Don’t lose your morale while playing with things｜What ruins a person is not having fun, but not being able to think.

Text/Lin Yingke

As the saying goes, playing with things makes you lose your mind.

Playing games, some people become professional gamers, and some people become big game developers;

Playing music, some people become the lead singer of a band, and some people become lyricists or composers;

Even if they are playing Douyin, there are people who play tricks and reach new heights, becoming self-media experts with a monthly income of tens of thousands.

There are countless such examples.

From this point of view, playing with things does not necessarily lead to depression.

People who are discouraged are mostly people with no ambition, people with little ambition, and people who are always determined.

Playing on the Internet has produced Jack Ma, Ma Huateng, Shi Yuzhu, Chen Tianqiao, and a fierce cat. I have never heard of anyone suffering from Internet addiction. Forced Quit "drugs".

Because they are all ambitious people. Through playing (research), they quickly discover the logic behind it, develop products and realize commercial realization.

To be precise, Dad Ma didn’t play, Brother Ma didn’t play, Shi Yuzhu didn’t play, and Chen Tianqiao didn’t play. If we must say play, they played with business models and human nature. .

When it comes to playing, in the past two years, apart from "King of Pesticide" and "Chicken", the most popular one is Douyin.

In WeChat Moments and Weibo, countless people lamented: "Douyin is poisonous, and I spent the whole day scrolling without realizing it."

Open Baidu search, There are countless articles like "Don't let TikTok ruin your children" and "Young people ruined by TikTok". When I opened WeChat Moments, I was also flooded with this topic.

Not long ago, Douyin officially announced for the first time that its global monthly active user data exceeded 500 million.

What is this concept?

Let’s take Weibo, the largest social media platform in China, for a less-than-appropriate data comparison: in 2018, Weibo had only 184 million daily active users and 400 million monthly active users.

What makes Douyin even more topical is that the main users of this software are young people and even white-collar workers in first-tier cities.

Douyin said that the main user group has increased from 18 to 24 years old in the early stage to users between 24 and 30 years old, and the proportion of users in this age group currently exceeds 40.

Oh my God! From the age of 24 to 30, in first-tier cities, isn’t this a critical period for career transition?

Why do so many people give their precious time to a not-so-funny short video APP or other addictive things?

I think the main reasons are nothing more than the following:

1. Mental immaturity;

Although many people have entered the society and the workplace, I have endless things to do every day, and I also have my own plans for further study. I need to arrange time for socializing, exercising, reading, etc., but I can't put it down for interesting things and am addicted to the virtual space. This is a sign of immaturity!

2. Lack of self-discipline;

Can’t bear to let go of fun things, can’t keep mouthful of delicious things.

Don’t eat when you should eat, don’t sleep when you should sleep, and can’t move your legs and feet when you should exercise.

These are all signs of a lack of self-discipline.

3. Don’t think, rely on feeding;

Watching TV, watching videos, listening to songs, listening to stories, and surfing Douyin, you don’t need to think at all, how comfortable and comfortable!

Unlike reading a book, you also need to decode information and knowledge, which is as tiring as it gets.

4. The goal is lost and I don’t know what to use my time for;

I have no goals in life and career, and I don’t know what to use my time for. I'm not interested in the serious things that I should be doing, so I might as well relax (zong).

For specific manifestations, you can refer to eating and drinking wildly during the Spring Festival, rubbing jiang after eating, going to bed after jiang, and then drinking and building the Great Wall after waking up.

If eating, drinking and having fun during the Spring Festival is acute poisoning, then being addicted to funny and addictive things such as TikTok for a long time is chronic suicide!

5. Escape from reality and use a moment of sensory stimulation and physical and mental pleasure to relax (ma) (bi);

For some people, workplace struggle is gray and boring. It's cruel, bloody, and you can't even see hope or happiness; but online games, Douyin, Mahjong, etc. can be enjoyed endlessly, and you won't know the taste of meat in March.

Life is short, enjoy yourself now! If you are not crazy, you will waste your youth! This is the best reason for these people to relax and numb themselves!

No one admits that they are escaping from reality, and few people think about the meaning of life and the meaning of struggle.

This is why people who become famous and successful only account for 10-20%, and as many as 80% of people live in dreams and mist.

6. Free entertainment;

Douyin is free entertainment. Comics and online novels are also easy to obtain. Some online games can also be played for free, as long as you don’t Just buy the equipment, that's the attraction.

If it costs 20 yuan to watch a Douyin video, 50 yuan to read a comic or online novel online, and 1,000 yuan to try out an online game, the number of players (readers) will naturally decrease. For most people, this is not a necessity.

7. Satisfy your own desire for voyeurism;

Voyeurs may be the devil hidden deep in people’s hearts. Almost everyone wants to pry into other people’s lives or privacy, or even watch Others laugh. And some entertainment caters to people's needs and makes people indulge in it.

8. Patients with procrastination should take time to have fun;

People with procrastination often procrastinate on serious matters. For important but not urgent matters, it is better to take time to have fun first. So, I took every opportunity to use the spare time to have fun, but I didn't expect that I couldn't stop playing.

9. Other reasons.

For example, do research to facilitate the development of similar products, or use the platform to create and achieve commercial realization, etc. I won't list them all.