How to write Zhihu's answer?

The value of a good answer lies in "answering irrelevant questions"

The most intractable problem in a person's mind usually stems not from the lack of knowledge, but from the imprisonment of thinking mode. These imprisonments are silent and imperceptible, but they can always imprison people in a narrow cognitive cage, entangled in problems that should not be entangled, entangled in complicated appearances, and unable to see a broader world.

The question born in the cage also frames the respondent's thinking. Holding back the question and giving the answer can really solve the questioner's superficial confusion, but the knot in his heart has not been solved after all. Jumping out of the box of problems and aiming at the cage of thinking is the best way to break it.

Because I am convinced that behind every problem, there is always a bigger problem; Just like the depths of every ordinary thing, it may also contain profound enlightenment.

Google and Baidu are experts in answering questions. They will always be loyal to your keywords, but this is also their biggest weakness. They can't see your inner lack, predicament, hesitation and helplessness, they can only give you the answers in the cage. It is precisely because of this that the existence of Zhihu is meaningful.

Many of Zhihu's good answers don't answer the question itself, but they can pull your thinking to a height that you can't reach before: change the perspective of looking at the problem, subvert the original ideas, and discover a wider world-like lightning, splitting through the hinterland of the soul.

If you stand higher, you can see deeper.

Standing on a higher level, everyone is busy all his life, looking for the answers to those questions in his heart. These answers to life can only be answered by yourself, and no one else can do it for you. Wittgenstein said that "the philosopher's job is to collect hints for a specific purpose", just like the good answers in Zhihu, they are just irrelevant hints, and they should be understood by themselves after all. Compared with your life, Zhihu is just an exercise.

About how to write a good answer, it is all in my cognitive cage. As for the trick of drafting at least one day before writing a long answer, reading it for at least three or five times, and unexpectedly attracting people's attention with the first sentence and ending the article with refined epigrams, it is really unreasonable.

So in the final analysis, this answer is just "irrelevant answer."