Why don't you pretend to understand?

Q: What do you think of Shakespeare?

Not bad, but not as good as remy martin's.

Hello! Shakespeare is a dessert, not wine.

Poor Shakespeare, a renaissance superstar, was described by two ignorant people as a "pierced thing", which really made people laugh and cry. Although the joke is short and reasonable, it warns us: "Don't pretend to understand."

Think of Confucius once said: "Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, but knowing is also." Confucius believes that learning is an honest thing, and admitting what you don't understand is itself an improvement of understanding. However, there are not a few people around us who don't pretend to understand, are self-righteous and are ashamed to ask questions. And this kind of psychology is unhealthy, it will inhibit our development and make us lose our "thirst for knowledge", because "knowledge" is the most terrible ignorance.

A young man was puzzled by Einstein, a famous scientist all over the world, and called himself "ignorant". So he asked Einstein this question. Einstein smiled, took out a piece of paper and drew two circles, one big and one small. Then pointed to the big circle and said, my knowledge circle is bigger than yours, and of course the contact surface of the unknown field is bigger than yours.

Those real university experts can always see their ignorance, because they know there is no end to learning. It can be seen that the more knowledge you have, the stronger your sense of ignorance will be, and eventually you will achieve something, while others who don't pretend to understand are shooting themselves in the foot. In the end, the real victim is not others, but yourself.

In fact, not pretending to understand is not only useless, but also harmful. People can't know everything clearly, there must be a lot to make up for. If you don't know how to pretend to understand, it's like covering your shortcomings with a fig leaf and using a blind eye. When the truth comes out, the pretender will pay for his deception. Just like Mr. Nan Guo, he is just making up numbers, and he is a boastful loser.

Dong Zhongshu, a Confucian scholar in the Han Dynasty, said: "A gentleman does not hide his shortcomings, but asks him if he doesn't know and learns from him." Therefore, we should dare to admit our own shortcomings, dissect ourselves, ask if we have any questions, ask consciously and dare to ask. Learning is the only way from ignorance to understanding. Only by understanding every problem in a down-to-earth way can we not make the mistake of pretending not to understand.

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