Text/mba Think Tank Chen Yao Editor/mba Think Tank Liu Liu
Recently, a news of a #woman insisting on remitting money despite the obstruction of the police has caused many people to discuss.
At the end of last month, a woman was suspected of encountering telecommunications fraud, and after the police knew about it, they told her in person that this was an irregular channel and advised her not to easily send money, so as not to be deceived.
However, the woman still believed in strangers, repeatedly stated that how to use the money was her own business, even if deceived, she was willing.
Later, it was rumored that the woman was defrauded of more than 200,000 yuan at once because of transferring money to others, and the case was reported.
In the face of a fraudulent activity, the woman firmly believed in her original cognition from beginning to end, rejected the suggestions of others, and insisted on jumping into the scam.
If she had followed the advice of others, perhaps the tragedy would not have happened, and this stubbornness confined her to a low level of cognition before falling into the trap set by others.
The lower the cognition, the more stubborn people always look at the problem from a single perspective and shield others' views.
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Stubbornness often comes from cognitive narrowing
At a maternity hospital, an irritating incident happened.
When the mother Xiaochen was about to give birth, the pain was unbearable and begged her husband to agree to give birth in a painless way.
However, the husband refused to sign the consent form and insisted that his wife have a smooth delivery, believing that anesthesia was not good for children and adults.
The doctor repeatedly explained that injecting anesthetics would not have any effect, but the other party still refused.
In despair, Xiao Tatsu cried and shouted to her husband, "I hate you for the rest of my life!" ”
The most terrible thing about people is to adhere to wrong ideas, cling to stereotypes, do not listen to the advice of professionals, and finally cause irreversible harm to the people around them.
Amu works in a well-known state-owned enterprise, and welfare housing has long since withdrawn from the stage of history.
But his father felt that the unit was so famous that it was impossible not to divide the house.
Even if the welfare housing was divided many years ago, as my son said, now that so many people are recruited every year, new houses will be built.
Amu explained that the leader had already explained that the unit would no longer plan welfare housing in the future, and his father insisted that the leadership level he asked was not high enough.
Every time they talked about this topic, they either argued to the point of red-facedness or ended in silence, and the father-son relationship once fell to a freezing point.
Amu's father is similar to the people around him who stick to old ideas, they do not renew their cognition, and they think they know everything, but they are actually trapped in wrong ideas and play around in stereotypes.
Even if it touches on high-level cognition, it will also conflict because of the differences in different levels of thinking, and choose to continue to follow the old road, which is actually a manifestation of cognitive narrowing.
Cognitive narrowing refers to excessive concentration in a certain direction, which will form a closed field of vision and not see anything outside the focus field.
People who form narrowing cognition, unable to accept the outside world's views, drill in their own circles, gradually lose the ability to learn new things, and fall into the end of self-imposed self-imposed.
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Being too stubborn is a mindset
Emerson said, "Mediocre people are mediocre because their thinking is too stubborn." ”
Indeed, a person's downward spiral often begins with stubbornness, and stubbornness in the wrong direction is actually closed and ignorant in insight.
Meteorologist Dr. Sherbod, in his TED talk, said of his experience:
A week before the hurricane landed, Dr. Sheabold wrote an article predicting that the hurricane could cause 40 to 50 inches of rainfall.
But people think that the annual rainfall is only 34 inches, and this kind of bad thing does not happen.
A week later, the hurricane made landfall in the city of Houston, raining 50 inches in 3 days, plunging the entire city into crisis and causing huge losses to the lives of citizens.
People follow the previous concepts, determine the development trend of things, identify their predictions as the source of facts, and it is difficult to get out of the closed loop of cognition.
See the 60-year-old unmarried CCTV Zhang Hongmin sitting on the side of the street eating ice cream, claiming that this is a smart person doing something stupid;
Seeing that the dance master Yang Liping has no children, he mocks her for living a very unsuccessful life, because this is an incomplete life;
Seeing the serious appearance of the translator goddess Zhang Jing when translating, I thought it would be very uncomfortable to marry such a strong woman home...
Intuition can determine whether a person is good or bad, and experience can determine the merits of a thing, and these people instinctively stick to their own positions and form mindsets.
Once you are confined to an inherent mode of thinking and have stereotypes about certain things, you will be stuck in the existing level of cognition and unable to broaden the boundaries of your knowledge.
This reminds me of the famous black swan theory, where Europeans thought all swans were white until explorers discovered black swans in Australia, and they realized that their past perceptions were wrong.
Until the changes impact backward views, concepts are subverted, and stubbornness is disintegrated, will gradually get out of the stereotypes and out of the rigid quagmire.
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True masters, never stubborn
Biologist Bernard said: "The biggest obstacle to people's innovation is not what is unknown, but what is known."
Indeed, not limited to the habits of the habit, not limited by the existing habits, in order to broaden the broader horizons and discover more unknown things.
Confucius invited the children to go along, and when the two reached the moat, a flock of geese screamed and jumped into the water.
The child asked Confucius why the sound of the geese was so loud. Confucius believed that the neck of a goose was long, so it could lead to a high song.
The child shook his head and replied that the frog in the river of toads in the well, with a neck not very long, could shake the sky and be no less than a goose.
Confucius nodded, did not insist on his own point of view, but was impressed by the child's talent, so he made friends with him and worshipped him as a teacher.
True masters, even if they conflict with the views of others, will be tolerant enough to unfamiliar fields, never sticking to their own vision, and not being stubborn.
They dare to accept new things, have a desire for knowledge from the outside world, and their thinking is updated synchronously with the concepts they come into contact with, so that the capacity of thought becomes no longer compelling.
Instead of taking your own ideas as the only answer, you learn the limitations of insight from the opinions of others, so as to revise your cognition of a certain field and promote cognitive improvement.
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As mentioned in the book "Nonlinear Growth", a person's career is basically composed of two growth curves, one is the skill curve and the other is the business cognition curve.
When the skill curve squeezes into the top 20% of the field, during the critical period of personal development, the cognitive curve becomes a trend.
Skills can be remedied, but once the inherent cognition is formed, it is not simple to get rid of deep-rooted prejudices and short-sightedness.
The level of cognition can reach determines the height of your life, so how to make cognition transform in the critical period of personal development?
1. Adopt an alien perspective and break the mindset
In order to avoid the shackles of past insights, it is particularly important to clear up the knowledge that has been mastered, and you can try to adopt an alien perspective, release the solidified concept, and accept different views calmly.
The alien perspective is to observe human beings from the perspective of aliens, and to see everything with a zero mentality under the condition of ignorance.
Abandoning preconceived notions, staying hungry, constantly instilling new knowledge, and recharging yourself is a way of thinking upgrades.
2. Insist on reading and be diligent in updating cognition
Cognitive limitations are mostly caused by laziness in thinking, however, laziness in cognitive improvement will cause a person to die.
Reading in this way is a shortcut to refresh cognition.
As the mathematician Descartes put it: "To read some good books is to talk to many noble people." ”
Reading can help you understand the perspective outside the scope of cognition, so that the insight extends to the farther boundaries, so as to broaden your perspective on the world and gradually step out of the comfort zone of thinking.
3. Use the pmi thinking method to think comprehensively
Pmi thinking refers to the fact that when you come into contact with a new point of view, do not easily draw conclusions, first consider its advantages and disadvantages and points of interest, list the overall angles, and then make a judgment.
When you hear a statement that makes you uncomfortable, take a quick look at it and analyze it rationally, rather than defending clichéd thinking.
Use this method to examine your own blind spots, avoid falling into prejudice against an event, and do not make false insistences.
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The competitive advantage between people is not family lineage, not material wealth, but cognition.
People who are stubborn, reject views other than insights, do not contact new things, do not iterate on thinking, and gradually rest on their own circles.
A person who broadens his knowledge outwards, even if he starts late, with continuous learning and an open and enterprising attitude, can become the best in his industry.
So, please use cognition as a weapon to empower yourself, rather than letting it become a bottleneck for your upward development.
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