1、 Caught in a "professional" circle I received a lot of letters, most of which began with my sad choice of the wrong major in college. The central idea is to ask whether I should give up my major in college to pursue what I like, and it's always a pity to give up my major. Thinking about it, I feel that I have no hope and future at all. We are caught in a strange circle of "profession". Everyone is too focused and attaches great importance to himself, takes some so-called "profession", and then knows nothing about other things. Last weekend, I had dinner with the reporter of the new Yorker. She interviewed a lot of things I did in China. Those days I was in a mess. There were some headaches at work and things I couldn't control. The Taiwan version of the book was filling in all kinds of words like preface, wedge and thanks. The land version of the book was still changing the words. The bookshelf of the newly bought book stack almost fell down. It also coincided with the batch after batch of color pens in the color classroom, volunteer selection and so on. She asked me: "Will you continue to write books or become a professional writer?" "No." "What do you want to do?" "Do something new that I haven't done before." In fact, I am often asked similar questions by many people: Writing is so good and books come out so fast. Do you want to be a professional writer? The picture is so good. Do you want to change your profession to design? Personal business is so developed, do you want to switch to freelance? Every time I answer no, I look sorry for convenience. In fact, I'm a little sorry. I always feel like I've wasted something 2、 But life is not professional. We are required to learn from childhood and keep learning. We don't care about anything else. So when we do something that has nothing to do with learning, our parents will be particularly worried. I remember when I was very young, because I transferred to a far place, I had to take the bus from home for an hour every week to get to school. In the large factory and mine community where I live, almost all the children go to school in the nearby factory and mine school. Both home and school are in the community. I'm very relieved. But once you want to go outside the community, parents will lead you hand in hand before you can go. So one day, I heard an aunt a with a son one head higher than me proudly show off to Aunt B: "my son can take the bus by himself!", I looked at them with a look of disdain. From then on, I suddenly understood: Extensive involvement in different things in life will make your life full of freedom. For example, in the summer vacation of primary school, I can take a long-distance bus to another city to do social research. For example, in the summer vacation of junior middle school, I can directly find the president of the welfare home and discuss volunteering with him directly; For example, now I can find all kinds of information I want in various ways to complete my dreams. Many times I will find that we are too serious about "specialty". It seems that everything else is a waste of time except related things. For example, when we were young, we studied too much, so many people have learning syndrome. As long as we don't study for a day, we will feel guilty. In fact, this is a very extreme psychology, but we didn't notice it. After entering the society, this situation is more obvious, but it seems that many people are proud of it. When reading, we must read books related to our own work. The worst thing is that everyone is reading books such as economics and management, sudden wealth and quick success. Most of the gatherings are the gatherings of people in the circle. There are only a few people in the circle. They get together every day and do the same things with each other Chatting, opening and closing your mouth are all about how many big contracts you have signed, and whether your manuscript has been handed in Even the microblog can almost see the landlord's career and character, and even who the customer is. In fact, this should be a place where you can give full play to your imagination. So everyone went narrower and narrower. Finally, they found that if they changed jobs, they would be the choice of several companies Do you know anything else besides your own job and your major? Travel, can not find a reliable ticket agent; For an outing, I can't figure out what the route is; Seeing a doctor, I can't tell what the process is; But life is not professional. 3、 Why are poor students easy to succeed? We all have such experience. Most of the students who study well in school will become mediocre when they grow up and enter the society. On the contrary, those students who are worse in their studies are like fish in water after entering the society. Many people explain this as "mixed open"! I think about it carefully, but I think most of the backward students learned the "life class" outside the school early. When the curtain of life opened, these students immediately jumped onto the stage and tossed up; And those who only learn Chinese, mathematics and English, once these learning products stop production, there will be all kinds of maladjustment to life. I have a cousin who dropped out of high school to sell mobile phones. Later, he opened a bicycle shop to sell bicycles. He greeted everyone before and after family gatherings, just like a little boss who can take care of everywhere. Where's the little boy who steals grandpa's cookies with me every day? I suddenly realized that when I recited words in the classroom, he colluded with other school students to fight in groups. This is the training of "communication ability" and "leadership"; When I recited the longitude and latitude of a world-famous city in the classroom, he played billiards in the billiard hall and online games in the Internet cafe, which is the embodiment of "social ability"; When I was reciting "lift the basket onto the truck", he sold mobile phones on the main road and asked everyone if there were any mobile phones to sell. This was the first experience of the concept of "cash flow". I learned all this through all kinds of head and blood collisions when I entered the workplace at the age of 22. When I hit, I was still proud to die and felt that the society was too dark. It's not my fault. Of course, many people will say that your example is wrong. You can't drop out of school to make money. Then I think of my classmate, CEO Zhang. CEO Zhang didn't separate from my classmates from junior high school until college. At that time, my grades were much better than him. Now he has his own company, and the company's main business is currently in the leading position in the country. He flies around every day to attract investment. His wife is also my classmate. She often sends an invitation to invite me to Chongqing. CEO Zhang studied as a child. I guess he spent most of his time playing games, shopping and playing ball with CEO Yang, my other classmate. His life skills have also been cultivated with the times, so today's life career is very good. My brother has done a lot of things. My two sisters also started from selling mobile phones at roadside stalls. Now they are married and have children. They have a happy life and are skilled at family gatherings. But my sister, who has always been excellent, has become more and more introverted. She is still in the realm of wanting nothing and is about to become an immortal. Every party seems to lead the inspection work. She has no life in her eyes and can't get involved everywhere. Like me, many people with good educational background and good working background feel that life is not beautiful when they hold a few tickets, play a car and eat a small restaurant every day, so they lose a lot of power to extend outward. I always think it's good at present. Why should I leave? Why do you have to look for something different? Then you will feel that you are trapped in a small circle, and there are only a few people talking about each other, eating and having fun every day. The highest level is to brush your neck and see that a place is good. In fact, there is only yearning left. 4、 Missed scenery We all feel involuntarily that my major is there. Don't go far, don't go far... As a result, I don't know anything about the distant world. The year before last, I had just graduated. I stayed at home every weekend and said I wanted to write and read. I never went outing or entertainment. What happened? How many books have you read! How many!! Even the four seasons are not aware of the changes in the house, what is the harvest!!! I don't have enough contacts. I haven't even been to the Forbidden City in five years. What did I get back with the missed scenery? In the following three years, I tried hard in many fields. Although I didn't do very well, I felt that I had a full and beautiful life in the three years after graduation. Most importantly, the more than 1000 days and nights were what I wanted to be. I don't regret at all. In those days, the things I did, the people I loved, the mistakes I made and the tears I shed let me clearly understand that the world is actually very big! We should try something other than majors, because in fact, those so-called majors, we only read a few more books, but they are not really majors. Therefore, we should read more books outside our major, make friends outside our major, listen to many stories outside our major, observe how different people in different regions live, and experience an experience different from ourselves from their perspective. Don't take your major as your life, because life is not divided into majors.

1、 Caught in a "professional" circle I received a lot of letters, most of which began with my sad choice of the wrong major in college. The central idea is to ask whether I should give up my major in college to pursue what I like, and it's always a pity to give up my major. Thinking about it, I feel that I have no hope and future at all. We are caught in a strange circle of "profession". Everyone is too focused and attaches great importance to himself, takes some so-called "profession", and then knows nothing about other things. Last weekend, I had dinner with the reporter of the new Yorker. She interviewed a lot of things I did in China. Those days I was in a mess. There were some headaches at work and things I couldn't control. The Taiwan version of the book was filling in all kinds of words like preface, wedge and thanks. The land version of the book was still changing the words. The bookshelf of the newly bought book stack almost fell down. It also coincided with the batch after batch of color pens in the color classroom, volunteer selection and so on. She asked me: "Will you continue to write books or become a professional writer?" "No." "What do you want to do?" "Do something new that I haven't done before." In fact, I am often asked similar questions by many people: Writing is so good and books come out so fast. Do you want to be a professional writer? The picture is so good. Do you want to change your profession to design? Personal business is so developed, do you want to switch to freelance? Every time I answer no, I look sorry for convenience. In fact, I'm a little sorry. I always feel like I've wasted something 2、 But life is not professional. We are required to learn from childhood and keep learning. We don't care about anything else. So when we do something that has nothing to do with learning, our parents will be particularly worried. I remember when I was very young, because I transferred to a far place, I had to take the bus from home for an hour every week to get to school. In the large factory and mine community where I live, almost all the children go to school in the nearby factory and mine school. Both home and school are in the community. I'm very relieved. But once you want to go outside the community, parents will lead you hand in hand before you can go. So one day, I heard an aunt a with a son one head higher than me proudly show off to Aunt B: "my son can take the bus by himself!", I looked at them with a look of disdain. From then on, I suddenly understood: Extensive involvement in different things in life will make your life full of freedom. For example, in the summer vacation of primary school, I can take a long-distance bus to another city to do social research. For example, in the summer vacation of junior middle school, I can directly find the president of the welfare home and discuss volunteering with him directly; For example, now I can find all kinds of information I want in various ways to complete my dreams. Many times I will find that we are too serious about "specialty". It seems that everything else is a waste of time except related things. For example, when we were young, we studied too much, so many people have learning syndrome. As long as we don't study for a day, we will feel guilty. In fact, this is a very extreme psychology, but we didn't notice it. After entering the society, this situation is more obvious, but it seems that many people are proud of it. When reading, we must read books related to our own work. The worst thing is that everyone is reading books such as economics and management, sudden wealth and quick success. Most of the gatherings are the gatherings of people in the circle. There are only a few people in the circle. They get together every day and do the same things with each other Chatting, opening and closing your mouth are all about how many big contracts you have signed, and whether your manuscript has been handed in Even the microblog can almost see the landlord's career and character, and even who the customer is. In fact, this should be a place where you can give full play to your imagination. So everyone went narrower and narrower. Finally, they found that if they changed jobs, they would be the choice of several companies Do you know anything else besides your own job and your major? Travel, can not find a reliable ticket agent; For an outing, I can't figure out what the route is; Seeing a doctor, I can't tell what the process is; But life is not professional. 3、 Why are poor students easy to succeed? We all have such experience. Most of the students who study well in school will become mediocre when they grow up and enter the society. On the contrary, those students who are worse in their studies are like fish in water after entering the society. Many people explain this as "mixed open"! I think about it carefully, but I think most of the backward students learned the "life class" outside the school early. When the curtain of life opened, these students immediately jumped onto the stage and tossed up; And those who only learn Chinese, mathematics and English, once these learning products stop production, there will be all kinds of maladjustment to life. I have a cousin who dropped out of high school to sell mobile phones. Later, he opened a bicycle shop to sell bicycles. He greeted everyone before and after family gatherings, just like a little boss who can take care of everywhere. Where's the little boy who steals grandpa's cookies with me every day? I suddenly realized that when I recited words in the classroom, he colluded with other school students to fight in groups. This is the training of "communication ability" and "leadership"; When I recited the longitude and latitude of a world-famous city in the classroom, he played billiards in the billiard hall and online games in the Internet cafe, which is the embodiment of "social ability"; When I was reciting "lift the basket onto the truck", he sold mobile phones on the main road and asked everyone if there were any mobile phones to sell. This was the first experience of the concept of "cash flow". I learned all this through all kinds of head and blood collisions when I entered the workplace at the age of 22. When I hit, I was still proud to die and felt that the society was too dark. It's not my fault. Of course, many people will say that your example is wrong. You can't drop out of school to make money. Then I think of my classmate, CEO Zhang. CEO Zhang didn't separate from my classmates from junior high school until college. At that time, my grades were much better than him. Now he has his own company, and the company's main business is currently in the leading position in the country. He flies around every day to attract investment. His wife is also my classmate. She often sends an invitation to invite me to Chongqing. CEO Zhang studied as a child. I guess he spent most of his time playing games, shopping and playing ball with CEO Yang, my other classmate. His life skills have also been cultivated with the times, so today's life career is very good. My brother has done a lot of things. My two sisters also started from selling mobile phones at roadside stalls. Now they are married and have children. They have a happy life and are skilled at family gatherings. But my sister, who has always been excellent, has become more and more introverted. She is still in the realm of wanting nothing and is about to become an immortal. Every party seems to lead the inspection work. She has no life in her eyes and can't get involved everywhere. Like me, many people with good educational background and good working background feel that life is not beautiful when they hold a few tickets, play a car and eat a small restaurant every day, so they lose a lot of power to extend outward. I always think it's good at present. Why should I leave? Why do you have to look for something different? Then you will feel that you are trapped in a small circle, and there are only a few people talking about each other, eating and having fun every day. The highest level is to brush your neck and see that a place is good. In fact, there is only yearning left. 4、 Missed scenery We all feel involuntarily that my major is there. Don't go far, don't go far... As a result, I don't know anything about the distant world. The year before last, I had just graduated. I stayed at home every weekend and said I wanted to write and read. I never went outing or entertainment. What happened? How many books have you read! How many!! Even the four seasons are not aware of the changes in the house, what is the harvest!!! I don't have enough contacts. I haven't even been to the Forbidden City in five years. What did I get back with the missed scenery? In the following three years, I tried hard in many fields. Although I didn't do very well, I felt that I had a full and beautiful life in the three years after graduation. Most importantly, the more than 1000 days and nights were what I wanted to be. I don't regret at all. In those days, the things I did, the people I loved, the mistakes I made and the tears I shed let me clearly understand that the world is actually very big! We should try something other than majors, because in fact, those so-called majors, we only read a few more books, but they are not really majors. Therefore, we should read more books outside our major, make friends outside our major, listen to many stories outside our major, observe how different people in different regions live, and experience an experience different from ourselves from their perspective. Don't take your major as your life, because life is not divided into majors.