通才专才 求歇斯底里地拍~ 拍人者必被拍

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"In our time, specialists of all kinds are highly over-rated. We need more generalists — people who can provide broad perspectives." 第一篇I， 整了6个小时到吐血，现在求拍的欲望要大于啃一盘糖醋排骨~
As mankind is undergoing a great improvement in accumulating knowledge and information, with it ever-increasing influence upon our civilization and daily life, talent is one of the key words in the organization of modern society. Now, we are in need of a huge mass of specialists and, as so many people concern, are asking for much more specialists. (It seems that we can never be pleased) It is on the whole, so at least to me, not only reasonable and but also necessary.

Generalists, who can provide broad perspectives, are becoming more and more important. The modern society is based on a conception of maximum production at lowest cost, and generalists share it. While you are digging a hole, the deeper you arrive, the harder it is, which means we can know as much as we can during our limited life. Then you turn to another one. Moreover, when you think in broad perspectives, something magic happens. It’s like each pearl may be not that brilliant, but together they make a pearl necklace which can be never fully glimpsed. The walls between each domain recede, and in receding it leaves a never-present power.

Therefore, as somebody point out, specialists of all kinds are over-rated. Before we draw any conclusions, we need get down to fundaments.

There is an old story in China, long long before, a warrior was a master in toxophily, who could shoot osiers more than a hundred meters away. Every time he shot, he always waited for a moment to enjoy the applauds of the crowd, as if he was the greatest man in the world. One day, a man in the crowd shouted, so so. It was an old man who sold oil. Then he took out a bottle of a tiny hole on the top, poured the oil into the bottle without losing a drop, and asked, ‘can you do that?’ The warrior took the bottle without any thoughts, ‘that’s easy!’ On the contrary, when he poured the oil, nearly none drop of oil was in the bottle. At last, the old man said, ‘man, I have spent most of my life doing that!’ Only for specialists, who have spent most of their lives in a single area, the ability is somewhat doubtless; but for generalists, who have spent most of their lives digging different holes, how can we confirm that you are good at it. What’s more, almost in every area, unless you got to some sticking points can you say that I have been there.

I am always amazed when I hear people saying No one can hope to understand the human body by only inspecting one’s own tails. There is a saying in Buddha, One flower, one world, which means even a simple flower contains a colorful world. Inspecting one’s own tails can not give you a vision of the whole human body, but can take you to a world greater than you have know: Where do tails come from, why we have different tails, what will tails be like in future, and so on. Thus, in a word, to some extend, inspecting one’s own tails is not easier or less important than understanding the human body. What’s more, specialists are people who work in his area deeply rather than narrowly. For instance, there are specialists who use the whole earth as a model to research its environment, weather, politics, and economy.

Finally, all this is in my mind, when I think of a specialist, who may look down to the ground without any idea of the people pass by while walking, who may watch for hours about how chicken come out, who may even suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, they are not unfortunate kooks having problems to get alone with other people, but lonely hero of our time who donate all their lives to their careers. It is the time that the world is so huge and we are so small that we can’t stand up to a smaller, the cosmic time is so long and our life is so short that we never talk about permanence, and the world is so busy and we are so lonely that we no longer enjoy the feeling of serenity. So we move from one area to another as fast as we can. But only through darkness can we catch a glimpse of the sunrise, only through cold winter can we smell the scent of grass and flowers, and only through endless pain and loneliness can we reach the area of truth.

For me I will prefer to be a generalist, which is much easier and funnier. But I will always show a great respect to the specialists who provide the fundament knowledge to make sure of the development of our civilization. In a word, specialists are as important as they should be.

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坛子里的前辈们说，只要你拍人就会被拍的，我愿意我机考抽到高频的概率发誓，我拍过了！