Society will not wait for you to grow

Society will not wait for you to grow
--- Speech at the 2003 undergraduate Graduation Ceremony of Peking University Law School
Suli
　　

In this celebration of your graduation, I would like to say a few words as the conclusion of your college life.

The first sentence is to say to those who are about to move to the job right away. To be honest, the society is very different from the school.

On campus, personal efforts also work, but more importantly, they are actually talents. The teacher does not ask for material rewards. As long as you have a good score and have no bad personality, you will be rewarded by the teacher. In this sense, a university is basically an environment of "Sage politics" or "elite politics", more like a family. The evaluation system is basically determined by teachers, in a centralized manner, you are rewarded with your intelligence.

Society is quite different. Society is more a place for interest exchange, a market, and a "civilian politics ". It is not about whether your intelligence is superior or not (although your intelligence and wisdom can still help you), but whether you can come up with what others want. This standard is no longer determined by the center-teachers, but scattered-determined by a large number of consumers. Therefore, it was only in guangjiu, a year after the "Stupid melon seeds and seeds" that we had to drop out of the IT industry because we had to sell tea eggs instead of missiles. This kind of "reverse brain" is not perfect, but it just shows the market standard.

Human limitations-You wish to turn consumers into Qian Zhongshu or Nash through education or other means. Therefore, we should never bring the campus standards we have used for over 16 years into the society. Otherwise, you will find that "Chu Cai Jin is not needed ", we can only comfort ourselves with "born My talent is useful" as Li Bai does, and even become a person out of harmony with society and the market.

Although the hands of society and the market are invisible, what it talks about is visible and tangible; what it talks about is to turn it into a spot instead of futures. You can criticize it for being short-sighted, but it is usually not, and has no obligation to wait for you to grow and mature. It treats everyone entering the society as equal, regardless of the fact that you have just graduated and have no experience. If you lose a chance, you will lose it. Unlike in school, you will be asked to retake the exam, or ask your teacher for a sentiment and change your score. "North college students have potential and stamina." Do not say this or believe it yourself. This is not a placebo. To some extent, it means that you cannot, at least not now. If you have any quality, potential, or stamina, you have to give it to me, and you have to give it to me as a real thing-maybe a contract draft, it may be a successful lawsuit.

After four years of university, liberal arts students often interact with some of the most exciting events and figures in history and "talk" with masters in ancient and modern Chinese and foreign countries ". The liberal arts education in universities often makes many people prefer the exciting moments and even bloat people. But this is not, and it is impossible for the vast majority of people to live, but just as imagined in the college. Each of us can only live in our daily routine.

Therefore, in the second sentence, we must keep ourselves confidential. This is what we say to everyone.

This sentence may be out of date for our time, but it may not be out of date for you. Because I never worried that Peking University graduates would not have an ideal or ambitious ideal, but more worried about whether you can calmly face ordinary life, especially when the ideals of youth become increasingly distant, vague, and gloomy; and because, I want to say, almost-if not all-Every ambitious person is destined to be unable to fully realize his ideal.

I certainly hope and believe that you can have outstanding politicians, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and scholars, but only a few of them can be squeezed out when you are too many, if it is more, it will be less valuable-the marginal utility is always decreasing. In both secular and self-evaluation, the vast majority of people must be less successful.

However, we need to know that success is not necessarily associated with happiness. The so-called failure may not be tantamount to unhappiness. Therefore, when you leave campus, you must not only establish your own ambitions, but also define your success.

Anfen is not a derogatory term or even a neutral word. "anfen" is not easy. In this era, it is even harder to "keep yourself!