"Negative thinking" and "being proactive" have always been two kinds of consciousness in the human brain that love and kill each other. In many cases in life, when we are faced with a thing, we are always like "tossing a coin" to decide what kind of attitude we use to treat it.
And because people are emotional animals, in the face of their own difficult to solve the problem, always exposed too many animal-like "stress response", so many times we are often easy to fall into pessimistic mood, this situation for a person's test is very large, so no one can guarantee that they will always be an optimist, after all, this species does not exist at all (may exist, but in ancient times was eventually eliminated).
This also leads to the fact that our mentality is always similar to a pendulum, constantly turning back between the two mentalities........
The difference between people is that when you swing between two intervals, you stay in which interval for a longer time, which determines what kind of state our lives are.
Sadly, some people, when they run into the field of "negative thinking", they never plan to come back, which is the most terrible thing.
And we want to talk to you today about why they are so obsessed with "negative thinking"?
This has to start from a law, this law is called "Murphy's Law", I believe that everyone will not be too unfamiliar with this law.
The encyclopedia explains the truth as follows:
"If things have the potential to go bad, no matter how small the possibility, it will always happen."
As long as everything is related to the word "law", then it is doomed to be unquestionable, such as the law of universal gravitation. There's even a book of the same name called Murphy's Law to explain why we always encounter bad situations in life. The source of this law is also particularly interesting:
In 1949, an Air Force captain engineer named Edward Murphy was in an accident during a rocket deceleration overweight experiment because of an instrument failure. The accident investigation found that a technician had reversed one of the measuring instruments. So he came to the following conclusion:
If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of the options will lead to disaster, someone must have made that choice.
Maybe because there are too many unlucky people in this world, or maybe everyone always makes mistakes they don't want to make in various ways, so this sentence has spread widely. Therefore, when many people encounter bad things, they always think that this is the "Murphy Law" at work.
Usually their signature words are "You see, is that really the case?" "I just said it must not work", "You see the fulfillment"...
What's more, I think of this as a kind of fatalism — I'm a person who is often unlucky.
The human brain has a very bad habit of hating trouble, hating deep thinking, and always hoping that there can be an explanation to solve all the problems. In this case, "Murphy's Law" gives people plenty of excuses.
In the eyes of people, it has become a universal formula that can explain all bad phenomena. As a result, many people gradually became proponents of this law.
But if we think about it, why are there always people who are so convinced of this law? A very important reason is that it can give a reasonable explanation for our inaction, so that we can psychologically escape our own blame.
There is a term in psychology called "self-service bias" that perfectly solves this phenomenon:
People tend to attribute the successes of others and their own failures to external factors, while the failures of others and their own successes to internal factors.
Simply understood: my success is the result of my own efforts, and my failure is all due to external factors, which have nothing to do with me.
In fact, corresponding to Murphy's law, there is also a "law of attraction" or "law of attraction", which is explained in the encyclopedia:
"It means that when the mind is concentrated in a certain field, the people, things, and things related to this field will be attracted to it. There is an invisible energy that has been guiding the regularity of the entire universe, and it is precisely because of its role that the earth has been able to remain in motion for 4.6 billion years. ”
How many people believe in this law? There are a lot of them, but more people feel that this thing is a metaphysics, a fool.
Why are they also called "laws", and there will be such a big gap between the two in terms of treatment?
One of the very important reasons is that the second one requires us to actively expand our imagination, and it is also a bit of a brain, and we need to keep thinking.....
Today, are you "Murphy's Law"?