What does college students' involution mean?

During exam week, I set my alarm clock to get up at 7 am. After washing, I went to the canteen to have a leisurely breakfast and glanced at my watch. It's only 7: 30, and I'm moved by myself. Then I walked leisurely to the library and saw a sea of books. I opened my eyes in amazement and stood helplessly in front of the bookcase to review. This is the first time I personally feel that "involution" is getting closer and closer to me.

Involution exists in all walks of life and is a quite common phenomenon. As a student, I get up early to recite words when my roommate is still sleeping, and I will be scolded for my papers. Others will also be scolded for their papers when they are eating, drinking and having fun, as if "everything can be rolled." What do I think of this phenomenon? How to jump out of the cycle of involution? I will talk about my views from the following aspects.

1. What is involution?

1、? Internet buzzwords

Since the word "involution" appeared in 2020, it has frequently appeared in my field of vision and can be seen on many social platforms, such as "involution king", "good morning migrant workers" and "996"? Such words seem to have become our mantra, and even made into expression packs for teasing. In 2020, the word "involution" was extracted as the key word of the year. After a year, not surprisingly, it still occupies a place in the annual hot words of 202 1.

Generally speaking, the internal volume is the internal volume. What is the internal volume? I looked up a lot of explanations about it, and I think the best explanation is: a lot of investment, but no income. Generally speaking, it is "internal irrational competition". Excessive competition caused by limited resources and strong demand. It is actually a reflection of the imbalance between supply and demand.

2. The current situation of college students' communication.

"Before the exam, everyone said that they would make up the exam. After the exam, their scores were higher than mine." This sentence stung my tears. Learning is the hardest hit area for college students' involution. The timetable of Xueba under the following epidemic shows me the gap between me and Xueba. My isolation = sleep, their isolation = more self-discipline. I thought everyone's isolated life should be lazy and comfortable. There are so many excellent people who insist on self-discipline in places I can't see.

Even living under the same roof, everyone is secretly competing and often having fun where everyone can see them. But when they turn around, they pick up the advanced mathematics textbooks, brush the online classes and recite the words on their mobile phones, but they stubbornly say that they are playing games ... At this moment, does a vivid figure appear in your mind?

The most terrible thing is that the inner volume is not only a volume study, but also an all-round volume. Is it a holiday fitness? Give me a textual research. You can't even avoid eating it. So, are you the king of measurement or "caught"?

3、? Distinguish involution from "rational competition"

Involution or rational competition? Involution ≠ rational competition

Competition is universal, as our high school textbooks say, opposition is absolute. Competition can stimulate people's potential, arouse people's enthusiasm and play a better level, but not all competition is beneficial. When a person develops the psychology of keeping up with others in the process of competition and finally dominates his own thinking in order to get something or surpass someone, the competition process will deteriorate, which is irrational and can also be said to have evolved into "involution".

How to distinguish involution from reasonable competition? I think the difference is mainly reflected in the mentality. For example, advanced mathematics is a headache for many students in universities. During the final exam week, everyone will brush the questions to remedy or review unfamiliar knowledge points. You have completely mastered the original 30 questions, but when you see that your roommate has done 50 questions, you always feel that you need to brush 50 questions or more, otherwise you will fall behind.

At this time, you have unconsciously fallen into the whirlpool of involution. The extra 20 questions you do are actually useless. When you fully master a knowledge point, you should put the rest of your energy into other sections instead of repeating the operation. From this point of view, involution reduces your "income-effort ratio". The reason for your involution is that your pursuit of "I want to surpass you" exceeds your desire for self-improvement. ?

Reasonable competition is to strive for personal breakthrough. This process is positive, without paying too much attention to others, and the result is win-win.

Second, why is it "implicated"?

1、? external factor

The competition for postgraduate entrance examination is fierce.

Last year, the initial entrance examination for postgraduate entrance examination has come to an end, and it is about to enter a tense second interview. Most people around me, including me, have set the goal of taking the postgraduate entrance examination early. The year before last, our school held many lectures to publicize the importance of postgraduate entrance examination. Most college students are also influenced by this concept, or choose the road of postgraduate entrance examination in order to make up for the regret of the college entrance examination. This has also led to an increase in the number of graduate students, and it is expected that the number of applicants will exceed 4 million this year. The figure below shows the growth trend of the number of postgraduate students in recent years. Just looking at this huge number, we feel a sense of oppression, but in the face of increasingly fierce competition, we have made up our minds on the road to postgraduate entrance examination, so we have to roll.

working pressure

The number of college graduates and graduate students is increasing, which leads to the devaluation of undergraduate education. With so many jobs, the number of graduates has hit record highs. Coupled with the impact of the epidemic in recent years, the situation is complicated and changeable, and the job search pressure of fresh graduates is even greater. Therefore, if you want to stand out among many job seekers, a good school is an advantage, but your own quality is the key factor. After all, it is a contest of ability at work. Therefore, if you don't want to be an "adventure island", universities can't waste time, improve their professional knowledge, participate in various competitions, practice early and prepare early to cope with the future work pressure. ...

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Bad competition, the influence of the atmosphere of comparing with each other.

Some time ago in Tik Tok, I often brushed "roommates are here, I secretly learn to roll them to death", or teased or seriously, and everyone I saw was disgusted. The words that students talk about every day are "I'd rather kill myself than roll my classmates to death". I don't like to see this idea of reverse comparison spread. I recall that this happened to me, too After all, competition is everywhere in universities, and research scholarships are guaranteed. In the face of cruel competition, others are not allowed to study for one more minute than themselves. If he gets up at six o'clock, I will get up at half past five ... When I frequently brush the so-called learning behavior on social platforms, I feel that this trend has become mainstream. Many people study not to improve themselves, but to compete with others. If this competition does not turn into positive incentives, some people will fall into the mire of involution.

2、? internal factor

Work blindly without a clear goal.

To borrow a word from Lei Jun, "Never try to cover up strategic laziness with tactical diligence." Many people are confused in college. They go to class step by step every day and finish their homework. Then they don't know what to do and know nothing about their daily arrangements. However, seeing that people around us are studying hard and unwilling to lag behind, there is a situation that "I sat in the library for one day, but only one day". Don't roll for the sake of rolling, efforts without goals are useless.

The goal is too idealistic

The only person who knows himself best is himself. We should know our limits. Although it is cruel, it is a fact. We have our own ceiling. If we set our goals too high, too high to touch, we will easily get lost, and miracles will not be ruled out. But I still can't aim too high at present. Setting goals realistically will be more conducive to implementation and more clear about what we want, what to do and how to do it.

Third, the psychology behind involution.

The first is competitive psychology. Our social environment resources are limited and we have to participate in the competition. In fact, for the vast majority of students, the inner volume is nothing more than to achieve higher grades and surpass others. Everyone in a university shows that the IQ level and learning ability are not much different. Therefore, only by paying more time and energy can we achieve this goal.

If you see others working harder than you, you will have a sense of crisis, which is panic: you are afraid of being left behind by others, so you work harder and go back and forth, forming an involution phenomenon among college students, and you are unconsciously involved.

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Fourth, how to crack "involution"?

1、? Correctly treat degradation phenomenon

Everything has two sides. In my opinion, so does involution. Since he exists, it must have his meaning. If you want to crack involution and not be involved in the vortex of involution, you must analyze it correctly and objectively, and involution also has advantages and disadvantages.

profit

The essence of involution is also a kind of competition. When fighting for something, there will be competition, which will improve people's efforts. There is pressure to be motivated. We must run with all our strength to force ourselves out of our comfort zone and keep up with others. Moderate involution can reflect people's self-motivation, and individuals can improve their scores in a short time. From the collective point of view, it is also conducive to improving the overall quality of the younger generation and the progress of social and cultural level.

abuse

First of all, being in a high-pressure environment for a long time will make your nerves highly nervous, which will bring some anxiety and reduce your happiness. Involution makes people invest more energy and get unparalleled returns, which is somewhat similar to marginal income. If the income is not equal to pay for a long time, it will produce self-doubt and fall into self-blame. The most typical is the battle for grade points in universities. In order to improve my grade point, I was exhausted, rolled around, hit myself like a top, and cycled through invalid competitions.

2、? Find your own position and stick to your own principles.

Many students who participated in the examination paper did not have a clear goal, but followed the pace of most people around them with the mentality of being unwilling to lag behind, and they became more and more confused in such blind conformity. First of all, pull yourself out of the paper, see if you can recognize yourself, know your hobbies and specialties, and think about whether what you are doing is really helpful to you, or just go with the flow and stay on the surface.

We must have a keen eye for things, the ability to think independently, clear and feasible goals, reasonable plans, and the most important thing is to stick to our own principles, be strong inside, and not be led by people around us.

3、? All-round development, enriching after-school life

Mature society has multiple evaluations of Excellence. Influenced by the educational concept of childhood, it is generally believed that the grade point is high and the scholarships and scientific research guarantees are excellent. But Excellence is not limited to one field. The university is in its golden age, and it is our characteristics and advantages to be playful and energetic.

Freedom of college life, staying up late, staying up late, skipping classes and so on. Has become the norm. Therefore, to develop the habit of self-discipline, you can exercise and shape yourself in the process of exercise. You will find that long-term persistence will not only bring you physical changes, but also affect your study and life.

You can meet people like you in social practice, exchange interests and hobbies, there is no competition, only love, cultivate one's morality, and reduce some impetuosity. Social practice has narrowed the distance between people, and there is no cold string of numbers in the middle. At this time, you will find that it is a very narrow thing to be trapped in the score ranking every day.

4、? Take the initiative to improve yourself and refuse to follow suit.

The winter vacation has just passed. How did you spend it? Have you planned your winter vacation life properly? If you have a small goal in mind, such as I will take the computer level 2 exam next semester, then make rational use of the winter vacation time and take the initiative to review for the exam. Stick to this for a month, and you will find that when others try their best to prepare for the exam in March and cry that there is not enough time, you are completely confident and can start preparing for the new semester, so that you will not be biased by other people's complaints.

In fact, many internal papers are rolled up with the wind. I don't know what I want to do. I feel that I am not good enough and I can only go with the flow. This is very inefficient. Only by getting rid of this lazy thinking, I must actively seek self-breakthrough and find my own direction, so as to gain a firm foothold and not be rolled up.

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In this era of "everything can be rolled up", competition is everywhere and all the time. We gradually become impetuous, do things with too strong a purpose, and lose a lot of original fun.

We always look at others. When we can't change this big environment, we should start by changing ourselves. The winner of the involution is not the ultimate winner. Instead of struggling with how to win every day, it is better to pay more attention to yourself and figure out what you really want. With that initial heart, move forward unswervingly and live in your own time zone!