Gu Ai Gu Ailing won six gold medals in just one month, and he received such an honor at a young age, which made people not envious. Gu Ailing won nearly 50 gold medals at the age of 13, and what is even more enviable is that she entered Stanford with nearly full marks for self-study; she is not only a talented player, but also a bully girl.
Excellent Gu Ailing is inseparable from the quality education of her parents, and at the same time, it is inseparable from Gu Ailing's all-out efforts in doing everything.
In the past two years, through reading, writing, and insisting on Gu Ailing, I have gained a deeper understanding and understanding.
I have shared how I have insisted on exercising and how I have insisted on writing in the past two years; but in the process of this persistence, I will also desert and play mobile phones; I guess many friends have similar feelings with me.
After a period of persistence, after the passion has calmed down, it is back to the old road; some people even slowly give up what they insist on.
People say that success is actually a process of falling down and getting up, a process of continuous iteration and continuous improvement.
What inspiration can Gu Ailing give us today, and how can we achieve the ultimate persistence?
First, the awakening of cognition is the starting point for success
Zhou Ling's "Cognitive Awakening" tells us that people have two lives, one is birth and the other is awakening.
We all know that we must have clear goals, dreams, and hobbies to do things; only then can we strive for it and gain something.
And many times the so-called goals, dreams, and hobbies we talk about are not the goals we have to strive for for the rest of our lives; that is, we have not really found the internal driving force that motivates us to continue.
A lot of times we are driven by external pressure to do things, and we all know that if the direction of internal driving force and external pressure are one direction, then external pressure is acceleration.
If the direction of the internal driving force and the external pressure are not the same direction, the greater the external pressure, the greater the resistance of the internal driving force.
How we stimulate our own internal drive is inseparable from our ability to improve our cognitive range and cognitive level.
Gu Ailing has been interested in a wide range of interests since she was a child, such as basketball, archery, rock climbing, surfing, horseback riding, piano, etc., and her parents respect her choice.
It is through her contact with different projects that she has also broadened Gu Ailing's vision and cognition; coupled with her parents' talent and Gu Ailing's own talent, Gu Ailing has become an outstanding genius.
Essential Reading:
There are four core thinking in human cognition: global thinking, local thinking, limit thinking, and change thinking
3 major thinking to solve problems: logical thinking, horizontal thinking, and critical thinking
Everything is not smooth like being stuck in the neck, 3 major thinking to take you to easily break the situation and get out of the predicament of life
The seven major thinking of goal, value, review, deviation correction, iteration, leverage, and compound interest have achieved great masters
Through the phenomenon of insight into the essence, deductive thinking, inductive thinking, perspective thinking from the bottom logic to break
Second, barbarism and its physique eliminate the inertia of the body is the foundation
There is a saying that is very correct, when we watch inspirational films or books, we are excited to think about it and look back.
What does this mean? It shows that we intend to change our minds, but the body is honest and the inertia makes us give up the challenge and continue to choose the comfort zone of ease.
We all naively think that the human mind can control the body, but we all know that most of the time, the human mind is controlled by the body in turn.
We can see that many people pursue in their lives whether it is food or beauty, plus wealth; what they pursue is what human nature needs most.
As everyone knows, all people with great achievements are anti-human pursuits, they all have the courage to jump out of the comfort zone, first overcome their own body, and then control your body through the mind, otherwise your mind can only be controlled by the body.
I insisted on exercising eight duan jin for three years, and what struck me most was that when the body has spirit, the implementation of my own ideas is much less in the face of the inertia of the body, and it will be easy to complete.
Gu Ailing in addition to skiing, basketball, surfing and other sports are all in the victory over the inertia of the body, when you eliminate the inertia of the body, the thinking will no longer be dull, the physical fitness will be greatly improved, and the corresponding will be full of vitality.
Third, the ultimate execution of the flow is the key
What are we most afraid of when we do something?
In this day and age, many people are victimized by mobile phones, and the already scarce concentration is occupied by mobile phones; if a person is distracted by various temptations, he will achieve nothing.
In addition, the biggest influence on a person's work is procrastination; there is no continuous and efficient output, where is the advent of beautiful works.
Here I mention a book called Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, so what kind of state is flow?
It is a state of deep work, a state of immersive experience, a state of forgetting one's goal and going all out; it is also a state of happiness in which the body and mind are united.
The pressure and ideas that Gu Ailing faced at the time when he was 9 years old and the world extreme sports that he later challenged were always the same: that is, to do everything with all his might.
There is a little story in the Buddhist family: Someone asked the Zen master, "Is the cultivation diligent?" How to work hard? ”
The Zen master replied, "Of course, you must work hard in the cultivation path, that is, eat when you are hungry, and sleep when you are sleepy." ”
At first I saw it and laughed, what a profound truth.
Now I really understand that when you are hungry, you eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are sleepy, work when you work, exercise when you exercise; focusing on everything is the best and fastest growth.
Finally, behind any success is hard work
Let's review how to shorten the gap between gu and Gu Ailing and achieve a counterattack in life.
Cognitive awakening to find one's clear goal is to begin, adherence to a sport to eliminate physical inertia is the foundation, and extreme execution to focus on flow is the key.