When it comes to precipitation, the Chinese nation, the only one of the four ancient civilizations that has been handed down to this day, has accumulated and passed down thousands of years of cultural history and is undoubtedly the rightful authority in this regard. I believe that most Chinese people, including myself, seem to have an unexplainable resonance in their minds when they hear the word precipitation. As early as the Song Dynasty, Su Shi inscribed a poem with the phrase “To be broad-minded and to take in, to accumulate and to develop”, which he presented to his friend Zhang Xun. The term “thick and thin” has been passed down since then, and then extended to other aspects in subsequent usage.
This culture has been passed down through the ages, reaching a new peak in the modern era with the founding of New China. It is easy to see that the previous generation, our parents’ generation, always passed on the words “diligent, hard-working, pragmatic ……” to future generations.
So what does “precipitation” bring to the individual? The first thing you can do is to take a look at the first few days of your life. This experience is a polishing of the foundation and an equally honing of the mind. It is an important factor for steady forward progress in the future. Only after enough time/energy has been spent can one bring a more composed style, thoughtfulness, and long-term vision to the table, and in doing so, gain a relatively smooth future.
And as the times have changed, or the economy as a whole has taken off, another group of “empiricist” pragmatists have come up with a different perspective. That is, go ahead and do it, and then adjust it to reality. In their eyes, wrong is never a terrible thing, the most terrible thing is that you dare not make mistakes. Emphasizing the importance of practice, life is short, so why waste the years in settling down.
We have to admit that we are able to grow most effectively and directly with every mistake we make. After all, we are in an ever-changing world where no one can predict what will happen next, so how can we grow from time to time?
In this way, the issue seems to be in a sense a clash of old and new ideas.
Fortunately, the world is inclusive, and you will find that there are vivid success stories among them, whether they are the proponents of seeming sedentism or the adherents of empiricism.
I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase around the ’10s: After I graduated from college, I’m now working for my high school grad.
And in those days, that was not a rare phenomenon.
Likewise, Wang Baoqiang has been a dragon-catcher for ten years, and then he burst onto the scene. A wealthy man started from nothing and built a good foundation from the bottom. There are countless similar popular stories.
But hidden behind these stories, compiled by people with different views, is one huge information bias after another.
In the example above, it seems logical to equate students going to college with settling down and those going to society with trial and error (practice). But is that really the case?
I don’t know that the years of trial and error in a high school degree can be interspersed with varying degrees of sedimentation.
We often look at precipitation and trial and error as manifestations in our lives as two options on the road to life, which is not entirely true. The two don’t have to be pestled in opposition to each other; on the contrary, more often than not, they are in a state of coexistence, or rather, they are complementary and mutually reinforcing.
A certain amount of sedimentation can allow you to reduce the scope of trial and error in a big way and increase trial and error/practice efficiency. And effective trial and error allows you to precipitate more practical knowledge, including vision, insight, etc.
For successful conservatives, their trial and error actually happens in every little decision they need to choose later in life, it’s just that those mistakes are reasonably contained within a tolerable range for them. For successful practitioners, their settling can also take place after every decision, whether successful or unsuccessful, if they want to.
Both should be more like a DNA-like double helix structure. Your choices can never be just one simple one, and after you make one choice, you’re still faced with the next one after another in the general tone you chose.
I picked a risky venture where I could take the time to quietly research the basics of the industry rather than do a brute force job with two eyes. Even when I entered the hot pot industry with good local business, I was still able to choose to quietly understand and combine the local characteristics of the hot pot culture, rather than just imitate the copy.
The above is just an example, maybe not very mature, please forgive me.
Life is not a single-choice question, but the sum of countless right or wrong options.
Sedimentation and trial and error, they should not come before and after, but alternately converge in every part of your life.
The rise of one’s career is not just a matter of trial and error, but a matter of experience and knowledge.
This brings us back to the beginning of the conversation.
When faced with life decisions, the choice of settling and trial-and-error is not the final decision that makes you who you are. But when faced with these important forks in the road, it’s a choice you’re going to have to make, and it represents the tone of your decisions going forward.
Just like everyone has to make their first choice when they first start out in society. After all, life is not a game, and there is no chance to restart the game.
This is when the reality becomes more skeletal.
The choice is often a combination of things that vary from person to person, without the premise of success.
Frankly, if you have a good family and enough support behind you to support the number of failures you face, then go for it, because experience from failure often gives you a time advantage.
This is one of the main reasons why empiricists, as mentioned earlier, tend to increase as the times progress. Our generation of young people is much more open-minded than those who came before us, no longer stuck in a one-dimensional model, and it has to do with the wealth of effort accumulated by previous generations. The number of young people flocking to the big cities in search of opportunities or to start their own businesses has been steadily increasing in recent years compared to the last decade.
If you still have worries, it’s not a bad way to build up your fortune.
If you’re not sure what you’re doing, you’re not sure what you’re doing.
The world is such a cruel world, but it gives you unlimited possibilities for development.
Those who should be afraid and hesitant are the extremists who choose to go for it but neglect the foundation, and those who have been smoothed out in the long years of sedimentation and are afraid to go further.