I was very shocked at the time. Nowadays, children are beginning to consciously improve their cognition, but professionals who have been working for many years have no idea what they are doing and where they want to go.

One day I went shopping and saw a high school student holding the book "Cognitive Awakening" in front of the Lego toy store.

I was very shocked at the time. Nowadays, children are beginning to consciously improve their cognition, while professionals who have been working for many years have no idea what they are doing and where they want to be.

After encountering such a scene and this book by chance, my path to "awakening" began.

said that the word awakening is a bit too big, and sharing is more appropriate.

About the author Zhou Ling shared what content in the book, and what is this book like? You can get the answer by just searching.

There are 1,000 Hamlets in 1,000 people. Everyone's life experience, worldview and values ​​are different, and they will naturally get different results. There are some contents in the

book that are universal and worth spending some time studying.

1. Living with anxiety

Someone asked on the question and answer platform: "Why do we make more and more money, but we can buy less and less things?"

The question has millions of views, which shows that this problem is not just yours. , others have it too.

There is a famous saying on the Internet: "Happy families are always similar, but unhappy families are different in their own way."

This saying can be applied to our generation, and it can become "Anxious people are always similar, not Everyone is anxious in different ways. "

Since 1990, prices have increased more than 10 times, and wages have also increased more than 10 times. But compared to 30 years ago, our happiness is not more than 10 times that of our parents.

The reason why this happens is not because of lack of supplies, but precisely because of the increase in choices.

It’s not that you have no choice, but you have chosen this, and you also want that, and you have spent all your energy in comparison.

In the words of Zhou Ling in "Cognitive Awakening", "I want to do a lot of things at the same time, and I want to see results immediately."

Obviously your salary has exceeded more than 80% of people in China, but as long as your colleagues are higher than you, you I just felt like something was wrong.

Obviously you have a house and a car in a first-tier city, but as long as your friends drive luxury cars and live in villas, you feel like you have nothing.

Anxiety can have many causes, including bad experiences in childhood, a bad upbringing, or even the ups and downs experienced in adulthood.

You can face anxiety, and avoiding it will only make it more difficult. The best way to deal with it is to face it and then defeat it one by one. The most important thing for ordinary people is to recognize that they are ordinary people and accept their good and bad qualities.

If things don't go as expected, give it a little more time.

Just like the graduation season copy of Xiaohongshu: "Every night without stars, the night will not be wasted."

2. The most important thing is "I think"

Professor Hong Lan gave a TED speech "What is the difference between the male and female brains" "Different" shares a story from college.

In the 1970s, Hong Lan was studying in college in the United States. At that time, a very young assistant professor at the school went to an ATM to withdraw money, and was robbed of 200 US dollars. US$200 in the 1970s can now buy a house in a small city.

She was very angry and called the police. When the police were recording her statement, the police asked her: "What does the robber look like?"

She said that she was too nervous and did not see the other person's appearance clearly. At that time, the surveillance equipment was not advanced and there was no portrait of the suspect, so the case had to be dropped.

About a week after returning to school, she began to dislike a graduate student in her charge for some reason. Later, she complained to Hong Lan that the graduate student always liked to add onions to his food, and the smell from his body made her uncomfortable.

Another three months later, the police caught a suspect near the school and asked her to identify the same person as the previous money robber. As a result, she immediately recognized the suspect through the window. This person was the graduate student who ate the hamburger with onions.

We often don't care, but the subconscious is the intuitive thinking left to protect ourselves after human evolution.

If the same thoughts always pop up in your mind, it means that you have never let go of this matter, and such thoughts are the source of your mood swings.

If you want to grasp the subconscious mind, you have to record all the "little things you think are impossible" or "tiny details" that appear in your head and check them regularly.

If you watch it after a while and you still don’t understand what they want to tell you, just put it away and watch it again after a while.

One day, these ideas will come together when you are doing things, and then you will shout: "So this is it!"

3. Know what you are doing at all times

Einstein in "My World View" Share: "We living in this world are really strange. Everyone comes to this world as a passer-by, and no one knows what the purpose is."

Every company will ask individuals to conduct an annual summary at the end of the year, so every year in December, January The hot spots of the month will be related to the summary. People often lament that they have done nothing for a year, but it is over.

Because you don’t know why you are doing it, and you don’t know what you want to achieve. You just execute it mechanically and get a meager salary. So I feel sorry for others, if I had chosen other majors at that time; if I had studied hard and gone to a better school, I would have reached the peak of my life now; if I had not changed jobs, I should be the one listening to the report now...

Many people will be in life At a certain stage, I regretted the decisions I had made before. I think if I had chosen another road, I would have seen a different scenery.

But someone has done a questionnaire survey specifically, and the target users of the questionnaire are middle-income families in the United States.

The question asked everyone to choose: "If you had a chance to do it over again, would you be willing to change your work partner, career, or city?"

The survey results show that even if more than 90% of people are dissatisfied with the status quo, if they had to do it over again, there is a high probability that they would continue Maintain your choice at the time.

has feelings of regret and regret. On the one hand, he doesn’t know why he started at that time. On the other hand, he stands behind and looks ahead, making decisions based on the results.

There is a Chinese saying that "hindsight makes it easier to understand". Under the circumstances and experience at the time, the decision you can make is the best decision based on you.

There is no perfect choice in the world. You can't choose a, consider the good of b, and then want both. So we are required to think about what we want to be from the beginning.

If you want it very much, you will become what you want.

Cognition Cognition first knows, first knows and then knows.

All understanding starts from understanding yourself and feeling the present moment.

There is a story in Cognitive Awakening that is particularly good and should be included at the end to encourage everyone.

A traveler asked the old monk: "What did you do before you attained enlightenment?"

The old monk said: "Chopping wood, carrying water, and cooking."

The traveler asked: "What about after you attained enlightenment?"

Old monk Said: "Chop firewood, carry water, and cook."

The traveler asked again: "Then what does it mean to achieve the Tao?"

The old monk said: "Before you achieved the Tao, when you chop wood, you think about carrying water, and when you carry water, you think about cooking. ; After attaining the Tao, cutting wood means cutting wood, carrying water means carrying water, and cooking means cooking. "