A reminder for those who are providing information on madness
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Since many members of the forum keep saying that they don’t have enough money to download things or that they lack funds, and hope for free downloads, I think it’s not difficult to earn some money. If you really need a certain resource, I believe people will be willing to help you. If you’re just here to download materials, then we’ll say NO to that. If you really want to communicate and learn, you can read more useful posts – this way your skills will improve rapidly. In fact, there isn’t much material that you truly need to download; think about how much of it you actually use in your work – I think a few standard books will be sufficient. Ask yourself: how many forum posts have you actually read? Are you busy downloading materials? The post below was sent to me by a friend; I think it’s written very well, so I’m sharing it here for everyone to read. I hope you’ll understand. A reminder for those who are frantically downloading materials! I noticed two rather strange phenomena: Phenomenon one: Many friends download materials frantically yet don’t actually read them, including some who reply to posts. We must thank the original poster for their efforts. But what’s the use if we download materials provided by others without even taking a look at them? Even if we thank the original poster, what’s the point of such gratitude if we don’t value the information they have shared with us? Phenomenon 2: On many reading websites, the download sections are the most popular, while the areas where people leave comments on books are the least popular. This is not a normal phenomenon. If there are many people who need the materials, then logically, there should also be many people who read them and form their own opinions. All these phenomena show that most of our friends here are focusing too much energy on downloading materials, rather than on reading and applying them. I used to be a download fanatic too. Because the information is up-to-date and free, there is a sense of satisfaction upon each download, as if one has acquired intangible wealth. When I had several gigabytes of data on my hard drive, I suddenly realized that I spent most of my time downloading this data, yet I only viewed a very small portion of it, and I didn’t finish reading even one single file. I began to feel a bit anxious; after careful reflection, I realized that these materials provided for free were not truly free. Downloading and organizing them took me a lot of time, and time is precisely our most valuable asset. By the time we realize that the materials we’ve downloaded are enough to build a small library, our precious youth has also been wasted on these endless downloads and searches. But at that time, I still couldn’t bring myself to change my habits. A computer crash caused my hard drive to be formatted completely. After reinstalling the system, I was very sad, as these materials took me almost a year to collect and organize. But after thinking about it carefully, I suddenly realized that I hadn’t lost anything, because even if those materials were still there, I wouldn’t have gone to look at them. What’s the difference between this and a computer being formatted? Should I really be sad about the information I’ve lost? Should I still be sad about the time I’ve lost? This incident taught me a profound lesson: is something that you download really yours? No! Those belong to the author; they are for readers who truly study seriously, not yours. When will they be yours? Only when it’s in your mind does it become yours! Since then, every time I come across a post about downloading materials, I ask myself: Do I really need this material right now? If I’ve downloaded it, should I go and check it now? If one of the two questions is negative, I skip it and focus on doing other things. Because I don’t want to deceive myself, I want to use my limited time wisely, rather than downloading materials that are not very useful to me at the moment. The key to measuring the value of a piece of information is to consider what would happen without it I believe that if you think about it carefully, you’ll find that most of the materials you download are like Kong Yiji: having them brings joy, but life is just the same without them. Downloading materials is both a fine wine and a poison. It depends on how you approach it. I hope netizens will not follow the same path I once took, to put less emphasis on superficial efforts and more on doing practical things. So, there are many ways to improve one’s skills. In fact, there are many good posts on forums that are worth reading; don’t ignore these valuable posts just to rush and download materials instead. So, the amount of information doesn’t depend on how much you can possess, but rather on how much you can actually keep in your mind!
As one’s time on the forum increases, the initial enthusiasm for downloading materials fades away, and one begins to think more carefully about what is truly needed. Materials are static, whereas people’s understanding and depth of insight into things change over time; different perspectives lead to different views. Reading some good posts will help one gain a more comprehensive understanding of things.
It’s a very insightful view. Let me explain the origins of this phenomenon: 1. Many people are troubled by the lack of information at their disposal (especially when writing articles); when we come across a large amount of information somewhere, we want to download it and save it for later use. 2. If I am currently working in a certain industry, then I want to have all the relevant information about that industry – not just to look at it, but to actually possess it. 3. The desire to establish a personal library. A desire for information, a desire to download, drives people to download frantically. 4. One concern is that there might come a day when it will no longer be possible to download these things, so people want to download them and keep them as a backup. Downloading isn’t a wrong thing, but reckless and excessive downloading should be avoided. As can be seen from the author’s in-depth analysis, what is truly valuable is what is stored in one’s mind; the skills one possesses do not fade over time, whereas knowledge can. By thinking carefully and reading thoroughly, one will gradually come to understand its essence.
The poster’s reminder is very useful; it’s about the idea that materials can be read without necessarily having to borrow them. Once you’ve downloaded some information, it’s stored on your hard drive, but when you’ll actually use it remains uncertain. If it’s needed urgently, you’ll transfer it more frequently and quickly, but there are often many pieces of information that aren’t urgently needed or hardly ever used at all. This constitutes a waste – it takes up hard drive space and also wastes time on downloading, editing, and searching. These aren’t the purposes for which we download information. Our intention behind downloading it is good, such as to improve our skills or for work purposes. But thinking about what happens after downloading it… perhaps this is just a flaw in human nature: people try to keep good things for themselves, and once they have them, they don’t value them anymore
Everything said upstairs is very good. In fact, many of these materials are indeed used or consulted very rarely in daily life, but people are afraid that they won’t be available when needed, so they go to great lengths to find and download them. I hope to have more exchanges with fellow members on this forum in the future, so as to truly learn useful things like technical knowledge and avoid such awkward situations of having to rush at the last minute.
One realizes too late that one doesn’t have enough knowledge when it’s needed; almost every person in the technical field shares this mindset. That’s why they download as many useful materials as they can find, either right away or in the future. However, much of this material is repetitive, and there isn’t enough time to go through each one carefully. So I usually wait until I really need something before downloading it. Yet often, in an attempt to find a particular piece of information, I end up downloading countless related documents, only to find that I still can’t get what I’m looking for after spending so much time. I think most people face these two problems
The original poster makes a very good point; it’s similar to the idea that \"books can only be read if they are borrowed\" – people often fail to make proper use of the materials and books they already possess. It also shows that the information we need is hard to find; it’s unavailable when we need it urgently. This leads to a desire to have all the information available to us (especially if it’s free), which is similar to how people stockpile food in times of disaster.
The desire to establish a personal library. A desire for information, a desire to download, drives people to download frantically.
Many guys come to me asking to borrow my points so they can download materials; I never refuse them. But I often ask them whether they’ve read the stuff they download, and they don’t answer. Hehe... I agree with this view; if you download too much, it ends up becoming junk, and you still have to get rid of it in the end.
Only include what is useful; no extra content.
Strongly agree. There’s too much stuff on my hard drive; it’s worth reflecting on. I have seen it, but only in a cursory manner; I’ll take the time to look at it properly when I have free time……
Interesting – one needs to exercise restraint in everything they do, even more so. Human desires are impossible to satisfy, and a strong desire for possession is part of human nature. Only saints can truly overcome themselves, while perfecting and elevating themselves.
That’s great! Downloading materials from the internet (especially when it’s free) can easily become addictive. I initially downloaded some materials from a free download website as well, and it took me a lot of time. Upon closer inspection, these materials weren’t very useful at all, and they wasted a lot of my precious time! From then on, I pay close attention to good posts, and only download them when it’s truly necessary. In this way, I have read almost all of the materials I downloaded, just like the books I own! The post posted by the moderator is very accurate and insightful; it’s worth saving!
It’s easy to become addicted to downloading materials online. I initially downloaded some materials from a free download website as well, and it took me a lot of time. Upon closer inspection, these materials weren’t very useful at all, and they wasted a lot of my precious time! From then on, I began to read good posts carefully and learned how to save them in a forum. In fact, saving them helps to free up hard drive space and reduce the hassle of searching. A forum that is well-organized can serve as an excellent database, as long as you put effort into managing it properly~~~
It’s not easy to download materials from Haichuan; they are readily available for free on the “3D” forum.
3D is not completely free either; it’s only free for the “free-of-charge group,” while other users have to pay for data usage when downloading it.
I quite agree with the original poster’s view. No matter how much information there is, it’s pointless not to read it ； Reading it without understanding is pointless; it’s useless if nothing is absorbed ； Put it in your head and use it when needed>> Hehe! I think this is also one of the purposes of establishing this forum.
Agreed, agreed! It’s not about how much information one possesses, but rather how much of it is utilized! How much is mastered!:victory: