Paranoid; A paranoid person; Paranoid patient
In Chinese, paranoia has dual meanings of paranoia and delusion, but its core meaning is delusion, which cannot be corrected accurately. Clinical paranoia patients show paranoia and anxiety without logic and restraint, and distrust of others. Of course, practical use is not limited to patient-level delusions, but can be used to describe the delusions and anxiety of normal people.
This is also a word that can be used as both an adjective and a noun. In English, such words are the easiest to use, easy to understand, more suitable for colloquialism and worth accumulating.
Paranoia, a variant of it, refers to paranoia in a narrow sense.
Do you? Paranoid? What do you think when you take the subway?
Have you ever had some illusions when you took the subway?
The layoffs in my department have made me suspicious.
The layoffs in my department have made me suspicious.
The most famous sentence about paranoia comes from Intel President Andy Grove:
Only the Paranoid Survive
He also wrote a management book with the same name, but this established translation has brought great misleading, so that many readers are full of expectations for the article and think that a good CEO should stick to his own views. As mentioned above, the core meaning of paranoia is doubt, not persistence. Andy Grove's business is in the early stage of great changes in the computer industry. He is keenly aware that if technology companies can't innovate quickly, the success of any business will breed limitations and complacency, so he can't compete with the coming rout. Therefore, he gradually formed a management culture in Intel that doubted the status quo and embraced change.
Only paranoia can survive, but what it really means is that only the status quo can survive.
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