novelonline Chapter 2635 Mayfly World (35)
Chapter 2635 Mayfly World (35)
Chapter 2635 Mayfly World (Thirty-Five)
After the meal was ready, the two of them sat around the dining table. Oliver opened the bottle of wine, but he didn't seem to have the slightest sense of treating anyone to a drink. Instead, he looked like he wanted to get himself drunk.
"You are an incurable pessimist who always sees no hope. If you were not driven by a strong sense of mission, you would be a worse mess than Constantine, because you understand how bad this world is better than he does."
Schiller took out chopsticks and said, "You need very strong and continuous motivation to be motivated. You need a strong impact on your worldview and you need to be deeply shocked to have the strength to go further."
"The tragic situation in Mexico used to be your biggest source of motivation. You were deeply shocked by the tragic scene of the lower-class Mexicans who were hungry and naked, so you had a strong motivation to fight for them."
"But as you get to know the lower classes of this country more and more, you inevitably come to understand a phenomenon, that is, the lower classes harming each other. You know that the split of the revolutionary army is not just because someone is playing tricks on them from outside, but because they themselves do not understand unity, are selfish, and always think about the interests of their own little piece of land. They are even stupid to the point of being unteachable."
"You feel deeply disappointed, but you feel that there is nothing you can do about it, because that is human nature. They have spent so many years in poverty. When the poor suddenly become rich, they will either continue to be greedy and do whatever it takes to get more benefits, or they will just indulge in pleasure and rest on their laurels without wanting to do anything."
"You tell them this is not okay, but they don't listen to you, so some dangerous thoughts start to germinate in your mind, you think they deserve it, you think the country has developed to this point because of their own fault."
"The motivation you once had starts to fade away, followed by an indescribable emptiness. Your brain is gradually devoured by this emptiness, and you can't think of any good way to reverse the current situation."
"Natasha told you that they should be their saviors, and you agreed with this view, but felt that you were just using this view as an excuse to escape."
"You've had years of motivation and passion, but now you feel like you're just wasting your time. How long will this long wait last?"
"But you know that even if there is a New Mexico to save you, you will not be as shocked as before, because you know how many people who live in hell will turn from sheep to wolves when life gets better, from victims to perpetrators of harm to their fellow men."
Oliver drank glass after glass of wine, with his head down in silence. The delicious dishes could not impress him at all. He could not even feel any emotions in his heart, only a blank feeling.
"You always judge others by yourself and think positively of everything. You believe that humans are born with sympathy and kindness. Once they see the plight of their fellow human beings, saving them will become their instinct, just like you."
"To go a little deeper, you think that everyone can use the urge to save as motivation like you do, and can devote everything to the cause without any education or other material incentives."
"Intellectually, you know this is impossible, but you are looking forward to it all the time. This is the greatest tragedy of an idealist. When they realize that the world will never operate in the correct, logical, and sane way they imagined, the terrible sense of loss will overwhelm them."
"Isn't that ridiculous?" Oliver said. "I made a lot of unwise moves because of this, such as leaving Moscow on my own because it was not what I imagined."
“I thought I was going to see a country full of ideals, but in the end, it looked more like a graveyard full of medals of honor.”
"So I turned down their offer. They thought I wanted to go back to the front line, but I didn't go back."
"Sometimes I feel like I am being hypocritical, like a child who knows nothing about the world. When I see the dark side of this world, I can't accept it and I retreat back into my shell to avoid it."
"But the things I saw were constantly wearing away my passion and motivation. I would rather hide back home and not watch anything than be ground to pieces in this vortex one day."
Schiller sighed in his heart. Oliver was a man who would rather break than bend, an idealist who would never bow his head until his death.
He has the ability to practice his ideals, but the only problem is that his inner driving force comes entirely from emotional stimulation rather than rational thinking.
He must first be emotionally shocked before he can generate a surge of motivation, rather than thinking rationally and feeling that this is beneficial and then generating the motivation to do it.
These are two completely different types of people, each has its own advantages and disadvantages. The former can generate extremely powerful motivation and can even create miracles, but once the emotional stimulation weakens, they will inevitably become powerless. If they fall into negative emotions, they will enter a vicious cycle like Oliver.
The logical thinking that enables rational thinking is developed over the years and will not change in a short period of time, so the results of thinking will be the same, and it can continue to provide long-term motivation. However, rationality is naturally in conflict with inspiration. Although such people have a stable inner driving force, they rarely have bursts of inspiration.
Also, because they can judge the gains and losses too clearly rationally, once they get into an unfavorable situation, they are easily overly inclined to bad results. They always want to make more plans and leave more escape routes, so they lack the ability to reverse the situation and create miracles.
It is also simple to correct these two overly extreme situations. For the former, we cannot use past events as stimulation, such as letting them indulge in hatred and tragic past. Instead, we should use the future that has not yet happened as inducement, such as letting them focus on the success of others, the life they have already enjoyed, and the dreamlike and beautiful future scenes.
As the saying goes, what you can't get is always the best. Using past hatred as a source of motivation, once the hatred disappears or the nature of hatred is realized, this driving force will easily disappear, because hatred already exists and can be analyzed, and naturally can be eliminated.
But the future has not come after all. Anyone can think whatever they want about something that does not exist. Human imagination can never be destroyed. As long as it does not exist, it is naturally impeccable.
Long-term goals can also help such people maintain their inner motivation over the long term. Even if they are still relatively active at the beginning, they will not become completely powerless or even give up later.
As for the latter, they should look back more often. Most of the time, they only analyze the current situation, which is inevitably limited to metaphysics. Although how to do something is important, why you do it is more important.
Such people need to always remember what their starting point is when they do something, instead of rethinking the gains and losses in this environment every time they take a step into a new environment. Otherwise, it is easy to be like a blind bear breaking corn, breaking one cob and throwing away that cob, and in the end there is only one cob of corn in his hand, and he feels that he will starve to death sooner or later, so it is better to give up as soon as possible.
This is true for individuals, as well as for groups and companies. An emotion-driven group must set long-term goals, and a profit-oriented company must always keep in mind its original intention.
Following this theory, Schiller certainly has a way to reverse Oliver's current situation, but the first step is to convince him that drowning his sorrows in alcohol is futile.
Schiller kept leading the topic back to the universe he was in, but Oliver didn't say anything at all. Finally, Schiller got so angry that he took his bottle of wine.
Oliver sensed something was wrong. He squinted at Schiller and said, "Who are you? You are not a professor."
"I'm not, I'm just pretending to be him, but it looks like you and him are just so-so. I've been talking to him so much that my lips are almost worn out, but you don't even bother to pay attention to me."
Oliver snorted and said, "If you were the professor, I would probably be knocked unconscious by now."
Schiller was stunned for a moment, then said, "No way? No matter what, you can't hit someone, right? Doctors can't beat patients."
"That's why I can tell you're not him. You have such good medical ethics." Oliver winked slyly.
Schiller opened his mouth. He had never thought in his life that he would be praised for his medical ethics. He decided to skip the topic and said, "Okay, let's not be bashful. Don't you want to know who in my universe is supporting Mexico?"
Oliver was very interested in this topic. He put down his glass and said, "It sounds like they are much stronger than the Soviet Union? Is it Cuba?"
Schiller certainly knew that China was not within his consideration at all, because whether it was Marvel or DC, China at the end of the 20th century was still very poor and had not recovered at all. There were many areas where people could not even get meat. In the eyes of many foreigners, it was no different from the Qing Dynasty.
As for the following 30 years, most people have no idea what happened. It was as if a new country suddenly appeared in this world. This was because, both theoretically and practically, such a speed of development was impossible and totally unscientific, and could completely overturn existing sociological theories.
Oliver naturally did not expect that the big Eastern country, although on the brink of death because the Soviet Union was saved, their pressure was greatly reduced and they could devote more energy to development rather than preparing for war. It was visibly developing faster than the Marvel world, but it was still just getting started.
The initial stages are always inconspicuous. The three links and education projects are long and tiring with no results. There are no sufficiently amazing PPTs produced during the process, and there is no hype. Naturally, experts and scholars assume that they have accomplished something overnight.
"I think you can go with me to take a look, you will be very surprised." Schiller was quite confident. He thought, in fact, before humans entered the era of space exploration, many cities in China were already a bit like alien technology compared to foreign countries. Now we have entered the interstellar age, and the big cities in that country no longer look like the Earth.
Although Schiller had never been there in person, Clark went there to use the internet and when he came back he described the place to them in a fabulous way for two or three hours. Schiller couldn't help laughing when he thought about how Shenzhen could make a Kryptonian behave like a bumpkin.
Oliver was a young man from a wealthy family, and he sneered when he heard Schiller say that. Although the Quinn Group was not as good as the Wayne Group, it was also one of the largest companies in the world. Before he was stranded on the island, he also lived a life of debauchery and revelry every night. Could he be shocked by the cities on Earth?
Schiller said nothing, but opened the portal for him.