Text/Harry, Jiang Zuo Meiniang
Teacher Luo Xiang once said this:
"All our understanding is a kind of blind touching elephant, we can only see the part, but it is difficult to see the whole."
People's cognition is limited, and only by breaking the situation can we get out of the deadlock.
In life, our thinking and cognition are often influenced by past experiences, so we will have intuitive judgments about things. Only by breaking the brain's inherent thinking mode and constantly updating one's cognition can we discover a different world.
A person's greatest ability is: thinking breakthrough and cognitive upgrade.
01. Conservative thinking is a kind of cognitive laziness
Lin Huiyin said:
"Behind the extreme thinking is cognitive laziness and a desire for dogma."
Yes, a conservative person often hides cognitive laziness in his heart, and what they expect in their hearts is an unchanging "dogma" to follow, as if in this way, they can keep themselves in a relatively safe situation.
Sometimes, however, this cognitive laziness can sometimes lead to ironic results.
Seen such a story:
There was a man in Germany who drove with the navigation.
While driving, the navigation suddenly failed, but he didn't realize it.
The navigation kept showing to drive forward, and the friend sitting in the co-pilot noticed that something was wrong and immediately said to him: "Don't drive, it's a dead end over there." ”
The German said: "You talk nonsense, the navigation says go forward." ”
Finally, the car hit the toilet.
Xuefeng said in the Zen Monastery Anthology:
"Everything is a convenient law, a timely law, not a permanent law, and once any cognition is fixed, it will inevitably become a thinking disorder regardless of the other." ”
Yes, a person who follows the old ways is easy to get stuck in the quagmire of rigid thinking and can't extricate himself, but what people are most afraid of is not not not to work hard, but to go dark in outdated cognition.
Hitting the toilet is small, and the story of life is big. If you don't break the mental deadlock, you will not only have no way to get the results you want, but will end up dying in hard work.
Therefore, only by breaking the old thinking and improving self-awareness can we have the right direction and move towards new success.
02 Conservative thinking and low cognitive level will lead to backwardness
Zhang Fangyu has a saying:
"The most remarkable thing to go out is to get out of yourself."
Yes, the more conservative people are, the more they like to close themselves off, and the lower the cognitive level.
People are lazy, and when facing new things and new concepts, they often do not want to think, but stop at the comfort zone of old thinking.
In life, even if many people see themselves getting worse and others getting better and better, they still choose to unswervingly follow the old road, while ignoring or even denying the success of others.
Think of the late Qing dynasty's master of science, Wan Ren, who was the teacher of the Tongzhi Emperor and a complete diehard.
In the fifth year of Tongzhi, Prince Gong Yixun and others requested the establishment of the Tongwenkan Astronomical Arithmetic Museum, and selected talents to receive knowledge of Western arithmetic and calendar.
This was supposed to be a great thing that followed the trend of the times, but it was fiercely attacked by the old guard led by him.
From the height of the foundation of the founding of the country, Wan Ren opposed the study of advanced Western technology, believing that learning from the West and advancing east would make intellectuals forget their ancestors, and might even perish the country and destroy the species.
The attitude of Wan Ren is a microcosm of the late Qing dynasty's ignorance and conservative thinking.
This solidification of thinking and shallow conservatism made the Qing Dynasty out of touch with the world, and when other countries carried out industrial revolutions, the Qing Dynasty was still content with the status quo and adhered to its own agricultural civilization. In the end, it attracted the strong ships and guns of the great powers, and the late Qing Dynasty, which was forced to open the country, had to open to the outside world, and since then, China has entered a century-long history of humiliation at will.
03Only those who think about breaking the game can open up a new path
Moderator Moreau once said:
"The biggest weakness of human nature is to tell yourself that this cannot be done, that it is not feasible, and eventually become a prisoner of self-thinking."
People with limited thinking often use past cognition to think and understand things.
We always like to use past experience as our own criterion, because we have not seen black swans, and we think that the swans in the world are white.
But the only constant in the world is change, everything has many facets, and you can't just look at what is in front of you based on past cognition.
Watched a story.
When Mahomemet captured Byzantium, his fleet was not in the harbor and could not attack.
So he asked the fleet to cross the mountains and sail from the outer sea to the inner harbor.
According to common sense and experience, ships could only travel in water, and it was impossible to overturn from the mountains, so much so that the Byzantines did not consider this possibility at all.
Mahomemet prepared countless logs, let the carpenter make a giant sled, fixed the ship to it, and then crossed the mountains to reach the inner harbor, winning the final victory.
Writer Cheng Jia mentioned a red-light thinking mode in "Study Well".
It refers to the fact that in the face of new ideas and opinions, people instinctively light up a red light in their hearts.
As long as you have not traveled the road, whether there is a prospect or not, you will tell yourself that "no passage is allowed." ”
However, in the face of new things, if a person is always treated with a "forbidden passage" attitude, it will inevitably fall, and only by allowing his thinking to break the situation can he open up a new world.
In 1937, Sidney, a marketer, was responsible for introducing wild wine to the United States.
Due to the poor taste of the product and dismal sales, it was strongly criticized by local official media.
Faced with this situation, the past approach has been to clarify and protect the company's reputation.
One intern suggested not responding to state media and spreading further criticism of the company.
Because many college students have a rebellious mentality, like to work against the authorities, and support positions that are different from those of authoritative institutions.
The unconventional advice of the intern was sneered at by many old salesmen.
Instead of judging it from previous experience, Sidney broke stereotypes and hyped the criticism of the company in state media at universities.
Later, the sales of wild wine went all the way up and became the darling of young American consumers.
Einstein said:
"All difficult questions, the answers are at a higher level, you have to improve the mind, cognition, level, thinking to solve the problem."
Yes, don't measure the world by your original perceptions.
Truly powerful people will always get rid of the shackles of experience, rethink what is in front of them, break through themselves with new thinking, and improve themselves with new cognition.
Only by jumping out of past experience can we think in multiple dimensions, and only by expanding the existing cognitive circle can we welcome one new success after another.
04 Mei Niang said
Someone said:
"Some things that you can't understand are likely to be your own cognitive limitations, and it doesn't mean that the other party is necessarily wrong."
Yes, how ridiculous it is that many people prove themselves right by denying things other than their own perception.
Many times, not being accustomed to others is not how superior they are, but their lack of cognition.
Don't measure the world by your perception.
Steve Jobs said a very classic sentence:
"Curiosity is like hunger, humility is foolishness."
Everything must have an empty cup mentality, embrace new things and new concepts, in order to break through the inherent thinking and open up the cognitive pattern.
Put aside past prejudices and do not follow the old ways, in order to break through the limitations of thinking and cognition;
Breaking the barriers of thinking and not relying on past experience can we think multi-dimensionally and expand the cognitive circle;
The gap between people lies in cognition, at which level cognition is, and in which state life is.
May we use the empty cup mentality for the rest of our lives to constantly upgrade our thinking model, constantly iterate our inherent cognition, and take our lives to a higher level.
Author Harry: A stubborn boy who has failed many times but does not admit defeat.
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