Cognitive Awakening draws strength from inner snooping

Mondo Psychological Updated on 2024-03-02

It took 4 days to finally finish reading the electronic version of "Cognitive Awakening".

In fact, I knew about this book on a certain platform for a long time, and many reading bloggers recommended it, regretting that I read it too late.

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This is a book about personal growth, the author Zhou Ling uses simple and easy-to-understand language and charts to explain complex and difficult to understand growth concepts, such as metacognition, compound interest, emotional brain, comfort zone, stretch zone, difficult zone, cognitive circle, contact point and so on.

This book may help us in the confusion, for me, it is more to explain the reasons why I have achieved nothing and give up halfway, and after reading it, I am enlightened, and the reasons why I have not grown, not focused, and impatient have finally been explained.

I have to think about my studies when I was a student.

At that time, my grades were always hovering in the upper middle of the range, and I couldn't get into the top five very often.

The teacher said that there was a problem with my study method, but I didn't know how to improve it, so I had to borrow my classmates' notes for reference.

I remember one time, the teacher took an excellent student in the class as an example, how hard he worked, how hard he worked, and his grades were always among the best, and showed us the student's notes.

It just so happened that I had a good relationship with this classmate, because I used to be in the same class, and then we didn't get together in the class.

After listening to the teacher's praise and getting out of class, I immediately found this outstanding student and borrowed her book for reference.

I also began to follow suit, drawing and writing in the book, but I didn't understand much at the time, and now it seems that I just made a simple transfer of the detailed knowledge in the book, and I thought I had learned, learned, and mastered.

Actually, there hasn't been much progress.

When I was in high school, preparing for the college entrance examination, no matter which subject, I always seemed to be in a narrow circle, that is, I always reviewed the knowledge points that I had already mastered over and over again, opened the book, and always read those chapters.

To borrow the words of "Cognitive Awakening", it is always in the comfort zone, not even in the stretching zone, let alone in the difficult zone.

When encountering a problem, I don't think about how to solve it, I don't think, I don't act, but I take a detour, and I can only regress more and more.

If you haven't challenged difficulties, you won't grow, and your grades won't go up.

The comfort zone is when a person can do anything, easily and effortlessly, and is particularly skilled in completing one thing without making mistakes;

The stretch zone is that a person knows a little but not fully understands something to complete, and is prone to mistakes in the process of doing it, and needs a little effort to become proficient.

The difficult area is that you don't know anything about something, and it takes a lot of repeated study and practice before it is possible to learn it. For a person, because of cognitive reasons, it is difficult to learn, and it is impossible to see the effect in the short term, and it is always difficult to feel that it is particularly difficult, so it is easy to give up.

This is true whether you are learning book knowledge or social knowledge.

When I was a child, our teachers often taught us to do things wholeheartedly, not half-heartedly, to be patient, not to fish for three days and dry nets for two days, to be honest, I didn't understand this meaning at that time.

It is often said that if you choose one thing, you will live your life.

Just like many non-genetic inheritors now, their ancestors and grandchildren have guarded a craft;

Just like the self-employed now, their family does simple things, but they do it all their lives.

But today, we are happy to try new challenges, and we often give up on new ones.

Enroll in various interest classes, enter different industries to "polish" the so-called workplace skills, often after three or five years, feel that there is no growth, and when you reach the bottleneck period of the workplace, you begin to get tired of this position or industry, so you want to change jobs and change industries.

As the saying goes: interlaced lines are like separated mountains.

But some people will change jobs and change careers successfully, and some people will always be unsuccessful and always in general positions.

Just like some time ago, I wanted to try any type of article, but I couldn't write any type of article.

I wondered, why is this happening? Since when have I become a half-hearted, half-person?

From "Cognitive Awakening", I finally woke up: too much desire leads to wanting everything, the more you want to ask for too much, the more anxious your heart becomes, the more emergency you are, the easier it is to be anxious, you can't concentrate when you're anxious, you can't focus on one thing, and your body and mind are separated.

The root of anxiety is that abilities and desires are too different, always thinking too much and doing too little.

Everyone has desires, appropriate desires, desires within one's own ability, are normal, and once desires exceed one's ability, it becomes abnormal.

Whether material or spiritual, desires seem to control us.

Once we have desires, we get upset, we want to reach the level of others in a short time, we want to get something, we want both A and B, and we want C.

The result is that learning a section of A, A has no effect, then learning a section of B, B has no effect, and finally learning another section of C, C has no effect.

After repeating this, I entered a vicious circle, and my emotions and mentality were also greatly hit, and I became more and more negative.

I can't do anything, I can't do anything well, I try a lap, my patience is worn out, my concentration is scattered, so I don't stick to one thing.

I don't know how many people are like me, looking at a bunch of book lists recommended by bloggers, and they all need each book themselves, and they are all interested, so I happily buy it back, and a few days before I get it, I will read so many dozens of pages, and after a while, I don't read much.

Or I read all the books and even took notes, but when someone asked, I couldn't tell what the books were about.

There are also bloggers or anchors who talk brightly when they swipe their mobile phones, how good the book is, how touching it is, what fragments to read, and what will happen, but when I read it, I found that the book seems to be a little boring and difficult to understand, and the more I read, the more I don't want to read it, so I read the comments on the Internet, some people say it is good, and some people say it is bad.

In addition, when I saw a meaningful book list or article, I collected it and never opened it again.

I've been through all of these situations.

In order to read books, I kept a record of the daily reading list, the time limit, and the number of pages.

Make a mark when you finish reading one.

But I was asked to write my reading notes, but I couldn't.

Looking at the thousands of words of notes and mind maps made by some book bloggers, I wondered if I couldn't read and if there was something wrong with the reading method.

So I analyzed some reading notes and tried to write them down.

In the end, I found that most of the notes were the same, the same template, different points of view, plus examples or golden sentences from the book.

Mind maps, on the other hand, use the table of contents of a book as some subheadings, that is, the table of contents and main points are expressed in other forms.

It was only then that I realized that this was a reading note.

But if you look at it this way, the mind map is no different from the table of contents, it's just an abbreviation of the thick book, and sometimes you add a little bit of your own feelings.

But once I look at the mind map, I don't want to read the recommended books.

I realized that using a mind map to make reading notes was just a reader's own way of thinking, which was different from the way of thinking of the person being watched, so of course I wouldn't read it.

I thought about it again, how can a book blogger write all kinds of reading notes, but I can't?

Until I found the answer in "Cognitive Awakening":

That is, when I read the book, I didn't have the heart to feel the story or knowledge in the book, and there was no point in the experience that was related to the book, so I couldn't write about it.

There is no trigger point, no association, no thought, no impression, naturally no memory.

What is the trigger point, I personally understand, is that when a person reads a book or looks at a thing, he can immediately pop up the feelings related to it in his mind, and he can find the similarities with himself, even if it is a word or a word.

For example, when I watch Ji Xianlin write about the lotus flowers at home, I will think of going to see the lotus flowers myself; Another example is to see Wang Zengqi climbing Mount Tai and encountering mountain pickers, he will think of the mountain pickers learned in primary school texts; For example, when I watch Li Juan write about sunflowers, I think of fried melon seeds and so on.

This is related to a person's experience, so everyone's experience is different.

If you don't feel that you have anything impressive after reading a book, it is because you have nothing in common with the content of the book, common emotions, experiences, lives, etc.

In the first kind of commonality, I didn't write the reason because I didn't think deeply, but just stayed in the superficial impression, so I would only feel that the author wrote well and had a breath of life, and further applauded the author, but I didn't think deeply about myself.

In the second type, when there is no common ground, then there is no basis for writing about feelings, and then it is impossible to write.

Therefore, when there is a trigger, you should write it down immediately, so as not to forget it after a long time.

Not only remembering, but also thinking, as for how to think, it depends on the individual's way of thinking.

The above is a little bit of my understanding of "Cognitive Awakening", which not only points out the maze for personal growth, but also analyzes the laws of a person's mental activity and brain activity.

All people have different cognitive levels, learning abilities and knowledge systems due to their different growth environments and life experiences.

Therefore, a person's perception of the world varies greatly, the time it takes to learn a new skill, and the ability to comprehend a new thing is strong or weak.

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