The fable of folding a piece of paper 51 times.

imagine that you have a blank sheet of paper big enough in your hand. Now, your task is to fold it 51 times. So, how high is it?

a refrigerator? One floor? Or the height of a skyscraper? No, the difference is too much. This thickness exceeds the distance between the earth and the sun.

Psychological comments

Up to now, I have asked more than a dozen people about this fable, and only two people said that it may be an unimaginable height, and the highest height that others thought was as high as a skyscraper.

The height of folding 51 times is so terrible, but what if you just stack 51 pieces of white paper together?

this contrast has shocked many people. Because a life without direction and planning is like simply stacking 51 pieces of white paper together. There is no connection between doing this today and doing that tomorrow. In this way, even if every job is well done, it is just a simple superposition for your whole life.

Of course, life is more complicated than this fable. Some people stick to a simple direction all their lives, and finally reach a height that others can't reach. For example, my friend's life direction is English (Q bar). He has spent more than ten years working hard, and the memory of words alone has reached hundreds of thousands, which has reached a height that ordinary people can't reach.

There are also some people who have a clear direction in life, such as starting a company as a boss, so they need many skills-professional skills, management skills, communication skills, decision-making skills and so on. They may try to do this and that at the beginning, and none of them are particularly proficient, but in the end, the direction of starting a company as a boss integrates these seemingly scattered efforts, which is also a complicated life folding, not a simple superposition.

remember: visible power is more useful than invisible power.

Nowadays, it is popular to look for answers from invisible places, such as potential development, such as success, thinking that our lives can only be saved by some miracles. However, in my opinion, Mao Zhengqiang, a consultant of Dongguan Hengyuan Psychological Counseling Center, said more correctly, "It is far more important to make good use of existing abilities through planning than to tap the so-called potential."