The book shared today is from Schumacher's "Solving Puzzles: Mental Models Determine Your Life" by the well-known British economist and thinker.
Professor Chen Chunhua, Chair Professor Wang Kuancheng of the National Institute of Development studies at Peking University, recommended, "This is a unique book that can help you build a bridge with yourself, with others, and with the world, so that you can embark on the road of making life meaningful." Many times, we are trapped by the environment, and in fact we are trapped in ourselves, and when you are willing to embark on the inner journey one at a time, the real value creation stage appears, and happiness will come as scheduled. ”
Fan Deng, chief content officer of Fan Deng Reading, recommended, "Schumacher tells us in this book that the answers to some seemingly insoluble pains and troubles in life must come from a higher level, and the most effective way to solve problems is the leap of the mind. Life is the dojo, and it is time to cultivate, and I hope that this book can help everyone awaken their inner potential and achieve a better self. ”
Well, many big names at home and abroad are "endorsing" this work, and even Fan Deng, the founder of Fan Deng Reading, said that this is the best book he has ever read.
But what I'm trying to say is that it has nothing to do with you.
When you read the book and feel that there is nothing to gain, the value of the book has nothing to do with you.
As for the fact that you have not read this book at all, the value it presents has nothing to do with you.
But there are turns after the turns, and yet there are still turns after that. This is the uncertainty of life that this world brings.
What is life?
What is the meaning of life?
These questions are estimated to be thought by many people, but there are very few who can answer them.
The author writes in the book:
Life, first of all, means to solve problems.
wow! Good simple answer. It's so simple that anyone can answer.
But why are there so many books on the meaning of this whole life/life?
different means to the same end.
It's just that these people talk about it in different ways. Economists explain it from the "flow of money", sociologists explain it from the perspective of population, entrepreneurs interpret it in terms of corporate management...
Well, back to the original question, "What are the different mental models?" ”
It is not mentioned in the book "Solving Puzzles", so I will answer the mental patterns mentioned in another book for you.
"Without this underlying logic, smart people can do stupid things" (click to view)
Around 2000, applied psychologist Keith Stanovich first proposed the "dual system theory" of cognition, which was later changed to "double process theory", and in the book "Beyond IQ: Why Smart People Make Mistakes", he believes that there are two different processes of human mental processing: system 1 and system 2.
Stanovich's theory inspired daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel laureate in economics. Kahneman talks about this in Think, Fast and Slow, so much so that people think it's Kahneman's contribution.
The dual-process theory is as follows:
Based on this, Stanovich proposed the "three-centered intelligence model". He divided the mind into an autonomous mind, an algorithmic mind, and a reflective mind.
1, autonomous mind: Process 1 is the autonomous mind. We learn through evolution and implicit learning. For example, when you see a snake, you will be afraid, and once you learn to ride a bicycle, it will be unforgettable for a lifetime and become instinctive. This is the acquired automated response.
2, algorithmic mind: subject to innate learned factors, including memory, processing speed, logical reasoning and other core capabilities.
3, introspective mind: the process 2 is split into algorithmic mind and reflective mind, the human mental processing process of monitoring the human mental process and helping to perform decisions and judgments is called the introspective mind.
Seeing this, you may be able to feel why those big names in the evaluation of this book said that "the answer to some seemingly misunderstood pains and troubles in life must come from a higher level, and the most effective way to solve the problem is the mental leap".
In fact, it is a "dimensionality reduction strike".
You have to break through the second level of the algorithmic mind, reach the third level of the introspective mind, and then continuously optimize and improve this level. Then for many questions in life, you naturally have the answer.
For many of the troubles and sufferings in life, they naturally disappear.
Finally, I would like to use the original words of the author in the book to remind the readers that:
"It's better to leave these confusions behind you and start working on a down-to-earth basis!"
A lot of problems, confusion, anxiety, in fact, you think too much, and do too little!
Raise your hand and you will find that the hand is higher than the head!