Yu Yu answered the reader's question: Apart from coding, is there no other high-priority hobby?

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As my work, coding is naturally a high-priority hobby, but it can make you curious because, in fact, I have introduced too little about myself.

Looking at all my articles, before the series "Sai Yu Answers Readers' Questions", I never wrote non-technical articles. In technical articles, one of my standards for writing is: don't write nonsense, so I don't write a little bit of life or what I've been doing like some authors in technical articles. Of course, I will not write annual summaries, personal insights, or complain about some things like some authors. Therefore, most of my classmates know very little about me, except for some introductions I have posted online.

Even if I add my friends, I only know a little more. Although "mqyqingfeng" is indeed my personal WeChat, I am a person who doesn't post very much about my life. My circle of friends is more about my articles, And the videos, links, etc. that I share that I think are good, in addition, you can also see some of the content I wrote such as reading insights, daily thinking, game screenshots, life sharing, etc.:

Careful friends look at my screenshots and will find that the number of likes in my Moments is very low. This is because some Moments I usually post will be set to private first, and will be set to public after 3 days, so about me In the circle of friends in life, even my friends will feel that they have never reached my hot circle of friends.

Saying this is just to let everyone have a basic understanding of my low-key habits (although I feel that I am not so low-key anymore), just like the group name of the front-end group I built, "Low-key, pragmatic, excellent Chinese youth", the first item It is low-key, like my group knowledge base is private, in order to protect everyone's privacy, all kinds of activity statistics are also used WeChat nicknames instead of WeChat IDs.

But since I have asked a question about my hobbies, I will talk about my two hobbies that take more time.

The first is reading. Last year, I re-read and re-read a total of 29 books, most of which are humanities and social science books. In " Xian Yu Answers Reader Questions: I'm 30 years old, is it too late to start working hard now?" " In this article, I gave an answer to "why should I read", that is, we need to believe in some things, or God rewards hard work, or the brilliance of human nature, or the cycle of cause and effect, in short, you have to believe in some things. Things, you can make a little more change, and it is that every little change that ultimately leads to a qualitative change, and how to convince us that one is reading, the other is practice, relatively speaking, reading is the easiest Methods.

From another angle, the number of people living on this planet should be tens of billions, but there are only a few hundred thinkers who have been handed down, and there are only a hundred excellent books that have a profound understanding of life and society. With less than 100 books, you can understand the great wisdom of human beings. Isn't it a very worthwhile thing to do?

You might wonder, can reading a hundred books really do it? All I can say is that although you can't exhaust the wisdom of human beings, you can see the wisdom of human beings, and you can see it. We have already understood many truths in these books. In reading more books, we are just constantly reviewing, consolidating, expanding, and strengthening our cognition.

So which books should we read? Seriously, it depends on your personal interests. As far as my personal direction is concerned, I prefer to read literature, philosophy, and psychology in the humanities and social sciences. In these directions, there are many excellent books. , you can go to Zhihu to search for book recommendations in the relevant direction, or, open the WeChat reading list or book list, and find books with very high evaluations to read first.

But among the classmates in my group, I will definitely recommend Zhou Ling's "Cognitive Awakening" and "Cognitive Drive" . You can read it for free on WeChat Reading. There is a deeper understanding.

The second is games. Since graduation, I have mainly played single-player games, which can be regarded as a lot of games:

Games like The Witcher 3, Persona, Assassin's Creed series, Final Fantasy 15, Cyberpunk, etc., I've played hundreds of hours.

Many people often feel guilty when playing games. Seriously, what does this have to do with games? You feel guilty, essentially because you feel that playing games, or playing games at this time is wrong, but what about you? You can't control yourself, indulge yourself and play a game, and finally put the blame on the game.

Many people often feel emptiness when playing games. If it is a kind of emptiness after the completion of achievements, then it is the same as the emptiness caused by the short-term lack of goals after we accomplish other things in our daily life. Just play a game. And if it is guilt emptiness, in fact, before you play the game, you are already empty. At this time, no matter what you do, even if you do the eight arts, it will only contribute to your emptiness. After the end, you will also You still feel empty, and the reason why you choose to play games is not because you can’t read books, don’t know anything about music, you can’t dance, you can’t paint, you can’t sculpture, you can’t play, you can’t build, and watching movies is always better than playing games. Happy, you thought you chose the game, but you didn't have a choice.

So if you have a clear goal and work hard, and you really like games, playing games is just doing the right thing at the right time, just like we choose other entertainment activities, naturally there will be no negative emotions. And if you fail to meet the preconditions and recognize the nature of these negative emotions, it can also help you play games with more peace of mind and less pain afterwards.

Of course, just like books are divided into pulp novels and classical masterpieces, there are also high-level and low-level in games. Although it is not easy to distinguish, as Kafka said, books must be used to pierce the frozen ocean in people's hearts. Therefore, in the case of limited time, it is still necessary to read more books that can challenge us and touch us. The same is true of games. Play more good games, instead of holding one or two mobile games and keep playing. beat.

Finally, in my group, there was a classmate who was worried that posting articles would be too watery, so I wrote a short reply like this:

Books and games are a bit weird when they are paired together, but this is the road I have traveled. Whether it is the books I have read or the games I have played, they will eventually become your nutrients. As long as you read carefully, Hit, feel, think.

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