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Grass Stage Team and Ordinary Me

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The author reflects on a conversation they watched on YouTube and concludes that everyone is ordinary and should accept it. However, they also express their desire to achieve great things and not settle for mediocrity. They appreciate how the speaker in the video expressed these ideas calmly and from a position of authority. The author also mentions how these ideas resonate with a year-end speech by someone else and how the world progresses through the collaboration and efforts of ordinary people. They discuss how science has debunked the mysteries of nature and society, and how modern psychology has challenged concepts like free will and rational thinking. However, they believe that these revelations only lead to a better understanding of ourselves and more opportunities to design our own lives. The author admits that this is not a great blog post, but they want to share the best things they have learned from social media. They end by acknowledging the ordinariness of all of us.

After studying late at night, I reviewed a conversation I had seen on YouTube before. The main point is that everyone is an ordinary person and we all need to accept that we are ordinary.

I feel a bit conflicted about this matter. I know that I am an ordinary person, but I hope to do great things. I hope to become a little less ordinary through ordinary progress. Even though statistically I will still be an ordinary person even after achieving these progress, I will have gained the sense of accomplishment I desire. Don't get me wrong, these efforts are not to look down on others for being ordinary. I don't want to give up pursuing achievements that I aspire to, achievements that ordinary people can accomplish.

In fact, most of these thoughts were already in my mind before watching this video. It's just that he expressed these concepts in a concise and calm manner, which made me as a listener feel comfortable. Furthermore, he expressed these views from the position of a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, which is a much higher position than mine, allowing me to affirm my views without using mediocrity as an excuse.

In fact, this viewpoint resonates with the year-end speech by Ma Qianzu. This world is made up of ordinary people, and through cooperation and effort, occasionally extraordinary achievements are made. This has been the way the world has progressed.

Before we ordinary people achieve such a life, we first demystify nature and the world through science. Then, in the subsequent process, we begin to demystify society and understand that important figures are also ordinary people like us. With the continuous deepening of modern psychology, we gradually start to demystify human thought and realize that things like free will, reason, and rational thinking, which people claim differentiate us from animals, are often illusions or simulations.

However, just as demystifying nature did not diminish people's curiosity about the world and instead brought about a significant increase in industrial productivity, demystifying society did not cause the collapse of modern secular society but instead made industrialized countries increasingly friendly to ordinary people over the past century. Demystifying the things we are most proud of ourselves will not kill us, but will only bring us more understanding of ourselves and provide more opportunities to design our own lives.

This is not a very good blog post, as it embeds two videos in just a few paragraphs. But since I still can't temporarily escape social media, why not showcase the best things I have gained from it?

To us ordinary people.

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