What do you mean by involution?

We are partners. We like to climb to the top quietly when others are not looking, and then suddenly surprise everyone. We brush the questions after class, review while others sleep, and play while others study. Our slogan is "Better kill yourself than run over your classmates".

-Involute

We may unconsciously fall into all kinds of ubiquitous competition. A homework that has been completed as required, after learning that people around him have written thousands more words than themselves, fell into meditation again. Go to the library to borrow your favorite books, as well as the materials you want to see in this competition. Books are piled up, favorite books are at the bottom, and activities that you are not interested in disrupt your rhythm. There are always some voices in the dormitory: "have you seen the information of the class group?" If I participate in the event, I will get a comprehensive test. " Great, I see. ""I'm just reviewing, and I haven't seen the information. I wish I had known about it earlier. "Missing a comprehensive test feels like being left far away.

Part of the problem leads to

Question 1: How to treat the phenomenon of "involution" among contemporary college students?

My opinion may be different from others on the internet. I think it's a good thing to have papers in college. Of course, what I am talking about here is the internal test paper in college, not the internal test paper at work. First of all, we must find out what involute means. Many people will confuse involution with effort.

Case 1): Let me give you an example. For example, a long time ago, Internet talents were scarce. As long as you knew a little about the Internet, you could find a very good job with a monthly salary of almost 10,000 yuan. However, because this industry is relatively large, many practitioners come in at once, so because supply exceeds demand, the recruitment standards of enterprises are getting higher and higher, and wages are getting lower and lower. This is that your competitors are increasing, and your own value is getting lower and lower.

Too much investment can't achieve the expected results.

Case 2): Let me give you another example. For example, your company used to go to work at 955, start at 9: 00 in the morning, get off work at 5: 00 in the afternoon, and work five days a week, but because of involution. Some colleagues may just stay voluntarily. Then you see so many colleagues, all staying at 996, and embarrassed to leave work so early, so they were forced to extend their working hours. But everyone should pay attention to the fact that you work overtime mainly to make money for your boss, who has squeezed your surplus value. For example, if you want to give him 1000 yuan, he will take 1000 yuan from the 1000 Yuan You he earned as a reward.

Job-hunting feedback of today's graduates

These two phenomena are called involution. Let me talk about my views on the phenomenon of involution in universities.

First, I don't think "involution" in universities is real involution. In fact, university study is not involution. I think it is more appropriate to call it hard work, because you know you are fighting for your future. For example, your classmates get up at six or seven in the morning and grab the seat of the study room. Do you think this is a serious involution phenomenon? Or I think he is a hard worker, but I think it is a good example. Originally, you didn't go to study until you got up at eight o'clock in the morning, but when you see others get up at six o'clock in the morning, you will be subtly driven to study at six o'clock, so this is actually a good thing.

Secondly, I think the university thesis is actually the embodiment of educational equity. Why do you say that? Take our college students in the 1980s and 1990s as an example. They are in the stage of assigning jobs immediately after graduation. In fact, your whole university doesn't need to work hard. To put it bluntly, it is fun. Anyway, the country will assign jobs after graduation, so you don't have to work so hard to find a job. Because at that time, college students actually belonged to elite education, and only a few people were able to go to college. As long as you pass the college entrance examination and enter the university, no one will compete with you, so being admitted to the university is equivalent to having a good job. Ok, now let's have a look. Going to college and studying undergraduate has basically become a popular education, and basically everyone can go to college, which is what we just said, because there are more people in this field and the competition is fierce. This is why involution appears, but let's think about it in reverse. The reason why we can experience involution now is also the performance of educational equity and social progress. If in the past, universities with poor academic performance like ours could not study and went to work directly, how could they have the opportunity to participate in the papers of the present universities?

Third, I think you can feel the atmosphere of involution, then you are definitely not an ordinary person. If you feel the pressure of involution at present, it means that you are still a relatively motivated person, which means that you will see people around you working so hard and you will work with them. Only in this way can you feel the phenomenon of involution. If you play games, chase dramas and brush Weibo in the dormitory every day, you can hardly feel the feeling of involution, so if you face the pressure of involution, it means that you are going uphill.

Next, let's talk about the source of involution: the source of involution is because of a panic, and more and more people begin to have a sense of competition and crisis. The definition of involution refers to meaningless internal friction caused by excessive competition. This involution war seems to have aroused the emotions of countless students, families and social animals, but it has also infinitely amplified everyone's anxiety.

I don't know if there are any voices around you, such as "You are so serious", "How can you spell so hard", "You are the source of the involution" and "How can you keep us people alive?" . When the word involution is known by more and more people, the word involution seems to have become a joke. With more and more verbal pressure, people who are working hard around them even have some slogans, "I would rather kill myself than others." How to deal with all kinds of noisy voices outside?

Two-part guidance of the problem

Question 2: How to treat the phenomenon of involution among contemporary college students?

First, let's look at big data analysis. How do college students cope with involution at present?

Next, let's take a look. I think we should face it like this:

First, the most important thing is to make a good career plan. Is to know what you want to do after graduation. For example, if you want to take an examination of civil servants after graduation, such as scholarships, student activities and student cadres in universities, these experiences are not particularly important to you, so you don't have to bite the bullet to evaluate scholarships and engage in student cadres. Because the civil service examination and written interview can't reveal any personal information about you at all, these scholarships and activities in your university are not that important to you. Of course, I'm not saying that these honors mentioned above are unimportant. Instead, we should spend more time preparing for the written interview of civil servants. Only in this way can we better avoid other aspects of involution. If you want to work in a big factory after graduation, you must take part in more internship activities and practice more skills in your spare time. If you want to study for a PhD, you should follow the teacher to do more projects and send more papers at school. As long as these career plans are well made, you can avoid participating in other people's papers. Similarly, others will not participate in your paper.

Second, treat involution correctly and don't confuse the concepts of involution and effort. First of all, please make it clear that efforts are not equal to involution, efforts are efforts, and involution is involution. You can't see it when I'm resting and playing. If you study, you study. If I study, you don't study. Should I call it involution? Please, I study hard and try to improve myself. Others have nothing to do with it. If you don't lie flat and work hard, will others call it involution? Are you panicked, or are you envious of the results of others' efforts? When you are labeled as involution by others, I think you may just meet your own bottleneck at that time and break through your own bottleneck. In this process, you will find that what you have been doing and always love to do has become a competitive thing, and then this fear may lead you to work hard, be regarded as involution for a long time, and gradually doubt your efforts. But I want to tell you: hard work is something you don't have to worry about whether others are good or not, just worry about yourself.

Third, distinguish whether you want the result or care about the process. I fully understand that many college students are worried about being implicated, but I think you should actually think about one thing, that is, in the whole process of your study and life, whether you take the outcome theory or the process theory. If you get pleasure in doing this, you don't have to worry about whether others are doing better than you, then you don't exist. However, if you only worry about whether your grades are better than others, you are likely to be involved.

Fourth, really like it, don't create a sense of kidnapping for yourself. In fact, I think one of the simplest criteria for judging a thing is whether you like him enough to see if you will unconsciously feel a sense of kidnapping to yourself now. It's like many young people now say that we are a group of people without professional freedom, but what we have to think about is whether someone is really kidnapping us, or whether we have created a sense of kidnapping for ourselves in the process of facing work, career and love. If you feel kidnapped, you should reflect on whether you like it enough, even if the learning environment makes you feel uncomfortable, you don't like it. Only if you really like it, you won't feel that it is a shackle of your life and a burden of your life.

Fifth, find what you really care about. When you feel involved, you can't persuade others not to work hard, which is unfair to others. I think the most effective way to break the status quo of papers is to think for yourself. What do you want most from your study along the way? If it's just a GPA, then you shouldn't take the so-called process and efforts too seriously, because your goal is clear, you just want more GPA, then you don't have involution, right? If you want to improve yourself in the process of learning, then I think you should pack up your bags and work harder than others. When you feel involved, it is often not because others work harder than you, but because others make you feel the bottleneck and ceiling of your ability. Therefore, if we can make these two things clear, I think the psychological burden of inner perception can actually be easily solved, and I think people really need to take a break when they are stretched to a string, because it is difficult for people to be creative under the state of tension and acupuncture.

Finally, calm your mind, don't get caught up in the tangled vortex, and make aboveboard efforts. You don't want to work hard to get what you want, then you will be labeled as the source of involution by others. Work hard for your goals and get them aboveboard. It's never a shame to write your ambition on your face, but it's very courageous. Please treat the reunion rationally and don't entangle. Before you know it, you are trapped. Don't always want to spy on others, be calm, do everything at your own pace, and don't kidnap hard-working people. Sales anxiety causes your own emotional internal friction. There is no need to hide things secretly when doing things, for fear of being seen by others. How can you calm down and get things done?

Never mind what others think, the most important thing is what you want and how to do it yourself. "Being yourself" is always the best way to deal with the inner paper. I hope everyone can really break through in this involution battle and maintain an independent self in this era of network anxiety.

The rhythm of others will always be different from your own, so throw away the burden on your blind back, leave this whirlpool, don't lose your feet easily, and pursue your goals firmly. I hope all of you who are confused can get rid of the tangled scenes, feel the sunshine and run in your love.