Finally, one day, a group of giants - let's call them the Giants - came to the forest.
The giants never knew the meaning of optimism, they usually did the opposite of what the pixies did - they were silent, depressed and hurt each other.
Looking at their pixie neighbors, they were optimistic and happy all day long. The giants were truly envious.
One day, a curious giant tried to eat one of the elves who was singing happily. At that very moment, he suddenly felt a joy he had never felt before. So the giants spread the idea that eating a pixie is a good way to get happy - and that was the end of the pixie's life.
The giants hunted the pokemon year after year to be happy. In order not to make the pixies extinct, they have a pixie feast once a year. This is the happiest time of the year for the giants, or rather, the only time they are happy.
Unbeknownst to them, the holiday of the new elf feast was here again. The prince of the giant kingdom ran to his father's room in the morning with great joy, he was very happy, because today would be the first time he ate elves that could bring joy to the giants. However, careful readers here is not difficult to see that the prince is now happy, his happiness is because of the ability to eat the elves, not because of eating the elves oh.
This may be a simple happiness, but what happens next makes the prince unhappy from then on.
When the giants prepared all kinds of kanji and eating utensils to have a big meal, they realized that the elves had run away.
The giants all of a sudden fell to the bottom of the mood, the little prince asked his father if he could be happy, the king said to him, no chance, do not eat pixies, this life can only be accompanied by sadness. From then on, the little prince was never happy again.
On the other hand, the pixies have finally settled down after 20 years on the run. They are still optimistic and still sing, dance and hug every day. In order to celebrate these hard-earned 20 years of peace, they decided to organize an unprecedented celebration.
But it was this event that revealed the whereabouts of the pixies. The giants captured several pokemon.
In order to save their captured companions, they again had to travel to the country of the giants, and once again, the pixies paid the price for their extreme optimism.
In the end, thanks to the efforts of the Pixie's Princess and her party, the pals were rescued. Not only that but also the love between the courtesan and the prince was accomplished. It was also because of their love that the giants realized the truth that happiness is always deep within us, it does not need to be possessed, it just needs to be evoked. The fact that the prince has not eaten a pixie but is happy because he is in love with the courtesan is the most powerful evidence of this.
This Magic Hair Fairy offers us the Prisoner's Dilemma of Thinking in both cases - extreme optimism versus extreme pessimism, and not trying to change.
The Prisoner's Dilemma of Thinking (hereafter referred to as the Dilemma), as I interpret it, is the idea of being fixed in a pattern of thinking, not questioning it, and holding on to that thinking directly in a way that borders on faith, as if it were imprisoned in a prison.
Pixies trap themselves in an extreme optimism dilemma, where they live in the present moment, not thinking about the past and not looking to the future. Timeliness is their greatest value in life.
The giants trapped themselves in extreme pessimism, forgetting that they are living in the present, and using the pain of the future and the suffering of the past to back up their despair and sadness.
For the faeries, as long as that world they live in stays the way it suits this notion of theirs, they can be happy all the time, no problem at all.
For giants, it's no big deal even if they trap themselves in the illusory drift of the past and the future, and likewise it's perfectly fine for the environment that suits them to go on like this not to be able to change.
But the problem is that these two races, which shouldn't have met, have met.
The giants lacked optimism, and the pixies lacked pessimism. Our general thinking is that the two races should learn from each other and complement each other's strengths.
But the pessimistic giants, bent on getting the pleasure of the Pixies, went straight for total possession (eating).
The optimistic pokemon, on the other hand, have always chosen to avoid being eaten by running away, always optimistically believing that if they escape, they can continue to rest on their laurels.
And so, the aspirations of each of the two races were defeated because they were stuck in one mindset.
In the process of rescuing their companions and helping the courtesan pursue the prince, the two modes of thinking collide, and so rub out the brilliant sparks, and also let the whole story to the two races happy and peaceful **** at the happy ending came to an end.
In fact, we usually tend to fall into our own thinking prisoner's dilemma, and the way out of this dilemma, sometimes so simple that you think nothing technical, but is indispensable, that is, for our thinking to find a contrasting point of view.
It's as if there is no light without darkness. By holding on to only one of our own minds, we inevitably get stuck in a rut and think that's all there is to the world. And that's exactly where the elves and giants get it wrong.
In the case that the environment that suits our own thinking doesn't change, we can always safely keep that thinking. But once something suddenly changes, it can hit us hard.
The simplest example is to look at the Opium War in China. We have always regarded ourselves as a heavenly country, and all other countries are marginal small states that are not worth mentioning. So, Britain, a so-called small country, used less than a few tens of thousands of troops to shake up the Qing Dynasty, the so-called "Kingdom of Heaven".
At the same time, it is also because the British opened the door to China, so that new ideas and our original ideas have collision, for the ultimate achievement of the new China, laying a solid ideological foundation.
The more I read various books, the more I realize that the so-called right and wrong, really is not very important. What is important is how we should look at views that are not the same as our own, or even opposed to it. It is to completely ignore, or to confront and die with it. Or is it in the exchange, to achieve a win-win situation for both?
I believe that how to choose, the story of "Magic Hair Elf", has given us a good reference oh.