, once said that experience is a wrong nickname. This may be unacceptable to people who live by experience, but we should see that problems and methods are usually situational, and the situation is often different due to the differences of times, regions, politics, economy, culture and other factors, so there will be a dilemma of "the old revolution meets new problems." If we use old experience to solve new problems, it is undoubtedly equal to carving a boat to seek a sword and seeking a fish from the edge of a tree.
Nowadays, the back of "experience is king" is fading away. Sociologist M.Mead explained in his book Culture and Commitment with the theory of "post-figurative culture" that if the elders in the past could know more than the experienced young people, this would not be the case today.
However, how many people are always affected by the path, troubled by experience, and bound by habits, so they rarely panic. J.Galbrainth once said that when there is a choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to change, almost all people are busy proving it. This is human inertia!
Isn't it ridiculous that a small wooden post and a thin chain can tie a 1000 kg elephant? But this scene can be seen everywhere in India and Thailand. It turns out that when the elephant was a baby elephant, it was chained to a concrete column or a steel column by the elephant trainer, no matter how the baby elephant struggled. Elephants gradually get used to not struggling until they grow into elephants, even if they can easily break away from the chains, they don't struggle. Elephants are chained, elephants are used to being chained.
N Austin can't help sighing at the thought of human beings. The problem is not how to input new ideas into the brain, but how to get rid of old ideas. Therefore, we must be alert to the power of habit, so great that we take it for granted, so great that we unconsciously watch the taillights of the times drift away. Hegel once said that people die of habit! It is the vigilance of the wise.
To cope with skill panic, our only choice is to study, lifelong learning! Over the past decades, from experts and scholars to various research institutions, from the name of the country to the initiative of the United Nations, many early warnings have been issued, and many famous sayings, declarations and actions related to "learning to learn" and "lifelong learning" have been produced. If you understand why you panic, you will naturally know why you study, and you will naturally think and act: Who will learn? Learn what? How to learn?
When distance online education is gradually improving to build a platform for all-people learning and lifelong learning, perhaps the panic that has plagued us for a long time will be released and subsided.
Skills panic is the climate of an era. For us, skill panic is a responsible attitude towards life ―― for ourselves, for our institutions, for our country, for our society and even for mankind.
If you say I'm joking, I won't say it again. Believe it or not, we all have to grow up in skill panic anyway.