Everyone knows that you should study and develop good habits, but why do you always use your phone habitually? This is all because our powerful instinct and emotional brains are causing trouble.
These two guys are so powerful that we cannot resist them, but we must comfort them and make them feel comfortable to better cooperate with our weak but smart minds.
So, the solution is to find the fun of doing difficult things so that the instinctive brain and rational brain can shake hands and make peace.
Zhou Ling mentioned in "Cognitive Awakening": Our ignorance of ourselves makes us look like a "waking sleeping person". Our nature is lazy, so it is meaningless to fight against nature.
How to stimulate and maintain the inner motivation for self-improvement, and how to turn bitter perseverance into scientific cognitive driving. From chaos to alertness, from confusion to clarity, slowly unravel the secrets of "wish awakening" and "method awakening".
01
Vipassana yourself Get rid of anxiety
We use the brain every day, but we rarely realize that the brain actually has its own unique operating principles.
"Cognitive Awakening" says that people have three brains, namely the "instinctive brain" that evolved about 360 million years ago, the "emotional brain" that evolved about 200 million years ago, and the "reasonal brain" that evolved about 2.5 million years ago.
All our behaviors in life are dominated and influenced by these three brains.
Among them, the rational brain is the most advanced and subjective cognition, but at the same time, it is also the weakest. Because it has the shortest evolution time and the latest development time (it only basically matures in early adulthood), the neuronal cells have the least but the farthest from the heart, and the running speed is one-two-fifth of that of the other two brains, and it is the most energy-consuming.
Obviously, the rational brain has weak control over the brain, so most decisions in life are dominated by instinct and emotions, so we naturally become greedy for pleasure and eager for success.
is like picking up your phone unconsciously even though you want to read a book. It is because it is easy to read a video and it is very brain-consuming to read. This is the result of the subconscious operation of the brain. We are just obeying our nature, and there is no need to blame ourselves.
Since the power of the instinctual brain and emotional brain is too strong, we will find a way to guide them so that they can be used by me.
Two important traits of the instinctual brain and emotional brain are: anxiety and lack of patience.
"Cognitive Awakening" says that the root of anxiety is: wanting to do many things at the same time, and wanting to see the effect immediately. Simply put, anxiety = uncertainty × degree of expectation × sense of powerlessness. Because desires outweigh abilities and are eager to achieve success, it is easy to fall into anxiety.
So how to solve it?
First of all, we need to enhance certainty. A large part of certainty comes from a sense of control, and the best way to enhance the sense of control is to make a plan purposefully, which is what we call "predictions are made, and failures are made." As long as you prepare in advance, you have the possibility of success.
The second is to reduce desire. Many times, anxiety is because we want to do too much but do too little, and we cannot become fat in one bite. We must learn to evaluate the importance of things and give priority to other things.
If you can't find the most important one in many tasks, use the exclusion method to remove unimportant matters, such as those that can be postponed, those that can be handed over to others for completion or those that have little impact.
In addition, you should avoid perfectionism and not blindly pursue results. Complete it first and then perfect it.
finally has the ability matching. We must have a clear understanding of our abilities and try to choose tasks at the edge of our comfort zone, that is, tasks that are a little more difficult than we are currently accustomed to. This will not only give you a sense of accomplishment, but also not be frustrated because of the difficulty.
In addition, you should also choose a reference according to your ability, and do not compare known successful others with unknown self. Wrong benchmarking will only aggravate your anxiety level.
Wang Xiaobo once said, "All human pain is essentially anger towards one's own incompetence."Anxiety can be said to be a silent anger of human beings towards life today. People can't seem to have any way to face this emotion or mentality.
Behind the anxiety is that we are too worried about the future and want to do more things in a limited time. We want to be better, master skills, and improve ourselves, but we always feel that there is not enough time. We always feel that there is very little things we can do in the limited 24 hours.
So what should we do, how to break the status quo, our body and mind are filled with a sense of powerlessness.
The essence of growth is to make the brain's cognition clearer. Only by understanding the inner laws of the underlying cognition can we truly open up the driving force for self-change.
02
Appearance world Using the power to move forward
know what your goal is and what life you want, but just fantasize about the future every day before going to bed, and still eat and play games after waking up. Tell yourself every day that you will start working hard tomorrow. A month has passed, but it is still the same."
This state of being repeated cycles. After a long time, people are tired, and their self-confidence continues to collapse. Finally, they have doubts about themselves. The more suspicious they are, the more anxious they are, and they fall into the vortex of anxiety and cannot extricate themselves.
As long as you still have hope in your heart, it is the best time to start. ——Zhouling
First of all, you must focus on
. Focus on all things related to current things. Running is running, eating is eating, and sleep is sleep... Integrating body and mind, you will get twice the result with half the effort.
0 You need to have learning ability
Good growth is to always wander on the "edge of comfort zone" and find a way to persist in doing things you can persist in. Real learning is not just about effort, but about feedback.
Find a certain method of self-improvement, constantly break through the comfort zone, constantly absorb new knowledge, continuously expand the cognitive system, constantly allow yourself to have product output, and keep moving forward, and you will find that the world is so interesting!
If you feel that you have missed the so-called best age, it doesn’t matter. “Grandma Moses” started learning painting at the age of 76 and held a solo exhibition at the age of 80; Wang Deshun walked on the runway at the age of 79; Chu Shijian html started to start a business at the age of 374... Even if you are 60 years old this year, they can still say to you: "Child, don’t worry, you have at least 20 years to start over at any time..."
No matter what profession you are in, what age you are at, or what role you play, this book can inspire you. Especially for those who lack patience, eagerness to achieve success, and extremely anxious; those who temporarily lack life goals and live in a daze; those who want to get better but only know how to support themselves by perseverance; those who want to master learning methods and improve academic performance; those who want to understand the laws of underlying growth and actively create achievements... If you are among them, this book will definitely make you suddenly enlightened and internalize real cognitive driving force.
