Why Grow up reading notes
preface
I can not understand philosophy books, after reading, I usually go to the book review, and then “oh”, after reading, I go back to read the book again, but after reading the book review and the feelings of the book friends, I feel that I seem to understand a little bit of what the author wants to express, or quite happy.
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Why Grow Up is part of a series of books. This is a need to look at the heart of the book, why do we grow? Do we really need to grow? Growth in the end should be what looks like, read this book may not harvest what, but can let you feel what is the most intuitive growth.
Recommend index
5 stars full, Personal rating **3 stars: ** Not a bad book, but also a good book for thinking and reading on the subway. This book basically tells you what is growth? Why should people grow? Why doesn’t anyone want to grow up? 3 star another aspect is because this is a philosophy book, not very understand.
Content analysis
What does it mean to grow up?
Adulthood means being cheated when you’re most honest, and who can blame someone who doesn’t want to grow up?
When we are the most simple time to be cheated, maybe it is the first time for people to grow up, especially the people who just entered the society will experience similar things, when we think the world is still beautiful, the world is in our most beautiful time to give us the heaviest punch.
There is a passage in the book that says: “It is better to give up our ideals than to have our hopes dashed. It is better to have a rotten reality than to have a heavy fantasy.” This is probably how many people in The Myth hoped to be Yi Xiaochuan but gradually became Zhao Gao.
The first time be cheated: just come to the big city rent a house when the deposit is cheated (high rent rent lousy house), in the unfamiliar place of life by landlord play round and round. Fortunately, I met a kind person in the hotel to teach me the first lesson of life: do not easily believe anyone, including every word I say to you now, you do not believe 100%.
The second time was cheated: is at the railway station, was pulled to say no money to go home want to borrow cash ride home. At that time only a few dollars did not care too much, behind the car suddenly woke up, understand to be cheated. However, not angry, but feel very helpless.
After that, I seldom get cheated again. To tell the truth, this kind of growth is not the taste, probably this is the helpless society.
Who has the most toys?
At the end of the day, whoever has the most toys wins. In our obsessive pursuit of material things, we always want to leave a mark on the world, but we create playthings that are negated and damaged. If we do not have judgment, the world will gradually become paralyzed, and we will not be able to apply rationality to the world. The more we lose, the more we crave toys, the more we want. Perhaps we still want more “toys” as we did when we were young, but the meaning of “toys” itself seems to be gradually losing. Oddly, however, we are happiest when we don’t have any toys.
Loss of surprise
Perhaps the most intuitive growth is that we marvel less and less, we become more and more normalized in the affairs of the world, and we lose our childlike innocence. This is the way the world is supposed to be, and when the change in the world ceases to surprise us and we subjsubjessly believe that we are no longer unique, do we feel frustrated or indignant or validated?
What does it mean to grow up
Why grow up? Why follow the rules? Why education? How should I know? How do I find meaning in life? How to Create your own life?
To answer these questions, you may not understand what growing up means. However, in my opinion, when we can see my own shortcomings, when we truly know yourself, and when we find there is meaning and value, when we are in the world is no longer plays the role of actor, no matter what we received the script, we can have our own roles, we are our own director, we deduce their life as well.
conclusion
This is a book that can’t be explained, and I recommend reading it carefully.