In the process of life development, many people have such a phenomenon, that is, when they encounter difficulties or problems, they will always use their past experience and knowledge to measure them. Once they exceed the scope of their past experience and knowledge, they will think that they are facing The difficulties and problems cannot be solved, so they choose to give up.
This is actually a manifestation of self-limitation. Many people could have overcome difficulties and found solutions to problems. But just because of self-limitation, I gave up the opportunity to grow. This is a pity for the growth of human life.
has this discussion in psychology. There is a flea effect in "Murphy's Law", which is worth learning from.
Fleas have two strong hind legs, so they are good at jumping and can easily jump more than a meter high-compared with their own size, it is equivalent to jumping up to eighty floors by a person. Skyscrapers!
However, biologists once put fleas in a one-meter-high jar with a transparent lid. As a result, the flea will knock down the lid every time it jumps, and it will hit the lid repeatedly. After a while, the biologist took off the lid and found that the flea could still jump, but it could no longer jump to a height of more than one meter. It turned out that it had adapted to the height of the bottle and adjusted its jumping ability. changed.
This phenomenon, which limits one's actual ability after defaulting to a lower goal, is called the "flea effect" by psychologists. In order to verify whether this effect is equally applicable to humans, psychologists at Harvard University conducted a follow-up survey of a group of young people for 25 years.
These young people surveyed have similar objective conditions such as intelligence, education, and environment. The only difference is whether they have clear and long-term goals for the future. Twenty-five years later, the living conditions of these respondents are as follows: 3% of people with clear long-term goals have almost all become top successful people in all walks of life; 10% of people with clear short-term goals mostly live in society The middle and upper class; 60% of people with ambiguous goals live in the middle and lower classes of society; and the remaining 27% have no goals.The mediocre lives at the bottom of society.
It can be seen that there is a close connection between whether a person has a clear and long-term goal and whether he can achieve major life achievements. The reason why
is so is that the higher the goal that a person sets for himself, the easier it is to stimulate the inner potential of life in the process of life development. For example, Wang Yangming in the Ming Dynasty, he set his life goal and direction since he was a child, and he wanted to become a saint in the world.
It is under the impetus of this goal that Wang Yangming directs all the energy, energy and attention in his life to this goal, and all the development of his life is directed to this goal. Of course, the greater the goal, the greater the test faced, but it is precisely because of this that the potential of life will be stimulated.
Wang Yangming's life can be said to be quite legendary, and his life's development can be described as magnificent. Before Wang Yangming was demoted to Longchang, it was his preparatory stage to become a sage; and being demoted to Longchang was the stage of his enlightenment and sanctification; from lectures to leading soldiers to fight, to quell King Ning’s rebellion_ Span16span, and then to the bandit suppression, is his stand up , meritorious, and moral stage.
At the end of Wang Yangming's death, it was also foreseeable that the time was coming, and he left on the way to lead the army to fight. It can be seen that Wang Yangming's achievement lies in the life goals he set for himself since he was a child. This is the direct reason why he became a saint.
From the perspective of Daoxue theory, if the development of human life can pass through the purification of the mind, it can pass Lao Tzu's " ethics jing " said: the first one: Tiandeyi With clearness, the earth gains a peace, God gains a spirit, a valley gains a gluttony, and all things gain a life. The Houwang thinks that the world is right, and it is the ultimate, saying: The sky is not clear, and the earth will be afraid of cracking. It’s better to be afraid of it; God’s spirit to be afraid of restGu Wu has already surplus and will be afraid of exhaustion, Hou Wangwu has been expensive and will be afraid of exhaustion.
This sentence tells us that if you want to succeed in everything, you must focus on one thing. This is what we are talking about today. Once people have set their goals, ideals and dreams, they must maintain their original intentions. As the saying goes: Don't forget your original intention, and you will always have it. This sentence is very thorough.
There is also a very important concept in Taoist theory, that is, the dominance of the soul and the conscientious spirit in life also determines the ultimate achievement of life.
The so-called primordial spirit refers to our innate true primordial nature. This is the inner true self that is connected to the natural "Tao" of the universe and the universe, and is identical to the "Tao".
But the primordial spirit in our life comes from the congenital primordial spirit. After the congenital primordial spirit arrives in our life body, it is formatted to form an acquired primordial spirit with individual characteristics. Generally speaking, if a person can carry on the behavior of life under the affair of the Houtian Yuanshen. It will mobilize the potential, wisdom, and energy of life, and build a great cause beyond ordinary people in the society in which it lives.
As Wang Yangming mentioned above, in fact, those saints and real people in ancient times are all like this. After practicing, they have activated the mind of the soul, and use the soul of the master, so that life has the ability and wisdom to surpass ordinary people. .
There is another kind of knowledge of God, which is a kind of acquired knowledge formed through acquired learning, life experience, experience, and experience. This is based on the human eye, ear, nose, tongue, body mind six senses , the stress response mechanism formed when the cerebral cortex receives limited cognition, and the judgment and measurement standard of the external objective world.
Many people's thinking problems, thinking patterns, emotions and behaviors are based on the knowledge of consciousness. This is actually an extremely limited cognition, not the entire cognition of the objective world. In other words, the way to perceive the objective world under the dominance of people’s mind-consciousness is to collect scattered and partial information, and use analysis, measurement, judgment, logical reasoning, and subjective assumptions (subjective knowledge of God). Objective world. But in reality, this perception is one-sided and static.Is not comprehensive.
Of course, it is not ruled out that through philosophical guidance, rigorous logical reasoning, and synthesis of various information, we can draw truths that are close to objective reality. But it is only the result formed after the conscientious thinking reaches its limit. This requires extremely huge manpower and material resources.
However, when people are led by the primordial spirit thinking, they will surpass the limits of conscientious thinking, and they will form wisdom that surpasses ordinary people. For example, Hui Neng, the sixth ancestor of Buddhism Zen, did not know how to write, but possessed supreme wisdom and became a master of the generation. Wang Yangming comprehend the truth in the Dragon Field, and the reality of Wang Fengyi in the modern Republic of China. These are all manifestations of breaking through the mind of conscientiousness and entering the realm of primordial spirit.
Through this "flea effect" of psychology, we use Taoist thoughts and concepts to combine the problems faced by the public in the life development situation of the real society. Putting forward such ideas and viewpoints is to hope that everyone can not label themselves or impose artificial limits on themselves on the way of life development.
From the perspective of modern science, the human brain has 14 billion cells, but humans can only use 15-30%. Everyone may enter the mind of the primordial spirit, and the brain cells will be used more, but most people's brain cells are in a deep sleep state. Why is this? It's because people are restricted by the knowledge of the real society.
If we can use an open mind to draw nourishment from the sages in the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, through learning, we inherit first, and then carry forward in the combined era, then we will These precious spiritual wealth passed down from our ancestors can be applied to our lives and society to create tremendous value and wealth.
Dear friends, what are your different views on this "flea effect" in psychology? You are welcome to participate in the discussion. I am Xuan Wuji, and everyone is welcome to pay attention to me. There will be more exciting content dedicated to everyone in the follow-up.
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