People with a colorful and wonderful life mission often live more than 20 years longer than bored people.
The University of Michigan did a study that tracked the status of more than 6,000 elderly people, and found that the overall mortality rate of the elderly with a stronger sense of purpose was reduced by more than 50% compared with those who felt that life was meaningless. It turns out that having a positive "hope" for people to achieve can live longer.
A study of more than 200 people on mrimagma imaging of the brain shows that finding a mission in life is like grasping the context of your own life, allowing people to clarify themselves from it – what do I want to do? What should I do? What am I suitable for? What can I do? What am I good at? What do I have to do?
The so-called mission thinking, refers to - since you come to this world, then you always have to do something, once you have established a more important and long-term goal, it is equivalent to Heaven giving you a mission, so that your life has extraordinary significance, while making you full of energy and motivation, in the process of completing the mission, your wisdom will be fully exerted, even if suffering, suffering, frustration, your heart is also sweet, happy in it.
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In 1965, Carlyle was born in Burkina Faso, Africa, this "ghost place", the dry season is extremely long, the temperature is as high as 45 ° C, the rainy season is short, but the heavy rain has washed the ground and collapsed. Every year on the list of "the world's seven poor countries", there is no water, electricity and no hospitals.
At the age of 7, he left his hometown more than 20 kilometers away to go to primary school in the city. The school is like a cement-covered sarcophagus, more than 100 people crowded, hot and unowned, wearing slippers to school, only barefoot after school, because the slippers melt and deform in the hot classroom!
In 1985, he took a scholarship to Germany to work-study, learning to build a shed carpentry during the day and supplementing the secondary school curriculum at night. At the age of 30, Carlyle was admitted to the Technical University of Berlin.
After graduation, he could have found a decent job in the big city, but he will never forget the scene - every year before leaving home for school, many women in the village would dig a coin out of the corner of their clothes and stuff it into his palm.
yes! It was their only savings, they had been illiterate all their lives, but they had given everything they could to prop up his dreams and inject a mission into his heart. So Carlyle made up his mind to use what he had learned all his life to become the number one architect in his hometown.
First, he was going to build a school out of clay, because his hometown was full of clay. The villagers were busy, men moving brick walls bare-chested, women lining up to support them with clay pots, and children digging mud everywhere barefoot.
In order to level a large floor, the grandfathers stepped hard, the daughter-in-law smashed desperately, and even the grandmother took the stone to knock, and finally polished the uneven rotten ground smooth as a mirror.
In order to solve the problem of heat dissipation, he designed a "double roof" structure, the first layer of mud bricks, ventilation and ventilation, the second layer of iron hanging in the air, sheltering from the wind and rain. Hot air is discharged between the two layers, cold air is filtered, haha! This is equivalent to a natural air conditioning fan.
After the completion of the new elementary school, wow! The number of students increased from 120 to 700. Carlyle won the African Grand Prize, the "Aga Khan Architecture Award", and became famous in world war I.
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In 2010, he designed the "Opera Village", which still uses the surrounding clay, redstone and wood. The whole picture of the Opera Village is spiraling, containing the meaning of "infinite life", including schools, communities, and medical centers.
In 2014, Carlyle designed Schulg Middle School. Seeing that the surrounding eucalyptus trees were not shaded, consumed nutrients, and could not be eaten, they simply cut down the outer wall of the fence, and the sunlight penetrated the trunk, ensuring the sunshine and blocking the heat. But the tree was not cut down in vain, and Carlyle then taught the villagers to switch to mango trees in the local area, huh! The trees are well shaded, and the fruits are full.
One day, he had a whim: let every student take care of a fruit tree, and the children would play and study under the tree, and by the time the mangoes were fragrant, they would grow up. yes! What a romantic poetry!
Over the next decade, Carlyle's projects – medical centers, doctors' apartments, orphanages, health and welfare centres... Mushrooms sprung up in the homeland. Using the residue of the local quarry, digging clay that does not need money everywhere, hiring the men and women in the village, how environmentally friendly and how environmentally friendly, looking at the world, there is no one!
Carlyle is known as the magician of light and the romantic poet of the wind.
He used grass and trees as a sieve to tame the equatorial poisonous sun, filtering and softening it, making it a pleasant color, rainbow light and rain.
He took mud and stone as a nest, calmed the hot wind raging in Africa, let it sublimate and docile, and blew out bursts of laughter and books.
The Pritzker Architecture Prize, equivalent to the Nobel Prize of the global architectural community, and I.M. Pei, the Chinese architect who built the Louvre in France, is the past winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
The 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the winner is Carlyle! He won the world's most advanced architecture awards in the poorest places on earth, with the most environmentally friendly buildings. He let his mission shock the whole world, and this mission proudly declared: Architecture should not be a cold combination of bricks and stones, it should have life, temperature, passion, it does not have to shine like a diamond in the world, because the eyes of all beings are the galaxy of the world!
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"I'm only 90 years old, and Lao Tzu has time."
The people who say this are either crazy or geniuses. In fact, it was said by a chemist on a mission, the same Goodenough who won the Nobel Prize at the age of 97.
Born in 1922, he suffered from dyslexia, had to choose mathematics when he went to college, and when he graduated, he encountered the outbreak of World War II, and after joining the army, he was assigned to a small island in the Pacific Ocean as a meteorologist.
After World War II, he came to the University of Chicago to study physics, but a professor looked down on the elderly young man who was halfway out of the house and taunted, "Ouch! At your age, those physics giants have long been honored. ”
Yes, 26-year-old Einstein proposed the theory of relativity, 32-year-old Edison invented the incandescent lamp, and 30-year-old Goodenough, at best, only got a ph.D. in physics with a false head.
Fortunately, Goodenough met Zener, the famous Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the voltage stabilizing diode.
Zener said to him, "There are only two problems in a man's life. The first problem is to find a problem. The second problem is to solve it. ”
In fact, we can understand what Zener said as: the most important thing in life is to find your mission and then achieve this mission.
After graduating with a Ph.D., he was recommended to the Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop ferromagnetic ceramics. Who expected that the project funds that had been well arranged were suddenly cut off, and he had to go all over the world to find a home, but he ran into walls everywhere, and the years were staggering, and nothing was achieved.
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In 1976, at the age of 54, Goodenough became the director of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at Oxford University, and it was here that he officially began to study lithium batteries.
Although lithium batteries are more capable of storing electricity, lighter in weight and more powerful than other batteries. However, the chemical properties of lithium are too active, and a little contact with air can easily catch fire. And in the process of charging and discharging, dendrites will be quickly generated, which will short circuit the battery, resulting in fire or even explosion.
Goodenough's research is to solve the problem that early lithium batteries are prone to dendrites, after 3 years of research, he and two other scientists together found a suitable material - lithium cobalt oxide, so that the properties of lithium batteries become much more stable, so that the expansion of the use of lithium batteries has become possible.
But at that time, Oxford University did not pay attention to Goodenough's research, not only did not want to help him apply for a patent, but also gave his patent to the government laboratory in vain.
Later, this patent was bought by Sony, creating the world's first rechargeable lithium-ion battery, successfully commercializing, and making a lot of money.
I wanted to do research in Oxford until I was old, but Oxford had a rule: compulsory retirement at the age of 65. Before being forced to retire, Goodenough moved to the University of Texas at Austin to continue his research.
Suddenly, 11 years later, in 1997, the 75-year-old Goodenough discovered a new material - lithium iron phosphate, lithium iron phosphate is more stable and cheaper than lithium cobalt oxide.
It is precisely because of the birth of lithium batteries that mobile electronic devices such as smart phones, tablets, and laptops have emerged, and Goodenough has been the greatest.
In 2012, 90-year-old Goodenough had a bold idea to develop a super battery that could store solar and wind energy, so that electric cars and internal combustion engine cars could truly match.
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English has 3 tones (light tone, accent, sub-accent), Chinese has 4 tones (ma, ma, ma, scolding), music has 7 tones (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), Cantonese has more than 6 tones (quotient, shang, shang, think, chang, hurt), that is, Cantonese is the closest to music on the earth, and the easiest to communicate. For example, for people who are proficient in both Chinese and Cantonese, it is not easy to listen to Chinese songs and hear all the lyrics clearly, while it is much easier to listen to Cantonese songs and want to hear all the lyrics clearly.
Before, there were 30 million people with dementia in the world, most of them only spoke one language, and among people who can speak more than 3 languages, it is difficult to find dementia patients. In other words, learning Cantonese is not only conducive to communication between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, but also makes people smart, strengthens memory, and prevents dementia.
At a dinner party, I met an aunt from the northeast, who said that she had been in Guangzhou for several years and wanted to learn to speak Cantonese, but she had not been able to learn it, and she was deeply sorry.
I said to her:
"Life requires mission thinking, and there is not much difference between what you want to do and what you don't want to do; and what you want to do and what you want to do are very different." 」
"Thinking, just a wish, you have 100 excuses to prevent yourself from fulfilling this wish. And very much wants to mean a mission that allows you to generate 1,000 motivations to make this mission successful! "For example, my dad wanted to quit smoking, thought about it 1,000 times, couldn't quit, and wanted to quit smoking, and he succeeded once!"
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As the author of the public account "Learning and Wisdom Fly together", Psychological Talents research mission thinking and share some cross-border general wisdom principles with you:
1, there is a positive "hope" for people to achieve, you can live longer.
2, find the mission of life is like grasping the context of your own life, so that you can clarify yourself from it - what do I want to do? What should I do? What am I suitable for? What can I do? What am I good at? What do I have to do?
3, the so-called mission thinking, refers to - since you come to this world, you always have to do something, once you have established a more important and long-term goal, it is equivalent to Heaven gave you a mission, so that your life has extraordinary significance, while making you full of energy and motivation, in the process of completing the mission, your wisdom will be fully exerted, even if suffering, suffering, frustration, your heart is also sweet, happy in it.
4, a person's life has only two problems. The first problem is to find a problem. The second problem is to solve it. In other words, the most important thing in life is to find your mission and then achieve it.
5, life needs mission thinking, what you want to do and do not want to do is not much difference, and what you want to do and want to do, there is a big difference.
6, thinking, just a wish, you have 100 excuses to prevent yourself from realizing this wish. And very much wants to mean a mission that allows you to generate 1,000 motivations to make this mission successful!
7, the key to living well and living long depends on your mission in life. The more colorful and exciting your mission is, the longer and more refreshing you will live!