No part of you can represent you
Greek Philosopher Plutak In the 1st century AD, he asked the question: If the wood on a ship is gradually replaced until all the wood is not the original wood, is the ship still the original ship? There are many variants of this issue, and many philosophers have participated in the discussion in history, some think yes, and some think not. Nowadays, more and more people believe that the answer should be the former, because the wooden boards of a ship are not simply summed up, and each wooden board needs to have a specific connection structure to ensure that it meets the functional needs of navigation.
For a ship, only when the wood board as a factor is updated, the connection and function have not changed, it will still be the original ship. This is like the daily renewal of cells in the human body, and we will not become a brand new person because of this.
From this perspective, no part of our body can represent ourselves. So when we look at our hands and feet, we just say, this is my hand, this is my foot, and we don’t point to one hand, or one foot, and say: This is me!
Brianna West pointed out in his book "101 Articles to Change Your Thoughts": "The only thing that can change you and your life is that you realize that those parts of your body cannot represent you."
We must consciously distinguish the difference between "you" and "you yourself", because only we are our end and our starting point. No part of us can represent ourselves, and only we ourselves can change, inspire and ignite our consciousness.
What you want is not what you really want
The founder of Ford Automobile Henry Ford said that if he went directly to ask users that there were higher requirements for the performance of transportation, users would definitely say that they needed a faster horse, not a car, because the mainstream transportation tools at that time were still horse-drawn carriages. The story of
is often used to illustrate that companies must be able to understand the real potential needs of users, especially those that users cannot explain clearly but objectively exist in order to find business opportunities. And aren’t we the so-called users? So in many cases, what we want is not what we really want.
In the words of Brianna West in "101 Articles to Change Your Thinking": "You just want something you are familiar with."
In short, it is difficult for us to predict or imagine a future beyond our cognitive scope, so most of the time, what we want is not what we really want, it is just what we want in the "known" category, and it is the second-hand "want".
Although we can choose to do things that we are sure of, we should also try some challenges occasionally. People who truly love life will try all possibilities to discover the fun and make life more colorful.
After all, the happiness and colorfulness of life are given by ourselves, and the value of life must be created by ourselves. In this process of creation, we can get closer and closer to what we really want.
Everything happens to help you
Northern Song Wenhao Su Dongpo , was demoted to Huangzhou after Wutai Poetry Case . Huangzhou is remote and desolate, making it very difficult for Dongpo to live in , but Dongpo quickly fell in love with Huangzhou and even had the plan to settle down in Huangzhou.
Dongpo heard that there was a very good piece of land somewhere nearby, so he invited his friends to check it out for the purpose of settling down. It suddenly rained heavily on the road. People with rain gear walked fast and were no longer within their sight. So their friends hugged their heads and hid in the rain, looking very embarrassed, but Dongpo continued to move forward in the rain like nothing happened. And the heavy rain stopped in a short while.
Afterwards, Su Dongpo wrote this experience into a famous lyric, "The bamboo stick and straw shoes are lighter than horses, who is afraid? A raincoat and mist will allow the next life." I don't know how many people's hearts have touched in later generations. He said that although he did not have a tall horse, he only had an old bamboo stick and a pair of old marble shoes, he had nothing to be afraid of. Even if he had to be in the storm for the rest of his life, he could still live it calmly.
If Dongpo was alive, he would probably tell us today: Although he does not have Mercedes-Benz BMW, he can only go out and scan the code and ride a shared bicycle, but what else is there? You can also easily walk your own life path. I'm quite nervous, I'm not afraid or afraid! Because sunny is life, and wind and rain are also life?
As Brianna West said in "101 Articles to Change Your Thoughts": "When we think our pain is meaningful, the discomfort caused by pain disappears."
Because there will always be pain in life, we only have two choices: either spend the rest of our life in pain, or regard pain as wealth in life, and live a good life in acceptance.
Ending
Brianna West, using her "101 Articles to Change Your Thoughts" to try to tell us: Believe in it will become. Ideas can be controlled. Obstacles are the way out.
Do you say this is the soul chicken soup? But spiritual chicken soup usually does not require too much thinking, and its function is to feed people temporarily. However, this book is not a chicken soup article, but on the contrary, it is a bit brain-burning. It requires us to think, especially through reflection, to make ourselves more complete!
