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So, after giving the fortune-telling 100 yuan, she did not plan to commit suicide, but returned home.

Later, after giving birth to her child, she did not even confine her child, and started a new business while nursing her baby.

During the time of re-enterprise, I encountered several cases of nearing bankruptcy, but she kept remembering that fortune telling would tell her that she would be rich after 35, and she insisted on clenching her teeth.

She told me about this experience when she was 41 years old. The company has been profitable for 6 consecutive years. She also remarried and had another child.

For her, the greatest resilience in her life comes from the phrase “fortune and wealth after 35”.

Actually, she was able to start a business again from adversity. The roots came from her deeper and deeper grasp of the market and her personal dissatisfaction, but this superstition did save her and gave her back. Greater resistance to attack.

Well Durant, a well-known American scholar, professor of life philosophy, Pulitzer Prize (1968) and Medal of Freedom (1977), and his wife Ariel Durant, in his masterpiece “History of History “Lesson” (recommended reading by the Central Discipline Inspection Commission), a sentence is the best summary of superstition can improve resilience:

“For the frustrated, some incredible supernatural hope is the only alternative to despair.”

04, How to use superstitions

Superstition has its positive value, but at the same time, superstition is indeed the source of many evils.

Then how can we use superstition reasonably to extract its essence and remove its dregs?

The method is: you have to use it.

1. You have to use it

In both cases, you can try some superstitious behavior or ritual.

① When self-confidence is needed

In this respect, superstition may be more useful than all other psychological cues. This is also the reason why various superstars and superstitious behaviors of sports stars are endless.

I still remember that when I was in elementary school, every time my final exam was over, my grandmother would prepare breakfast, and I would prepare a fried dough stick and two eggs, which means that you can take 100 points.

Every time I finish eating one egg and feel a bit full and don’t want to eat the second egg, I will force myself to finish eating the second one, because I really don’t want to take only 10 points.

This small sacrifice is still a bit effective, at least 100 points in mathematics can be tested, but the Chinese has never passed 100 points. It is estimated that you should eat two fritters and four eggs (this will make you panic) .

This method of fritters and two eggs will not work well after junior high school, because the test papers are all 120 points, only 100 points will not work.

② When you have no choice or despair consciously

The second scenario where superstition can be used is when you are consciously lost or hopeless.

Using superstition to get out of despair is definitely better than going out of the way or doing stupid things.

But the key to the application is that you have to be convinced of this superstition, only a small trick of two eggs with a fried dough stick will definitely not work in this situation.

2 、 If you do n’t use it, do n’t use it

The essence of superstition is plainly an irrational expectation. The operation of the objective world will not be affected by superstition, so it can be used if it is not used.

① Those who can rely on their own efforts, never rely on superstitions

I’ve met people who are very poor but you can’t sympathize at all.

He is delicious and lazy. He doesn’t want to do things and suffer every day, but he burns incense at home and worships the Buddha. He thinks of the Buddha Guanyin Bodhisattva and blesses him every day.

This kind of superstition, trying to enjoy it, completely obliterates personal fighting spirit.

② Do not rely on superstitions for things that can be solved scientifically.

Superstition, like religion, is a kind of supernatural hope. The so-called supernatural are some natural phenomena that cannot be explained by the current natural sciences.

So, as long as it can be solved scientifically, never rely on superstition.

For example, see a doctor. If the disease can be treated in the hospital, you still need to find a doctor. Don’t be delayed by various wands.

For example, to start a company, you still have to earnestly make good products, research the market, and coordinate the funds, instead of hanging a gossip on the door of the company and a public statue next to the front desk.

05, Summary

The reason why superstition is called “mystery” and “belief” is that it has no scientific basis and blindly believes in something without reason or speculation.

This kind of thought and behavior is not desirable in itself, and it does cause a lot of social vices.

But why is superstition insurmountable and even widespread among advanced intellectuals?

Even if it is Newton who put forward the three laws of physics, such a person with scientific literacy, he believes that gravity is the first impetus of God.

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This is because superstition is inevitable at the current level of human cognition.

We seek to explain everythingInstinct, the pursuit of future certainty, are the roots of the constant flow of superstition.

Since superstition is unavoidable, then it is more reasonable for us to take the essence and remove the dross.

If you can rely on your own efforts and use scientific methods, stay away from superstition; but if you need confidence or blessing, you can also encourage yourself with superstition.