#头条创作挑战赛#
In the course of life, the seemingly unpredictable trajectory of fate on the surface actually contains internal regularity and traceability.
Some people work hard all their lives, but in the end they are still stuck in a bottleneck and can only maintain a basic life, while some people go through their lives calmly, but they can always grasp the opportunity at the critical moment and achieve a leap in life.
When we reflect deeply on our past mistakes and missed opportunities, we realize:
Every moment that passes by with the opportunity to change one's destiny essentially stems from the limitations of self-knowledge.
As Fu Sheng said, "Cognitive ability almost constitutes the most essential difference between people." ”
What determines the gap between people is not the banter of fate or deliberate human intervention, in the final analysis, the key lies in the level of individual cognition.
In this life, people are paying for cognition
Schopenhauer once said, "The deepest bondage of human beings comes from the imprisonment of their own minds." ”
Everyone is essentially imprisoned in a self-constructed cognitive cage.
Only by continuing to think deeply and have the courage to break through barriers can individuals gain insight into a new world, on the contrary, if they indulge in comfort and contentment with the status quo, they will spend their lives in this invisible prison.
In Mr. Lao She's pen, Xiangzi is the image of an ordinary rickshaw driver in Beijing. At the time of his youth and agility, Xiangzi's business was more prosperous than his peers, and it took only three years to accumulate enough money to buy a new car of his own.
However, Shoko's gaze and the limits of his thinking always revolve around his rickshaw. His indifference to the changes in the world, whether it was rising prices or frequent wars, failed to alert him.
Unfortunately, an accident led to his arrest and forced hard labor, which wiped out his hard-earned car and savings.
After escaping from the barracks, he received the kind support of Liu Siye, and at the same time, the "eldest lady" Hu Niu also favored him, logically speaking, Xiangzi should have taken this opportunity to get out of the predicament and start a new chapter in his life.
It's a pity that he stubbornly adhered to the single goal of buying and pulling a car, completely ignoring the changes of the times, and finally ended up empty-handed.
Shoko often laments the capriciousness of fate, but he never realizes that opportunities have been offered to him many times, but he has missed them one by one because of his stubbornness.
In the final analysis, Shoko's tragic life stems largely from his struggle in material pursuits, but he neglected the importance of improving self-awareness and adapting to the changes of the times, which led to irreparable bitter consequences.
Indeed, there is such a philosophical saying:
"Every gain you make comes from your cognitive practice, and every loss you suffer comes from your cognitive blind spots. ”
It is impossible for a person to acquire wealth beyond the scope of his own cognition, just as he cannot get a glimpse of the scenery beyond his vision.
What really restricts our height in life is not the difficulties of others, nor the economic embarrassment, but our own cognitive limitations.
If you are unwilling to take the initiative to break through and break free from the shackles of thinking, be content to passively accept reality, and only stay in a simple and repetitive behavior pattern, then you will eventually have to pay the price for your "inertia".
In a person's life, the breadth of his cognitive boundaries determines the depth and breadth of the field of life that he can control.
Only by correctly understanding and bravely overcoming one's own cognitive limitations can we be able to adapt to changes and act step by step until we have the last laugh.
Without changing perceptions, all efforts are in vain
Ren Zhengfei, founder and former chairman of Huawei, once said in response to employees' concerns about the company's last-place elimination system:
"If simple hard work fails to produce effective results, it is actually a consumption and waste of resources, how can it be regarded as real effort?"
Indeed, taking the right approach is far better than blindly trying to do it, and it is crucial to raise awareness to avoid acting blindly.
We must not only be diligent in action, but also be positive and enterprising in thinking, continue to self-reflect and optimize the direction of efforts, so as to achieve twice the result with half the effort, and then go faster and climb higher.
Imagine two families each having a gardener who takes care of their garden.
One of the gardeners has a barren and weedy garden, while the other has a flowery and vibrant garden.
At this time, one gardener was sweating and plucking weeds, complaining, while another gardener was lying in the shade of a tree to cool off, surrounded by birds and flowers.
Why are two gardeners in opposite situations for the same gardening work?
It turned out that the gardener who had successfully created a beautiful garden had been busy removing weeds all day long like another gardener when he first took over.
However, the garden was so large that the weeds here had just been cleared and the other was growing rapidly, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't seem to get rid of the weeds completely.
Aware of this problem, the clever gardener went to the flower market and introduced a batch of fast-growing and lush flowers and plants to plant in the garden.
As these flowers thrive, they take up space and nutrients that would otherwise belong to weeds, so weeds naturally disappear.
Life experience has taught us that those efforts that seem to be diligent but are actually inefficient are often just manifestations of inertia in the guise of hard work.
When people tend to avoid thinking deeply, they tend to rely on brutal force instead, and when they are reluctant to change, they tend to choose to follow the path they have set in stone.
In the long run, our time will be quietly deprived of this inefficient effort, our mental horizons will be obscured, and our cognitive levels will be permanently stagnant at lower levels.
As the saying goes, the harder you work, the more likely you are to reap good luck, however, if you go in the wrong direction, the result may be the opposite.
In fact, only deep independent thinking and a thorough understanding of the essence of things can bring true sobriety and wisdom, and such an attitude towards life is more likely to lead to true luck.
Improving cognition is the foundation of counterattack
I once heard a thought-provoking story:
When a mother returns home with her 10-year-old daughter, the little girl records what she sees and feels in the form of paintings.
However, the mother was surprised when she saw her daughter's painting:
Instead of the skyscrapers or the bustling traffic that is common in modern cities, the paintings are replaced by columns of varying thicknesses.
The mother looked at it carefully for a long time, and then suddenly realized that the "pillars" in her daughter's pen were actually the legs of pedestrians that she saw from a low perspective.
Due to the height limit, the little girl held her mother's hand tightly and walked through the bustling crowd, and what caught her eye was the endless flow of thighs.
Different cognitive heights have shaped their own unique perspectives on the world.
Just as the people at the foot of the mountain can only see the green grass and the babbling stream, in the eyes of the people on the top of the mountain, what is shown is the churning sea of clouds and the magnificence of the sunrise.
Only by breaking the shackles of cognition and constantly improving the level of cognition can we break through many difficulties and reach the pinnacle of life with a broad vision.
When the well-known writer Lin Qingxuan was working as a social news reporter for a newspaper, he once reported on a case of a thief with extremely elaborate techniques.
After the thief was arrested, his expression was calm and calm, and even when faced with the photos shown by the police, he was able to carefully analyze whether the modus operandi matched his own.
Lin Qingxuan was deeply touched by this incident, and he then wrote a special report, lamenting that such a meticulous heart and elegant temperament may make a career no matter what industry he devotes to.
Many years later, when Lin Qingxuan was passing by a mutton restaurant, he was recognized and stopped by the owner.
After talking, Lin Qingxuan learned that the shopkeeper turned out to be the thief with unique methods back then.
The shopkeeper once lamented that he was deeply influenced by an article by his husband, which subverted his preconceived notions and made him realize that in addition to engaging in dishonorable acts of thieves, there were other possibilities for pursuing the right path.
Today, the former thief has successfully transformed into a store manager with several branches, and his life can be described as an initial success.
Kazuo Inamori once taught that if we only focus on the journey of life and neglect to look up at the stars, we may lose the right direction and can only move forward blindly, but we will never be able to achieve substantial results.
On the long road of life, we are often not bound by the difficulties in front of us, but more limited by our own cognitive limitations.
Sometimes, by changing the way you think about solving problems or looking at things from a different perspective, many problems will be solved, and many problems can be solved.
Therefore, it is far wiser to invest time in deepening self-awareness than to spend too much energy on the same issue.
Learn to think diligently, make friends with talented people, embrace new ideas and perspectives, and your cognitive realm will change dramatically, leading your life to a whole new level.
In an interview, the painter Chen Danqing once profoundly expressed this view: "Who can save us? The answer lies in the fact that everyone should save themselves." ”
We all control the wheel of our own lives, and there is no predetermined destiny that we are born with, and there is no gap in life that cannot be crossed.
However, we must understand that fate does not automatically change due to existing cognition, and our cognitive level determines the breadth of our life journey.
Only by continuously improving the level of cognition can we realize the awakening and counterattack of life and complete the gorgeous turn.
Please light up the "attention", let us hope to break through the shackles of thinking, broaden our horizons, enhance our inner strength, and finally reach the far place where our hearts yearn. Please forward and share it to inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture.