What’s going on with college student involution?

What do you think of the common phenomenon of "involution" among contemporary college students? How do you think you should respond? Below is a short article of 3,000 words. You can use the mind map to check what you want to know most.

Overall mind map 1. Views of college students on involution

For the student group, the pressure of involution is indeed getting more and more serious. Whether in study or in life, "involution" behaviors can be seen everywhere, such as: occupying seats in class, competing for exams, employment, etc. However, many people work hard and make progress under such a wave of involution, only to find that they have achieved nothing but exhaustion.

I think that such involution is a state of stagnation and no substantial development due to disorderly and unhealthy competition. Once college students are in such a state, they cannot stop working hard and cannot Breaking through existing competition cannot achieve breakthrough growth. A good example is: when you are working hard to prepare for the exam, and suddenly you find that other people have spent more time on this matter than you, and people continue to join the team, you will naturally feel happy in your heart. Nervous emotions will arise. Although I don't want to spend so much time going up, I will also be unconsciously "involved" in such a team and be unable to extricate myself. In the world of involution, most people don't know why they do what they do. It's just because others are doing it, so they do it too. "They are all studying hard. If I don't study, will I be unsociable?" "They are all trying to get this certificate. If I don't take the exam, will I suffer a loss in society?" Everything is because others are doing it, which makes me feel uneasy and then follow the crowd. Follow along.

Generally speaking, the unhealthy competitive atmosphere of tension and anxiety created by college students is the fundamental cause of "involution". It is like a pair of invisible hands that push the "involution group" of college students to join the team unconsciously, making the members of this group work hard and be unwilling to stop even if they are exhausted. 2. Reasons for the involution of college students

I believe that many college students do not join the involution voluntarily, but are forced to join the involution team. The essence of involution is unhealthy competition and futile fake efforts. We know clearly that there will be no breakthrough gains, but we cannot break away from this imagination. As a college student with a high level of energy and IQ, you must not waste such a good time getting involved. Below I will talk about the reasons for involution from the perspective of personal understanding, hoping to bring new understanding to all students, so as to obtain real and substantial gains.

1. Unhealthy competition

One of the biggest reasons for the continuous "involution" of college students is: unhealthy competition. The most involved group of college students are the freshmen. After hundreds of days of hard work for the college entrance examination, every college student is a winner in the college entrance examination team. When you enter college, you will find that there are many, many people in the school who are better than you. Just like the principle of "there are people outside the world, there is heaven outside the world". When you see people who are better than you but study harder than you, they continue to study to obtain qualification certificates, receive outstanding scholarships every year, etc., this will make you feel that you must continue to study hard to make your life better. Only by becoming better and doing better can you succeed. This bad concept of competition is like success only if you get a scholarship, success only if you are admitted to graduate school, success only if you enter a top company... This happens to not be success in the true sense, it is just success. It’s just the sense of superiority that everyone wants to pursue. A single concept of pursuing success will undoubtedly lead to unhealthy competition. When every college student on campus concentrates on running on a single track, the result will be a pull-up. It’s just the distance for everyone to reach the end, so don’t get caught up in it. Finding what you want is the key to success.

2. No goals

The reason why college students are generally "involved" is that they have no clear goals of their own. In the competitive external environment, it will inevitably gradually bring about the tense atmosphere in the hearts of college students of being isolated and surpassed by others, and they will want to obtain more resources and win the crisis awareness of fresh eggs. This kind of inner feeling exists among many college students, but this kind of imagination is due to the lack of self-understanding and lack of thinking about more things. They will only unconsciously follow others and take some ineffective efforts.

If you can get rid of this trap of "no planning, no direction, no purpose", you will put your efforts to real use. In panic, some people blindly change majors, only to find that their new major is not as good as their original major, and their employment prospects are even less than ideal; some people rush around for internships and part-time jobs every day, only to find that their professional performance is poor They are in a complete mess, and those piecemeal internships and part-time experiences have not helped them substantially improve their abilities; some people have obtained a bunch of certificates that have nothing to do with their majors, but they don’t have any skills that they can use. Work is also very difficult. On the contrary, those students who study professional courses conscientiously and follow teachers in class can successfully find a job after graduation, have outstanding work performance, and continue to be promoted and paid.

In general, you must have a personal plan for the future, and don’t follow the crowd. Working hard on the so-called "better road" is not suitable for you. You can often just run with me and find yourself. Only college students with clear plans and a clear sense of direction can go further and better. 3. Disadvantages of involution among college students

If college students are deeply involved in "involution" for a long time, it will make themselves exhausted personally, and they will gradually lose interest in learning and their work efficiency will also gradually decrease. Decrease, because you can't taste the substantial sweetness, and if you continue like this, you will fall into a vicious cycle. For society as a whole, involution will lead to a waste of investment for many people. For example, it only took a relatively small amount of time to achieve results in the past that now take so much time to achieve. Here is an example, just like the ancient "imperial examination system". Due to fierce competition and limited outlets, studying is an ineffective investment for the poor, and the progress of the entire society will also be affected to a certain extent. Therefore, the involution behavior of college students today is not only related to themselves, but also related to the development pace of China's entire society. 4. How to deal with involution among college students

I feel that if I compete according to the involution method, I cannot compete with others. The essence of involution is that the allocation of resources is reduced, but the effort is doubled, and you even have to do some meaningless things to show your excellence in order to get the same achievements as before, so avoiding involution can make you better Be successful.

1. Adapt to the current situation of involution

First of all, what we need is to maintain a good mentality. Although we cannot control the involution behavior of the larger environment (the entire group of college students), then We can adopt the attitude of "take care of things as they come". Never give up on yourself and become a Buddhist youth because of the current situation of involution. You can try not competing with the elites and just focus on what is right in front of you. Here you can learn more about and learn the "craftsman spirit", do the things in front of you well, and won't worry too much about the anxious atmosphere of the outside world. What's more, when you are truly obsessed with it, you will definitely have your own value in the eyes of more people. There must be a sense of satisfaction, so that you don't have to bear more anxiety and can better adapt to the state of involution.

2. Do a good job in self-management

Whether we participate in the involution team or not, we should evaluate our own abilities and potential, set goals for ourselves and work hard for them. . Use various self-management methods, plan your time reasonably, and pay attention to the balance between work and rest.

3. Take the initiative

The reason why many people are involved is that they do not have clear goals of their own, and they passively accept tasks and do not take the initiative to find new ones. Chance. Therefore, we need to change our way of thinking, from passive to active, so that there will no longer be such a tense atmosphere. Creative thinking can bring you new opportunities. You must remain curious and maintain the initiative at all times.

4. Maintain a good attitude

It is also very important to maintain a good attitude when entering a new environment. Don't be bound by worldly concepts of success, and don't care too much about other people's evaluations. During college, you must spend your time on things that interest you, develop more of your own strengths, and learn more about society. Whether it’s your first scholarship, getting a guaranteed research spot, entering a certain scientific research project group, etc. In the process of competition, you may not get the results you want, but you should open your mind and think that you can learn something and gain a life experience even if you invest. Academic performance is only part of ability, there are many other abilities that we need to cultivate. Everyone should accept competition and withdraw from involution.

5. Things about involution

I also experienced involution in college. Let me briefly share my experience. On weekend mornings, many people will sleep until noon, but this is not the case for the classmates around me. After washing up early, they go to the library with their student ID cards to start "internal volume" study. At that time, I was still very grateful to this group of positive classmates as my roommates, who made me no longer afraid of the cold winter, gave up sleeping in, and seriously worked for the future. Maybe I didn’t know at the time that this was considered internal examination. I spent a whole dormitory studying, writing weight loss papers, exercising, and running. If I didn’t help each other, I was just thinking about myself. I was never willing to share the information I got, and I had to pretend that I wasn’t. Study hard and know nothing. Perhaps my experiences are also being experienced by current students. I just want to say that as long as you master them to an appropriate degree, there will be no problems. Appropriate involution can still improve your abilities.

In a short time, plan your day, and in a long time, make a plan for the future. Most people just let nature take its course and don’t know what they can do or what they can do in the future. Not being involuted does not mean not working hard. To avoid involution is not to just lie flat. People who don’t work hard say they are not introverted, just to cover up their laziness.

In this world where "involution" is prevalent, if you do yourself well and do the things you plan in an orderly manner, you will definitely be dazzling. "I'm not writing, this is part of the plan."