Blind obedience is the greatest ignorance.

French scientist Fabers once did a famous experiment, the "caterpillar experiment". He put several caterpillars on the edge of the flowerpot and connected them end to end in a circle. Not far from the flowerpot, he scattered some pine leaves that caterpillars like to eat, and the caterpillars began to crawl around the flowerpot one by one.

An hour passed, and a day passed. The caterpillar kept crawling, walked for 7 days and 7 nights, and finally died of hunger and exhaustion.

Imagine that if any caterpillar changed its walking route a little, it would easily eat pine leaves.

But the caterpillar blindly followed the companion in front, circled in a circle without creativity, and finally did not walk out of its own route.

If caterpillars are still inferior, so are humans?

I remember a joke that an oil tycoon went to heaven for a meeting. As soon as he entered the conference room, he found that it was crowded with people and he had no place to sit. So he had a brainwave and shouted, "Oil has been found in hell!" " Those oil tycoons who shouted "Never mind heaven" all went to hell. He is the only one who stays in heaven. At this time, the tycoon thought, with everyone gone, is it true that oil was discovered in hell? So, he also hurried to hell.

After reading this joke, I was silent for a long time and could not help but sigh: blind obedience is the greatest ignorance.

Have you ever made the same mistake in your life?

In life, we often blindly follow other people's opinions, old experiences and unconfirmed ideas. Although listening to other people's opinions can save us time and energy in exploration, trust without questioning and thinking often makes us wallow in the abyss.

In the era of big data, we can communicate easily and acquire knowledge easily. However, if a lot of information is not recognized, it will often make us go with the flow and follow the trend. Over time, we lost the ability to think independently, thus losing our creativity.

How to get rid of the strange circle of blind obedience? First of all, we must establish a sense of doubt in our minds. The knowledge and information we accept are not copied and used, but are screened by questioning thinking and extracted from the essence, which is the nourishment we need.