# less gossip

By [cola](https://paragraph.com/@cola-4) · 2022-07-27

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Hu Shi often encouraged his old friends to write biographical literature, leaving materials for history; when he gave speeches to young people, he also constantly encouraged students to read biographies.

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Because reading biographies is to make friends, to be arrogant. But frankly speaking, people rarely read biographies in this era. In the process of growing up, everyone only listened to gossip and did not like to read biographies. Of course, many people think that gossip is biography. This is an era dominated by gossip, and it is easy for everyone to regard gossip as a biography. Gossip is indeed interesting, but gossip is not the same as biography, because we always have a mood called "schadenfreude". This person was embarrassed, embarrassed, caught, kicked, etc. I believe that the more a person listens to gossip, the worse his heart will become. You will easily judge, criticize, criticize, and laugh at the misfortune of others from the moral high ground. If you watch gossip for a long time, you basically become a gossip person. The most frightening thing is that you don't know that you have become a gossip person. So young people must be vigilant, and the younger they are, the less they should listen to gossip.

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