Why are chicken soup articles poisonous?

I’ve heard a lot of truths, but I still can’t live this life well

This slogan, which first appeared on the movie poster of Han Han’s movie “The End of Time”, is perhaps the most representative of Chicken Soup. A vivid explanation, it makes many people understand that chicken soup is delicious but poisonous. However, do you know why most of the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul articles on the Internet made many people excited, eager to read, and ready to act, but they were of no use?

Answer. I’ll tell you later.

First, let’s talk about how we distinguish and reject those views and articles that make you feel beautiful and greatly arouse our emotions, but cannot withstand scrutiny.

The most effective way is: you should learn logic.

In life, if we praise a person for being very logical whether thinking about problems or speaking, then this person has the ability to think clearly and efficiently. On the contrary, many people are very smart and efficient in doing things. If you want them to express their views on an issue, it always feels like you are missing the point. This is actually a failure to learn logic well.

Logic, as a basic subject, is a thinking weapon for us to think, analyze, and solve many problems. Many of us have actually studied logic to some extent in college, but because of our lack of understanding of logic, Due to lack of understanding and aversion to some professional terms and symbolic symbols in the logic course, I have not learned this lesson well, let alone actively applied the ability of logical thinking to daily life. However, learning logic well will not only bring you a sense of intellectual satisfaction, but also be the general guiding ideology in your practical work. For example, writing articles, being a lawyer, and making medicine are all related to logic.

In fact, modern social logic is the real backbone of a person's good education.

Those friends who did not learn well in school because they did not realize the importance of logic or were frightened by the large number of professional terms and symbolic symbols in logic, how should they not be like me? What about giving up therapy and studying logic? Start by choosing a logic book with "easy operation" and "friendly interface"...

"Simple Logic" by D.Q. McClenny is such a book. This book is a best-selling introductory book on logic. It is regarded as one of the 40 English classics by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and regarded as a crown book by the Harvard University bookstore. McClenny's goal is to write a real-life application guide that uses obvious facts as examples to establish the correct thinking model for readers and allow everyone to think as logically as possible. Recommended for everyone to read.

Let’s go back to the topic: Why are chicken soup articles poisonous? Because in essence, the only basis for whether we accept a point of view or a conclusion is whether it reveals the truth of things and whether it is correct. It is not that these opinions and conclusions make us feel beautiful and stimulate our emotions. The poison of chicken soup articles lies in the fact that these articles use a lot of emotional descriptions, without any effective logical argument, to unconsciously create an emotional hint, and then make the readers have emotional identification, but they do not correctly Sex can be said. Most of these articles are about the author's own personal experience and life insights, and many of these writers do not have the ability to scientifically prove an argument. The most important thing is that these people write these things more as a catharsis and expression of personal emotions. I don’t ask myself, does what I write truly reflect the true nature of things, and can it stand the test? Therefore, these chicken soup articles have no life guidance significance at all. Some articles even conveyed wrong concepts and knowledge, which not only failed to help us live a good life, but also led us to take the wrong path and lose the so-called good life.

Therefore, the prerequisite for correct thinking is to learn logic well. In modern complex society, learning to see and solve problems logically and having the ability to think logically are essential survival skills that each of us should master.

Never directly appeal to people's emotions, try to let people discover the truth for themselves.