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Self-interest and altruism
Egoism puts more emphasis on individual heroism. If you are strong, you can handle all the problems. But social information is iterative, unlike in the past, you can solve it yourself. Now you can't solve all the problems, you have knowledge anxiety. Changing this situation requires cooperation with others. Society is driven by the complex cooperation of a large number of strangers, and so are individuals.

How to better cooperate with others? Is to change egoism and use altruism.

Egoism emphasizes that one's growth is isolated from the outside world, while altruism emphasizes the common growth of the team.

Let me give you an example. In the past, many factories had many skilled workers. The workshop encountered a major problem, and everyone could not solve it, so we had to ask the "old master" in the workshop to come out. This technical expert is usually an experienced old worker. Their technology is very comprehensive, and they seem to be able to solve any problems they encounter. No one can surpass them. Young people are envious of them, and the only way to become such a big technical coffee is to take the same road as them, constantly learn by yourself, accumulate experience and get enough qualifications until a certain age, then you may become such a "master". This phenomenon may have worked in the past.

In the past, social networks were not as developed as they are now, information transmission was not as smooth as it is today, and there were many cases of information asymmetry. Therefore, if you strengthen your study and keep growing yourself, you will easily become an expert or expert in the industry, and no one can surpass you for a long time or even throughout your career.

If you put this example today, you will find that there are few or even no "old masters" around us. Instead, it is a team of "old masters". Everyone in the team is proficient in one or several technologies, even experts in this field. If they encounter problems, they don't necessarily need an "old master". They can find "Du Niang" and find a solution online. So you find that the original "old master" is useless now, people don't need him so much, or they don't need him anymore, and there is no market for "old master" What caused this?

In today's society, you will find many technology geeks or successful people. They don't have the age of "master", but they have the experience and skills of "master", and many older people should learn from them. Why?

The rapid development of contemporary society is driven by the cooperation of a large number of strangers. Today, with the highly developed Internet, there are almost no obstacles to the circulation of knowledge and information, and various new technologies and ideas are constantly emerging. The so-called new technologies and new ideas will soon be upgraded and become outdated. The idea that people still rely on themselves to improve as before can no longer adapt to this era of rapid information iteration, so a new word called knowledge anxiety has recently appeared, which well expresses the psychological state that the speed of self-learning and new knowledge updating does not match.

So what should we do? Is to tear down the thinking wall built by your previous understanding of self-growth. This is true of the big society, and it is also applicable to us personally. If we want to develop rapidly and succeed, we can achieve a goal together with the help of mutual cooperation between ourselves and the people around us, and we can also grow. So there is a good saying that some people succeed because people around them want him to succeed. Therefore, in modern society, the individual heroism of a person fighting alone is not so respected. Instead, I accept the concept of team more.

So we can see that we should handle the relationship between ourselves and others in our personal life and work, because you should know that the most important principle in contemporary society is that you are not alone, and you live in a society where many strangers cooperate with each other.