Insight in the Cliché
Cliché: A French word that means a trite expression/setting or stereotype
Clichés are often used in movies, such as trite expressions, settings, and storylines.
For example, a daughter of a chaebol dislikes a man who treats her badly, but gradually falls in love with him, or a character who was thought to be bad sacrifices themselves at a dramatic moment to save the protagonist, and so on. Because predictable and expected settings can cause boredom, movies try various settings and express them in a unique way through distinctive direction. As such, clichés are often used with a negative nuance in movies, because movies need to break clichés to some extent to be interesting and survive.
But what about in life? There are also many clichés in life. And those clichés are very important. Reading that started by chance leads to extensive reading and then to many successes, or dramatic changes through consistent exercise and diet management, resulting in a cool and beautiful body. Also, people can become rich suddenly and lose their original intentions, indulging in extravagance and falling into the abyss, or they can be looked down upon by others with arrogance and be ridiculed by the world.
If clichés in movies are simply trite settings and expressions, they are closer to certain data in life. Certain statistics obtained from life big data, and events with a very high probability of happening. As such, life's clichés are very important and reliable. But we often overlook and ignore clichés as if they were trite. To lose weight, you have to exercise and eat less and manage your diet. There is no other way. But ignoring the clichés, we are swayed by many sweet words, hoping that there is another way, a shortcut, and paying the price for money, time, health, etc.
As such, there are definitely clichés, both big and small, that are like laws in life. And the more trite and obvious it sounds, the more important and the more you may need to adhere to it. Isn't that the case even if you look at various self-help books/videos? Even if there are differences in anecdotes, tips, know-how, and expressions, the core messages are all similar when you see and hear them a lot. Clichés in life are big data.
Dreams, business success, employment, job changes, successful careers, dreams, diets, health recovery, beautiful appearance, love, marriage, financial technology, happiness, specific skills, abilities, knowledge, wisdom, influence, etc., each of us wants very different things. Also, even the same person changes depending on the situation, and even if they get and achieve something, they soon want something else. We want, get, and try to achieve so many things like this, and it might be of great help if we look at clichés every time. Although the methods may differ, the essential parts are highly likely to be not very different.
For example, in order to have a healthy diet, you need to exercise 'consistently' and eat less. There are various exercises such as running, fitness, swimming, walking, fast walking, and cycling, and there are various diets such as reducing snacks, reducing carbohydrates, eating half a bowl of rice, and intermittent fasting. Whatever it is, you can combine exercise and diet that suits you. There is no magic pill, and you have to exercise and diet consistently. It is a diet cliché that you get tired of hearing.
Like this, if we want something, we should not dismiss clichés as obvious, but rather we should take them to heart. Because they have so many successful cases that they feel obvious and trite, and there is a very, very high probability that there is some core element, whether it's a physiological mechanism or a huge causal relationship.
We have something we want, and we want to get it and achieve it. And we are highly likely to have already looked for methods to some extent. However, they say they don't know how to do it. But in fact, they often already know how to do it. It's just that they are hoping for a magic pill.
We already know the answer. Even how to do it. Instead of looking for a magic pill, if you follow clichés and act silently, we will achieve everything we want, even if it takes time. Although we've seen and heard it a lot, and it's so obvious and trite that it doesn't come into our ears well, we must pay close attention to clichés. Because it can be close to the truth as much as everyone who has achieved it counts. Clichés are big data in life.
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