Individuals living in the jungle have made leaps and bounds in their personal development after a period of high-spirited progress. However, after a period of time, the individual will feel that they have entered a stalemate phase of relatively slow development, and it seems extremely difficult to make further progress. At this time, individuals often question that their abilities have reached the limit, resulting in a career development that cannot go further, that is, the so-called "ceiling" has been touched, and it is difficult to progress.
Ability is a special psychological characteristic, a psychological condition for the smooth conduct of a certain activity. There are many types of abilities, and from a broad perspective, they can be divided into general abilities and special abilities. The former is a prerequisite for the completion of many basic activities, including observation, memory, thinking, imagination, comprehension, etc. The latter refers to the ability to show in a certain professional activity, simply put, it is the outstanding and unique ability that an individual has, such as ** ability, drawing ability, writing ability, etc. When an individual's special abilities are more prominent and far superior to others, then the individual becomes a professional or even an expert.
It can be seen that competence is manifested in activities and developed in activities. This development of ability is closely related to the function of our brain. The brain is divided into the left hemisphere, which is responsible for sensation and movement in the right hemisphere, and the right hemisphere, which is responsible for sensation and movement in the left hemisphere. These sensations and movements are due to the presence of more than 10 billion nerve cells in the brain. These nerve cells are connected to each other with the help of simple excitatory and inhibitory activities, as well as extensive connections and cooperation on this basis, to form a complex neural network, so that human beings can generate complex thoughts and various cognitive activities. One of the amazing features of this complex neural network is that it can change, making the brain malleable. This is the reason why some patients with only half a brain can think and act like a normal person – half of the brain compensates for the cognitive functions of the whole brain.
The plasticity of the brain is carried out with the help of education and training. Therefore, in the process of individual activities, sensory organs such as vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste will continue to collect information, and then transmit the collected information to nerve cells, which will integrate according to the collected information, obtain consciousness, and store useful information in a schematic way, which is our memory. When an individual is in a corresponding problem situation, the brain nerve cells are stimulated, and they will retrieve the schema information to generate the corresponding emotions and emotions, and then adopt the corresponding methods to solve the problem. If individuals continue to learn, the information received by nerve cells will be constantly updated, and the brain neural network will be constantly changed and reshaped to form new schemas. In this way, people's abilities are constantly improved.
Modern brain physiology research has confirmed that the human brain has a huge learning potential, and its ability to store knowledge is unimaginable, in fact, the average person uses only a small part of its thinking ability. When the brain, with its infinite learning potential, is constantly developed, people will be able to take a leap forward in their ability to do things that are only impossible to think of. As Bannister puts it, "We run because we enjoy the feeling of running, and it's almost uncontrollable." The more restrictions society and work impose on us, the more running will make us feel a sense of emotional release, a yearning for freedom. The human spirit is the spirit of never admitting defeat. ”
To achieve this, individuals need to have a spirit of never admitting defeat and make unremitting efforts to break the limits of the "ceiling". The fundamental reason why a significant number of individuals feel they have hit the "ceiling" and give up halfway is that they are caught up in the effects of the halfway effect.
The halfway effect refers to the behavior of an individual in the process of pursuing a goal, because of the interaction of psychological and environmental factors, so that it has a negative impact on the goal halfway. It arises, on the one hand, because of the irrationality of the choice of goals, and on the other hand, by the influence of personal will. The more irrational the target selection, the more likely the halfway effect will beSimilarly, the weaker the individual's will, the more likely it is to lead to the halfway effect.
To this end, in order to avoid the psychology of hitting the "ceiling" of the individual, it is necessary to set goals scientifically and cultivate one's own firm will.
In 1967, the American psychologist E. Locke (E. Locke).a.Locke) came up with the "Goal Setting Theory." This theory points out that the goal is the goal of the action that a person is trying to accomplish, which can arouse the most direct motivation of the agent, and setting an appropriate goal will make the individual have the need to achieve the goal, so it has a strong motivating effect on the individual.
So, for individuals, how to set appropriate goals to avoid the impact of the halfway effect?Locke's goal-setting theory tells us that a suitable goal should have the following six prerequisites: first, it must be difficult, but within the scope of individual ability;Second, it should be specific and clear, even clear enough to be quantifiable;The third is that the individual must go all out in order to achieve the goal;Fourth, reflect regularly and summarize in a timely mannerFifth, it is necessary to give individuals a certain reward to play a motivating role;Sixth, we must face up to all failures in the process of achieving our goals, and we must be honest with ourselves.
In particular, Locke noted that short- or medium-term goals may be more effective than long-term goals in this process. Therefore, when setting goals, it is advisable to divide long-term goals into short-term goals or medium-term goals, so that they can be gradual and avoid the impact of halfway effects.
Life is like a long-distance run, although the process is difficult, but if the individual can persevere, face the problem, and summarize in time, then the face will be infinitely possible;If you don't plan carefully and can't give it your all, you'll come back to the starting point after a big circle in a state of "you seem to be working hard", and you won't get anything. If you want to break through the limitations of the "ceiling", you must open your mind, let go of your own limitations, see through the "ceiling", and go all out.