我可能终其一生平平淡淡,但是O.K.

以下文字来自于2019.02.04 的一篇推文。旧文重发


感谢LAB, 让我们每个人都能以不讨好,不逃避的方式,自在的活着。


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写这标题不为博眼球,我们这种经营了6年以上的小号,早已没有了博眼球,冲流量的心境。


也或多或少明白了自己傲娇的知识分子心境,绝没有讨好市场的动力了。


会承认这个世界可能会有更好的,但是很多消费者选择的,是我知道的不那么好的,或者肯定没有我提供的好的【请你相信一个把品牌信誉看的比天大的生意人的客观评价】。


很难理性上去理解,但感性上,我表示遗憾。


但就像自己在没了解水果产业链的时候,会买一个没那么好,却又贵的水果一样,不会去怪任何人。


别误会,LAB 过的一直很好。也会一直批评与反省中努力做到更好。


也别误会,我们会一直努力去改进产品和服务,只是,绝不讨好。


可能无法做成下一个好未来,更没有了Airbnb, Uber 的契机和环境,但是会一如既往的努力学习,提升自我,成为下沙村,hin有文化,hin有学历,考试hin高分的企业。


所以以上的所有铺垫,只是为了给你介绍一下以下一篇文章。在节日的夜晚,不以己悲,不以物喜的共勉下


文章来自于纽约时报,标题就是这个推送的标题


You’ll Never Be Famous — And That’s O.K.


By Emily Esfahani Smith


Today’s college students desperately want to change the world, but too many think that living a meaningful life requires doing something extraordinary and attention-grabbing like becoming an Instagram celebrity, starting a wildly successful company or ending a humanitarian crisis.

Having idealistic aspirations is, of course, part of being young. But thanks to social media, purpose and meaning have become conflated with glamour: Extraordinary lives look like the norm on the internet. Yet the idea that a meaningful life must be or appear remarkable is not only elitist but also misguided. Over the past five years, I’ve interviewed dozens of people across the country about what gives their lives meaning, and I’ve read through thousands of pages of psychology, philosophy and neuroscience research to understand what truly brings people satisfaction.

The most meaningful lives, I’ve learned, are often not the extraordinary ones. They’re the ordinary ones lived with dignity.

There’s perhaps no better expression of that wisdom than George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” a book I think every college student should read. At 700-some pages, it requires devotion and discipline, which is kind of the point. Much like a meaningful life, the completion of this book is hard won and requires effort. The heroine of the novel is Dorothea Brooke, a wealthy young gentlewoman in a provincial English town. Dorothea has a passionate temperament and yearns to accomplish some good in the world as a philanthropist. The novel’s hero, Tertius Lydgate, is an ambitious young doctor who hopes to make important scientific discoveries. Both hope to lead epic lives.

…. 中间为介绍书中剧情的部分(此处省略)

It’s one of the most beautiful passages in literature, and it encapsulates what a meaningful life is about: connecting and contributing to something beyond the self, in whatever humble form that may take.

Most young adults won’t achieve the idealistic goals they’ve set for themselves. They won’t become the next Mark Zuckerberg. They won’t have obituaries that run in newspapers like this one. But that doesn’t mean their lives will lack significance and worth. We all have a circle of people whose lives we can touch and improve — and we can find our meaning in that.

A new and growing body of research within psychology about meaningfulness confirms the wisdom of Eliot’s novel — that meaning is found not in success and glamour but in the mundane. One research study showed that adolescents who did household chores felt a stronger sense of purpose. Why? The researchers believe it’s because they’re contributing to something bigger: their family. Another study found that cheering up a friend was an activity that created meaning in a young adult’s life. People who see their occupations as an opportunity to serve their immediate community find more meaning in their work, whether it’s an accountant helping his client or a factory worker supporting her family with a paycheck. 职业病了,这段文字,真的好适合写作素材啊

As students head to school this year, they should consider this: You don’t have to change the world or find your one true purpose to lead a meaningful life. A good life is a life of goodness — and that’s something anyone can aspire to, no matter their dreams or circumstances.


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愿你永远年轻,谦卑,努力学习。


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