Although the world is a world, but everyone in it sees the world differently, the world seen by the master is often closer to the truth, and it is easier to see the essence of things, so as to make more accurate judgments and achieve greater achievements, I hope this article can bring you a little inspiration.
Coincidentally, China's Zhuangzi also described a similar scenario in "The Getaway":
There is a fish in the north, and its name is Kun. The size of the carp is unknown to thousands of miles. Transformed into a bird, its name is Peng. Peng's back, not knowing its thousands of miles, flew in anger, and its wings were like clouds hanging in the sky. It is the birds, and the sea will migrate to the South. The Southern Meditator, Tenchi also. "Harmonic" people, zhi weird people also. The words of the "Harmony" say: "Peng's migration to the South Meditation, the water strikes three thousand miles, the one who shakes up is ninety thousand miles, and the one who goes to rest in June is also." "Wild horses also, dust also, creatures blow with breath also." The heavens of heaven, its right and evil? Is it far away and nothing is extremely evil? It is also seen below, and if it is, it is already enough. And if the accumulation of water is not thick, then its negative boat is also powerless. If the cup of water is on top of the col, it is a boat; if the cup is placed, it is glue, and the water is shallow and the boat is large. The accumulation of the wind is not thick, and its negative wings are also weak. Therefore, ninety thousand miles, then the wind is in the lower place, and then it is the present Peifeng; the one who carries the blue sky and the Mo's death, and then the present general Tunan. Xuan and Xue Dove laughed: "I decided to fly, grab the elm and stop, the time will not come, but control the ground, Xi for ninety thousand miles and south?" "Those who are suitable for recklessness, three meals in reverse, the belly is still true; those who are suitable for a hundred miles, the grain of sustenance, the one who is suitable for a thousand miles, the grain gathered in March." What do you know about the second insect? Small knowledge is not as good as big knowledge, and small years are not as good as big years. What do you know? Asagiri do not know obscurity, cockroaches do not know spring and autumn, this small year also. In the south of Chu, there are meditators, with five hundred years old as spring and five hundred years old as autumn. In ancient times, there were those who took eight thousand years as spring and eight thousand years as autumn. This big year also. And Pengzu is now known for a long time, and everyone is matched. Not sad! ……
This article almost represents the highest wisdom of Zhuang Zhou, and it is very well written and has profound connotations.
Stills from "Big Fish Begonia"
The popular animated movie "Big Fish Begonia" in previous years is based on this.
We also often use idioms such as "Kunpeng spreads its wings" and "Pengcheng Wanli" to bless others, which is also derived from this article.
The article begins with the story of a Kunhua peng, which soared up to 90,000 miles and flew to the southern sea. Dapeng's behavior was ridiculed by "tiáo" and "xue dove", so the author used a metaphor for "chao fungus does not know obscurity, and moths do not know spring and autumn" to illustrate that different species are difficult to understand each other.
There is a more advanced discussion later, which will not be expanded here, but only a few sentences will be selected for explanation.
Small knowledge is not as good as big knowledge, and small years are not as good as big years. What do you know? Asagiri do not know obscurity, cockroaches do not know spring and autumn, this small year also. In the south of Chu, there are meditators, with five hundred years old as spring and five hundred years old as autumn. In ancient times, there were those who took eight thousand years as spring and eight thousand years as autumn. This big year also.
To translate:
Little wisdom is not as good as great wisdom, and short life is not as good as longevity. How do you know this is the case? The fungus grass does not know night and dawn. The cold cicada does not know the time of the year, this is short life. In the south of the Chu Kingdom, there is a large tree called the Dark Spirit, which treats five hundred years as a spring and five hundred years as an autumn. In ancient times, there was a tree called Tsubaki, which regarded eight thousand years as a spring and eight thousand years as an autumn, which is longevity.
A fungus that breaks the ground in the morning, because he does not live for more than a month, so he does not know what is called obscure and what is called Shuo (the first day of each month is called Shuo, and the last day is called obscure). The cockroach, that is, the cicada born in the summer, usually dies in the autumn, so it does not know the spring and autumn.
Different flowers in the eyes of humans and bees
Every human being, every animal, lives in its own world, and only by looking at the problem from a higher place can we see the truth.
For example, there are people who are born with color blindness, and the world they see is different from most people.
The following is a picture of detecting color blindness, color blind patients can not see the numbers in it, what numbers do you see? Let's talk about it in the comments section!
Detect color blindness in pictures
In the Republic, Plato speaks of a cave metaphor that has a similar meaning.
In an underground cave there is a group of prisoners with many torches behind them, and between the prisoners and the torches are some manipulated puppet toys. The prisoners' bodies were bound and they could not turn around or look backwards, so they could only see the shadows of these puppets projected by the fire on the wall in front of them, and in their eyes these shadows were the real world, which was the first world in the picture above.
Some of the brave prisoners broke free of their restraints and ran to the second world, saw the torches and puppets behind them, and marveled that the world was not just as boring as the first world.
When they return to world 1, freeing all the prisoners and letting them see the torches and puppets in world 2, most of them are overwhelmed and prefer to go back to the original world, and some will even turn their confusion to those who reveal the truth to them.
Those who reach the second world are divided into three situations, the first type of person stays in the second world forever, and the second type of person returns to the first world again. There are also more courageous people who pursue the truth, they bravely accept the truth, realize that everything they saw before is only my shadow, and are not willing to stay here, resolutely out of the cave and see the vast 3rd world.
This cave metaphor is closer to us, although we are all human beings, although we live in the same world, but the world in each of our eyes is different.
Let's look at another metaphor, each of us wears a "colored glasses" or even a "twisted lens", and we see the world after the glasses are deformed, so everyone sees the world differently. The so-called master is to have a lens closer to the real, to see the nature of the world more clearly, and naturally to make better and more correct decisions.
In Plato's cave metaphor, the third world is a world closer to the essence, in which people are freer and more able to see the world as it is.
If you want to improve your cognition and height, there is no other way but to learn and reflect.
1. Learn
Learning is not blindly learning everything, the world already has too much knowledge, no one can master and learn all the knowledge well. We must pay attention to methods, set our own research directions, and dig deeper to achieve a little success.
A few pieces of advice:
(1) Cultivate their own interests and hobbies, interest-oriented learning is easier to succeed, and in the process of learning, learn according to needs.
(2) Learn with problems, targeted learning is more effective.
(3) Learning is not only to accumulate knowledge, but also to internalize knowledge. To classify and integrate knowledge, it is best to draw a mind map and establish a knowledge system.
Regarding efficient learning, I have written several articles before, which can be viewed by clicking on the avatar.
2. Reflect and learn to think deeply.
The so-called reflection is to think about the past and learn from it.
When you have a problem, ask a few more whys?
By constantly asking questions, finding the origin or essence of things, after long-term training, you will be able to understand the essence at a glance.
Here's an interesting example:
The maximum diameter of China's active rockets is 3.35 meters, such as the Long March rocket series rockets and the Long March 7 rockets that have just been successfully launched.
So why is the maximum diameter of the rocket 3.35 meters?
Because the rocket needs to be transported by train, it is inevitable that some tunnels will pass on the road, and the width of the tunnel determines the maximum diameter of the rocket.
So what determines the width of the tunnel?
The width of the tunnel is determined by the width of the rails on the railway.
So what determines the width of the rails?
The width of the tracks follows the width of the tramways.
What determines the tram tracks?
The width of the tram tracks follows the spacing of the carriage wheels.
What determines the spacing of the wheels of a carriage?
The earliest carriages were transported by two horses, so the spacing of the wheels was about equal to the width of the butts of two horses.
In summary, the diameter of the rocket is determined by the width of the horse's butt.
Didn't expect it! The width of the rocket is determined by the width of the horse's butt!
This is the secret of deep thinking, if a person can master this ability to think, then he is a master, in the student age is a proper bully.
George Bernard Shaw said: "People think about it up to two or three times a year, and I think about it once or twice a week and I am internationally renowned." ”
This sentence tells the secret of the master: frequent reflection and deep thinking.
Conclusion:
Modern people are faced with the indiscriminate bombardment of massive amounts of information every day, and they have no time to think, let alone think deeply.
I've been asking these questions over the years:
How do you give yourself the ability to see the essence at a glance?
How can I help an adult or child to think deeply?
How can we do much less and achieve greater results?
If someone has these abilities, I think he will become a master in the eyes of others, a leader in the industry, an unattainable bully in the student era, and "someone else's child" in the eyes and mouths of his parents...
More articles will be written in the future to answer the above questions, so stay tuned.
The world is multidimensional, the world is layered, only by improving our cognition can we see a larger and broader world! Share!