The self-perception trap stems from the brain's powerful ability to rationalize and explain abnormalities
Why do people have conjectures and delusions, or even insanity or mental confusion?Because people have a strong ability to rationalize anomalous problems.
Share two small things that I have experienced.
1) Lost key revelation
Yesterday I found the key to the door of my home that I had lost for half a month, and what surprised me was not the loss of the key, but the simple experience of its loss.
In the evening, I have the habit of taking a walk after dinner, going out to go around the park, very pleasant, not who said, walking a hundred steps after dinner, living to ninety-nine, after coming back, I put the key in the outer pocket of the coat, but during this time I did not wear this coat when I went to work.
As a result, the next day, when I came home from work and opened the door, I found that the key could not be found, and my wife was quite understanding and gave me another one, but I was very upset.
I kept thinking that there must be somewhere, and I accidentally lost the key, because it was the key to the house, and it was really picked by someone, and the impact was still relatively large.
I felt as if I had gone out, and found that I didn't bring anything with me, so I opened the door again and came in to pick it up again, and the result was that after reopening the door and locking the door, I lost the key in the elevator or anywhere on the road in a hurry, and I also told my wife about this little story.
So much so that I have been convinced these days that the process is right and true.
The truth is that I didn't have the keys with me that day, and I just closed the door and left, and I didn't have any experience of opening the door and coming in to pick up things.
It's not terrible to lose something, it's scary that I actually reviewed the process with wrong facts and seemingly correct logic to make it seem very reasonable.
In our lives, sometimes we encounter good times, we will also think from the most reasonable perspective, and when we encounter adversity, we will also attribute it from what seems reasonable.
This kind of attribution sometimes forms a strong inertia, influencing and influencing our judgments based on facts and reality, becoming an obstacle to our cognitive objectivity, and a leaf for us to correctly view ourselves and recognize our own obstacles.
This is how the cognitive trap of the self is formed;
2) I dreamed of my classmate Li Lin
I had a strange dream, dreaming of Li Lin, a male elementary school classmate I hadn't met for more than 40 years, and dreaming that we met in a company because of business, and talked freely about each other's life experiences, and even had unforgettable pasts.
Later, I flipped through the yellowed old photo album, and barely recognized who Li Lin was, with thick black eyebrows, and black eyebrows between his eyebrows, when he was about to graduate from elementary school, he was taken to the county by his father, who did barber work, and has never been in contact with it since.
called ** to ask his brother in his hometown about Li Lin's recent situation, and replied that he died young due to an accident very early, and he was less than 30 years old when he left, and he didn't even have a family and left no children.
If it weren't for this accidental dream, I wouldn't even remember that there was a person like Li Lin in my life, everything was so vague and long-lasting.
But it was this person who I had long forgotten that came alive and yet appeared so real in my dreams that it even completely awakened those lost or silent fragments of memory, and there were new associations that deviated from the real but seemed so vivid.
Our brains have a powerful ability to rationalize abnormal problems in a singular way, creating a self-reinforcing cognitive trap that can easily lead us further and further down on false perceptions if we let it work instead of seeing it.
Imagination and delusion are so close to us, and of course they are so readily available.
What we often say about strengthening the cultivation of the mind and achieving clear insight is actually to overcome the cognitive trap that originates from the self, to help us to examine ourselves correctly, to be more objective and rational, to understand our own true conditions, to evaluate ourselves correctly, and to prevent us from accidentally overestimating ourselves and our position in the hearts of others.
Position yourself accurately to go further.
The knowledge of human nature allows us to compare and learn from each other, to be familiar with more strategies and strategies, and to quickly find a breakthrough in solving problems, or even similar solutions. The knowledge of the mind keeps us from deviating from the correct direction and trajectory of life.
In history, many well-educated people who read through history books have gone through bizarre twists and turns or ups and downs in their lives, which makes people feel embarrassed, such as Liu An, the king of Huainan who compiled "Huainanzi" during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and compiled "New Preface", "Shuo Yuan", "Warring States Policy", "Biography of the Daughters" and "Other Records" in the late Western Han Dynasty Liu Xiang Liu Xin's father and son, we are not qualified to comment on their knowledge or insights, if there is anything to learn from their lives, it is that if they improve their mental cultivation a little more, Liu An will not die of active or passive, or even suspected rebellion, Liu Xiang may also have a smoother life, and Liu Xin will not help the abuse and finally die.
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