I believe you must have had such an experience: in work, study and life, the more you worry about something, the more you don't want it to happen, and in the end it is more inevitable to happen, many people will attribute this to bad luck, but is this really the case?
The answer is of course no, and psychologists have long found a reasonable answer to this situation, that is, Murphy's law, also known as Murphy's law, Murphy's theorem. It is an American Air Force engineer Edward. Murphy proposed.
In 1949, Murphy came to Edwards Air Force Base to participate in an important rocket deceleration and overweight experiment. Before the experiment, the technicians installed 16 newly developed sensors on the overweight experimental equipment, and as soon as the gravity reached a certain limit, these sensitive sensors would immediately sound an alarm.
In formal experiments, however, the sensor's pointer did not change in the slightest, regardless of how they operated. Under the action of huge gravity, the experimental equipment has begun to deform, and none of the 16 sensors have sounded an alarm.
Murphy and the others had to stop the experiment and start checking what was wrong. They were so shocked that the technicians had installed all 16 sensors in the wrong place.
This kind of thing is extremely incredible, but it really happens. Murphy couldn't help but sigh, "If there's more than one way to get a job done, and one of them leads to disaster, then someone is going to do it." ”
At that time, Murphy did not expect that a complaint he casually sent would spread to all over the world, and it was recognized by psychologists and evolved into a famous psychological thesis.
Now what we call Murphy's Law is more specific and richer in content, and it mainly includes the following four aspects.
First, many things are not as simple as they seem. Cognitive psychology tells us that we can't just look at the surface of the problem, otherwise it is easy to get one-sided, superficial, and wrong conclusions.
Second, it will take longer than you expect to do most things. In life, affected by various factors, our perception of time is often unrealistic, and this often leads to the problem of "time is always insufficient".
Third, things that go wrong will always go wrong. From the perspective of probability theory, everything will have three endings, either for the better, or for the worse, or for the same. Even if the probability of going bad is low, as long as it is repeated enough times, there may be results that we do not want to see.
Fourth, if you're worried about something happening, it's more likely to happen. When you pay too much attention to a thing and cannot look at it with a normal mind, it will form a negative psychological cue and act on your subconscious, making you feel very anxious and troubled, which will often affect your normal play and easily lead to some adverse consequences.
In general, Murphy's Law reveals a unique social and natural phenomenon: the tendency to make mistakes is an innate weakness of human beings, no matter how advanced the society is, how technologically advanced, trouble will always come unexpectedly.
But we should not become passive, but should adjust our cognition, consider the possible consequences, and then prepare accordingly. In this way, no matter what unsatisfactory situation occurs, it will not leave us helpless.
If you encounter unsatisfactory situations in life, you don't have to worry and worry too much, but you should let yourself calm down first, and then make the right decisions, so that you can face any problems calmly, and you can minimize the negative impact of Murphy's Law on yourself.