Chapter 2634

After the meal was ready, the two sat around the dining table. Oliver opened the bottle of wine, but had no consciousness of inviting people to drink at all, but looked like he wanted to get himself drunk.

"You are a hopeless pessimist, always unable to see hope. If it weren't for the strong sense of mission driving you, you would be worse mud than Constantine now, because you understand more deeply than him how terrible this world is."

Shiler said while taking out chopsticks, "You need very strong and continuous encouragement to have motivation. You need strong world-view shocks and need to be deeply shocked to have the strength to go further."

"Once, the tragic situation in Mexico was your biggest source of motivation. You were deeply shocked by the tragic scene of the bottom-level people in Mexico being hungry and poorly clothed, so you had extremely strong motivation to fight for them."

"But as your understanding of the bottom of this country becomes deeper, you inevitably learn a phenomenon, that is, bottom-level mutual harm. You clearly understand that the division of the revolutionary army is not just because someone is making trouble externally, but because they themselves don't know how to unite, are selfish, always thinking about the interests of their own three-point land, and even stupid to the point of being unteachable."

"You feel deeply disappointed by this, but you feel there is no way, because human nature is originally like this. They have spent such a long time in poverty. When the poor are suddenly rich, they either become endlessly greedy, getting more benefits by any means, or they are greedy for pleasure, just wanting to lie on the book of merit and do nothing."

"You tell them this won't work, but they don't listen to you at all. So some dangerous ideas began to sprout in your heart. You think this is what they deserve. You think that the country has developed to this day because they brought it on themselves."

"Those once-passionate motivations began to leave you. What followed was unspeakable emptiness. Your brain was gradually swallowed by this emptiness, and you couldn't think of any good way to reverse the current situation."

"Natasha told you that they should be their own saviors. You recognized this point of view, but felt that you were just using this point of view as an excuse to escape."

"Having had years of full motivation and passion, you feel that you are just wasting time now. How long will you have to wait for such a long wait?"

"But you know that even if there is a new Mexico waiting for you to save, you will no longer be as shocked as before, because you know how many people living in hell will turn from sheep to wolves after their lives have improved, and from victims to perpetrators who harm their compatriots."

Oliver drank wine cup after cup, lowering his head in silence. The delicious dishes could not move him at all. He couldn't even feel the emotions in his heart, only a blank space.

"You always measure others by yourself, thinking of everything in a good way, thinking that human beings are naturally sympathetic and kind, and as long as they see the tragic situation of their compatriots, salvation will become their instinct, just like you."

"Going deeper, you think that everyone can be like you, taking the impulse to save as motivation, and without needing education or other material incentives, they can give everything for the cause."

"Intellectually, you know this is impossible, but you are looking forward to it all the time. This is the greatest tragedy of an idealist. When they realize that this world will never run in the correct, logical, and should-be-like way as they imagine, that terrible sense of loss will crush them."

"Am I very ridiculous?" Oliver said, "I have made too many unwise moves because of this, such as leaving Moscow stubbornly, because it is not what I imagined."

"I thought I would see a country full of ideals, but in the end, it is more like a cemetery covered with medals of honor."

"So I refused their invitation to take office. They thought I wanted to return to the front line again, but I didn't go back either."

"Sometimes I feel that I am pretentious, like a child who doesn't know the world, feeling that I can't accept it when I see a little bit of the dark side of this world, and shrinking back into my shell."

"But the things I see are constantly wearing away my passion and motivation. I would rather hide at home and see nothing than be ground to pieces in this vortex one day."

Shiler sighed in his heart. Oliver is a person who would rather break than bend, an idealist who refuses to bow his head until he dies.

He has the ability to practice his ideals, but the only problem is that his inner driving force comes entirely from emotional stimulation, not rational thinking.

He must first be shocked by emotions, and then he can sprout surging motivation, rather than thinking that this matter is beneficial after rational thinking, and then generating motivation to do it.

These are two completely different types of people. It can be said that each has its own advantages and disadvantages. The former can generate extremely powerful motivation, and can even create miracles, but once emotional stimulation weakens, it is inevitable that the follow-up will be weak. If he falls into negative emotions, he will produce a vicious cycle like Oliver.

The logical thinking of rational thinking is cultivated over the years and will not change in a short time, so the results of thinking are the same, and it can continuously provide long-term motivation. But reason is naturally at odds with inspiration. Although this kind of person's inner driving force is stable, there are few times when inspiration bursts.

And because rational judgment of gains and losses is too clear, once falling into an unfavorable situation, it is easy to over-tend to bad results, always thinking about more plans and leaving more retreats, so the ability to reverse the situation and create miracles is insufficient.

And to correct the situation where these two are too extreme is also simple. For the former, do not use past events as stimulation, such as letting him indulge in hatred and tragic pasts, but use the future that has not yet happened as induction, such as letting him focus on things others have succeeded in, lives they have enjoyed, and dreamlike beautiful future scenes.

As the saying goes, what you can't get is always the best. Using past hatred as a source of motivation, once hatred disappears or realizes the essence of hatred, then this driving force is easy to disappear, because hatred already exists and can be parsed, so it is natural to be eliminated.

But the future has not come after all. A thing that does not exist is whatever anyone thinks. Human imagination can never be destroyed. As long as it does not exist, it is naturally impeccable.

Long-term goals also help this type of person to maintain inner motivation for a long time. Even if they are more active at the beginning, they will not be completely powerless or even give up later.

And for the latter, it is necessary to look back at the road more often. Most of the time, only analyzing the current situation is inevitably limited to metaphysics. Although how to do a thing is important, why it is done is more important.

This kind of person needs to remember at all times what the starting point of doing a thing is, instead of thinking about the gains and losses of this environment after walking a step and changing an environment, otherwise it is easy to be like a bear breaking corn, breaking this one and throwing that one, and in the end, there is only one corn in hand, and feeling that he will starve to death sooner or later, it is better to give up as soon as possible.

This is true for people, and it is also true for collectives and companies. A collective driven by emotion must define long-term goals, and a company oriented by interests must always remember its original intention.

Following this theory, Shiler certainly has a way to reverse Oliver's current situation. But the first thing is to convince him that drowning sorrows with alcohol is useless.

Shiler kept bringing the topic to the universe he was in, but Oliver didn't pick it up at all. Finally, Shiler was so angry that he took his wine bottle.

Oliver noticed something wrong. He squinted at Shiler and said, "Who are you? You are not the professor."

"I am not, I am just pretending to be him, but it seems that your relationship with him is average. My lips are almost worn out, and you don't even pay attention to me."

Oliver snorted and said, "If you were the professor, I might have been knocked out by now."

Shiler was stunned, and then said, "No way? No matter what, you can't hit people, right? Doctors can't beat patients."

"That's why I can see you are not him. You have too much medical ethics." Oliver blinked cunningly.

Shiler opened his mouth. He never thought he would be praised for having medical ethics in his life. He decided to skip this topic and said, "Well, let's not talk in riddles. Don't you want to know who is supporting Mexico in my universe?"

Oliver was quite interested in this topic. He put down his wine glass and said, "It sounds like they are much stronger than the Soviet Union? Is it Cuba?"

Shiler certainly knew that China was not in his consideration at all, because whether it was Marvel or DC, China in the late 20th century was still very poor and had not recovered at all. There were many areas where they couldn't even eat meat. In the eyes of many foreigners, it was no different from the Qing Dynasty.

As for the 30 years later, most people didn't know what happened, as if a country suddenly traveled over in this world, because whether from theory or reality, such a development speed is impossible, fundamentally unscientific, and can completely overturn existing sociological theories.

Oliver naturally didn't think of that Eastern power. Although because the Soviet Union was saved, it was on the verge of dying, their pressure was reduced a lot, and they could have more energy to invest in development instead of preparing for war. Visibly, it would develop faster than the Marvel world, but it was just starting.

The starting stage is not noticeable. The three links and education projects are long, grinding, and ineffective. In the process, they can't produce enough amazing PPTs, and there is no massive propaganda. Experts and scholars naturally regard them as achieved overnight.

"I think you can go and see with me. You will definitely be very surprised." Shiler was quite confident. He thought, in fact, before humans entered the era of interstellar exploration, many cities in China were already a bit like alien technology compared to foreign countries. Now that they have ushered in the interstellar era, the big cities in that country don't look like Earth anymore.

Although Shiler hadn't been there himself, Clark went to rub the network and described it to them for two or three hours when he came back. Thinking that Shenzhen could make Kryptonians look like country bumpkins, Shiler couldn't help laughing.

Oliver was also considered a rich young master. Hearing Shiler say this, he was a bit dismissive. Although the Queen Group could not compare with the Wayne Group, it was also a world-class enterprise. Before he was stranded on the island, he was also indulging in pleasure and singing every night. Could he be shocked by cities on Earth?

Shiler said nothing, just opened a portal for him.