Why do many people think that college students are involuted?

We are involutors. We like to quietly top the list when others are not looking, and then suddenly surprise everyone. When others are out of class, we brush the questions, while others are sleeping, we review, while others are playing and we study. Our slogan is "I would rather kill myself than roll my classmates to death".

-involutor

We may be caught in all kinds of competitions everywhere unconsciously. An assignment that has been completed as required, after learning that the people around us have written more than a few thousand words, falls into meditation again. Go to the library to borrow books you like and materials you have to read for this competition. Books pile up, favorite books are at the bottom, and their pace is disrupted by activities that they are not interested in. There are always some voices in the dormitory: "Have you seen the information of the class group? I will get a comprehensive test if I participate in the activity. "Great, I got it." "I was just reviewing and didn't see the information. I wish I had known it earlier." Miss a comprehensive test, it feels like being left far away.

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Question 1: What do you think of the phenomenon of "involution" among contemporary college students?

My opinion may be different from that of others on the Internet. I think it is a good thing to have an examination paper in college. Of course, what I mean here is the internal examination paper in college, not the internal examination paper at work. First of all, we have to figure out what it means to involute it. Many people will confuse involution with the word effort.

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

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Case 2): Let me give you another example. For example, your company used to work at 955, starting at 9: a.m. and leaving at 5: p.m., working five days a week, but due to the appearance of involution. Some colleagues may just stay voluntarily. Then you see so many colleagues, they all stayed at 996, and they were embarrassed to leave work so early, so they were forced to extend their working hours. However, everyone should pay attention to the fact that your overtime is mainly to make money for your boss, who has squeezed your surplus value. For example, if you earn him 1 yuan, he will take out 1 yuan from the 1 yuan you earned him as a reward.

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

First, I think the "involution" in universities is not a real involution. In fact, studying in college is not involution. I think it is more appropriate to call it hard work, because you know that you are fighting for your own future. For example, if your classmates get up at six o'clock and seven o'clock in the morning, they will grab the position of the study room. Do you think this is a serious phenomenon of involution? Or I think he is a hardworking person, but I think it is a very good example. Originally, you didn't go to study until you got up at eight o'clock in the morning, but when you see that everyone else gets 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 that the examination paper in universities is actually the embodiment of educational equity. Why do you say that? Take our college students in the 198s and 199s for example, they were at the stage of assigning jobs immediately after graduation. In fact, you don't need to work hard in your whole university. To put it bluntly, it's just fun. Anyway, after graduation, the country will assign jobs, 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 passed the college entrance examination and entered the university, no one would compete with you, so being admitted to the university was equivalent to having a good job. Well, let's take a look at it now. Going to college and undergraduate courses has basically become a mass education, and basically everyone can go to college, which is what we just said, because there are more people in this field and they are competitive. That's why involution appears, but let's think about it in turn. The reason why we can experience involution now is also the performance of educational equity and social progress. If we put it in the past, universities with poor academic performance, such as ours, couldn't study and went to work directly, so how could we have the opportunity to participate in the examination papers of universities now?

the third point, I think you can feel the involution atmosphere, 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 the people around you working so hard and you will work hard 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 will 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 war of involution 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 voices around you, such as "You are so serious", "How can you spell so hard", "You are the source of involution" and "How can you let the rest of us live?" . 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, and people who are working hard around them, and even some slogans are born, "I'd rather kill myself than others." How should we deal with all kinds of noisy voices outside?

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the second question: how to deal with the phenomenon of "involution" among contemporary college students?

first of all, let's take a 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 this way:

First, the most important thing is that we must 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, it's not that important to you for these scholarships and activities in your university. Of course, I'm not saying that these honors mentioned above are not important. 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 have to 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 you make these career plans, you can avoid participating in other people's papers. Similarly, others will not participate in your papers.

Second, treat the 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 when I rest and play. If you study, you study. If I study, you don't study. Should I be called involution? Please, I study and work hard to improve myself. The rest of you have nothing to do with it. Don't you lie flat and don't work hard, and others will be called involution? Are you panicked, or are you envious of the results of other people's efforts? When you are labeled as involution by others, I think you may just encounter your own bottleneck at that time and break through your own bottleneck. In the 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 own efforts. But I want to tell you: hard work is a thing that you don't have to worry about whether others are good or not, but only 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 involved, 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 a sense of pleasure in the process of 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 achievements are more outstanding than others, you are likely to be involved.

Fourth, really like it, and 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 or not, and see if you will unconsciously create a sense of kidnapping for yourself now. It's like many young people now say that we are a group of people who have no career 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, what you have to reflect on is 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 this matter is a shackle of your life and a burden of 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 present situation of examination paper is to think for yourself. What do you want most from your study along the way? If it's just a GPA, you shouldn't take the so-called process and effort too seriously, because your goal is clear, you just want more GPA, then you don't have an involution, do you? If you want to improve yourself in the process of learning, then I think you should roll up 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 these two things can be clearly understood, I think the psychological burden of internal perception can actually be easily solved, and I think people really need to take a little rest when they are stretched to a string, because it is difficult for people to be creative when they are in a state of tension and being needled.

finally, calm down, don't fall into the whirlpool of involution, and work hard aboveboard. You don't want yourself to work hard to get what you want, so you will be labeled as the source of involution by others. Work hard for your own goals and get them aboveboard. Writing ambitions on your face is never a shameful thing, but it is very courageous. Please treat the involution rationally, obsess over it or not. Before you know it, you are trapped. Don't always try to spy on others, calm your mind, and do everything at your own pace, not to kidnap those who work hard. Selling 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 finish things?

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 involution. 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. Throw away those burdens that you blindly carry, 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 involution scene, feel the sunshine and run in your love.