I saw a very interesting conversation:
After watching the circus performance, the little boy asked his father in doubt:
"The elephant is so powerful, why don't you break the chain?"
The father thought for a moment and said:
"Because the elephant was trapped by chains when it was a child, when the strength was very small, it would struggle hard, but it couldn't break free, and slowly gave up, even if it grew so big now, the strength was many times greater, and it still couldn't forget the experience of not being able to break free in the past."
The little boy went on to ask:
"In fact, the elephant can easily break free, but it was imprisoned by its thinking as a child, which led to the fact that it forgot to break away now."
The father laughed and said:
"Yes, it's actually imprisoned by the mind."
In fact, this is the elephant thinking.
Not only elephants, but we humans, what limits a person is not the environment, not the ability, not even the effort, but the thinking.
Only by breaking the solidified thinking and tearing down the wall of thinking can we regain growth and rebirth.
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Don't draw the ground as a prison
There is such a sentence in "Zhuangzi Qiushui":
"The well frog shall not speak to the sea, but to the void; Summer worms can not speak to the ice people, but also to the time. ”
The frogs in the well have not seen the sea, and the summer worms have not experienced the cold winter, so no matter how much explanation is, it is useless, because cognition limits their thinking.
Everyone, too, is often cognitively limited.
The first step to breaking the solidified thinking is not to draw the ground as a prison.
I once watched an animated short story "Sandpiper".
There is not a single line in the whole film, but after watching it, it is awe-inspiring.
As the tide recedes, a large flock of seabirds flock to the beach to quickly eat shellfish washed up by the sea.
The tide rises and the seabirds recede.
And so on.
The little seabird follows its father, and so does it.
Once, it was attracted by a beautiful bubble, and in an instant, the tide flooded it.
Fortunately, the little seabird was not washed away and drowned, but it was frightened by the tide and no longer dared to forage.
It wasn't until the little seabird met the hermit crab family that it finally overcame its fear and found a foraging method that was superior to its father's.
When the tide rises, the little seabird buries itself in the sand like a hermit crab.
In the tidal water, it saw countless shellfish.
When the tide recedes, the little seabirds can accurately find many shellfish hiding places.
It was one attempt that the little seabird grew tremendously.
Cognition determines thinking, and thinking determines behavior.
There is a proverb: No matter how big the pancake is, it is not as big as its pan.
The future life is like a pie, and the desire to bake a satisfactory "pie" depends on the "pot" that burns it - this is "cognition".
Breaking the prison of thinking, the "pot" is bigger, and the cake is naturally bigger.
Don't draw the ground as a prison, dare to break through the inherent thinking, need courage, more need is to experience, to accept new knowledge, to improve cognition, and then to try, to change.
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Break down empiricism
There is a story in Aesop's Fables about a donkey crossing the river:
The donkey carried two large bags of salt across the river, fell into the mud, struggled for half a day and could not break free, and then simply lay flat, after a while, it felt lighter, and actually stood up at once.
The second time he crossed the river, the donkey carried two large bags of cotton, thinking about the experience of the last time, lying flat in the river, and the result became more and more heavy, and finally he could no longer stand up.
In life, why aren't we this donkey?
Always use past experience to cope with the current difficulties, but forget about the changes in the world.
Most people first enter the society, after experiencing countless pressures and growing up at the fastest speed, they start a family and their lives gradually stabilize.
Many people, working all their lives until retirement, for decades as they did, have not changed much, except to get older.
So that many people in the new generation do not listen to their parents' opinions, are unwilling to engage in the work suggested by their parents, and often see the old at a glance and feel that it is not interesting to refuse.
Is the new generation at fault?
Yes, they just don't want to live like their parents, or under the arrangement and interference of their parents.
Are parents at fault?
It is also true that they use the experience of those who have come here to avoid some pits for their children, so that their children can take fewer detours.
But why are the results often unsatisfactory, and children and parents are so antagonistic?
The biggest reason is that most parents' cognition is also very limited, and their thinking is relatively solidified, which does not convince their children enough.
Experience is not omnipotent and has its own limitations.
There is a line in the movie "A Generation of Grandmasters" that says it is very good: "A person has to look far away, and when he crosses the mountain, his vision is broadened." ”
Breaking through empiricism and crossing the mountain of experience in front of you is the second step towards success.
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Think outside the box
Ji Xianlin once said: "As people grow older, they are most afraid of rigid thinking. "That is, as the saying goes, light is long age, not brain.
Thinking doesn't grow with age.
I saw an interesting video:
In the video, all human knowledge is compared to a circle.
From birth to college, all the knowledge a person learns occupies a small circle in the center of the circle.
As the knowledge increased, from bachelor's degree to master's degree, the small circle broke through a fan shape in one direction.
From master's degree to doctorate, the small circle breaks through a fan on the basis of the fan, at this time, the boundary of knowledge is very close to the boundary of the large circle.
PhD broke through this border for many years.
Finally, one day, that boundary was broken.
The addition of a small bulge on the large circle means that human knowledge is a little more.
And this little bit is all the doctor's research.
Compared to the whole circle, it is unremarkable.
There are many more uncharted areas that have not been explored.
Whatever breakthroughs are made, don't be satisfied.
These achievements are often insignificant when placed in the larger world.
The famous German philosopher Schopenhauer said: "The biggest prison in the world is the human mind." ”
Deeply believed, we all live in cognitive prisons.
Even if you break through the limitations of your thinking again and again, don't be complacent.
Constantly breaking through the limitations of thinking, constantly breaking the information cocoon, the road of life can go wider and wider.
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Writer Liu Run said: "Ordinary people change the results, excellent people change the reasons, and the top excellent people change the thinking model." ”
What kind of thinking you have, what kind of life you will have.
Don't draw the ground as a prison, have the courage to open up a new situation;
Break with empiricism and dare to challenge old authorities;
Break through the limitations of thinking and be good at discovering new blind spots.
On the road of life, we are not afraid of difficulties, we are afraid of stagnating.
Finally, like + pay attention, may you and I both grow into a better self, encourage each other.