“\"HaiChuan Thanksgiving Season\" —— My First Master [Petroleum Area 015]
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This post was last edited by Yitailong'er on 2016-1-10 at 14:35. My first mentor was involved in the design and production of PVC plastic granulation formulas; he was over 60 years old at that time and was also disabled. [His family used to be landlords and came from a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners before the liberation.] Has attended numerous national seminars on plastic formulation design. On my first day at work, the first thing they said to me was, \"Once a teacher, always a father.\" Then it is: a master should behave like a master, and an apprentice should behave like an apprentice ； What a master should teach first is how to be a person, and only secondly the skills. It is best if a disciple can surpass their master in skill. If that isn’t possible, at least they should possess good character. It’s a pity that I wasn’t able to see my master one last time. To be honest, this is a bit old-fashioned, but there seems to be nothing wrong with it. Perhaps we should advocate for promoting this approach – the attitude where a master teaches and an apprentice learns skills. I’ve just started working with PVC, plasticizers, and stabilizers; I know nothing about them – how to process them, how to formulate recipes, or how to make adjustments. It’s completely unknown to me. Every day, the instructor explains to me the same information about a material – its physical and chemical properties – and then I go to the site to examine this material firsthand, to get to know it, including understanding the weight of such materials; for example, what does 3g of SR red or 10g of HR yellow weigh? The feel of the materials in the hands while making samples (wearing thin latex gloves), and so on. As for the modifications to the recipe design, the expert said it’s similar to the combination of herbs in traditional Chinese medicine – each herb has its own toxic side effects. Any raw material has its advantages and disadvantages; it is necessary to make full use of the advantages, avoid the disadvantages, or use other materials to improve upon or mitigate those disadvantages. To achieve this, it is first necessary to have a thorough understanding of the physical and chemical properties of various materials, as well as past practical experience and formula data. Based on the existing formula, the amounts of various materials used in the formula are adjusted to meet the target requirements. After multiple pilot tests and by comparing the various physical, chemical, and mechanical properties of the products, the final formula parameters were determined. The master gave me the impression that one should be meticulous in work, seek truth from facts, and learn to accumulate experience.
Yes, it was truly amazing; it’s a shame it’s no longer around. He never married in his lifetime and had no descendants; (the reasons were disability and his status as a landowner) he only had three apprentices. I was unable to arrive in time because I was away.
There are countless people with such excellent skills, but we simply don’t notice them; our attention is focused only on those who win **major awards**. In fact, these people are masters in their fields!
In traditional Chinese medicine, the dosage of herbs cannot be increased or decreased, and this practice is also followed in work.
Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes prescribing treatments based on the specific symptoms; the dosage varies for the same patient at different times, and it differs even more among different patients. Traditional Chinese medicine offers three approaches to treating diseases: treating the symptoms first and then the root cause, treating the root cause first and then the symptoms, or addressing both the symptoms and the root cause simultaneously.
If you believe, then come and get treated; if not, don’t come and cause trouble, right? ;P