The famous writer Mo Yan once said that when he was a child, he was timid and did not dare to go out alone at night. It's not just him who feels this way, but many people feel this way, especially when they were young, they were timid and didn't dare to go out on their own, or even stay at home by themselves. So, is timidity innate?Is there a psychological analysis to do so?
Most people are not very bold, especially when they were young, there were many people who were timid. In the childhood of human beings, people are threatened by the natural world, not only by wind, rain, thunder and lightning, but also by wild beasts, disease, famine, etc., and if they do not follow the laws of nature, they will soon be eliminated. As a result, human beings have gained some experience in the struggle against nature, and they are not so timid. People form natural groups to survive and thrive together. When human groups face disasters together, people become emboldened. Many times, human timidity is due to the fact that they are alone, and they feel that they cannot overcome disasters or difficulties, and they become depressed, and they become timid, thinking that everything will bully them. In fact, if you just lose your self-confidence, you will lose your courage.
Human beings have certain laws to understand the world, and we can know how human beings grow up by looking at how children grow. Children cannot fully understand the world, and they feel familiar and not afraid of facing adults and pets at home. Of course, when they just landed, in addition to physiological crying, they were afraid. Fear can cause them to cry because their surroundings are quite different from those in their mother's womb, and they will cry when they feel uncomfortable. Of course, crying also has the effect of squeezing out the amniotic fluid in the alveoli and inhaling fresh air. Children can feel lonely and hostile to those around them. However, they have to accept the care of the people around them, and over time they become familiar with each other, and they are not afraid, and they have a great sense of intimacy. As the child adapts to the family environment, he or she adapts to the world outside the door. Outside the door, they will feel fresh. A lot of things that have never been seen appear in front of them, but after all, they are still young, and they can't resist the stimulation of many new things, and they will retain a sense of security for self-preservation. When they see chicks and ducklings, they clap their hands excitedly, laugh and bark, and when they see a barking dog, they cry in fright. Adults are no longer surprised, and they will not be afraid.
It seems that if you are used to seeing something, you will not be afraid. If a person is afraid of snakes, let him see snakes every day, and feed them, after a long time, he will not be afraid. If a person is afraid of dogs, let him raise a puppy, and raise it from an early age, not only is he not afraid of dogs, but he also likes dogs very much, and thinks that dogs have become his close companions. Perhaps, fear is due to ignorance, which produces one-sided understanding, which in turn stimulates the self-preservation system at the deep level of consciousness, and then becomes afraid. Fear is not a bad thing, but a psychological tendency to protect oneself. Because of their timidity and fear, people will often be vigilant about some things, and when disaster strikes, they will run immediately or flee in advance, which is conducive to the protection of life and the continuation of the race. If human beings lose their fear and become very bold, we don't know how many people have lost their lives because of this, and it will be difficult to sum up the lessons learned.
Human beings have developed for thousands of years, and they have their own development experience and their own inventions and creations, which can be summarized for future generations' reference. In other words, human beings must act according to the law, and cannot rely on boldness and brute force. Once, when electricity was connected to the countryside, some people did not believe in evil, were not afraid of electricity, and wanted to compete with electricity, so they wiped the lamp mouth with a wet towel, but they were shocked a few meters away, fell heavily on the ground, and died in suspense. And the timid people who are far away from electricity will not be easily electrocuted. Most people are superstitious and afraid of ghosts, and they have been afraid since childhood, but they have never seen real ghosts, and can only see people who pretend to be ghosts. But people are just timid, they just can't be bold. Although some people claim not to be superstitious and do not believe in ghosts, when they encounter some inexplicable phenomena, they still can't help but be afraid, their spine is cold, their hairs stand on end, their scalp is numb, and they tremble and want to run. Perhaps, there is an innate fear in the deep consciousness of people, especially for some things that harm themselves, and even a sense of fear. When those things are considered safe, people are not afraid. Just like electricity, it can electrocute people, but it can also serve people. When people have a clearer understanding of electricity, they will not be afraid, but will use it rationally. However, the concept of ghosts is not so simple, but people have always been difficult to recognize and clear, and it has always been difficult to understand, so they have always maintained the idea of awe.
After all, human beings live at a certain level of time and space, and in addition to three-dimensional space-time, it is impossible to see things in more dimensions, nor can it achieve interstellar travel, nor can it achieve super-space-time travel. In this way, the world of human knowledge is an extremely limited world, not a comprehensive world. Many people have things that they can't see with their eyes, but they can't be observed by humans, so they think they don't exist. Concepts such as black holes, dark matter, parallel universes, and quantum entanglement have only been proposed in recent years, and they seem to be somewhat mysterious, but they can clearly explain most phenomena scientifically. There are many things that people do not know, and the timidity of human beings is precisely the manifestation of modesty and prudence, not daring to rashly invade nature, not daring to rashly start a nuclear war, and not daring to rashly communicate with aliens, just as people dare not rashly talk to strangers. There are advantages to being timid, and there are advantages to being bold. However, both timidity and audacity are relative and not absolute.
Bold people have courage, but they must pay attention to science and cannot be brutal. The timid admit that they are a little cautious and even a little neurotic, but they can protect themselves at critical moments. It seems that timidity is innate, and audacity is the result of acquired training. But there are also people who seem to be born bold, called "stupid and bold", maybe they just don't know something that should be feared, so they rush to contact it, and it will produce a bold performance. "Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, I prefer to go to the tiger mountains. The person is either a tiger hero, an ignorant and fearless person, or a person who wants to commit suicide. Cowardly people won't go at all, and even when they hear the name of the tiger, they are already scared to the point of turning their legs and stomachs, **dare to go to Tiger Mountain?
However, from the perspective of sustainable development, it is better for people to be timid, too bold, easy to be taken advantage of, and prone to some problems.