Nietzsche said, "A snake that does not shed its skin can only wait to die, and the same is true for people." ”
Indeed, the essence of human growth is the process of transformation and rebirth.
As the saying goes: success, difficulties are accompanied, growth is accompanied by pain.
The law of growth will never be according to the map, life is as new, only by getting rid of the old skin in a timely manner, life can have more possibilities.
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can't shed the old skin of cognition, and life is in a desperate situation
Shang Tang said in "Pan Ming": "Gou is new, every day is new, and every day is new." ”
The operation law of the world is essentially the innovation of things and the iterative upgrading of thinking.
If you take the old thinking and try to solve the current problems, it is tantamount to using yesterday's sun to try to dry today's new clothes, which is extremely funny.
After the exile of one of history's most famous monarchs, one of his scheming close friends brought him a chess game.
The chess is made of ivory and nephrite, and the monarch loves it when he gets it, thinking that his friend is trying to pass the time for him.
From then on, playing chess became the monarch's pastime on the island, and it also killed his desire to escape, and finally his life ended on the island.
But after the monarch's death, a detailed plan for escaping the island was found at the bottom of one of the pieces.
In the eyes of the monarch, the chess pieces are just tools to pass the time, but he did not expect that the gift under the crisis is also an opportunity for vitality.
In the end, the only chance to escape, due to rigid cognition, was buried in the hinterland of old knowledge.
In many cases, the indestructibility of the environment is mostly caused by the narrowness of thinking, breaking the limitations of thinking, removing the old skin of thinking, and crises can also contain opportunities.
Many times, there is no only way to solve the problems that bother us.
Break the inertia of thinking, shed the old skin of cognition, and renew yourself at all times, the world is also vast.
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If you don't break the cognitive solidification, prejudice will follow
Writer Oscar Wilde said, "A man who never changes the way he sees the world will never grow up." ”
Cognitive solidification is like a shrunken old garment, forcibly worn on the grown body, which seems to cover the body, but in fact it is restricted everywhere and extremely painful.
Psychologist Alexei Bodarev once conducted an experiment.
He showed two groups of participants a photo of a person with sunken eyes and an outturned chin.
He told the participants in Group A that "this person is a criminal" and that the participants in Group B "this person is a famous scholar".
Then, ask both groups of participants to rate each person.
Group A believed that the person's deep-set eyes indicated that he was fierce and cunning, and that the outturned chin indicated that he was stubborn.
Group B believed that the person's eyes were sunken, a symbol of deep thought, and the chin was tilted outward, which was a manifestation of an exploratory spirit.
Why are the evaluations so different for the same photo and the same facial features?
Just because the difference in identity that was told before observing the photos had already formed a stereotype in people's hearts and affected their judgment.
The stereotype effect will make people unconsciously divide people, things, and things simply, so that the brain can save effort.
But I don't know that behind the seemingly labor-saving scenes, there are traps everywhere.
Psychologist Galdstein said, "What you see is not the real world, but your interpretation of the world." ”
People can't look at the world without cognition, know how to break the fixed cognition, maintain self-reflection, allow differences, and be more tolerant, so that life can see different landscapes.
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The greatest awakening of adults, always renewing themselves
Albert Einstein said, "A man must be a fool when he keeps doing the same thing in the same way and expects different results." ”
In the same way, if people always look at the world with the same cognition, it will be difficult to adapt to society and confine themselves to a small space.
Once upon a time, a man who liked beautiful birdcages bought a lot of birdcages to hang at home as decorations, and never thought that such an act would cause him a lot of trouble.
Whenever someone comes to the house, they ask, "Where is the bird you raised, has it flown away?"
But when he said, "I'm not using this cage for birds." ”
People will ask, "If you don't keep birds, what are you doing with bird cages?"
After many times, in order to avoid trouble, I had to compromise and keep a bird in a bird cage to solve the problem.
This phenomenon is known by psychologists as the birdcage effect.
In people's cognition, it is normal for people to raise birds in bird cages, and it is contrary to common sense that birds are not raised in bird cages.
But I don't know that the birdcage does not raise birds, it is not a maverick, but our narrow thinking does not see more possibilities.
In the Book of Shang Jun, it is said: "Ordinary people are content with their old habits, and scholars are indulged in what they hear." “
In life, we are unconsciously accustomed to cognition, confined to the cage of either/or cognition.
It is taken for granted that "oneself is righteous, and others are unreasonable".
When we do not explore the essence of the seemingly reasonable rules of behavior in our daily lives, but follow them with the flow, our cognition will easily become numb and closed, and eventually form a cognitive barrier that isolates us from the real world.
Man is a product of the environment, man is a product of the environment, we cannot be isolated from the world, and it is difficult for us to live in isolation.
Break the inertia of thinking, stay curious, and always renew yourself, and life will become rich and interesting.
The French philosopher Levinas said, "To understand all things from your own point of view is a form of violence." ”
This kind of violence often hurts people without realizing it, making people short-sighted and closed-minded.
The operation of the world does not vary from person to person, it only follows the established law of development and moves things forward.
If we want to live comfortably in the world, it is never wise to hold on to the old shell of our thinking.
Break away from preconceived notions, renew yourself with the times, immerse yourself in the differences in life, and finally find that life is not black and white film, but a colorful and vast wilderness.