Are you only concerned about your immediate interests(朝三暮四)
Zhuang Zhou is one of the most famous philosophers
in Chinese history.
A story recorded in the book he wrote.
There is a person who specializes in
keeping monkeys. One day, he announced to all the monkeys.
Starting today, I will give you three
acorns for breakfast every day and four acorns for dinner every day.
How do you all feel.
All monkeys are very angry.
This person who specializes in keeping
monkeys, he saw that all the monkeys were very angry, so he adjusted his
statement.
Otherwise, I will give you four acorns for
breakfast every day and three acorns for dinner every day.
How do you all feel.
All the monkeys are very happy this time.
These monkeys eat the same amount of acorns
every day, but why do these monkeys have different emotions?
Zhuang Zhou used this story to remind us.
We should not only care about the benefits
that we will get right away, and neglect the overall consideration of the
results we will get.
We get more now, and maybe less later. We
may seem to be lacking now, but we may become richer later.
This idiom is used to describe a person's
thoughts lacking overall consideration.
Dear friend, what inspiration or thoughts
did you have after hearing this story.
When making decisions, do you fall into the
same blind spot as these monkeys? How can you remind yourself to look at your
current behavior in a longer-term perspective?
Hope this story can give you some new
gains.
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朝三暮四(Are you only concerned about your
immediate interests)
莊周是中國歷史上最著名的哲學家之一。
他寫的書中，紀錄的一個故事。
有一位專門飼養猴子的人，有一天，他對所有的猴子宣布。
從今天開始，我每天給你們三顆橡實當早餐，每天給你們四顆橡實當晚餐。
你們大家覺得如何。
所有的猴子都很生氣。
這一位專門飼養猴子的人，他看見所有的猴子都很生氣，他便調整他的說法。
不然這樣，我每天給你們四顆橡實當早餐，每天給你們三棵橡實當晚餐。
你們大家覺得如何。
這一次所有的猴子都很開心。
這些猴子每天吃的橡實總量相同，但為何這些猴子產生了不同的情緒呢。
莊周藉著這個故事，想提醒我們。
我們不應該只關心馬上要得到的利益，而忽略了應該整體考量我們會得到的結果。
我們現在得到的多，之後可能就會得到的少。我們現在或許看似缺乏，之後卻有可能因此而更富足。
這句成語被用來形容一個人的想法缺乏整體考量。
親愛的朋友，你聽完這個故事有怎樣的啟發或有怎樣的想法呢。
你在做決策的時候會陷入與這些猴子一樣的盲點嗎?你要如何提醒自已用更長遠的眼光看待自已現在的行為呢?
希望這故事能讓你產生一些新的收穫。