During the Chinese New Year, I met my cousin at the wedding. I learned that she was currently unemployed at home because of changes in her work.
My cousin was graduated with media communications degree, when looking for a job, after layers of interviews, she finally entered a newspaper company as a journalist.
At that time, the news industry is very strong, newspaper reporter is a decent job, high income, and ideal feelings.
I could see the pride on her face every time I had a family reunion.
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However, the human nature is lazy, even hot water will become cold eventually, and she began to slack off slowly.
After a few years, with a little extra wages, living with a nine-to-five stable job.
Got married, had a child, so the center of gravity of life all biased towards the family.
But two years ago, the newspaper industry economy is getting worse; the advertising volume has also plummeted.
Her colleagues were trying to leave and find a new job, and soon, the newspaper company went bankrupt.
Her colleagues suggested that she should find a new job, only then she realized:
Staying too long In a stable environment will become blunt toward the changes in the world. Now, many things from the internet, she did not understand.
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One of the scenes in the movie "The Shawshank Redemption":
"The institutionalized Brooks, although have the chance to get out of jail, because he has been in prison for 50 years, accustomed to the walls of life.
The passage of time and the experience of serving a sentence have left a shadow in his heart that cannot be shaken off."
After the prison, he can not face the challenges encountered, doesn’t know how to adapt to the reality of life and he committed suicide.
This is a similar metaphor.
The stability you seek is weakening your ability and trapping your future.
I remember a few years ago when I graduated from college, the words I heard the most:
Son, you should find a stable job, maybe you can’t feel it now, but you will regret in the future...
However, these few years, when they witnessed the development of the times, they slowly stop saying about “stability.”
Overnight, people from reading newspapers to watching TV, and watching mobile phones; The newspaper and milk delivery man, also starting to deliver parcel and takeout;
Artificial intelligence technology is becoming more mature, even the driverless car, self-service restaurant...
The speed of the world's development is shocking; we are between the cracks of the old and new world, everyone is trying to survive in the cracks.
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Harari’s "A Brief History of tomorrow" boldly predicted the development direction of human society:
Computer algorithms know more about yourself than you do, and when artificial intelligence is strong enough, most people will lose value, and machines will take on more work than others.
In the future, a lot of jobs will be replaced by smart machines, and billions of people will become "useless."
No one's competitiveness is eternal, and no asset is stable.
Robots will replace blue-collar, artificial intelligence will replace white-collar, everyone is at the risk of being eliminated at any time.
In an interview, Harari once said:
At 16 years old, everything is changing, body, mind, interpersonal relationship, constantly updating themselves, but as the age increases, most people will refuse to change, and seeking for stability.
There is no stability in the future. If you want to have a stable identity, stable work, stable values, then you are outdated.
When facing such a situation, the only way to break through is: follow the world's development rhythm and cultivate enough adaptability.
Therefore, while you are young, we must not confine ourselves to the stability of the "comfort zone."
But constantly find a variety of possibilities for ourselves, and actively strive to extend outward.
There is no reset in life, I hope we can struggle to toss, diligence, and live steeming (literally).
