"Cognitive Awakening" Author: Zhou Ling
Recognize the rules and get rid of anxiety
"Cognitive Awakening" is a self-cultivation manual that opens up cognitive driving forces. The author Zhou Ling is a mind explorer. He combines multiple underlying concepts in the book to tell his journey from confusion to cognitive awakening.
In the book, the author tells us that human thinking is susceptible to nature, so that many times, even though they clearly want to do something, they have a mentality of resistance or escape in their behavior. All such natures in humans are because of the evolution of the brain, which often leads to differences between the subconscious mind and consciousness, which leads to separation of body and mind.
So, how can we get rid of this dilemma?
The author suggests that we need to break the inherent thinking mode and re-understand the construction of the brain to reduce cognitive blind spots.
You should know that the human brain has gone through three times and has evolved for hundreds of millions of years before it has developed from an instinctive brain, an emotional brain, and a rational brain. Among these three brains, the instinctive brain and the emotional brain are like elderly predecessors, with strong influence and extremely conservative, and are only willing to do some low-energy-consuming and easy things. Although the rational brain is very positive, if it does not receive support from the instinctual brain and emotional brain, it will cause a situation of "thinking about this but doing that".
So, when we are afraid and retreat in real life when we encounter difficulties, we must first realize that this is actually an instinctive reaction and there is no need to be overly anxious about it.
Secondly, we must clear away vague cognition through learning and reflection, and then make rational choices.
The reason why people are anxious is often because when making choices and judgments, their consciousness has a vague understanding of various conditions, so they will hesitate and cannot make accurate judgments.
Therefore, if we want to eliminate vague cognition, we need to constantly learn new knowledge to make up for our cognitive shortcomings. At the same time, we must also learn to examine ourselves and the relationship between ourselves and things from the four dimensions of past, future, height and depth, so as to gain a clearer understanding.
And when we have enough cognitive abilities, the direction of life will become clearer and clearer.
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So, after clarifying the direction of life, we still need to enhance some abilities to bless the road ahead of life.
Entrepreneur Niu Gensheng once said: "There is no miracle in the world, only the power of concentration and focus." This sentence seems to define one of the most basic "configuration" of success, that is concentration.
However, in real life, many people do not have good concentration. So, why do people have a hard time focusing on themselves?
In the book, the author pointed out that the reason why people are easily distracted is nothing more than the following two factors:
1 is that what they do is too easy. Because we are bored, we will turn our attention to other fresh and curious things; second, what we do is too difficult. The goal is set too high, which is very different from your own level. Because I am afraid of failure, I dare not take action for a long time. As a result, the task is delayed and the pressure is getting greater and greater.
So, if we want to overcome the problem of inattention, we can use the following two methods to train:
The first is to let the feelings return to action. When doing something, just focus on feeling what you are doing, so that your actions and feelings can resonate, thereby achieving a state of unity between body and mind; the second is to learn to actively choose information. In other words, when we choose information, we must consciously select some information, and at the same time, we must actively abandon some information to reduce our attention distraction.
So, in addition to concentration, we must also have good learning ability to improve the efficiency of advanced life.
. If we want to enhance our learning ability, first of all, we can use the correct check-in method to clarify our learning goals, supervise our learning progress, and check our learning results; secondly, we can also provide motivation for our learning through positive feedback at the edge of the comfort zone; finally, we can find touch points in the process of learning, and establish a relationship between these touch points, form our own knowledge system, and maximize the effect of learning and memory.
However, it is worth noting that learning skills and hard study are important, but scientific and reasonable rest is also indispensable.
Because everyone's energy is limited, it will not increase due to human will. Only through sufficient rest can the energy return, and only when we are full of energy can we remain focused and learn efficiently.
cognitive awakening, redefining life
In addition to concentration and learning ability, the following three abilities are also indispensable on the road to advancement in life.
1 is to learn to think from the perspective of others and control your emotions. A person who is prone to losing control of his emotions often cannot withstand the waves of life and finds it difficult to achieve outstanding results. Therefore, we must learn to control our emotions and be the masters of emotions. When emotions arise, we must try to analyze problems from multiple angles, reflect on ourselves, adjust our emotions, and maintain an optimistic and open mind.
The second is to insist on reading and writing. Reading can enrich our knowledge and improve our problem-solving ability; while writing can help us clarify logic and express our thoughts. One input and one output of the two together shape our continuous upward power.
3 is the ability to have good living habits. Good living habits are the cornerstone of our success. It can not only improve the efficiency of study and work, but also improve the quality of life.
In the book, the author introduces us to the huge advantages of early wake-up habits - getting up early can not only help us have longer awake time, but also adapt to the body rules and keep the body and brain in the best operating state.
In addition, the author also introduced us to the magical effect of exercise on the body - exercise can not only make the internal ecosystem of the body full of energy and vitality, but also activate "nerve rebirth", allowing the brain to grow new neurons, and thus physically improve our concentration, self-control and thinking ability, etc.
. When we have good concentration and learning ability, can control our emotions, develop good living habits, and be able to reflect on our hearts and recognize the running rules of the brain, our cognition will also be awakened from this.
A person's cognition determines a person's behavior to a large extent and also defines a person's life. Therefore, cognitive awakening is tantamount to "rebirth and rebirth", and is an eternal and unchanging law of growth.
