How does a person’s cognition form? There is a very praiseworthy answer online:
"Cognition was influenced by parents at first, and then by classmates and teachers; later by media and circles, I became my own cognition step by step."
" You are flying to your mountain like a bird " records the real personal experience of the author Tara Wester.
Tara had never stepped into school before she was 17 years old. She had been urinating like the wildest child since she was a child, and she wandered around except to help her family pick up garbage. Later,
got her exam by secretly studying and got rid of her original family. At the age of 28, she obtained a doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge.
Her story has given countless people a new definition of reading and understand why reading can change a person's destiny.
01 Only by studying can you think independently
Tala was born in Idaho, USA. There are countless scrap yards here. Tara's father is also running a scrap yard, while her mother is a midwife.
html Before she was 117 years old, the concept of going to school was too unfamiliar to her.
When other children were in class in the classroom, Tara was helping her father sort the waste.
Father is a paranoid and crazier Mormon believer. He is like a ruler and commands everything. He forbids his children from going to school and not lets them seek medical treatment. When she finds that she is secretly reading a book, she will obstruct her in every way and deliberately find work for her to do.
The father insisted that going to school was to hand over the children to the devil, and was afraid that the government would brainwash the children, so he moved his home to the mountains and forests, and the children became hired workers in his waste yard.
At that time, she only knew how to obey her parents and thought that she had lived her life under the arrangement of such a family.
Later, under the guidance of her brother Taylor, she began to study.
Books are like a mirror, giving her the ability to think independently. At that time, a little spark was ignited in her heart.
She began to think about the meaning of life, the meaning of life, and what kind of life she wanted to live.
So, she began to secretly study hard to get into the university exam with her parents on her back.
However, for her who had never been to school, all this was too difficult. She didn't understand what algebra is, what Pythagorean theorem is. These are all too far away from her like the sun in the sky.
Although it is difficult, she never thought of giving up. While working for her father, she secretly ran to a bookstore forty kilometers away to buy a thick book of study materials and overcome the difficulties bit by bit.
Finally, she did it and successfully got into college. Her life has undergone earth-shaking changes since then.
Lin Yutang once said : "We must have the freedom to be ourselves and the courage to be ourselves."
Reading is the introductory guide to our self-awakening.
Those books that have been read are like the rice we have eaten. Their nutrition is melted into our bones and blood, nourishing us, and allowing us to clear the clouds and fog at critical moments and discover what we love in our hearts.
02 Only by studying can you change your destiny
Tala lived under the exploitation of her father and the violence of her brother Sean in the 17 years before her education.
One night, Sean came back very late and saw Tara sitting on the sofa, so he asked Tara to pour water for him. At first Tara did not go, but finally surrendered to his brother's tyranny and went to take the water. When the water came, Sean poured the water on his head.
Tala saw this and ran away quickly, but Sean grabbed her hair and dragged it into the toilet, and pressed her face into the toilet. Tara finally begged for mercy before he let go of his hand.
Such damage has happened countless times in Tara, leaving her incurable shadows in her life.
It turns out that Tara also thought about saving her family and helping Sean realize her wrong behavior.
But the parents turned a blind eye to it and agreed that Sean's cruel behavior was that "has been reborn" to deceive themselves and their children.
Under the extreme education of her father, Tara began to have serious doubts about her desire to resist, and she had prejudice in many views on people and things. She forced herself to forgive her brother Sean who hurt her, but she could not let go, which made her feel that she was wrong.
She felt that she should obey her father unconditionally in life, otherwise she would be unfaithful, and girls would wear lipstick and short skirts.
And the doctor is "Son of Fallen" . You must not see a doctor when you are sick.
She and her brothers and sisters do dangerous work without any protective measures. From time to time, they will be hit and crushed by copper bottles, burned by gasoline, broken fingers, fall from the air, fall from the pallet, and concussion and rupture are common.
Because I couldn't go to the hospital, my mother treated them with a homemade essential oil, used an inexplicable muscle test method to predict whether there was life danger, or to bask in the sun for several hours.
Because my father believes that sunlight is the best medicine to heal everything.
Fortunately, college life has opened a new door to her world. There, various books entered Tara's world, she learned about the history and culture of various countries; read the stories of countless celebrities, and gained strength from knowledge.
books changed her past cognition and gave her a new perspective to re-examine her past life and look at people and things around her.
She began to try to get rid of her father's control, escape from the violent treatment of her brother Sean, and start a new life again and change her destiny.
03 Only by reading can you have the right to choose
Everyone has their own unique understanding of the world during their growth.
Different cognitions, different perspectives of looking at the world, and different ways of treating people and things around you, then a person's outlook on life will be independent of others.
Tara, who escaped from her family and came to school, seemed to be free on the surface, but she felt very distressed inside.
The twisted common sense that the original family planted her deeply makes her an alien in the eyes of people around her.
She doesn't wash her hands after going to the toilet; she never cleans the house; she doesn't want to go to the hospital when she is sick.
When you don’t have money to eat, you would rather go hungry than apply for government scholarships.
She has become a walking island on campus.
until Professor Kerry said to her : "The most powerful factor that determines who you are comes from your heart."
The light of education is helping her get out of the past bit by bit. She began to have many firsts: the first time she went to the hospital; the first time she applied for a scholarship; the first time she took antiviral medicine...
On campus, she studied
every day until three o'clock in the morning. Zhang Yu got all the best results and successfully applied for the Harvard University visiting scholarship, and strived to become a doctor of history at Cambridge University.
Tara thought that she had successfully escaped from the shackles of her original family at this time, and felt that she could forgive her parents and brother for their hurts, but when she returned to that home, she felt as if she was trapped in an extremely dark valley and could not escape.
She tried to communicate with her parents about the harm caused to her and her sister's growth. However, this action made her a betrayer and an alien in the eyes of her family.
Thara, frustrated, began to have a mental breakdown and used TV series all day long to numb himself from escaping study and life. Long-term negativity and indulgence have left her doctorate with almost no insurance.
Later, with the help of a psychologist and self-adjustment, she devoted herself to the paper research again, successfully completed her writing and defense, and became Dr. Westerfer.
In the end, she bravely cut off contact with her original family and was reborn.
Education has brought about earth-shaking changes in her concepts, and reading has made her break out of her cocoon and become a butterfly.
Reading makes people have the ability to think independently and know how to distinguish right from wrong. People's thinking and speech and behavior change, and people are more rational and wise when doing things.
book, and at some point it will become a person's armor , giving people more choice .
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Li Kuchan says : "A bird wants to fly high and first flap its wings, and a person wants to advance to read first."
Read more books, and then read wisdom, a higher realm, the pattern will become bigger, and the vision of looking at people and things will be broader.
The more you read, the more you understand yourself, understand life, understand the difficulty of this world, and discover more beauty in the world.
The more books we read, the easier it is for us to break through the shackles of thinking and destiny, allowing us to perceive the diversity of the world, feel more various aspects of life, and let our future be filled with more hope and expectations.
