In this fast-paced era, everything seems to be accelerating.
You can taste the food you want by ordering takeout; you can set off when you want to go far away, you can book a ticket. From expectations to realization, desires are filled in at once.
Regarding success, more and more people are also starting to seek "shortcuts".
enroll in class to study, followed by clocking in, and I was very excited when I checked in. After the study period, it seemed that everything had returned to the starting point. How to learn efficiently and truly achieve self-growth, Zhouling gives the answer in the book "Cognitive Awakening". The author shares how he awakened at the age of 36, started to change himself and finally practiced success, and analyzed the underlying logic of cognition, thereby changing the inner driving force and achieving the desired results.
1. About anxiety
Why do we feel anxious?
We will be anxious about not completing the tasks arranged;
compares with the success of others, and feels that you are behind and anxious;
makes a choice, and is anxious because you don’t know how to make a choice;
is bound by the environment and cannot do what you want, but you have to keep doing what you don’t want to do, and feel anxious;
devotes one thing with all your passion, but it is too difficult and you are anxious because you can’t match your abilities.
Anxiety is always bothering our lives and affecting our emotions. The root of this is that we do not recognize ourselves, are eager to achieve success, want to accomplish many things, but are difficult to avoid easy things, and are unwilling to invest more energy to change and improve ourselves.
blind anxiety will not make people better, it will only make people worse. Charles Spurgeon said that anxiety will not eliminate its sorrow tomorrow, but today will only consume its power.
When facing anxiety, we should not be trapped in its quagmire and cannot extricate ourselves, but should learn to face it and resolve it.
1. Increase patience
Everyone’s patience is limited, and they are even impatient when facing some things. So we need to increase patience.
The author has given a method: to increase patience, you must accept yourself and improve your cognition. Lack of patience is human nature, and when we can realize this, we will not blame ourselves for being impatient.
everything has its own rules and its own platform period. Just like a new item can only be learned, a normal person may learn at least three months, but when you feel that you have not made any progress in your studies for a month, you decide to give up. When you want to learn in the future, you have to learn again. It wasted both time and energy. So after we improve our cognition, our patience with ourselves will change from one month to three months. Every day's efforts will not see any effect, but over time, it will definitely break through the platform period on a certain day, causing qualitative change from quantitative change.
2, Become sober
Life is rare to be sober, and the three vaguenesses of cognition, emotions, and actions are waiting for you to eliminate.
Many of us live and live as a tool person, acting step by step every day and being busy. Even though I work diligently, I don’t seem to have achieved much. This is because we have always lived in cognitive vagueness and do too little things to improve cognitive and deep thinking.
The root of cognitive blur is also determined by our brain structure. The author points out that our brain will work hard to let the body take the route of energy-consuming and enjoy entertainment, while thinking is very energy-consuming. It is precisely because of this that we must take the initiative to consume energy to learn and improve our cognition. The stronger a person's learning ability, the more he will become clearer and there will be no cognitive ambiguity.
Emotional blur is that we will escape the things that make ourselves troubled and painful, but in fact they will not disappear by themselves, they will only enter your subconscious mind and continue to affect you in the future life. So we face it, ask ourselves questions, and eliminate it.
The blurring of actions needs to be eliminated by clear goals and plans. For example, you want to be a better self, but face every day, you have no specific action plan.What I think about is reading more, exercising more, and having a good meal. I understand the big principles, but it is not practical to implement every small thing.
2. About growth
When we are no longer anxious and more awake. We will become an emotionally stable, goal-oriented and action-oriented person. But how can we grow rapidly?
1, thinking upgrade
The author has put forward another concept "metacognition". It is the highest level of cognition, and can recognize and understand its own "thinking process". Edison said that when a person is young, he will not think, and he will achieve nothing.
means that you can reflect on your own thinking, realize what is wrong, then optimize it, and finally make the right choice. It gives you the ability to have a far-sighted vision and even predict the future in the present and thus affect your actions, that is, the combination of awareness and self-control.
"38 Letters from Rockefeller to his son" mentioned that no matter what does, to find the best way to perfect ideas, you have to have many ideas. Before making the most perfect decision, he will be committed to finding various possibilities. Finally, if you try actively, focus on the best choice, because this practice can help him catch the big fish he wants.
is like stock trading. Many people like to follow the trend, so everyone can buy whatever they buy. Occasionally, I am full of luck once or twice, thinking that I am really capable and may fall badly later. Buffett will spend 80% of his time reading and thinking. Others only see his superficial success and greed. If there is no rigorous thinking and reasoning, how can he become a stock god?
Being a person with strong metacognition means that you are the helmsman of life, and you can always go left and right and head to the end at the fastest speed.
2. Effective actions
I will always feel shallow, and you must practice it if you know this. The ancients all advocated action, and without action, everything is just a matter of paper talk and meaningless.
But it does not necessarily lead to results when you act. Ineffective actions are not only laborious, but also slow growth. Just like a donkey pulling a mill, it is spinning around every day, but every day is the same as yesterday. This is a mechanical repetition.
Although the growth rate varies from person to person, the most important thing in this process is to keep your actions at the edge of your comfort zone at all times, so that you can not only persevere but also gradually improve.
feedback in action and optimize the goals in time to achieve the desired results. Just like reading and writing, if your goal is to write 1,000 words a day, but when you act, you find that 1,000 words is too difficult and cannot be completed. Then you can adjust the number of words to 500 words, and then slowly increase the target according to the actual situation. A marathon runner in a wheelchair in his speech said that We seem to be measured by different indicators throughout our lives, please spend some time focusing on ourselves, not others, I bet you can win those challenges and really start to achieve excellence.
Life is actually comparing with yourself. Compared with others, the comparability is too low. Because your environment and qualifications are different, you can move forward with your own pace and you will always gain a better self over time.
Conclusion
"Cognitive Awakening" book allows us to face the world from a new perspective. Using the theoretical methods in the book will help us quickly recognize ourselves, clear away emotional obstacles, and seek what we think more firmly and effectively.
From confusion and anxiety to awakening, breaking through the bottleneck of life, and finally living out your own wonderful gifts, which are worthy of life. #I'm doing the second issue of creation on Toutiao##Toutiao Creation Challenge#
