A reader asked this question the other day: How can we educate our children to have clear goals and a character that focuses on their goals when they encounter problems?

She was obviously moved by my manly bragging that day. I was just bragging. It was not a quality unique to West Wind, no. That stuff is common.

Let me tell you, this thing has a name, just four words: scientific thinking.

It should be noted here that not all science students have scientific thinking, and not all liberal arts students do not have scientific thinking. This depends on their experience.

In fact, the depth of content I can write does not depend on me, but on the readers. When I say a sentence, most people don’t understand it, so I can only write more and more shallowly. On the contrary, I can write deeper and deeper.

Let’s get back to the topic, how to cultivate scientific thinking in a child? It's very simple. Just understand the root causes of Feng Huacheng's shortcomings in "The World" and avoid them during the training process.

There is a male number N in "The World", named Feng Huacheng, who is a poet and the son-in-law of the Zhou family.

Feng Huacheng is much older than the second daughter of the Zhou family. He can write poems and pick up girls. In the 1970s, he was sent to the mountains of Guizhou. The second daughter of the Zhou family searched for love all the way to the deep mountains and old forests, and wandered with him. This was equivalent to elopement.

Then in the late 1970s, her identity was restored, and the daughter of the Zhou family was admitted to the Department of Philosophy of Peking University to study, and later continued to study for a master's degree.

The poet Feng Huacheng also went to Beijing, but he did not get along well and never had a house. So the couple worked together and returned to the woman's hometown in Northeast China. The woman rated her as an associate professor and was assigned a small cubicle in the tube building. Feng Huacheng, holding the title of a member of the Writers' Association, squeezed in here with his wife.

Their only daughter has been raised by her brother-in-law for more than ten years. Because they don’t have enough space at home.

The biggest characteristic of Feng Huacheng is his good face. He really wants to live in an environment where he is sought after and admired. This is a good name, and of course, it is also profitable. Otherwise, you won’t be thinking about the house for many years.

According to the plot of the novel, this person became popular in the end. In today’s terms, he became a big V. Then he had relationships with countless women. Nowadays, there is a very popular term, you know what a fan is. If you don’t understand, go read the petition written by Anita Mui in Xing Ye’s “The Judge of the Dead”.

So, the daughter of the Zhou family, who had been with him through thick and thin for many years, recognized his true colors and divorced him.

After that, Feng Hua became unpopular and ran to France, hoping to make a comeback, and even brought his daughter with him. Unexpectedly, in France, the competition in the literary circle was so fierce that no one paid any attention to this guy. He ended up huddled in a trash can on the side of the road and became a homeless man, causing his daughter to live on the street.

Of course, in the end, the child’s mother rushed over and rescued her daughter, and we won’t mention the rest.

The reason why I use him as an example is because when I accompanied my wife to watch the TV series, this plot in the novel had not yet been shown on TV, but it happened. discuss.

In my wife’s words, she despises this kind of scumbag who doesn’t know anything, is pretentious, and is sour.

I teased her, you are also studying literature, so you are talking about your seniors like this? She rolled her eyes at me, and I wisely changed the subject. She has two standards. Women can think liberally, while men must be result-oriented.

From a male perspective, it is actually easier for me than her to understand Feng Huacheng’s difficulty, or rather, his dilemma.

I don’t really believe in fatalism, which means that whoever is born is a scumbag. In many cases, it’s fate, or the superposition of various factors and the chemical reaction that brings about the fate of a person. It's like that.

You see, my scientific thinking is exposed when I open my mouth.

In my opinion, in a society with developed commodity economy and advanced science and technology, literati like Feng Huacheng have very little room for their existence and growth.

The following words and this metaphor were not thought up by me. He was a very famous literati. My mentioning his name will bring unnecessary trouble to others. Let others offend his peers.

So I am bold and directly occupy the C position. You can just think that I came up with this metaphor.

A literati in a high-tech society, what options does he have? Just a horse and a rooster.

The so-called war horses are the horses of the ancient honor guard. This kind of horse is used for decoration. If you are beautiful, stand by it for viewing. You are not allowed to bark. If it sounds too messy, it will not be neat.

However, there are only so many warhorses, and not every horse can be turned into a warhorse. As a useless horse, he can't cope with the shortage of war horses, or the war horse has been used for too long and is depressed. How do you let him choose?

The only way he could think of was to do the opposite and be a rooster.

The so-called rooster is the joke. The rooster points to the sun and says that it crows by itself.

The person who said this was originally making fun of the rooster, but please allow me to speak justice for the rooster.

As a rooster, if it doesn’t say that it crows the sun by itself, wouldn’t the value of its existence be lost?

There is a famous saying in "Yes, Minister" in the workplace. No matter what the purpose of a department is at the beginning, in the end, everything it does will be to prove itself. The presence of is necessary.

The same goes for roosters.

The rooster must emphasize that I am the one who called the sun, otherwise it will have nothing to eat. Not only that, it also emphasizes its moral superiority compared to the war horses.

You see, I barked, but the horse didn’t bark, so I despise him.

There is another saying here, a rooster saying, that is, if criticism is not allowed, praise is meaningless.

Let me translate this for you, that is to say, you see, if the rooster doesn't crow at night, won't the sun not come out?

Haha.

Rooster’s theory, no matter how many ways it is expressed, is in the end the famous saying in the workplace: Find a necessity for your existence.

I once curiously asked the famous literati who gave me this analogy, and I said, you are really candid, and I admire this kind of revealing your heart.

But I am also very curious. What I really don’t understand is that no matter what you think or what job you do, we have all studied physics. If the sun cannot rise, it has nothing to do with the rooster or the horse.

He smiled and told me that you don’t understand the dilemma of our industry. This dilemma is called: unable to prove oneself.

In an instant, I understood.

The following is my understanding. I use my own work experience to explain to you what he is talking about.

When I was doing software in the past, I was initially a kernel engineer, writing operating systems. We often scold chips, saying that you guys who make hardware are all doing XX stuff, and XX is a dirty word.

When you guys have nothing, I have to verify it on that crappy FPGA. When I run the program to perfection, when you tape it out, there will be a lot of problems. , your problem, you can't find it, I will help you find it; your problem, you can't locate it, I will help you locate it.

I won’t say any more.

Your problem has been discovered and positioned for you. If you can't solve it, you still have to change the software to help you cover it up. Those that can't be covered up, I can't solve it. Has it become mine? Where can I find reason?

I had a very bad temper at that time, and I would rush upstairs and quarrel with the chip people every day. One day, my boss said something to me, and I figured it out a lot.

This is what he said. He said that in fact, the people who make chips are more pitiful than us.

We want to verify and know where there are bugs in our software. It’s very easy. Just compile it and run it. If it doesn’t work, we can test it every day. , can they?

They tape out a film for hundreds of thousands. Can you afford it? If it fails to flow out three times, the project will become obsolete. Three times, one *** is three chances.

If you write code, you can only run it three times. If you write an operating system for me, I would like to see how capable you are.

I remained silent because I really couldn’t do it.

Those literati, they have a dilemma and cannot verify it. Even worse than making chips. They have no direction, no standards, no verification, not even a chance. This is called No. 1 Wen Wu.

Everyone is the same. If you want to eat, others will too. If someone doesn't want to be a war horse, he can only be a rooster. He himself knows that it is useless. But you have to choose one. Just like Ouyang Feng coaxes Hong Qigong in Wong Kar-wai's movie, make a decision quickly, and you will be hungry again soon...

Eating is for humans. Instinct needs, people also need to be recognized, or to gain a sense of accomplishment and get positive feedback.

If we write the code and run it, it can be sold for money, listed on the market, and cashed out. I am very happy, with flowers, applause, and a lot of money.

What about them? As a rooster, how can you prove that you are worthy? how?

There is no way.

Then you can only incite emotions. At least, in the process of inciting emotions, you can still find the slightest sense of existence, even if it is imaginary. And there is money to take.

You see, it was the environment that twisted Feng Huacheng, and his psychology became more and more distorted.

So once Feng Huacheng became popular, he was eager to have that kind of thing with many female fans. Is he Ximen Qing? Not really. He is just too depressed, and he needs recognition and positive feedback too much. In the end, he became a madman and a beggar living on the streets of France.

I was once curious, why don’t these people write novels? Aren’t those who study this just writing novels as a profession?

The assistant gave me the answer to this topic. He studied literature and had been writing manuscripts professionally for ten years before, so he knew more about it than I did.

He gave me a small test and asked me to try to write a half-hearted novel. After reading it for him, he laughed and told me, boss, What you wrote is not called a novel, this is a program, or in other words, a novel generator.

According to my thinking, the so-called novel is a logical paragraph and a database. First define a lot of character names and venue names, which are all elements, create the header file, and then write logical segments to randomly generate various connections. This is the storyline.

This is indeed programming, this is not a novel.

He told me that writing novels, especially long novels, even the kind of online novels you have read, requires a lot of talent. It doesn’t mean that anyone can cultivate such writers in batches.

Since you can’t produce any works, those who learn that will end up doing the same thing as my assistant’s previous job, which is copying. I copied a section here and there, a section here and there, and copied all kinds of works, but there was nothing of my own.

If you really ask him to ghostwrite and chat with you for me, he can’t do it. Because he had previously chosen a weak iteration, or to put it more bluntly, there was no iteration circle.

In other words, if you ask him to write today, he can only choose between complaining and praising. Either flatter or whine.

This is the self-media, he flatters me, will you pay me? If you don't give it, then he will have no choice but to complain, inflame your emotions, and wait for reward.

My assistant has a character I can trust. If he can only do this, what does it mean? It means it's not a human problem.

A person cannot grow if he stays in a weak iteration environment for many years. No matter how long you stay, you will be like a fresh graduate. If you stay too long, you will only become a depressed, grumbling, and wrinkled fresh graduate.

The writing styles of the literati you see all over the world, in the final analysis, are just born like this, they are either flattering against their will or full of complaints.

Without the experience of iterative progress, there is no valuable thinking, just like a program will never produce results if it does not run.

You should note here that studying literature does not necessarily prevent you from forming scientific thinking. Luo Zhenyu, a person who studied liberal arts and got a doctorate, has a strong scientific thinking. Why? ?

Because he is a businessman.

You don’t have to like a businessman. Many people don’t like Luo Pang. They think he is a businessman who sells anxiety. You are not wrong about this, he is indeed.

He is indeed lying to you, but a businessman who can survive in the market is definitely the product of repeated iterations and verification. There are things you can learn from liars.

So in the same way, if a science student refuses high-speed iteration after graduation, then he will not be able to form scientific thinking.

Now you know how to cultivate children’s scientific thinking?

It couldn’t be simpler, run, be results-oriented. If your son wants to be an engineer, he can run codes. It doesn’t matter how many times you run. If he can run it successfully, you are a master. If he can’t run it, turn left when you go out and find an Internet cafe to become a master of Sanhe.

If your son is a trader, pull out the list, what awaits you is the Wolf of Wall Street, or does he accidentally fall into the Huangpu River while running at night? Lotus, result-oriented.

It’s that simple, iterative progress, feedback every step, and correction every time, it’s hard for you not to make progress.

Finally, to be fair to the literati, we are just lucky. In the final analysis, it is the social form dominated by technology and commodity economy that provides us with a stage for continuous verification and iterative progress. If we really travel to ancient times, I am afraid it will be the other way around. We may become demons who refine alchemy, and they may become scholar-bureaucrats.

Feng Huacheng may indeed be a scumbag, but I don’t think he is hateful, I just think he is pitiful.

In the end, I still use scientific thinking. There is not all joy and sorrow in the world. When I say that I sympathize with Feng Huacheng and others, it is just a polite statement, commonly known as hypocrisy.