After staying at home for three months during the epidemic, I realized the essence of freedom: if you have too much freedom, you will be useless.

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Ever since I was at home for the holidays, I started watching dramas until late at night every day, getting up at 11 o'clock, and eating two meals a day.

In fact, this is how I spent the past two months:

I bought the new book "Thinking Fast and Slow" and planned to read it in a week. From the first day, I read the book and took photos. I put a cover on it and posted it to Moments, and no one ever opened it again. I only read the first two or three pages.

I made up my mind to practice calligraphy every day, so I bought a writing course with great interest. I wrote one page seriously every day for the first three days, but on the fourth day, forget it, I stopped writing, I was practicing anyway. It hasn't worked for so long.

It’s 11 o’clock in the evening, put down your phone. I rolled around on the bed for more than ten minutes and decided to play for half an hour. As a result, I played until two or three in the morning.

This reminds me of a question I saw on Zhihu: "What is the best way to destroy a person?"

One of the upvoted answers: "That's it. Let him be idle. ”

People are born with a kind of inertia. If they stay in the comfort zone for a long time, they will work hard to maintain this comfort. It becomes very difficult to break free.

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I remembered that before the epidemic, my mother told me a story about a cousin.

My cousin is an interior designer, and he did pretty well in his last company. Later he got some resources, but then he felt that he was not making enough money, and his boss always spoke unpleasantly, so he was happy I quit my job, started freelancing, and started my own business.

When my cousin talked about it, he was full of pride. Freelancing has free time, doing things you like and are good at, having time and making money is the best thing.

When I was working, I could still get up on time to send my children off, which made me full of energy. Now that I am working as a freelancer, I am completely relaxed.

There is no such thing as sending the child off. Let your wife do it. Anyway, I am not in a hurry to go to work. I can sleep for a while and recuperate my energy to start a business.

Then I opened my eyes and the morning was almost over. I checked my Moments, read the news, and then watched a few videos. Noon passed happily.

It’s time to eat. After eating, I sat down to make tea, and then chatted on WeChat about sorting out resources and connections. Then I checked my phone and saw videos posted by others, and I couldn’t help but watch more. After a few glances and some more chatting with a few people, the afternoon passed.

The children are out of school, and I can’t help with homework because my cousin hasn’t sorted out his own connections yet, and then he has to have dinner again. After dinner, we chatted on WeChat and refreshed ourselves on the news. I felt really tired, so I lay on the bed and refreshed my feed. I refreshed until late at night and finally got tired, so I went to bed first.

On a day off from work, I ended up doing nothing. I will sort out my connections and resources another day.

Repeating it day by day, my cousin sadly found that he had done nothing.

Finally one day I gritted my teeth and sent my children to school and found a shopping mall to sit all morning. In the end, I didn’t get anything done. Because there was no pressure, no colleagues to urge me, and no boss to scold me, so the efficiency was even worse. Said.

Freelancing seems to be full of time every day, but there is no time to really do your own business, which makes your life a mess, let alone becoming a big boss.

The more self-discipline you have, the more freedom you have. If you only have freedom without self-discipline, you will turn yourself into a useless person, and in the end you will be unable to accomplish anything.

Freelancing sounds good, but it is not that easy to do. Good habits and self-discipline are the weight of whether you are worthy of working for yourself.

If you don’t have self-discipline and freedom, you might as well work hard and let others whip you forward, which is much better than self-indulgence.

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The 84-year-old Academician Zhong Nanshan has been at the forefront of the fight against the new pneumonia epidemic. During the period of the epidemic, he almost always raced against the virus at all times of the day and night.

Before the epidemic, Academician Zhong Nanshan’s work was busy and fulfilling. It is no exaggeration to say that he worked 360 days a year and had to go to the clinic once a week.

In an exclusive interview with a reporter from Chengdu Commercial Daily, when the reporter talked about retirement, Zhong Nanshan smiled and said: "I have never considered retirement. Being a doctor has become a habit of my life. Now I can run and walk." , if you ask me to retire, I may die faster.”

If you do meaningful things all day long, you will feel fulfilled and naturally be physically and mentally healthy.

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There was a popular joke on the Internet before. There was a start-up company whose capital chain was broken. A cleaning lady in the company couldn't bear the atmosphere of the company, so she directly took out 600 million, allowing the company to complete financing.

You must know that 6 million is something that many families cannot earn in their lifetime. If you have 6 million, why do you still need to work? My aunt is over 50 years old, and it’s not easy to go to work

In the eyes of many people, going to work is just to make money, but the meaning of going to work is not just that. Kazuo Inamori pointed out in the book "The Way of Doing" that the meaning of work is not only to make money and live, but also to improve oneself and perfect one's heart.

Most intermittent efforts don’t understand that chicken soup and role models are not your poison. Getting used to fending for yourself is the biggest punishment for yourself.

If you don’t work hard, don’t have self-discipline, and only think about comfort, then you won’t be able to get more resources for yourself, and you won’t be able to run yourself well.

Romain Rolland said that there is only one kind of heroism in the world, which is to still love life after recognizing the truth of life.

Rather than being comfortable and idle, you should know whether you have self-discipline and hard work. If you don't have these, please don't give up going to work. You need a colleague and a boss to spur you on.

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