In the past week, I have participated in several different offline activities and met many friends in different fields. As someone who prefers to stay at home in his spare time and doesn’t want to go out, I really put in a lot of effort.
Looking back at the process of attending these gatherings and what others have shared, almost everyone has come to the same conclusion: it is important to see living people do it. Living people refer to people with whom you have personal contact in the physical world.
Why is it important to see living people doing it? Chen Hou from 007 gave an example of his creation of a personal knowledge planet: At first, he had no idea of ??creating a paid knowledge planet, but when his friends around him gradually started to do it and became more and more successful, he suddenly found that he seemed to have the same experience. Can.
Looking back at the 007er Knowledge Planet I subscribed to, "The Breakfast Prince's Financial Management Notes", "Golden Horse Takes You to Invest in the Blockchain", "If You Don't Read the Financial Report, You're Out", etc., when talking to the Planet Master Only when we communicated did we realize that they all influence each other and grow together.
The vast majority of us are ordinary people, so we will inevitably turn a blind eye or hesitate when facing unknown areas. The most important thing about seeing living people is to give you confidence - this The facts are real and possible.
To use my own experience, I think back to the summer of 2012. At that time, I met a group of friends staying in a youth hostel on the beach in Sanya. Most of them had blurred faces. I only remember that there was a A girl studying at the University of Hong Kong told me that she was going to Southeast Asia during the summer vacation.
"Ah? Southeast Asia, which countries are you going to?" I asked weakly. "All countries," she replied calmly.
I was really shocked at the time. I felt that Sanya was already a very far away place for me. Traveling around China was something I could brag about for a lifetime. How could I imagine that I could still travel abroad? At this time, the young man who was volunteering at the youth hostel also told me that it is actually not difficult to go to Southeast Asia. He had just returned from Thailand.
Just like that, seeing a living person do it suddenly opened up a whole new world to me.
At that time, WeChat Moments had not yet been launched, and even the Yu’e Bao, which everyone cannot live without every day, would not be opened until a year later. Having just opened the door to the new world, I used the Agricultural Bank of China’s online banking U-Shield to fumble around. It took 4 and a half hours to book my first overseas ticket on Airasia's official website.
Since going abroad, I have seen a bigger world and met more interesting people. It is precisely because of meeting these people that I have the opportunity to travel such a long way and try There are many experiences that I would never try.
For example, Jay, whom I met in Uzbekistan, told me that he had been to Antarctica, IKKI and Ziqing told me that they had been to Afghanistan, and my sister I met in Laos told me that I could experience meditation and speak 6 languages. My classmate Shen Shen told me that it is actually quite easy to learn a language in 3 months... Just because I saw people around me doing it, I realized that many things are really not as difficult as I imagined.
Also starting in 2012, I began to occasionally write my own sharing on the Internet. That post about how to use free air tickets to travel abroad on weekends made me accidentally attracted by various magazines and newspapers. Interviews with TV stations and other media actually broke the inherent concepts in many people's minds - free air tickets do not exist, and it is very expensive and difficult to go abroad on weekends.
Of course, the most proud thing is that one day, I forget the occasion, someone suddenly said to me:
"Hey, you know what? I bought a free ticket to the Philippines."
"Wow, that's awesome. You must have read that "XXXX" post, right?"
"Ah, how did you know?"
" Hahahaha, that's what I wrote..."
"..."
In the field of cognitive science, there is a word called "mirror neuron", and its function is exactly Reflecting the behavior of others, people, starting from apes, gradually learned to imitate from simple to complex, began to use tools, and thus gradually developed language, music, art, etc.
Li Xiaolai wrote in "The Road to Financial Freedom":
Generally speaking, non-human things such as books and objects are unlikely to activate mirror neurons. Mirror neurons are only fired when seeing a person. So it’s important to meet those who actually do it. It’s more important to meet people who really have all kinds of shortcomings but still do it.
I have the same profound feelings about this. I am a person with many shortcomings in all aspects at this stage, but this does not prevent a friend from telling me that because she got to know me, she has also set out to travel around the world. Travel and embrace a bigger world.
Life affects life. Many people may pass by each other in a hurry in life and travel, but they leave an indelible mark on each other's future. This is why I feel more and more the need to meet living people now. When I become the person who can bring value to others, I may encounter unexpected surprises in the communication~