What is the meaning of involution? How to call involution and how to avoid involution?

In 2020, a group of photos of Tsinghua college students riding bicycles at night became popular on the Internet. In the photo, a student in Tsinghua University is riding a bicycle in one hand and reading the program code with a laptop in the other. This student is also called "Tsinghua Juan Wang". The hot word "involution" has also begun to sweep the whole network. Involution means that many college students study hard and almost forget to eat and sleep, just to improve their academic competitiveness. With the strengthening of examination management in colleges and universities, those who try to get a college diploma by muddling along begin to feel nervous. It can be said that those who try to muddle through to complete their college studies by "paddling" have to concentrate on their studies and work hard to complete their studies. So "involution" is competition in plain English.

Then, as a senior three student, I also have a deep understanding of the internal examination paper. Let's take a concrete look at my views on "quantity":

I think the word "involution" is neither a positive nor a negative word, but a neutral word. I think it is a neutral word because college students should concentrate on their studies and spend a lot of energy to improve their comprehensive professional level and quality, so that they can go to the society to participate in social competition and win opportunities after graduation. The era when ability is king will come, just as the postgraduate entrance examination army has been growing in recent years, and the competition for academic qualifications has become increasingly fierce. If you don't work hard during your undergraduate course, graduation may be a problem, and finding a job may also be a problem.

(2) After the popular word "involution" appeared, the public's attention focused on the hard-working students in colleges and universities. This concern does not matter, and an extreme phenomenon is found. For example, some students have to write 5000 words in order to get high marks, but they have to write 8000- 10000 words. The reason is that the more they write, the higher the quality of their papers. In fact, this is a blind performance, which makes no sense at all.

Let me give a real example of people around me: 1 Lili, a senior three student in our school, assigned a paper assignment to the whole class this time, requiring 5000 words. However, in order to get better grades, many people choose to write their papers to 10000 words, or so, or even more. Finally, when the teacher corrected the paper, he found that almost the whole class exceeded the expected requirements, but the number of high scores remained the same. Almost all the students in Lili's class have overfulfilled the papers assigned by the teacher, but from another direction, everyone's horizontal lines are comparable, that is to say, the number of words far exceeds the requirements and the result of just reaching the standard is actually the same. Even if everyone generally made more efforts, everyone's final income did not increase significantly.

2. For example, when you were in junior high school or high school, did you have such an experience? The last question in the Chinese exam is composition. Obviously, the topic requires 800 words, but the Chinese teacher asked us to type 1000 words or more. Of course, the teacher wants students to have an advantage in the number of words, but later we rose to a high level and met friends from all directions. We found that everyone finally took 1000 as the standard. This is equivalent to improving the writing level in private, and students have paid more time for it, but they have gained nothing.

Some college students take many exams in order to enhance their own strength. Although some certificates have little to do with their future job hunting, in order to enhance their competitiveness, textual research still takes a lot of energy. This will take up the time of studying the major, but it will not really improve the professional ability. "involution" is a misinterpreted academic concept. If college students can't treat them correctly, they are likely to have a great psychological burden on themselves. From this point of view, "involution" seems to represent unnecessary competition, and this way will also bring us greater pressure.

For example, my cousin Xiao Kai goes to school in Beijing. He is a student of a university in Beijing. He thinks "involution" is very common among students with good academic performance: "Maybe I studied for an hour at the earliest and my classmates studied for an hour and a half. Later, he scored one more point than me. Now, my classmates have studied for five and a half hours. I can't help it After studying for five hours, he finally got one more point than me. But in those months, they felt very tired every day, and their psychology was even more restless. From the results, nothing has changed, but we are all involved in such a high-pressure and anxious life. " From Xiao Kai's narration, we can see that there is a competitive comparison between him and his classmates, not who studies well, but who studies for a long time. Neither of them made any progress in the end.

④ I searched the website and saw that Yang Chen, an associate professor at the School of Journalism of China Renmin University, once said: "When students talk about the inner paper, they often want to express such a confusion: they are obviously busy and study hard, but they don't seem to have made much breakthrough or improved much."

And I remember my counselor once said: I often emphasize the necessity of "thinking consciousness" with my students. "The assessment of many universities is not a quantitative competition, so students should jump out of the inherent thinking mode, jump out of the highly comprehensive competition they think, calm down and analyze themselves inward, then analyze the overall competitive environment outward, and exercise and develop themselves in combination with the general trend."

After entering the society or university, everyone is easy to "involute", which is also a normal reaction under competitive pressure. ? At the same time of competition, we may be driven by' involution' to move forward and overcome difficulties, but this behavior is passive. We should learn to think about what kind of person I want to be, instead of blindly following the trend. Finally, I found and collected nine suggestions from People's Daily on involution: stop internal friction, refuse to lie flat, and prevent involution. From reality, from action, from opportunity, from acceptance, from process, from potential, from self, from now, from letting go. ...

So, what should we do as college students in this involution environment? Let's talk about the specific performance and solutions of involution first. .

First, the wrong topic is beautifully collected and books are accumulated.

Common phenomena: wrong problem sets, accumulated books, especially beautifully arranged. Workers use colored pencils to sort out their wrong problem sets or accumulate books, and pay attention to how to make books beautiful, because teachers may praise them. But this kind of Excellence is meaningless and of little use to learning without combing and thinking about the knowledge itself. Most books are beautifully arranged and their academic performance is not satisfactory.

Solve the problem: before sorting, you must think about the sorted content. If it is wrong, do it again and put it into the book. Mainly to sort out your own ideas and simply write down the reasons, process and psychology of doing the wrong question at that time. Every once in a while, go back and do these wrong questions again. If you really know the questions, you can cross them out. No, think about it. Make a mark at present, such as "positive" to indicate that you won't do it many times.

Second, fatigue war, working overtime

Common phenomenon: study when you see others studying at night, and get up early when you see others getting up early. I think I can improve my study income if time is prolonged. You don't know that if I study for a while at night, I will be exhausted. In class during the day, you will be inattentive, yawn, have poor class effect and have poor memory.

Solve problems: pay attention to the learning effect of daytime classes and improve classroom efficiency. On this basis, the study time at night can be appropriately extended. If you feel listless during the day, you must have a rest. In addition, doing more activities and eating more after class is also a good way to reduce drowsiness. Before the final exam, you must not engage in fatigue war, adjust your biological clock in time to ensure that you are energetic and clear-headed during the daytime exam.

Third, copy homework? Make-up homework

Common phenomenon: busy catching up with homework, copying homework, and coping with the teacher's inspection. Homework dragged on, didn't do it in time, and was busy copying answers and classmates' when it was handed in. In order to avoid being punished by the teacher, passively coping with homework is a serious involution.

Solve the problem: there are too many homework to finish, so we should allocate it reasonably according to our own time and workload. If you need to hand it in early, hand it in early. Give priority to your weak subjects. Simple questions don't need to be done. When you do your homework, make a plan for yourself. Don't procrastinate, don't be distracted, and do it in one go.

Fourth, pretend to study, junk learning.

Common phenomenon: under the urging of parents or teachers, pretending to study, but still thinking about games, junk books and other chores. I have no purpose for the future, no orientation for myself, no strong motivation for learning, no interest in learning, and I don't know why I study. Learning is all posturing, time-consuming and laborious.

Solve the problem: games and others can't accompany you all your life, and you can't rely on them to eat. Whether you want to live or not depends on your present moment. Make a place for yourself according to your grades, such as what university you want to enter, check the information of these universities online, and then make a feasible goal plan for each exam, and make a feasible daily plan for parents and teachers to witness. Reward yourself for completing the plan and punish yourself for not completing it. Be soft on yourself today, and life will be hard on yourself tomorrow.

Five, blindly buy counseling books

Common phenomenon: for the sake of grades, as long as you see the counseling books that others have, you will buy them yourself. But after I bought it, I didn't turn it over, so I put it on the shelf. I don't know what I really need, blindly compare with others and deviate from my actual needs. This is a low-level imitation and copying of others, wasting money and self-confidence, and only making you lazy.

Solve the problem: combine your own reality, understand your own achievements, and give yourself a reasonable position. If your grades are not good, first of all, you should give priority to learning the contents in the textbook. If you are better, you should read the materials and papers handed out by the teacher thoroughly. If you still have the spare capacity to study, you should carefully choose the counseling books. How to use the tutorial book should also be clear, whether it is used as a dictionary reference or completely dependent. Either way, stick to it. This tutorial book has not been used up, so we will definitely not buy it. Is it also a kind of pride to look at the dazzling array of counseling books you have written? This is the accumulation of confidence. Then, reward yourself with a tutorial book!

Six, meaningless self-study class

Common phenomenon: there is no study plan in self-study class. When you see your classmates learning English, you learn English by yourself, and when you see your deskmate learning math, you learn math by yourself. This is also a low-level imitation and replication. For example, if you are sick and see what other patients eat, you take what medicine. Instead of getting better, your illness is getting worse. In learning, I imitate others meaningless and lose myself. No matter what you learn, you are mechanically passive.

Problem solving: Know your own level and know your own needs. How much homework do you have and how much time do you have at your disposal? Then allocate the time reasonably, divide the large time period into small time periods, make a simple plan for what to learn in each time period, and then try your best to complete your plan. You will find that it is not so difficult to finish your homework. Besides, we can also find happiness in finishing. The more happiness we get in our study, the more confidence we have in our study.

Seven, self-improvement, research problems.

Common phenomenon: like to delve into difficult problems and spend too much time on a certain problem. Self-competition, enjoy it, and ask for it. Actually, it's of little use.

Problem solving: You should know that the easy questions and basic questions in the test paper add up to 70-80%. The real problem lies in the principals. If you are not a schoolmaster, you should give up bravely. The usual study is the same, my growth point is in the following two aspects: first, I can do it myself, but I did it wrong; Second, I made a mistake. I read the answer and understood it after listening to the teacher. Only by working hard on these two kinds of problems can we improve ourselves. The first solution is to think about how to avoid small mistakes and get full marks. The second category focuses on combing knowledge points and thinking.

Conclusion:

In a word, competition is inevitable if we want to treat the inner paper with a normal heart. As for your own affairs, just do your best. Even if you can't meet your expectations, you won it. You can better let go and accept what you can get. The biggest fear is that on the one hand, I am too lazy to work hard, on the other hand, I am afraid that others will work too hard and I will suffer in the future. So I was so scared that I had to come to the internet and curse the involution, and then it was hopeless.