One, Volume 2 summary

Volume 2 is a clear stage of growth and accumulation.

This volume is actually not easy to explain in detail, because in my opinion, the focus is on various preludes and foreshadowings.

The seemingly strange and unreasonable things in this volume will be revealed one by one in the future.

When I was preparing for the second volume, it was very simple. I felt that since I wrote about ancient Greece, Sparta and sports competitions, I had to write about them. Of course, marathons were not easy to avoid.

It’s just that because it is a world of magic and divine power, many old things are ineffective, so the war process tends to be personal heroism.

This is the inevitability of high-end power wars.

At the end of this volume, Su Ye officially embarked on the road of legend.

Just like his choice at the end of volume two.

He decided to develop papermaking and movable type printing, not to show off, not to make money, not to show off the superiority of time travelers, not to literacy, not to popularize culture, not to the low-level interpretation of the four great inventions.

Instead, in order to promote the progress of the entire human race, we ask ourselves to do things as a legend. "Why" is very important.

Just like everyone else, they eat and breathe, so it is more important to figure out what they live for.

Su Ye figured out why, so he didn't even care that papermaking and movable type printing would strengthen the gods and temples, because the progress of the times would not leave anyone behind.

Unless you stick to the old days.

Once the times begin to accelerate, then anyone who blocks the wave of the times will be swallowed up.

Even gods.

Even when Su Ye decided to join forces with the Temple to accelerate the popularization of papermaking movable type printing, he was ready to make progress with all those who were willing to make progress.

No matter what identity.

In the first volume, Su Ye was still obsessed with the struggle between the common people and the nobles, but in the second volume, he had already realized something deeper.

The battle between nobles and civilians is only at the level of occurrence of problems. Only by breaking through this level can we find the level of resolution of problems.

With rich experience and learning and thinking about the wisdom and knowledge of the wise and great men, Su Ye has gradually changed.

It is not a change in power, but a transformation in spirit and thinking.

At the end of the first volume, I seem to have said that there are indeed many things like preaching in the text. As for why, I will explain in detail at the end of the third volume.

The third volume is the turning point of the entire book in the outline.

Yesterday, when I was thinking about the third volume, I deleted some original content and only planned to write the main one.

The progress should speed up slightly, and starting from Volume 4, the process will speed up further.

Ahem, I'll get a vaccination. On about two or three key issues, the third volume will still take a few chapters to explain it.

However, after the third volume, Su Ye's spirit and thinking have been transformed, and he no longer has too much preaching before, but will write stories well. The same sentence will be said, and the reason will be summarized and explained after the end of the third volume.

What I can say now is that I am not just for preaching. I am just writing different people or things in different ways. In other words, I was writing many "worlds that cannot be seen by the eyes but can be touched by the mind" that I did not involve in the previous books.

The main content has been mentioned here, let’s talk about something else.

2. Chat

Why can't I update three, four, and five every day?

This problem needs to be discussed from both the inside and the outside.

Let me first talk about the external environment with an impact of only 1%. Yes, even if I talk about external influence first, I think the environmental factors are actually very, very small.

For example, the weather is overheated in summer, my sleep disorders, the industry is turbulent, and my mind is unstable. For example, the impact of the epidemic and the entanglement of subscriptions, etc....

Even though I find many factors that will slow down my writing, I still think the impact is only 1%.

I never deny the impact of the external environment, but I firmly believe that as people get older, the negative impact of the external environment will become smaller and smaller, and their own impact on themselves will become greater and greater.

From the inside of me, what exactly affects me?

I analyzed from two aspects, but the analysis process is very complicated, so I try to keep it simple.

Now I study Su Ye in books every day, or those big guys, try to find a large and complete time of half an hour to an hour every day, and focus on thinking about a problem or a point.

If you can think thoroughly about one question every day, you can think 365 in a year, and 3,650 in ten years. How many problems can a person have in his life? Right?

1. I lack concentration.

People who can write for a long time need to have particularly strong concentration.

I am actually a person who has lacked concentration since I was a child. Even now, even though I have studied self-management for several years, my concentration has not improved qualitatively.

Of course, I am not in a hurry, take it slowly, I will give myself ten years of time.

As I said before, when people are old, they should understand that they are the most influential force on themselves, and when they are young, they have the greatest influence on the outside world, especially in childhood.

Therefore, when I was thinking, I was pursuing why my thinking was particularly divergent and unable to concentrate, and I pursued my childhood.

When I was a child, I was fostered by my parents at a relative's house, such as grandma, grandma, aunt, uncle and aunt.

Even if I was young, I realized that I was not their real family. They felt more pity for me and it was difficult to treat me as a real family. For example, the bullying of my brothers, the indifference of other relatives, and all kinds of things would have a huge impact on my thinking.

Thinking about it now, it was quite tragic when I was a child. Only when my relatives scared me with my father who was far away and I had no impression of me did I know that I had a father, so it led to the fact that my father at that time was a terrible image.

Until now, I will never communicate with my father. (Manually cover my face and expression)

My first impression of my mother was that when I was in the first grade of elementary school, she took me home.

My relatives at that time were all ordinary people. They were already very tired of survival and had their own children. It was impossible for them to pay too much attention to me.

This led to my view of the environment at that time: this is an insecure environment because there is no protection from parents and no warmth of the family.

Should my mind focus or diverge in a dangerous environment?

Obviously, I have to diverge at all times and find various red flags. If I am too focused, I may not be able to detect the danger.

This kind of influence from the environment since childhood has led me to form a deeply rooted and divergent and even a little suspicious thinking.

Therefore, since I was a child, I was particularly prone to attracting attention by external changes.

Even my study is the same. As long as I study hard, my grades will rise sharply, but I cannot concentrate on studying for a long time, so what awaits me is the ups and downs.

Too divergent to maintain concentration is one of the main reasons why I can't keep writing many chapters every day.

However, the problem needs to be viewed in two ways. Divergent thinking makes me unable to focus. Will that bring benefits?

Of course there is.

Divergent thinking makes me feel like a fish in the "conception" before writing. With my rich ability of "imagination, fantasy and delusion", I can have some small achievements in writing.

However, the inability to focus also restricted my further growth.

The fundamental reason why I can say this frankly now is that I no longer interpret the world as a "dangerous environment" like before and no longer over-precautions.

From the current perspective, the fundamental problem in my childhood was not that environment, but "my explanation of the environment."

If I explained this at the time: it was because my parents loved me and they knew they could not protect me well outside, so they sent me to their hometown. Although my relatives were not good at expressing themselves, they also loved me in their hearts. Although my brother would bully me, it was because they wanted to show themselves, and it might be because they felt that I had taken away the love that belonged to their family. They actually didn't really want to bully me...

If I explained this way, I would definitely be completely different now.

Of course, I am actually very glad that I did not encounter extreme situations back then. Nothing like being locked by a chain or being seriously hurt by family and relatives did not happen to me. If something excessively serious happens, I should find a way to fight and strive for my own living space.

Well...what do I want to say?

This thinking is divergent...

To sum up, although I viewed my childhood and those pasts with a confrontational attitude, I am now slowly reconciling with everything in the past.

Although the past has had a great impact on me, which has caused me to have excessive divergence in my mind and it is difficult to keep my focus for a long time, I no longer blame the problems on the past. I am now working hard to improve my concentration ability.

2. Self-identity.

Whether it is divergence or concentration, whether it is writing or updating, it is just a "appearance". We humans have an innate abstract ability.

During the thinking process, I abstracted it. The whole process is actually very complicated and I really have to write it for a long time. Let me briefly talk about it.

What is long-term writing? It is an action.

So what is the prerequisite for determining action? It is judgment.

So what will drive judgment? Only by being aware of changes or unchanging can one make judgments.

So, what was before you realize it?

At this point, I thought about it for a long time and finally determined that the prerequisite for awareness is "self-identity".

This logical line involves my interpretation of various knowledge and experiences, which is quite complicated. I won’t say much. Simply put, correct awareness requires correct understanding of oneself. The correct understanding of oneself must first have self-identity.

Because if we cannot identify with ourselves, we will have deviations in our understanding of the world, just like in my childhood.

And I continue to ask what the premise of self-identity is?

I thought about it for a long time, it should be "survival" or "existence".

There is no need to ask questions before survival, because that is the purely physiological and genetic level.

Because we need to survive and we want to live, we need to "self-identify". If we do not identify with ourselves, we will lose the need for survival and fall into self-destruction, and then everything about us will be meaningless.

Because I have heard of people with severe depression, their brain structure changes differently than ordinary people, and they will enter a state of "nothingness". Simply put, they will not care about life or death.
To be continued...