Masked Nights and Masked Hotels in Keigo Higashino —— Life and Education Services Behind Personality Mask

? After studying Jung's psychoanalytic theory, I didn't have a good understanding of the concept of "personality mask" until I finished reading two books by Keigo Higashino-The Night before the Mask and The Mask Hotel.

? In fact, the personality mask is not the "mask" mentioned in these two books, but it is also related to some extent. Tell the book first: The background of the book is a five-star hotel-Cotesia Hotel (with chain stores in Tokyo and Osaka). The heroine Shangmei Shanzhong is a senior receptionist in the hotel. While devoting herself to providing better and more satisfactory services to the guests, she likes to observe all aspects of the guests and try not to expose their "masks". The hero, Hirosuke Xintian, is a young policeman who has a keen sense of solving crimes and often finds clues from some details. In several short stories of The Night Before the Mask, Shangmei and Xintian did not meet, Shangmei accumulated experience in observing masks in the hotel, Xintian was solving a case, but there was a case related to the Cotesia Hotel, and they still overlapped. In the masked hotel, in order to catch the suspect of serial murder, Xintian came to Shangmei's office as a secret policeman lurking in the hotel and received training as the front desk of the hotel. In this case, the meaning of the mask has been further elaborated.

? Both written cases are related to exchange murder. The clues are not direct, they are sorted out bit by bit. In my opinion, many of the clues are easy and far-fetched. As a mystery novel, it is still a bit hard, but as a human novel, it is great. It gave me the following two inspirations:

? The first revelation is about masks: the book says: "All guests who come to our hotel wear masks, a kind of mask called' guests', and never try to uncover it" (the night before the mask). In these two novels, many hotel guests disguise their identities in various ways and do some hidden things. As a receptionist, Shangmei can see through the "mask", but she can't say it. She must protect the mask of the guests. We all have this so-called "mask", short-term and long-term. Temporary masks can be called camouflage, and long-term masks are the so-called "personality masks". Personality mask is the prototype in the subconscious. Generally speaking, it is a kind of personality that people construct for themselves in order to adapt to social development and their own development. This kind of personality is different from their own real personality, but it exists for a long time. The appearance of "mask" is to protect oneself, and then adapt to society and survive better. Teacher Wei Guangdong wrote in the book "Secrets in the Heart": Personality mask is a side of a person's public display, and its purpose is to leave a good impression on people and gain social recognition. The existence of personality mask also has two sides. The good side is to ensure that we can live in harmony with others, especially those we don't like, achieve personal goals, achieve personal achievements, and even get rich material rewards (which can be used to lead a more comfortable and natural personal life), which is the foundation of social and public life. But if a person is too enthusiastic and addicted to the role he plays, other aspects of his personality will be suppressed and rejected, which will eventually lead to psychological imbalance.

We all need masks. Take me for example, many times I appear to be polite, but in fact, thousands of alpacas wear masks when they fly by. My enthusiastic and enterprising teacher image is my personality mask, but the shadow part of my personality is wayward, lazy and timid. Then I want psychological balance. On the one hand, I want to keep my personality mask and play an active and kind teacher role in my work, so that the leaders can recognize me, the teachers support me and the students love me (this is what my personality mask does not pretend). On the other hand, after work, I may ask my friends to have a drink and spit out the work, lie in bed and do nothing, exercise and entertain, meet the energy needed by my shadow part and achieve psychological balance. Each of us achieves a balance in this way, making ourselves mentally healthy and facing our daily work and life normally.

? The second revelation is about service: the book says: "As a hotel employee, I attach great importance to our rules ... our rules are decided by the guests. In the previous professional baseball game, a referee declared that he was a rule book, and so were we. The guest is the rule book. Therefore, guests can't break the rules, so we must abide by the rules they make, absolutely ... So the hotel staff won't refute the guests' remarks, but it doesn't mean that all the requirements put forward by the guests should be met ... making the guests feel comfortable and happy is the first priority. On the other hand, if you do this, there is no need to do it completely according to their requirements "(Masquerade Hotel). Maybe you don't quite understand what I mean by listing such a long paragraph. In fact, as a service industry (including the education industry, leaders, teachers, parents and students can all be imagined as guests), the essence is actually to provide services. As service personnel, when the guests make unreasonable or unreasonable demands, they can meet the guests in a flexible way without violating the regulations. This is the wisdom of service or education. Just like Professor Jin said-finding problems is not a level, but solving problems is the ability. With the increase of age and knowledge, I found that many things I experienced before could be handled in a better way, but I didn't think of doing that at that time. It has been written many times in the book that Shangmei solved the difficulties of the guests with clever methods and ensured the reputation and service of the hotel. I think, extending to our education industry, as a teacher, we can also regard ourselves as a service industry, where leaders provide services for teachers and teachers provide services for students and parents (instead of leading and managing teachers and teachers managing students). If we do education with such a mentality, we can think about problems from the perspective of service when we encounter various things. Will it be better to solve the contradictions in education in a flexible way?

? Reading books now will unconsciously connect the contents of books with my study, work and life. This may be the meaning of "reading thousands of books". I hope reading can make my life richer and better.