"I understand what you're saying, but why can't I live my life well? ”
This is a phrase that is often heard in life, and many people are accustomed to it.
But if we reach the age of awakening, we should understand the reasons for this.
We should be diligent in thinking and thinking about what our life should be? How should we go about our lives?
Learn to think
The English philosopher Berlant Russell said:Many people would rather die than think, and most of them do die.
For those who can think, they will love their own thinking.
Without real thinking, life will be eclipsed, and even stop upgrading one's cognition.
Stop thinking, the knowledge we come into contact with is just knowledge, and we can never form our own knowledge system, so we are destined to be just a carrier of knowledge.
Thinking involves the integration of perceptions, memories, and experiences to form understanding, judgment, and decision-making.
Any conclusion formed in the brain requires a process of thinking.
People are in contact with different environments all the time, and different scenes will stimulate different emotions and generate different inspirations.
Every kind of inspiration contains an inner wisdom, which only those who can think can discover it in time, and then only a few people can take it away in time.
Teacher Li Xiaolai said:Thinking is the basis of everyone's education, and it is also the basis of everyone's self-learning.
Knowing that the distance from practice is very long, knowing is just knowing, and without practice, it will never form strong connected neurons in the brain.
The upgrading of human cognition is inseparable from thinking.
There are four basic elements of thinking, which are definition, classification, comparison, and cause and effect.
Every decision we make in our lives, whether important or not, is all about definition, classification, comparison, and causal application.
At the heart of thinking are concepts, and each concept needs to be clearly defined.
Concepts need to be classified and compared with each other, and a causal relationship may be formed between concepts.
The difference between people's cognition mainly lies in how many clear and accurate concepts are in the brain, and the precise connections between these concepts.
The process of learning is to create, update, or delete a concept or concepts, while practice is to read or call a concept or concepts.
For personal growth, diligent thinking is very important, thinking is the most effective way to learn and consolidate, and it is also the premise of practicing true knowledge.
Cognitive upgrading
The level of human mind is 0 at birth, and as it grows up, it slowly improves as its cognition improves.
Our brains are very similar to computers, and we have our own operating system.
It's just that some people never care about their operating system and think that the brain is born like this.
A small number of people will continue to improve their awareness and upgrade their operating system.
It's also scary to think about, because the operating system is our dark game, invisible and intangible, but it has a huge impact on our lives.
All of our decisions come from here, including the length, width, height, and temperature of our lives, all of which require instructions from the operating system.
Constant contact with the computer makes it clear that if the operating system is outdated, then a lot of software will not work.
In the same way, if our own operating system has not been upgraded, a lot of new knowledge will not be easy to absorb, and gradually it will not be able to keep up with the pace of social development, and gradually decline.
To improve one's own cognition, we need to constantly maintain the habit of learning, live and learn until we are old.
Learning is everywhere, keep it clear at all times, and accept the knowledge given to you by society.
Every book, screen, voice, and chat you touch can impart knowledge to you.
The key is to screen the knowledge yourself, absorb what you need, and be able to combine thinking and practice to load the knowledge into your own system.
Keep learning + thinking + practicing, you will have one clear and accurate concept after another, and be able to figure out the connections between each concept.
The growth of real life is such a process of accumulation, and it is very complicated not to look at the final result.
Breaking down the whole process is, in fact, repeating simple actions every day: learning concepts and clarifying the relationships between them.
But with the accumulation, the more and more concepts learned, you will feel that it is very difficult, so many people always think that they are naturally smart when they look at the achievements of others, and they cannot reach the level of others.
In fact, it is not the effect of compound interest accumulation.
Everyone's mind starts with 0, and everyone's starting point is about the same, it's just that some people are in a good environment and it is easier to accept knowledge.
We live in such wonderful times that access to knowledge is becoming easier and easier.
As long as we maintain a growth mentality, constantly supplement useful knowledge, and continue to think and practice, we can continue to improve our cognition.
No matter what type of business we're in, we need to raise awareness.
Society is constantly moving forward, and unknown knowledge is constantly emerging, and if we do not improve our own cognition, we will be ruthlessly abandoned by society.
If a person's cognition is not improved, his time is a ray, and he can only hold this little thing to the end of his life.
If one's cognition continues to improve,Then his time is a thicker and thicker pipe, which can hold more and more knowledge.
Build your own body of knowledge
The knowledge system is the biggest brand of each person, which determines the essential difference between people.
We should be good at learning at the same time, be diligent in thinking, have the courage to practice, and summarize and output our own knowledge in a timely manner.
Just like a house, the knowledge system also has its own framework knowledge, filling knowledge, detail knowledge, etc.
Just like building a house, we should first learn the framework knowledge, and after the framework is built, we can put other knowledge into the framework and form our own knowledge system.
The knowledge system is extremely important, it is our cognition, which affects the generation of our thoughts, and then affects the decision-making of life.
It is no exaggeration to say that many people do not have their own knowledge system in their lifetime, and what they have is only the fragments learned in society.
Life is in a hurry for decades, and it is fast to say that it is fast, if you have not stepped out of your comfort zone, you will go vaguely for a lifetime.
But we do live in a beautiful era, as long as we work a little hard every day, even if we improve by 5% every day, 7 years of accumulation is a great harvest.
What's more, there is more than 7 years in life, so there are still opportunities for ordinary people, it depends on our individual choices.
The classical teacher said in "The Jump":
In terms of learning, the master is good at using the four treasures of learning at the source of knowledge, online learning, question-based learning and knowledge IPO, through which the master can build his own knowledge system from the bottom up, so that he can far surpass others in cognitive learning efficiency.
Don't chase feelings, focus on results
In 2003, I experienced a difficult year for the college entrance examination, and the final result was not satisfactory, but the main reason was not only that it was difficult, but that my revision strategy was problematic.
At that time, I was always looking for a sense of efficiency, and I was always looking at what I could do, and I didn't pay attention to the difficult content that I had.
Speaking of it now, it's always in the comfort zone of revision.
Although it seems that the efficiency is not low on the surface, how many questions are done in a day, and the reading is fast, the actual effect is not good.
There are many examples of this in life, such as how many books we have read this year, how many great things we have achieved this year, how many people we have helped, etc.
But the real effect may not be ideal.
There are also cases at work: there are people who have been busy all the time, but the end result is mediocre, and such people are just pursuing the feeling of working hard all the time, no matter how effective it is.
We should not pursue superficial quantities, but should pursue effects that are actually helpful to us.
For example, when reading a book or listening to a lecture or speech, it is not just about memorizing the notes in detail, but about finding the trigger points that can cause you to change.
Try to find the trigger point that works best for you each time, and then guide yourself to change.
In the process of learning and growing, the actions we need to do in turn are learning, reflection, practice and change, and the weight between them is different, see the figure below
We can't just stare at the amount of learning on the surface, the amount is the largest but the weight is the smallest, just looking at the learning, it is easy to fall into the anxiety of learning.
The reason for learning anxiety is that you are in the comfort zone of learning, focusing on the amount of learning, and always feeling that you have worked hard, but with little success, so it is easy to get anxious.
We should study directly by staring at the innermost changes.
For example, reading a book,It doesn't need to be fast, and where you need to read intensively, you must read intensively, find your own change point, and constantly improve your change point.
This kind of learning is in line with the principle of compound interest and can accumulate results.
Always remember to keep an eye on your changes to learn.
Summary
Life is not long, and decades are fast.
We should make our life trajectory as colorful as possible, and make our time pipeline thicker and thicker.
Necessary material possessions are also needed, in addition to the necessities of the family, to help others.
The key to life is to accumulate spiritual wealth, which can not only help you grow, but also benefit society.
Our focus should be on our own growth and constantly improving our cognition.
Maintain lifelong learning, lifelong thinking, and lifelong practice.
For us ordinary people, only by making good use of the communication tool of words and constantly polishing our own high-quality products can it be possible for the society to benefit from you.
Always pay attention to do a good job in production and build your own brand.
Only by doing a good job in production and sales, so that more people can benefit from you, can life be more valuable.
A valuable life should always improve one's own cognition, always produce good value, generate value to society, and continue to help everyone benefit.