What do you think of the common phenomenon of "involution" among contemporary college students?

We are involvers. We like to quietly stand out while others are not paying attention, and then suddenly surprise everyone. When others are in get out of class, we study questions, when others are sleeping, we review, and when others are playing, we study. Our slogan is "I would rather exhaust myself to death than exhaust my classmates to death."

——Involved Person

We may be unknowingly being dragged into various competitions everywhere. A job that has been completed as required will not work until we learn that it is The people around me wrote several thousand words more than I did, so I fell back into deep thought. Go to the library and borrow your favorite books, as well as the materials you have to read for this competition. The books are piled up, the books you like are at the bottom, and your pace is disrupted by activities that you are not interested in. There will always be some voices in the dormitory: "Have you seen the information about the class group? If you participate in the event, you will get a comprehensive test." "Great, I grabbed it." "I was just reviewing and didn't see the information. I wish I had known it earlier. That’ll be fine.” Missing one point in the comprehensive test feels like being left far behind.

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Question 1: What do you think of the common phenomenon of "involution" among contemporary college students?

My opinion may be different from others on the Internet. I think university involution is a good thing. Of course, what I am referring to here is the involution in college, not the involution at work. First we have to figure out, what exactly does involution mean? Many people confuse the word involution with effort.

Case 1): Let me give you an example. For example, a long time ago, Internet talents were very scarce, so as long as you knew a little bit about the Internet, you could find a very good job. , and received a monthly salary of almost tens of thousands of yuan. However, because this industry is relatively busy and many practitioners are coming in at once, due to oversupply, the company's recruitment standards will eventually become higher and higher, and the salary will become lower and lower. This is your As there are more and more competitors, your own value becomes less and less.

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Case 2): Let me give you another analogy. For example, your company’s original working hours are 955, and in the morning I go to work at nine o'clock and get off work at five o'clock in the afternoon. I work five days a week, but due to the emergence of involution. Some colleagues may stay voluntarily. Then you see so many colleagues, they all stay at 996, and you are embarrassed to get off work so early, so you are forced to extend your working hours. However, everyone should pay attention to the fact that your overtime work is mainly to make money for your boss, and he extracts your residual value. For example, if you earn 1,000 yuan for him, he will take the 1,000 yuan you earned for him. I will give you 100 yuan in return.

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The above two phenomena are called involution. Let me talk about my views on the phenomenon of "involution" in universities.

The first point of view is that I think the "involution" in universities is not true involution. Studying in college cannot actually be called involution. I think it would be more appropriate to call it hard work, because you know that you are fighting for your own future. For example, your classmates come at six or seven in the morning. When you get up, you rush to grab a seat in the study room. Do you think this is a serious phenomenon of involution? Or I think he is a hard-working person, but I think this is a very good role model. Originally you would wake up at eight o'clock in the morning to study, but if you see others getting up at six o'clock in the morning, you will be subconsciously inspired to study at six o'clock in the morning, so this is actually a good thing.

Second point of view, I think the involution of universities is actually a reflection of educational fairness. Why do you say that? Take our college students in the 1980s and 1990s, for example. They were at the stage where they were assigned jobs immediately after graduation. Then you don’t actually need to work particularly hard throughout college. To put it bluntly, it’s just for fun. The state will allocate jobs after graduation anyway, so you don’t have to work so hard to find a job.

Because at that time, college students actually belonged to elite education, and only a very small number of people could go to college. As long as you passed the college entrance examination and entered college, no one would compete with you. Then going to college was equivalent to having a good education. Work. Let's look at it now. College, junior college, and undergraduate education have basically become mass education. Basically everyone can go to college. This is what we just said, because there are more people in this field. Been competitive. That’s why involution occurs, but if we think about it in reverse, the reason why we can experience involution now is also a manifestation of educational equity and social progress. If we put it in the past, those of us with poor academic performance would not be able to go to a relatively inferior university and would go directly to work. How would we have the opportunity to participate in the involution of current universities.

The third point of view is that if you can feel the involution atmosphere, you must not be an ordinary person. If you currently feel involution and pressure, it means that you are still a relatively motivated person, which means that you will see the people around you working so hard, and you will work hard accordingly. Only in this way will you feel the phenomenon of involution. If you play games, follow TV dramas, and check Weibo in your dormitory every day, then you will hardly even experience this feeling of involution, so if you face this kind of involution, The pressure of involution shows that you are going uphill.

Next let’s talk about the source of involution: The source of involution is a kind of panic, and more and more people are beginning to have a sense of competition and crisis. The definition of involution refers to meaningless internal friction caused by excessive competition. This internal war seems to have aroused the emotional outcry of countless students, families, and social animals, but it has also infinitely amplified everyone's anxiety.

I wonder if there are voices like this around you, "You are so serious", "Why are you working so hard", "You are the source of involution", "Why are you so involved, are you going to give in?" The rest of us survive?" As more and more people know the word "involution", it seems to have become a joking name. More and more verbal pressure has been put on them, and they have begun to target those who study and work hard around them. There are even some slogans. It turned out that "I would rather tire myself to death than involve others to death." How should we deal with all kinds of noisy sounds from the outside world?

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Question Two: How to deal with the common phenomenon of "involution" among contemporary college students?

First of all, let’s take a look at big data analysis. How do college students currently deal with the phenomenon of involution?

Next let’s take a look at what I think we should face like this:

First, the most important point is that we must make a good career plan. Just knowing what I want to do after graduation. For example, if you want to take the civil service exam after graduation, those experiences such as scholarships, student activities, and student cadres in college are not particularly important to you. You don’t have to go through scholarship evaluations or become student cadres. . Because civil service examinations and written interviews cannot reveal any of your personal information at all. Whether it is your university scholarships or activity experience, it is not that important to you. Of course, I am not talking about the things mentioned above. Honor is not important. Instead, more time should be spent on preparing for the civil service written test interview. Only in this way can we better avoid involution in other aspects. If you want to work in a big factory after graduation, then you have to participate in more internship activities in your spare time and practice more skills. If you want to study for a PhD, then you should do more projects with teachers at school and publish more papers. As long as you have these career plans in place, you can avoid participating in other people's involution. Similarly, others will not participate in your involution.

Second, treat involution correctly and do not confuse the concepts of involution and effort. First of all, please make it clear that hard work does not mean involution, hard work means hard work, and involution means involution. You can't see me when I'm resting and playing. If you study, you study. If I study and you don't study, am I going to be called involution? Please, I study and work hard to improve myself.

The rest of you don't have anything to do with it. If you don't work hard if you don't work hard, will it be called involution if others work hard? Are you panicked, or are you envious of the results of other people's efforts? When you are labeled as involution by others, I think you may have just encountered your own bottleneck at that time and are breaking through your own bottleneck. In the process, you will find that what you have been doing and loved to do has become If something requires competition, then this fear may cause you to work hard. If you are considered involuntarily for a long time, you will slowly have doubts about your own efforts. But I want to tell you: hard work is something you don’t need to worry about whether others are doing well or not, it is something where you only focus on whether you are doing well or not.

Third, distinguish whether you want the results or care about the process. I fully understand that many college students are now worried about being involved, but I think you actually need to think about one thing, which is whether you focus on results or process during the entire process of your study and life. If you get a sense of pleasure in the process of doing this thing, you don't have to worry about whether others are doing it better than you, and then you won't be involved. However, if you only worry about whether your achievements are more outstanding compared with others, then you are likely to be involved.

Fourth, really like someone and don’t make yourself feel kidnapped. In fact, I think one of the simplest criteria for judging something is whether you like him enough or not. It depends on whether you will unconsciously create a sense of kidnapping for yourself. Just like many young people now say that we are a group of people without career freedom, but what we have to think about is whether someone is really kidnapping us, or are we giving ourselves the freedom to face work, career, and love? It creates a sense of being kidnapped. If you feel like you are being kidnapped, then what you have to reflect on is whether you like it enough. Even if the learning environment makes you feel like you don't like it, you still don't like it. Only if you really like it, you won't feel that this thing is a shackles and burden in your life.

Fifth, find what you really care about. When you feel that you are being involved, you cannot persuade others not to work hard, as this would be unfair to others. I think the most effective way to break the status quo of involution is to think for yourself. What do you want to gain most in your studies along the way? If it is purely about performance points, you should not take the so-called process and effort too seriously, because your goal is very clear, and you just want more performance points, then you will not be involved. ,Yes or no? If you want to improve yourself during the learning process, then I think you have to roll inward and work harder than others. When you feel like you're being pulled in, it's often not because others work harder than you, but because others make you feel the bottleneck and ceiling of your abilities. Therefore, if these two things can be clarified, I think the psychological burden of inner feeling can be easily solved, and I think people really need to take a break when they are stretched on a string, because people are in a state of tension. It is difficult to be creative in a state of being internalized.

Finally, calm down, don’t fall into the whirlpool of involution, and work hard honestly. You don’t want to be labeled as the source of involution just because you work hard to get what you want. Work hard for your goals and achieve them openly. It is never a shameful thing to have ambition written on your face, but it is very courageous. Please treat involution rationally. If you are too obsessed with involution or not, you will be trapped before you know it. Don’t always think about spying on others, calm down your mentality, and do everything at your own pace, let alone kidnap those. People who work hard sell anxiety and cause their own emotional internal friction. There is no need to hide things secretly, for fear of being seen by others. If your focus is biased, how can you calm down and complete things?

Don’t worry about what others think. The most important thing is what you want and how to do it. "Being yourself" is always the best way to deal with involution. I hope everyone can truly break through in this war of involution and remain independent in this era of rampant online anxiety.

The rhythm of others will always be different from yours. Throw away those blind burdens, leave this whirlpool, don’t lose your pace easily, and pursue your goals firmly. I hope that all those who are confused will succeed. You who can put aside the inner scenes, feel the sunshine, and run in your love.