Then he found that the bee likes light and thinks that the bottom of the bottle is the outlet. It keeps hovering around the bottom of the bottle until it dies. Finally, he concluded: "Imprompt, trial and error, roundabout progress and adaptability can all help deal with changes."

Author: Mo Xiaotong (author of Fushu)

Professor Carl Wake of the University of Michigan in the United States has an experiment called " Bee effect ".

He put six bees and six fly into glass bottles, then placed the bottle flat, so that the bottom of the bottle faces the light window.

Then I found that the bee likes light and thinks that the bottom of the bottle is the outlet. It keeps hovering at the bottom of the bottle until it dies with exhaustion;

while the flies fly around, constantly trying and making mistakes, and finally all fly out.

Finally, he concluded: "Improvisation, trial and error, roundabout progress and adaptability can help deal with changes."

In reality, most of us are like bees, and when we encounter new problems, we are only stubborn, and we do things based on experience, and do not know how to adapt.

The result imprisons the mind, trapping yourself in place, and becoming a stumbling block to progress.

Li Yu once said: " changes will be new, if it remains unchanged, if it remains unchanged, if it is corrupt; if it is unchanged, if it is unchanged, it will be a stalemate. "

Learn to break through the deadlock and break out of empiricism, and life will be bright and bright again.

Empiricism, how many people have it harmed?

Will empiricism harm people? It must have confused many people.

But there are many such cases around us:

Health experts say: Sleep should not be less than 8 hours a day.

So, I asked myself to sleep for 8 hours, otherwise it would affect my health, and the pressure would double and my spirit would be more exhausted;

I feel uncomfortable. Many people feel a little cold based on their "experience" and have become good doctors after a long time of illness. They can simmer or buy some medicine to deal with it themselves. As a result, they will delay treatment at will, and even lay a bigger "source of disaster".

………

Li Xiaolai In " Treat time as a friend ":

"The more wrong the concept is, the more amazing the reproductive ability is, the more deeply rooted. As time goes by, it becomes more and more deeply rooted. In the end, it can blind a person without realizing it, causing it to lose the ability to grow mentally."

It can be seen that relies too much on experience and will cause two harms: one is blinding our thinking, and the other is causing us to fall into the ability trap.

Quaker Company once acquired Gatorade at a high-quality price and made huge profits and became a big winner.

Quaker's president Smithberg, based on this "experience", decided to bid $1.7 billion to acquire Silebao.

His Investment bank consultant believes that the acquisition is too risky, and analysts also believe that the business will put huge pressure on the company.

However, he did not listen to their suggestions, but believed in his acquisition experience.

As a result, this decision almost exhausted the company's vitality, and the previous success at Gatorade could not make it safe this bad luck.

Finally, food leader Quaker went bankrupt and Smithberg's reputation began to fade.

"Zuo Zhuan" says: "You will prosper with this, and you will die with this."

What once made you may now lead to your failure and become a trap that hinders your future growth.

In the book "Ability Trap", it introduces the personal ability traps caused by experience:

Many people are willing to do what they are good at, and continue to do it, gradually making us accustomed to being only good at doing those things, and eventually put us in the trap of this single ability, which makes us difficult to escape and become slaves of experience.

So, now there is such an interesting phenomenon: sometimes the more experienced the "old man" is, the less new the result is, the more new the people can come up with novel solutions to attract people.

Because of past experience and cognition, people's thinking and behavior patterns are limited, resulting in the inability to break out of this trap when doing anything.

Ability determines your present, while update power determines your future.

The most important ability of a person is to encounter new problems, know how to break old experiences, constantly update and reset, and thus gain a new life.

What traps you is not ability, but empiricism

Psychologist Kele , once conducted an experiment on "chicken foraging".

The experiment started. He first showed two sheets of light gray and dark gray. The food was always placed on dark gray paper, so that the chicks could eat rice on dark gray paper, but they could not eat it on light gray paper, and the two colored papers kept changing positions. After the chickens such as

learned to forage on dark gray paper, he replaced the light gray paper with black, retaining the original dark gray paper.

Then let the chicks go for food and observe the chicks' reactions.

It was found that some chicks would take the initiative to forage on black paper and eat rice; some chicks, even if they couldn't peck on the rice, still hovered on the dark gray paper.

This experiment proves that existing knowledge and experience can have an impact on subsequent things, that is, the existence of the "cognitive transfer effect".

is called "positive migration", otherwise it is " negative migration ".

At this time, many people will be confused, why the experience that has been successful has restricted thinking and become a shackle?

There is a word in management, called " Actively lazy ".

means: When people who have achieved great success, they will involuntarily repeat the past experience patterns to deal with it when encountering new challenges.

is like a chick with the knowledge of "color paper" in the experiment. Some chicks encounter challenges and can adapt and diverge their thinking, so as to eat food.

And the other part of the chicks, they do not have the ability to peck, but are trapped in "experience" and cannot eat food.

"One Day You Will Understand" says: "Anything you are proud of may be a shackle that binds you to move forward."

My cousin has a very bad temper recently, and no one dares to mess with her and ask her what's wrong?

She said that this time the project was reported to the post-90s who joined the company last year. Not only did they not win the project, but they also worked hard for many years. Their salary was almost equal to her after only two years of employment.

What made her even more disgusted was that the "experience" she had accumulated over the years was criticized by her leaders for being outdated.

After my cousin graduated from college, she entered a highly competitive foreign company.

She has strong learning ability, often wins big projects, and soon becomes a senior employee of the company.

She enjoys good treatment in the unit with her qualifications and experience.

Gradually, she began to indulge in the "sense of superiority". After a long time, although she has the ability, she is unwilling to update and improve herself.

The company's products are all formulated for fashion needs. With the updates and iterations of the times, the solutions she racked her brains to come up with are not as novel as the ideas proposed by the post-90s generation, forming a significant differentiation.

So, she had been proud of her experience and qualifications, and had no advantage in the fiercely competitive workplace, and finally failed.

Writer Shi Kang once said: " The time of a person's death begins with stopping learning. "

You can often see news about dismissing employees of the "three highs" in the workplace online.

They all have common characteristics: they like to do things based on empiricism, but they cannot achieve results; they always use their own "experience" to direct others, but they have no guiding significance at all and are useless.

eventually became the "three highs" people in the workplace, namely, senior, high-paying, and high-risk people. They occupy the pit and do not shit, and become the "useless person" of the company, hindering the development of young people.

Past experience, good reference can certainly help and avoid turning; however, excessive dependence will only be limited by thinking and it is difficult to make new breakthroughs.

As tunnel field effect says, if a person is in a narrow tunnel, he can only be limited to the present moment and cannot see the higher distance.

The world is constantly changing, and the times abandon you and will not even say hello.

Only by breaking out of empiricism, learning to go back to zero and break through, and learning from other aspects can you go further and achieve new achievements.

A true master, has long been rid of outdated experience

The famous Taiwanese entrepreneur Wang Yongqing once proposed the "Ice Cream Philosophy".

means: selling ice cream must start in winter, because there are fewer customers in winter, which will force you to find ways to improve taste and service, reduce costs, and break out of the bottleneck of the season.

He used this thinking when he invested in the plastics industry.

At that time, Taiwan's plastics industry suffered a big blow. Faced with this situation, he repeatedly studied and concluded that:

When the market is in a downturn, it may also be the right time for enterprises to invest and launch expansion plans.

Instead of waiting for the rabbit, it is better to explore and create bravely. An enterprise cannot be limited to past experience. It must repeatedly test itself with a development perspective in order to last forever.

mass production not only reduces costs and lowers the selling price, but also allows the product to be free of regional restrictions and attracts more customers.

Because he dared to break the shackles brought by experience and seize the unpopular opportunities, the he invested in and the business he carried out began to improve, and laid the foundation for him in the plastics industry.

I have read this sentence: " Use old experience to deal with new problems, and the pace of moving forward will inevitably be hindered. "

is like the "bee dilemma" at the beginning.

Bee thinking is actually focusing on thinking, while fly thinking is divergent thinking.

When you face a new problem or encounter a bottleneck, we first use "fly thinking", let go of empiricism, constantly try and make mistakes, and find new directions.

Then, after determining the feasibility target, use "bee thinking" to focus on the goal and strive for excellence to do things well.

English Sydney teacher, Master of Translation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and after graduation, he became a famous teacher in an educational institution in Beijing.

At that time, she thought life would continue to be as stable and comfortable as ever.

However, due to the sudden outbreak, the company transferred part of its business online, and her model of leading the team could not be transferred online, so she was laid off.

suddenly lost her job, her life fell to a trough, and her future was confused, and she became anxious and insomnia.

She originally wanted to rely on her own experience to go back to her hometown to take the public school teacher training, but she felt unwilling to accept it.

In the early morning of the morning, she was insomnia and suddenly sat up from the bed and said, "No, I want to change myself, go to TikTok, invest a few months to see what will happen."

So she changed her way and taught English live online, and began the journey of self-media exploration.

After her unremitting efforts, she has an affinity appearance, clear pronunciation, and can explain it in an easy-to-understand manner, becoming one of the most popular education bloggers on Douyin .

Each of us will accumulate various experiences more or less during the process of growing up.

Many people are stubborn and don’t know how to adapt. A true master has long gotten rid of empiricism, knows how to set up modes for themselves, and switch their thinking at any time.

No matter what industry you are in, you will strive to get rid of the limitations of "empiricalism", have reverse thinking, do not set boundaries, and do not refuse new developments, so that you can get more opportunities for migration and upgrading.

I have heard of a very interesting psychological theory called "empty cup mentality".

means: a cup filled with water, and then continues to pour water into it, it will only overflow, and it will no longer be able to accept new things.

The same is true for being a human being. If you want to get more things, you must learn to empty the cup before you can fill it again.

"Empty Cup" does not mean that it negates all the past, but rather that it is cleared outdated, abandons past achievements, and reorganizes existing knowledge at any time to leave room for the entry of new knowledge.

May you and me always maintain an "empty cup" and reset it regularly to zero and reset yourself, and go more steadily and further on the future road, and enjoy life better.

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