Haha, didn’t expect it, right? This episode is still about tea 
While brewing tea with my cousin, I realized that in order to convince him, I intentionally tried to brew it better, rather than focusing solely on brewing tea, and ended up not brewing well. And he, to prove himself, also deliberately pursued the result, but also didn’t brew well.
This reminded me of when a senior brother taught us meditation and told us that as practice increases, some people might develop special abilities. When they first experience this ability, it feels great, and from then on they deliberately pursue it, eventually going astray. Some people even start practicing just for these special abilities and end up going astray even more.
In this senior brother’s method, the first level requires practicing until you can see gentle white light in your mind. He specifically reminded us not to chase the appearance of white light in the brain; it will naturally appear as you practice, so don’t rush.
As is well known, disciples often don’t listen to masters. I consciously avoided deliberately chasing it at first, but once it really appeared, I knew the senior brother’s method was genuine and that continuing would definitely be amazing. Unconsciously, that reminder got overshadowed, and I practiced more and more uncomfortably, finally realizing, oh, I’m almost going astray too 
Practicing skills is really dangerous 
Expanding this, when you put your heart into doing something, results will slowly appear (this process is enjoyable, or at least “painful yet joyful,” or else it’s impossible to persist). Doing something with a utilitarian mindset easily leads to failure and imbalanced mentality.
Next is another part of today’s content (otherwise everyone would get bored just hearing about tea brewing 
; everything in moderation). It is mainly some memories about Beginner, that is, the evolution theory of former beginners.
In A011 Talk, I mentioned briefly:
Recently had some unexpected gains: on the Beginner website regarding recruitment of volunteers for clinical trials, there was the first response from a netizen. In the future, I will expand this feature to help research teams find more subjects and provide patients with more options.—A011 Talk
Today I chatted with this netizen. He is interested in traditional Chinese medicine and when surfing the internet, typed something unknown into a search engine and found Beginner (the backend didn’t record his search keywords). Previously, all users of Beginner were friends, classmates, or teachers around me. This netizen and we had no relation; it was purely fate that brought him here. He saw that the site had a clinical trial recruiting volunteers, signed up, and the contact was my classmate, so I knew about it.
Suddenly I felt a sense of pride. When I decided to shift from focusing on the campus to the public, I wondered when Beginner could help others, and the answer was two months. I feel all the nights I stayed up before were worth it, and I have confidence now. This is the first; in the future there will be the hundredth, the thousandth, the ten thousandth… hahaha, I got carried away, bringing myself back down. Meanwhile, I have to admit my shortcomings in operations. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses; my strength is in technology, my weakness is in operations, and with even less energy in the future, I don’t know how far Beginner can go.
Haha, I got too down. Let me lift it up. The research team this netizen signed up for, back when Beginner first rebuilt the website, I specifically created a “Subject Recruitment” section to allow classmates to post their projects, aiming to increase their visibility so they can receive more subjects, and some desperate patients have another chance. But because Beginner didn’t have many users, except for the two projects I promoted, no one else posted projects afterward. After two months, I gave up hope. Unexpectedly, through this channel, a netizen signed up, and both my classmate and I were extremely happy 
. I believe this is a great idea to cover information exchange gaps, which is exactly what the internet excels at. If anyone has projects, feel free to upload them; who knows, someone may contact you one day.
Looking back since I created Beginner until now, it has been four years, almost the entire undergraduate period, just like I wrote above: when you put your heart into something, results will slowly appear.
