Stakes, five mongers of knowledge, mathematics

I messed around with you yesterday about those three persuasion techniques, and I forgot to mention Aristotle's name. However, I would like to add that, whether it is reasoning, empathy or prestige, in the final analysis, it only answers the question of "how", but the more important question is to think clearly about "why" first. When we persuade others, if the deeper starting point is four words - "interests". The three techniques of persuasion are nothing more than considering the specific situation of the other party and finding a way to make them realize that your persuasion is beneficial to them.

But at this point, I suddenly came up with this idea: There are so many people in the world, the narrower your understanding of "good", the fewer people you can convince.

• When a person can only understand a "good job" as a "stable job", then he is doomed to be impossible to convince a person who doesn't think "stable" is a good thing;
• When a person can only understand "good students" as "obedient, well-behaved and good grades", then he is destined to be unable to gain the confidence of those exploratory geniuses who are curious about the world and have a backside in their heads;
• When a person can only interpret "good marriage" as "RV deposit status", then he is destined to be unable to convince those girls and young men who dare to love and hate to go to People's Square and be willing to be clearly marked.

We happen to be born on the same planet, and whether you define your stakes as asset-related, freedom-related, feeling-related, or otherwise, it does not prevent me from understanding you, nor does it prevent me from being able to share with you. Don't care about the same purpose I work with you. Your ends may be my means, and my ends may be her by-products.

In addition, I happened to talk about Aristotle just now, and I thought of the confusion I had when I was a teacher - the knowledge of the world has been compiled and compiled by the sages and saints for several lifetimes. A Google, what's the point of being a teacher? In particular, the Zhihu netizens of Dr. Renbao often criticized me as a "second-order dealer of knowledge", and I was really sad for a while. However, I realized later that it was not a criticism at all. In fact, I couldn’t have achieved the status of a “two-way dealer”. I now position myself as a “five-way dealer” following the original creator, the interpreter, the diluter, and the disseminator. "—"meaning-giver", and is constantly challenging the work of three and four dealers.

Remember the "Poem Cloud" shared a few days ago? Knowledge is discovered, not invented. Information is pixel points, and the graph formed by the connection between information is knowledge (not rigorous). All information is stored, which means that all information is not stored. A database without a search engine is equivalent to no database.

So, I suddenly remembered the concept that Zhan Wusi made me kneel down. I remember telling him that the difference between mathematics and the natural sciences is that it is non-empirical. Zhanwusi looked at me blankly and said:

No, math is empirical - you can write as many formulas as you want, and look gorgeous. But which formula is "meaningful" depends on the angle from which humans perceive the world. All meaningful mathematical expressions are the result of choice, not metaphysical existence.

That was my moment of enlightenment.

- Captain, April 14, 2021