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△ 159｜Quota
I’ve always had a strange thought about whether there really is a “quota” for a certain behavior of a person.
To put it simply, it is like a person is only allowed to fall in love with seven people in his life. When he was young and frivolous, he vigorously talked about the “three no-principles” love seven times. As a result, he was still alone in middle age, and he looked down on everything. Because he consumed the “quota” seven times, he was doomed to be lonely in the end.
This kind of setting similar to the planned economy will inevitably lead to a possibility – a black market. When a person consumes a certain “quota”, they can exchange for “quota” that did not belong to them through the black market. And these “quotas” themselves are sold by people who don’t think they can use it, or whose money is more important than them.
The reason for this strange thought is that I was reminded of the same thing that many traditional Chinese families experience as a child – being praised. There are many Chinese parents who don’t like to “reward” their children very much, because they think there is a subtle “quota” that cannot be calculated as a formula – if there is too much reward for a child, it is bound to be This led to the child’s arrogance and indulgence. That is to say, they hold a certain “quota” of rewards in their hands, and they don’t need to speak to their children when it is not necessary, otherwise they will make the children feel that it is too easy to be praised and encouraged, and they will lose the next reward. Motivation for effort and achievement at a higher level.
To be honest, this incident itself is full of ironic logical errors, but it is so subtle that it becomes the core problem facing many Chinese-style families.
When I first learned that “cats have nine lives” in childhood, I also thought about “quota”. Do they really have nine lives, because the cat in the house fell once, but came back limping after a few days, and after a while, it jumped up and down like nothing else. It consumes a “quota”, but the problem is that it no longer remembers those fears of death. It didn’t take long for it to make a dangerous test on the window sill, and it never appeared again until it fell again.
The smaller the “quota”, does it mean that people value its existence more? For example, in death, everyone has at least one “quota” that can be consumed. Those who were almost consumed and pulled back to reality should cherish their lives more. But after “death” once, there are many people who have intensified. For example, after the first successful theft, no one will resist its second temptation, and even recalculate because of the “success” of the first time: recalculate all the dangers of the second time , contributed to his second achievement.
Because I was very skinny when I was a child, I was often punished by teachers for copying. In fact, I am not against this kind of “mechanization”. I even find fun in this kind of penalty copying. For example, start copying from a multiple of 2, and then use a multiple of 3 to complete what the multiple of 2 cannot cover, and then It’s a multiple of 5… Although I didn’t learn “prime numbers” at that time, I seem to have figured out the fun of 1 to 100 – those “prime numbers” that are not divisible by any number, I’ll take them from the number As the final copying part, they are the “quota” other than the multiple. Each time I find one, it means that I am a little closer to the 100-time penalty copying.
As a result, the punishment for copying was useless, and the teacher changed a “rule” so that I could have a “quota” for five mistakes in a week, otherwise I would have to notify the parents again. Five times a week means once a day; of course, there is a rule that the teacher himself didn’t foresee in advance – I consumed all five times in one day on Friday. When the “quota” does not use rules, it has become another “privilege” – of course, this is not my problem, it is because the teacher who designed the rules is too confident and thinks that the “quota” is a A constraint that turned out to be a loophole in my case.
It stands to reason that adults are at least more “smarter” than children. They should also think of loopholes when setting “quota”, but it seems that adults have more in all “quota” games. “Zero Link”.
The simplest and most common example: a woman sets a “quota” for her husband to cheat on three times. She believes that as long as his husband fails to do three things, he still loves her. In the end, I didn’t expect that my husband had cheated for the fourth time. The man knelt down and expressed his apology and said that he would change because he still loved women. As a result, the “quota” for women and men returned to zero, and it started again from 0. calculate. Men will also reinterpret this “quota”. Should three cheating with the same mistress only count as one?
The two ends of the “quota”: one regards himself as a fool; the other takes a fool for granted as a smart.
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