How did chicken soup become a derogatory term?

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Some people recently read my article and left me a message: "What a bowl of chicken soup!" I was stunned for a moment. In fact, I don't like it when others say My article is called Chicken Soup. Yesterday, I had the honor to attend Teacher Jie Chen’s lecture. She also mentioned: “I hate inspirational chicken soup.”

People in the circle of friends must have seen the so-called chicken soup, and some netizens even compiled basic The chicken soup routine format, a beautiful photograph and the sentence "how can you see a rainbow without going through wind and rain" are enough to blow up some people's circle of friends. I remember that when Chicken Soup first appeared, it was very popular all over the country. It moved people's hearts with its tear-jerking and touching stories, and its various inspirational legends made people work hard. It also made people feel bright about their future with its many examples of people who have overcome the bottom of life. .

Nowadays, the word chicken soup has quietly changed in people's minds. Commenting on the current situation of Zhihu, someone said: "A large amount of chicken soup has become extremely popular, crowding out the correct rational answers to shame." Here, chicken soup has become an outright derogatory term.

There is nothing wrong with it. When I saw an article that started with: "People who are smarter than you work harder than you, what reason do you have for not working hard?" I silently chose quit. Such nonsense language not only failed to inspire me, but made me feel that the author was either naive or trying to trick readers.

At the same time, you will also find that the more outstanding people are in life, the less likely they will forward chicken soup articles in their circle of friends. So is chicken soup really a fool?

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Pure chicken soup is almost as good for our spirit as the junk food in our mouths. The reason why junk food is called junk food is not because it is harmful to health, but because it is harmful to health. It's because it's delicious but not nutritious. The same is true for chicken soup. Chicken soup stories are often full of twists and legends, making people who are dissatisfied with their lives feel like they can change their destiny and reach the top like the people in the story.

But the fact is that it is always a few people who reach the top, but chicken soup inspires the majority. Success requires many things, including methods, experience, accumulation, thinking, wisdom, and opportunities. Of course there is passion, but passion alone is far from enough to achieve success. This is the disadvantage of pure chicken soup. It makes people think that they can succeed as long as they work hard, so they have to keep moving forward even if they knock down the wall.

A typical example is the "10,000-hour expert" theory circulating on the Internet. The general idea is that if you spend 10,000 hours on anything, you can become an expert in this field. This sentence seems to be an experience, but in fact it is a chicken soup. Even if you say this is a method, it is also the stupidest method, or the least efficient method. Some people have already said that "listening to you is worth ten years of reading", but you still plan to spend 10,000 hours to surpass others?

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So in the future, shouldn’t we all write or read chicken soup? Of course not. Because chicken soup is a product that directly touches the soul, it has a unique appeal to people. No matter how bad the chicken soup is, there are always a lot of people who like to read and taste it. Just like you know that fried food is bad, but you still like to eat it. It is even more impossible for you to ask the broad masses of the people to put down chicken soup and concentrate on studying methods and experience and reading practical information.

The correct solution is to "add ingredients" to the chicken soup, or to "add chicken soup" to your ingredients. Some self-media once said: "I refused to write about chicken soup at first, but I found that if I didn't write about the feeling of chicken soup, not many people would read it." Yes, most people in this era are impetuous. I like chicken soup and long for the comfort and salvation of chicken soup from the bottom of my heart. But we cannot use the attraction of chicken soup to perfunctory ourselves.

Articles written by people with conscience and wisdom all look like chicken soup, but in fact they are not all chicken soup. As a part of the article, the more important role of chicken soup is to attract readers to read it carefully. After reading the article, , we can indeed gain methods and ideas from it, instead of just being beaten.

If an article is pure chicken soup, it is a failure. If a person only reads chicken soup, then he is also a failure.

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In today's huge network information flow, many people just drink chicken soup, immersed in the world of chicken soup, and finally sigh, "I have seen so many truths." , It’s still not easy to live this life.”

The reason is that the chicken soup they see is pure chicken soup without nutrition. This kind of chicken soup is often accompanied by strong inspirational words and uses extreme words to express efforts. The two words describe something more important than anything else, but they don’t introduce any methods of hard work. It is easy for people to fall into the misunderstanding of "I just need to work hard". After working hard for a period of time with no results, people's mood drops extremely, and confusion and distress begin to well up in their hearts.

Therefore, we must have a comprehensive understanding of ourselves, have a certain ability to distinguish between toxic chicken soup and pure non-nutritional chicken soup, and be able to improve both our wisdom and enthusiasm when choosing reading. aspect. I can't say that dry goods are definitely more helpful to a person than chicken soup, because this matter still depends on whether a person lacks enthusiasm or methods.

Now look at what I wrote in my profile: "Stay intellectual and use chicken soup appropriately." You should understand why I don't like others to call my articles chicken soup. I hope you can drink soup "appropriately" and gain growth on the way forward.

***Mian.