Merry Reading Time -It is better to change others than to control yourself

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It is not easy to evaluate others and yourself equally. Just listen to the story of seven people sharing porridge. There are seven people who are destined to live together. They were given a bucket of porridge every day, which was barely enough to sustain the seven of them. At first, when they saw the porridge bucket, they rushed to grab it for fear of losing their share. Later, everyone felt that this would hurt the harmony, so they gathered together to discuss. Finally, they came up with a way: take turns to share the porridge, and each person is responsible for one day. Doing this is of course much better than fighting over it, but every week, you can only be full on the day you are responsible for sharing the porridge, and you will still be hungry for the other six days - after all, giving yourself the right to share as much porridge as possible, everyone can Just once every week. After a long time, they felt that this method was inappropriate, so they decided to choose a highly respected person to be responsible for the daily porridge distribution. It was fine at first, but soon everyone was just like they were fighting over porridge, rushing to curry favor with that highly respected person - of course there would be corruption in the process, and there was still no justice in dividing the porridge. Finally, they decided to select three people to form the porridge executive committee and four people to form the porridge review committee. In this way, everyone supervises each other and checks and balances power, and no one can easily give themselves more porridge. The direct result of this exquisite method is that every time it is time for the porridge bucket to be delivered, everyone will chatter and argue with each other around the porridge bucket. When the porridge is finally divided to everyone's satisfaction, the porridge is obviously cold. Although no one can easily take advantage of others, it is obviously still very unpleasant to drink cold porridge every time. In the end, they gave up this seemingly democratic method and re-chosen the ancient method of dividing the porridge: taking turns to share the porridge, and each person was responsible for one day. But they added a restriction after this rule: "The person who is responsible for dividing the porridge will only have the last bowl of porridge after others have finished picking." The cleverness of this restriction is: the person in charge In order to prevent himself from getting the smallest bowl of porridge, he will try to divide the porridge as much as other’s, in this way, although he cannot get more porridge for himself when exercising his power, he can at least ensure that he will get the same porridge as others. "Not suffering a loss" has now become the goal of the person in charge, instead of just the goal of others as before. From then on, they lived together in harmony, and no one had any trouble with each other over sharing porridge. Excerpted from 《It is better to change others than to control yourself》