How do you face the trade offs in life? Between trade offs is the meaning of life

Life is a process of constant choice and trade-off, and with choices comes a cost. There is a term in economics called opportunity cost, also known as choice cost. In short, something else that is given up in order to get something.

At all stages of life, there are choices to make, and there is a question of whether the opportunity cost is large or small. Different choices make different lives. There is such a parable:

If a donkey wants to eat grass, put a pile of grass on the left and right sides of the donkey, which pile to eat first? The donkey starved to death in hesitation. Lincoln said that the so-called smart man is that he knows what choice is.

Many people do nothing in their lives because they are reluctant to give up the opportunity cost. This is the impact of opportunity cost on life. There is only one thing in life that you can't choose - that is, your own origin, and everything else is the result of your own choice.

Sartre, the greatest philosopher of the 20th century, said philosophically, "Man has the freedom to choose, but man does not have the freedom not to choose." The words of this master speak such a truth:

Life is full of choices. In the tropical jungles of India, monkeys are caught in a peculiar way of hunting: a small fixed wooden box is filled with the monkey's favorite nuts, and a small opening is made on the box just enough for the monkey's front paws to stick into.

Monkey – Once you grab the nut, you can't pull out your paws. The reason why people catch monkeys in this way is because monkeys have a habit of refusing to let go of what they have already arrived.

We will definitely laugh at the monkeys for being stupid. Wouldn't it be easy to let go of your claws? In fact, we often make the same mistakes.

Everyone will face all kinds of painful choices, which is like falling into a river, there is no way to survive except to swim ashore and not drown, that is, they have to choose. The opportunity cost of life can be high at times, and the higher the opportunity cost, the more difficult the choice will be, because no one wants to give up what they might get easily. It takes courage and wisdom to make trade-offs, especially when you find that your choice is wrong, you must have the courage to give up and make adjustments in time, so as to ensure that your life does not deviate from the main channel and reach the other side of success.

The enlightenment of the law of life trade-offs: The two most important things in a person's life are: being good at choosing and daring to give up.

Dare to give up voluntarily, that is, it marks the beginning of a new life. We often say that "heroes don't mention the courage of the year" and "put death and then live", in fact, it is to turn the opportunity cost into zero. Only people with great ambitions dare to take the initiative to reduce the existing opportunity cost, or even reduce it to zero, and then make new choices in life.

Talking about trade-offs》 Many times, we will find that life is not like an exam, many difficult questions, and there are no standard answers.

In particular, the widely discussed, morally relevant choices are often confusing and confusing.

For example, the tram problem is indeed classic; Many people must have heard of it, so let's simplify it: should we sacrifice a person who is not in danger in order to save the people who are going to die?

The complexity lies in the inseparability between "whether to abandon less and keep more" and "whether to block the natural development of things".

When faced with trade-offs, we should distinguish between right and wrong first, and then distinguish between the important and the important. Profit is to put others before yourself, and harm is to put yourself before others; Take the light of the harm, take the heavy of the benefit: that's right. Otherwise, it's wrong.

And there is no right or wrong choice, only a difference between the important and the serious. In the case of multiple-choice questions, if the answer is all wrong, it is all right. If you have to choose one out of many, and you don't choose any one, it's wrong: then you have to choose any one, it's right.

Right and wrong are easy to distinguish, and it is difficult to distinguish between the important and the serious. It is difficult to distinguish between right and wrong, which is even more painful. After all, there are often public opinions to learn from right and wrong, and the severity is all measured by selfishness.

Generally speaking, there is often no right or wrong choice without an accepted answer, and it should not be subject to moral judgment and legal sanctions. Since there is no right or wrong, you can choose according to your heart's priorities: this is the case with the tram problem.

Some people are precious gold, some people are precious jade, and they all value the treasure and the loved one. Obviously, the weight of a thing depends both on itself and on the person who weighs it.

But the name in the heart varies from person to person. If you use your own standards to weigh the weight of others' trade-offs, there will definitely be deviations. Therefore, when we seek common ground, we should also pay attention to reserving differences; Don't be within the right range and harshly question the answers of others.

However, the ancients said: "Great virtue is not more than idle, and small virtue is in and out, but also." "If the decision is so important that it may affect the natural evolution of humans or other living beings, it should not be taken lightly. If human beings act too much and too heavily against the heavens, they will surely bring harm to themselves.

There will be retribution for the great good that benefits the heavens and the great evil that hurts the heavens—this retribution is not in the present generation, but in the future. And the punishment of heaven for human beings is small for the manifest and great for the hermitted; Among them, the most important is to shorten the time of human existence.

The trade-offs in life are large and small, and there are all kinds of trade-offs. And regret, like an incurable disease, can only be prevented, not **: the choice has been decided, and regret is useless. If you are not confused about big things, you are wise; As for the little things, don't be too shrewd.

The wise man will be hazy in his little things; Those who are ignorant will be observant of small things. Covering the service is the root of ignorance, and the hole of hazy wisdom is also. (Uttered in "Caigen Tan").

The wisdom of life is nothing more than the type of trade-off. If you want to gain something, you must give up some spring guesses, the things that belong to you in this world are limited after all, and only by giving up the stars can you harvest the dawn. Between the wisdom game of take-off and give-and-take, it is a frank life.

"Between the trade-offs is life" tells many stories close to life and full of philosophy, summarizes the wisdom of being a person and doing things, can give some philosophical inspiration to busy modern people, and help people control life with ease in the complicated life.

In fact, life is a process of giving and taking, and life is often faced with the test of giving and taking, success or failure, all in the trade-off; Joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, there are many difficult choices between giving and taking. Standardize the inner appeal, experience the inner tenacity, let the light always be there, and be happy for a lifetime.

The sculptor and painter Giacometti said: "Sometimes in order to depict a head, it is necessary to give up the whole body; For the sake of one leaf, you have to take care of the whole forest."

In a hurry, sometimes it has passed in a flash before you have time to savor it. There is a give-and-take, and you only have a time to wither. Therefore, we should learn to make trade-offs and know how to give up, so that we will not be pale when we come to the end and guess the mold.