Recently, I was chasing "Ode to Joy".
Looking at Yu Chuxuan and He Minhong, who are similar in age in the play, but there is a huge difference in popularity and work efficiency, their hearts are very complicated.
Sometimes I look at He Minhong, who is stupid, as if I see myself when I first entered the workplace:
I always think that I am very attentive and responsible, and I can have a clear conscience, but I don't know how much inconvenience and trouble I have caused to others because of my low emotional intelligence.
However, both of them obviously graduated from prestigious schools, and their work ability is not bad.
Why can Yu Chuhui be left and right, but He Minhong can only hit a wall everywhere?
The book "Don't Challenge Human Nature 2" that I was reading recently gave me some inspiration.
Take the performance of the two at work as an example.
Yu Chuhui is engaged in technology research and development, while Yu Minhong is engaged in writing work, both of which require a certain degree of creativity.
However, Yu Chuhui had the courage to "trick" into Shenguang and became the most core employee in the eyes of the two CEOs.
And He Minhong entered Junya Media with his strength, but in the end he had to roll up and leave.
The reason behind this gap is that Yu Chuhui continues to generate creativity in his work, making achievements one after another, and surprising his boss again and again.
He Minhong's performance at work is average, and he is too brainless in dealing with people, which leads to being used by leaders and co-authors.
The book says that there are three basic prerequisites for generating creativity and determining its size.
The first prerequisite is that we understand and master the quantity and quality of knowledge and concepts.
For this point, Yu Chuhui and He Minhong are both professionals, and after they entered the workplace, they still maintained learning every day.
The only difference is that Yu Chuhui reads the well-known literature of his own profession and works hard to be professional.
He Minhong, on the other hand, regarded reading as a hobby and did not use his energy to improve his professionalism.
Therefore, from this point on, the distance between the two is destined to gradually widen.
The second prerequisite is to link concepts to concepts, knowledge to knowledge, and experience to experience.
The book mentions that in order to connect concepts and knowledge, the "infrastructure" of the brain needs to be well built, that is, the connection between nerve cells and neurons in the human brain, the better the connection, the faster the speed of information transmission, the higher the efficiency of information processing, and the better the "infrastructure" of the brain will be if the information is transmitted without interference.
In infancy and early childhood, the quality of the brain "infrastructure" depends on the innate integrity of the brain, a stable and warm family environment (especially a healthy and high-quality attachment relationship with the mother), and abundant physical movement.
At this point, He Minhong's brain "infrastructure" should be better than Yu Chuhui's, because she has lived in a happy family since she was a child, and Yu Chuhui has been living in the shadow of her father's violence.
However, if you extend this to their lives after work, you can understand why Yu Chuhui's creativity is better than hers.
Both of them must have no problem with a congenitally complete and healthy brain, but the gap lies in a stable and warm family environment and abundant physical movement.
He Minhong offends people everywhere because of his low emotional intelligence.
On the 22nd floor, I don't get along with other people, and I don't get along with my colleagues in the company, so I don't have a stable and warm living environment.
As for Yu Chuhui, at home, several other girls on the 22nd floor like her very much and take care of her, and in the company, there are two good brothers Haozi and Chen Chaosheng who have the same heart as her, and the living environment is very good.
There is also the point of physical movement, He Minhong is an otaku, she usually doesn't exercise at all, and she rarely even goes out of the door.
Yu Chuhui does sports every morning, and in the evening, he also works as a part-time dance teacher to teach children to dance.
Therefore, at this point, He Minhong is far inferior to Yu Chuhui.
The third prerequisite for creativity is the balance of the two basic functions of our brain: "cognitive inhibition" and "cognitive inhibition".
"Cognitive inhibition" is a neural mechanism in the brain related to attention, that is, we instinctively sift through information that is useful to us and process it within the brain.
"Cognitive inhibition release" is an instinct that specifically disinhibits and allows us to pay attention to some information that is easy to ignore and discover something from it.
Colin Martindale, an American psychologist specializing in artistic creation, found that those with high creativity are able to flexibly switch between the two states of "cognitive inhibition" and "cognitive inhibition".
When the brain is in a state of "cognitive inhibition", information, knowledge, and concepts are easily activated in the cerebral cortex and spread throughout the neural network, which increases the probability that two seemingly unrelated knowledge or concepts are "connected" to each other, so that the probability of an individual getting a new idea is greatly increased.
Judging from the performance of Yu Chuhui and He Minhong in the workplace, Yu Chuhui's functional balance of "cognitive inhibition" and "cognitive inhibition removal" completely exploded He Minhong.
He Minhong worries about interpersonal relationships and his own moral standards all day long, and has no intention of studying work.
And no matter how difficult Yu Chuhui encounters, he can always quickly adjust his state and enter the state of work or study.
In the case that the three conditions are not as good as Yu Chuhui, it is not difficult to understand that He Minhong's performance at work is far inferior to Yu Chuhui.
The book "Don't Challenge Human Nature 2" is the second work of the psychology popular science writer Pan Kaiwen, and the content of the book mainly focuses on the weaknesses and solutions at the level of learning and life cognition, and I personally think it is particularly worth reading.
The author uses neuroscience data as a corroboration, through a large number of psychological experiments, to deeply explore the working mechanism of the human brain, to help us explore the real scientific explanation behind those confusing subjective experiences.
The book consists of 12 chapters, in which the author discusses the core functions of human cognition and learning—"memory, the nature of human learning—"passive learning, active learning, and active construction", the neural mechanism of dopamine, the nature and production mechanism of creativity, the "Oedipus complex", the integrity of emotional development, and the integrity of personality.
Each part of the content is supported by a large number of historical experiments to help everyone better understand and understand the relevant knowledge.
After reading this book, my biggest feeling is that for most people who have a bad life, people who often do more with half the effort, it may not be a problem of ability, but a lack of understanding of nature.
Just like He Minhong, what she lacks is never ability, but the things she does, which are basically against nature.