A 22-year-old girl, who failed in the postgraduate entrance examination last year, began to think about the significance of learning. What should I do?
1. Why study?
As you thought in your description, isn't the idea generated by your own experience credible? This is really a very broad question. If we understand it from our life experience, it may not be very big. After all, many things that ancient people didn't eat were not only made, but also introduced to the dining table perfectly. The existence of this phenomenon is enough to overthrow past experience, and there is not much need to learn.
But if we look at the law of social development, it is because we have learned some experiences summarized by our ancestors from past studies, which have been verified in the constant social changes. For example, the 24 solar terms in Nature are very accurate when the natural climate is not destroyed. Although 24 solar terms's understanding has been replaced by software such as weather forecast, the calculation of weather will still be related to solar terms. It can be said that the 24 solar terms are the experience summed up by the ancients, and this experience is the law of nature. With the foundation, we can avoid detours for the follow-up research.
Looking at it from another angle, it's like when we enter school, the teacher will tell us 1+ 1=2 when we are talking about mathematics. This is generally accepted common sense at present. No matter how the society changes, this is the foundation. All the foundations of modern society are based on this common cognition. Imagine that if this basic cognition is not accepted by everyone, everyone wants to measure it with their own counting method. So, know what you want to learn.
When we have mastered certain attempts in basic learning and accepted by everyone, we have mastered many laws of social development and started to have our own ideas. At this time, don't be afraid to be guided or occupied by each other's ideas because of learning. The word in your description is "brain change". Throughout the world, thinkers at home and abroad are summing up the past, studying the present, and then putting forward ideas suitable for the current development environment. Just like the theory that human nature is good, there is also inherent vice's theory, which we should accept. The reason for the continuous progress of mankind is contradiction, because the past is not applicable to the present, so people begin to think about change and find their own way in repeated changes, and this process is the process of self-speculation. And the biggest gain from learning is the ability to think.
Second, how to understand the meaning of learning?
It is because of your knowledge and experience that you have raised such a question. If you have such questions, you should also prove the thinking power that learning gives you, so you are the beneficiary of learning and the practitioner of learning.
As for the failure of postgraduate entrance examination, we should treat it objectively. First, to find out the root of the problem, is it because your goal is too high, or because you are lazy in reviewing, or your mentality is not stable enough during the exam. All these reasons will point to the present result. Second, you can think when the results come out, which is already the meaning of this learning process.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory mentioned that people can pursue higher spiritual needs while meeting the needs of material life. It is precisely because of this that people begin to enjoy their spiritual world after solving the initial problem of eating and dressing in life. This is the space and significance of the existence of art. Therefore, we can understand that higher-level learning is to let ourselves see the bigger world and get a higher sense of happiness.