On February 8, Gu Ailing, a mainlander known as a "talented girl", challenged the limit to reverse the gold and created history. What has attracted public attention is that Gu Ailing is not only the best in her career of skiing, according to media reports, she is also good at basketball, long-distance running, rock climbing, and horseback riding. At the same time, Gu Ailing is also a super bully and a fashion girl, often able to achieve a balance in the three lives of going to school, sports training and competition, and engaging in fashion activities.
It is said that Gu Ailing was asked if it was better to focus on one thing – Gu Ailing replied, "No." "I gave up running for a while when I was in 8th grade, but later found that it was not good for skiing and school. It turns out that you can finish your homework in one hour, and there is plenty of time, but you can't finish it in 3 hours. Later, I realized that I had to find a balance in a variety of hobbies, so that I could be more focused and more efficient. What kind of enlightenment can Gu Ailing's growth give to the general public? This issue invites professional researchers to unlock Gu Ailing's talent code.
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△ On February 8, the champion Ofi China's Gu Ailing (center), the runner-up France's Tess Ludd (left) and the runner-up Switzerland's Mathilde Greymound were awarded medals. On the same day, the awarding ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Freestyle Ski Women's Big Jumping Medal was held in the Awards Plaza of Beijing Division. Photo by Ju Huanzong, Xinhua News Agency
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Diversified development contributes to overall excellence
"Is there a scientific basis behind Gu Ailing's diversified excellence?" "Does engaging in multiple types of activities promote overall brain development?" "Definitely." Gu Jianwen, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and an expert in neurosurgery, answered reporters in combination with his own growth and research experience.
△ Gu Jianwen, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and expert in neurosurgery
"Because although the human brain has different partitions, its development is generally one." The cerebral cortex plays a key role in higher cognition, such as thinking, memory, planning, perception, language, and attention. The brain has tens of billions of neurons, and one neuron can be connected to many neurons through synapses, either for a short or long time. Some networks can span brain regions, thereby facilitating multiple brain regions to work together to respond to the outside world. For example, when people are skating, multiple brain regions such as hearing, vision, space, and movement are linked to each other, so that the activity of the entire brain will be higher. External stimuli will be conducive to the development of neuronal synapses. "Gu Jianwen introduced that the brain is performing different tasks, through the interaction with the external environment, and eventually developed and reshaped, just like the muscles will be strengthened because we continue to exercise, and the network connection of hundreds of millions of nerve cells in the brain will also be enhanced because of our continuous use." Therefore, when children participate in different types of activities, they can stimulate neurons in different brain regions and strengthen the synapses of nerve cells, so that the whole brain can be exercised. On the other hand, when people do the same type of work, they tend to involve one or more brain regions. When these brain areas are excited, other brain areas are resting. This means that rest is not just a way to sleep to give the brain a break, but also to switch between different tasks, and also to alternate rest between different brain regions and brain network groups. ”
"The old ancestor once said a passage, using it to enter and retreat. That's how the brain is. For example, many of us have had this experience. When encountering major events and challenges, it is often tired and can mobilize multiple brain areas of the brain to react quickly to respond to the challenge. The brain is actually the organ that benefits the most from exercise. When exercising, not only is you in a good mood, but your attention, memory, creativity, and ability to resist stress are also exercised, and you can process information more quickly, so that you can think quickly, and the brain resources can be more rationally allocated, and the efficiency of learning will be higher. ”
Therefore, Gu Jianwen suggests that children must have a variety of experiences and develop a wide range of interests and physical movements. Especially in childhood, it is necessary to encourage more and less restrictions, support children's diversified exploration, and establish a variety of rapid responses and hand-eye cooperation between people and nature, people and the environment. Based on this, Member Gu Jianwen said that he very much agrees with the spiritual orientation of the current "double reduction policy" and must reduce the burden of homework and increase a variety of hobbies, especially sports hobbies. "Children will be obsessed with it for a certain period of time, as long as it is not excessive and addictive, do not limit it, and encourage the development of multiple interests."
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Multiple tasks necessarily require timeliness management
In real life, people admire Gu Jianwen not only because he is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference with a strong sense of social responsibility; a successful hospital administrator who leads a team of 3,000 people; and a well-known neurosurgery expert who specializes in precision surgical treatment involving brain repair such as microscopic neurosurgery. It is also because he can move freely between multiple tasks such as command, management, clinical and scientific research.
Gu Jianwen arrived at the office at 6 o'clock every day to start the day's work, he introduced that he attaches great importance to regular work and rest, attaches great importance to sleep, he said that it is the effective high-quality sleep and regular work and rest that allows him to complete different tasks in an efficient and orderly manner. At the same time, Gu Jianwen introduced that he attaches great importance to time management, what to do in a time period, and take half an hour as his time management unit.
"Multiple tasks also mean strengthening children's concept of target management and timeliness management." Gu Jianwen especially stressed to reporters, "Parents should help their children establish the concept of time management, have a sense of time, and have the concept of efficiency in doing things and work, so they can also form multiple task switching." "Gu Jianwen said that if you can develop the habit of limited goal management in a time cycle from an early age, and get used to accomplishing one thing in a short period of time again and again, the whole life can be more efficient." Complete limited goals in an orderly and efficient manner over a certain period of time. Gu Jianwen stressed, "Only in this way can we ensure that multiple goals can be completed in a limited time and multiple experiences can be obtained." Looking back on his childhood, Gu Jianwen said that his mother would ask for tasks such as steaming rice, and only when such tasks were completed could he do what he was interested in, so he would find ways to use the least amount of time to complete the tasks assigned by his mother to leave time for his interest.
△ On February 8, China's Gu Ailing was in the competition. On the same day, in the final of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Freestyle Ski Women's Big Jump held at the Beijing Shougang Ski Jump, China's Gu Ailing won the championship. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lan Hongguang
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Problem-oriented and extensive inquiry
"In fact, the good of a single person and the good of the whole often affect each other, and the function of a brain region should also be based on the premise of the system play of the overall function." As anything goes, multiple experiences must be conducive to the brain's development as a system and its systematic response to the environment. This understanding also affected Gu Jianwen's management of the hospital. Nowadays, in hospital management, Gu Jianwen supports doctors to continue to study in one field, but also emphasizes that doctors cannot be solidified in this specialty field, and must have a comprehensive diagnosis and treatment concept of the human body, have a broad academic vision, and take into account the understanding and integration of other fields. "Otherwise, if a disease is treated and other organs of the body have problems, it is not a fully qualified doctor."
As a neurosurgeon, Gu Jianwen had always dreamed of becoming an architect, and before the college entrance examination, painting and architecture studies occupied most of his daily life. However, he was admitted to the Military Medical University in advance during the college entrance examination, and thus studied medicine in a non-first-choice situation. Today, in retrospect, Gu Jianwen found that medicine and architecture are similar, and medicine and other disciplines are also inextricably linked, in addition to clinical work, he is also engaged in biomedical engineering and materials science research. Amateur, Gu Jianwen also likes photography, he said, "There is actually a connection between photography and medical surgery, as a doctor, you must always have the ability to accurately focus on images, and at the same time the psychological quality of surgery under the attention of many people." "Whether adults or children, don't set too many limits." In Gu Jianwen's consciousness, there is very little solidified thinking that specializes in his own profession and which profession cannot be touched. "People should get used to problem-oriented work that explores and innovates." "Whether it is the development of brain science itself or my own experience, I believe that people should try and experience in a variety of ways to activate various potential possibilities. We should try to promote the balanced development of brain regions and the comprehensive development of intelligence. ”
Reporter: He Chunlan
Editor: He Chunlan
New Media Editor: Huang Zhe
Review: Jiajia Zhou