effectively change one's cognition?
- Feelings: Cognition has not improved
Although I am a person who likes to think, although I passively accept various information every day, I have been feeling that my cognition has not changed qualitatively for a long time. Until I saw a video of Teacher Yan Bojun, I felt enlightened. So share it.
- Learning and thinking must be done with each other
In fact, the answer has been given to us in the Analects of Confucius, that is, "If you study without thinking, you will be confused; if you think without learning, you will be in danger." This is actually the same as when we eat. If we don't eat it, there is nothing to digest. But if we keep eating but don’t digest it for the stomach and intestines, we will still be very hungry. Here, Teacher Yan summarized a four-quadrant for thinking and learning.
horizontal coordinate is learning, vertical coordinate is thinking, the more you go to the right, the more you go to the higher you go to the higher you go to the higher you go to the higher you go to the higher you go to the higher you go to the higher you think.
- Third Quadrant : Extremely not thinking or learning - illiterate
This typical representative of quadrant is illiterate. This kind of person will always live in his own world. If you let him read some books, he will be extremely resistant. He feels that all kinds of learning are useless, and he will never improve when living in his own world.
- The fourth quadrant : Only learn but don’t think - nerd
believes that everything is scientific is correct, you only need to read the book and unconditionally believe what the book says. Such people have almost no ability to judge right and wrong, and think that most people are right, and the most important thing about this part is that they do not form their own cognitive system. The consequence of passive acceptance of knowledge is that they are more and more like robots.
- First Quadrant: Learn and Think - Pan-Philosopher
This type of people are skeptical about knowledge. Any new knowledge must be absorbed, and only those that conform to your own values will be absorbed. If you are not in line with it, you will be skeptical and selectively absorbed after scientific argumentation. Otherwise, why is the full name of PhD abroad called doctor of philosophy?
- Second Quadrant : Just think but not learn - 歌
We often hear the saying "Your biggest problem now is that you think too much and read too little." If you don’t study at all and think from the beginning, you can only start learning from the cognitive level of human beings more than 2,000 years ago. And what you need to know is that most of the problems that ordinary people now think about are actually our predecessors have already given solutions.
People who only think and don’t learn will be confused due to lack of knowledge, and will begin to doubt everything. And the conspiracy theory is prone to prevail among these people. Their value orientation is doubt.
Reference: Yan Bojun: Why are Europeans and Americans more opposed to wisdom?
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