Caterpillar Effect
Caterpillar is accustomed to sticking to its original instincts, habits, precedents and experiences, and cannot break the tailing habits and turn to foraging. Later, scientists called this habit of following the previous route the habit of "follower", and called the phenomenon of failure caused by following the " caterpillar effect ".
Caterpillar effect" originally came from an experiment done by French entomologist Fabre : put many caterpillars on the edge of a flower pot, so that their heads and tails are connected, forming a circle, and not far from the flower pot, some pine leaves that caterpillars like to eat. The caterpillars began to follow one by one, and walked around the edge of the flower pot. An hour passed and a day passed. Another day passed, and these caterpillars circled around the edge of the flowerpot day and night, and walked for about seven days and seven nights in a row, and eventually died one after another due to hunger and exhaustion.
In nature, this effect also plays a role in many creatures that are more advanced than caterpillars, the more typical of which is minnow . Minnows often live in groups because of their weak individuals, and take the strongest people in the group as The leader of nature. After scientists cut off the part of the control behavior of a slightly stronger minnow behind the brain, it loses its self-control and its actions are also disordered, but other minnows still blindly follow it as before and do not make their own judgments.
Simplely put, the "caterpillar effect" tells us that organisms have a common strange nature, which is herd psychology. This psychology is not only applicable to caterpillars, but also to human thinking and actions. It is also reflected in the above. Many people are accustomed to following the old path of traditional comfort, but cannot adjust their direction in time. In the end, they can only stand still and cannot make progress. Therefore, once the herd mentality is deeply rooted in people's hearts, it will make people satisfied with the status quo, and thus stagnate. The era of
is constantly changing and developing, and each of us also needs to take the initiative to get out of our "caterpillar circle", not follow the old, not blindly follow the trend, dare to innovate, and dare to abandon.
