In this life, the seemingly impermanent fate is actually traceable.
Some people work hard all their lives, but in the end they run into walls everywhere and can only have food and clothing; some people live their lives without hurry, but they can always seize the opportunity and climb to the sky in one step.
If we think carefully about the mistakes and missed opportunities we have made along the way, we will find that:
Those moments when you miss the opportunity to change your life are actually given by the limitations of your own cognition.
Just like Fu Sheng said: "Cognition is almost the only essential difference between people and people." ”
What widens the gap between people is not the trick of fate, not deliberate artificiality, but only the level of understanding.
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In this life, people are paying for cognition
Schopenhauer said, "The greatest prison in the world is the human mind." ”
Everyone is trapped in a prison of thought of their own making.
If you keep thinking and break through barriers, you can see a new world, and if you are too lazy to change and get by, you will be stuck here for a lifetime.
Lao She's Xiangzi is an ordinary coachman in the city of Beiping.
Because of her youth and strength, and her legs and feet, Shoko's business was much better than that of other drivers, and she bought a new car of her own in three years.
But what Xiangzi saw in his eyes and thought of in his mind was his car.
He didn't pay attention to what was going on outside the window, he didn't care if the price of food rose, he didn't care about the outbreak of war, and finally he was accidentally arrested to work as a coolie, and his new car and savings were destroyed in one fell swoop.
After escaping from the barracks, Liu Siye had the heart to help him, and the "eldest lady" Tiger Niu also favored him very much, it stands to reason that Xiangzi should have a good way out.
But he was stubborn, spending all his attention on buying and pulling cars, ignoring the changes of the times, and in the end he was still poor and white.
He lamented the impermanence of fate, but he never thought that the opportunity was handed to him again and again, but he was thrown out of the door by his stubbornness again and again.
In the final analysis, Shoko's tragedy is mostly the result of his lack of effort in his body and his unwillingness to work on cognition.
There's a good saying:
"Every penny you earn is cognitive monetization, and every penny you lose is because of cognitive deficits. ”
People can never make money outside of their own cognitive level, and they can never see the scenery outside their own sight.
What really restricts our lives is not the embarrassment of others, not the economic hardship, but our own cognition.
If you don't take the initiative to challenge, jump out of the limitations of thinking, get used to passive acceptance, and only do simple repetition, then you will eventually pay for your "laziness".
In this life, how wide the boundaries of cognition are, how long the life that can be controlled.
Face up to your ignorance and jump out of the limitations of cognition, so that you can see the tricks and win in the end.
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Without changing perceptions, all efforts are in vain
Ren Zhengfei, chairman of Huawei, replied when asked by employees about the company's end-of-the-box elimination system:
"Hard labor is ineffective labor and a waste of resources, how can it be regarded as paying?"
It is true that method is more important than effort, and cognition is more important than brute force.
The body is diligent, the thinking must also be diligent, constantly reflect on itself, optimize the direction of efforts, in order to get twice the result with half the effort, go faster, and climb higher.
There are two families of gardeners, each running and looking after their own garden.
One of the gardens is overgrown with weeds and cluttered, while the other garden is full of life and flourishing.
I saw one of the gardeners struggling to pull the weeds, cursing incessantly, and sweating profusely.
The other gardener was lying in the shade of the trees, surrounded by birds and flowers, which made him very relaxed.
Why are the two situations so different for the same job?
It turned out that the gardener who managed the beautiful garden was like another gardener when he first arrived, burying his head in weeding all day long, and he was not idle.
But the garden was too big, and after removing the weeds from one place, another would pop up, and no matter how hard he tried, the weeds would not be pulled out one day.
After realizing the problem, the gardener went to the flower market to ask for some fast-growing flowers and plants, and took them back and planted them in the garden.
When these plants grow, the weeds run out of space and nutrients, and naturally disappear.
The more you experience, the more you will understand that a low level of diligence is nothing but laziness in the cloak of hard work.
Too lazy to think, so use brute force instead, lazy to change, so choose to follow the step-by-step process.
Trapped in such efforts for a long time, our time will be robbed, our minds will be clouded, and our cognitive level will be forever confined to the bottom.
It is always said that the harder you work, the luckier you are, but if you work in the wrong direction, it will backfire.
In fact, the more sober the life, the luckier the life, the more independent thinking and the recognition of the essence of things.
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Improving cognition is the foundation of counterattack
I once heard a story:
There was a mother who took her 10-year-old daughter shopping, and when she came back from shopping, her daughter painted a picture of what she had seen and heard.
But the mother was shocked when she saw her daughter's painting:
There are no high-rise buildings, no traffic, only pillars of different thicknesses.
The mother looked at it for a long time, and then she woke up, and the pillar in her daughter's painting turned out to be the human leg she saw in her eyes.
The daughter is young and not tall, and she is held by her mother and shuttles through the crowd, and all she can see is the thighs of pedestrians coming and going.
Different levels of cognition create different visions of the world.
Just as the people at the bottom of the mountain see the meadows and rivers, the people standing on the mountains see the clouds and sunrise.
Only by breaking through the limitations of cognition and improving the level of cognition can we break through the barriers and stand on the pinnacle of unobstructed view.
Writer Lin Qingxuan once found a thief with a particularly delicate modus operandi when he was running social news in a newspaper.
After the thief was caught, his expression was very calm, and the police took out a photo to identify him, and he would carefully analyze with others whether the modus operandi and style of the crime were consistent with himself.
After Lin Qingxuan went back, he couldn't help but write a special article, feeling that with such a delicate mind and courage, I am afraid that I can achieve something in any line of work.
Many years later, when Lin Qingxuan was passing by a mutton restaurant, the owner suddenly stopped him.
After some talking, Lin Qingxuan learned that the shopkeeper was actually the thief back then.
The shopkeeper said: "One of my husband's articles broke my perception, and I thought that I might have another legitimate way out but to be a thief." ”
Today, the former thief has become the manager of several branches, and his life is a small success.
Kazuo Inamori said, "If you keep your head down and forget to look up at the sky, you will not see the right direction, and you will just blindly move forward without any gains." ”
On the road of life, many times, it is not the current predicament that can trap us, but the current cognitive limitations.
Some problems can be solved in a different way, and some things will become clear when they turn a corner.
It's much wiser to take the time to invest your knowledge than to spend time stumbling on the same thing.
Think hard, make friends, embrace new perspectives, accept new perspectives, your cognition, your destiny, and there will be earth-shaking changes.
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The painter Chen Danqing once said in an interview:
"Who's going to save us? Everyone should save themselves. ”
We are all masters of our own lives, and we are not born with a predetermined destiny, and there is no gap that cannot be narrowed.
But fate never bypasses the existing cognition to change, and the height of cognition is the length of life.
Only by improving the level of cognition can we achieve the awakening and counterattack of life.