Have you ever thought that the termination of your study plan, the failure of your weight loss plan, and the inability to sleep on time may not be because you are not self-disciplined, but because of the "broken window effect"?
The origin of the window-breaking effect
"window-breaking effect" originated from an experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo, a psychologist at Stanford University in the United States in 1969.
He found two identical cars and parked one in the middle-class community in Palo Alto, California, and the other in the relatively messy Bronx of New York City.
He took off the license plate of the car parked in Bronx and opened the ceiling, but the car was stolen by someone on the same day. And no one "took" on the one in Palo Alto for a whole week.
But something interesting happened next. Philip Zimbardo knocked a hole in the glass of the car parked in Palo Alto with a hammer, and the car was stolen in just a few hours.
Based on this experimental results, political scientist Wilson and criminologist Kaylin proposed a "broken window effect" theory, which believes that if someone breaks the window glass of a building and the window cannot be repaired in time, others may be subject to some exemplary condolence to smash more windows. Over time, these broken windows create a chaotic and disorderly psychological feeling, and as a result, crime will breed and proliferate in this public insensitive atmosphere.
What is the broken window effect
"Breaking window effect" is a kind of understanding of the suggestive or inducible impact of the environment on people's psychology. This theory believes that if bad phenomena in the environment are allowed to exist, they will induce people to imitate and even worsen.
Take a building with a few broken windows as an example. If those windows are not repaired, there may be vandals destroying more windows. Eventually they even break into the building and if they find it uninhabited, they might settle there or set fire. If some graffiti appears on a wall and it is not washed away, it will soon be covered with messy and unsightly things. There is a little paper scrap on a sidewalk, and there will be more garbage soon, and people will eventually take it for granted and throw it away on the ground.
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Hazards of the window-breaking effect
When " broken window " appears and we do not "repair" in time, the adverse reactions of the "breaking window-breaking effect" will come true. The environment is strongly suggestive and induced to people's psychological and behavioral performance. The existence of the "broken window effect" allows people to form terrible long-term negative habits in the face of difficulties, which will hinder people's development and growth.
1, Depressed mentality
The appearance of a "broken window" will make people lack confidence in themselves, others, and society, and have a negative word and deed and emotion. The goals set at the beginning of the year have not been achieved by the end of the year. The rules and regulations formulated by the company have not been followed, the public facilities in the park have been destroyed and no one has been maintained, and pedestrians who run traffic lights have not been stopped... Over time, people will become numb and lose confidence.
2. Abandoned psychology
"Since no one cares about it, let it go, it has been destroyed anyway." People who hold the "abandoned psychology" often have this kind of thinking pattern. If a goal, a system, or a law is given up easily because it is not implemented well or is hindered, it will lead to self-destruction, disorderly management, and even social chaos.
3. Herd mentality
blindly follow without considering the consequences of the behavior. This blind follower even appears in a situation that knows it is a mistake, but thinks in his heart that "others can do it, so can I do it", and passively avoid risks and responsibilities.
4, speculative psychology
This is a distortional mentality that you don’t want to work hard and want to achieve your goal. When you see an opportunity and you can get some benefits from it, you will have a lucky mentality to try it.
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How to crack the window effect
1. Reverse use of the window effect
Anything has two sides, so the window effect may not only bring us a negative impact, and rational use of it can also play its positive role. For example, when you lose confidence, start with a small thing that is easy to do in life, start cleaning your bedroom carefully, or read ten pages of books. These things are not difficult to do and are easy to complete, so that you can slowly build up your self-confidence and accumulate a sense of accomplishment.
2. Eliminate the existence of any kind of bad phenomenon
. It is conveying a kind of information, which will lead to the infinite expansion of bad phenomena. Therefore, for individuals, we need a clear ability to distinguish. As the saying goes, "Do not do good because it is small, and do not do evil because it is small." Start with me, start with the small things around you, and be highly alert to those seemingly subtle and accidental mistakes. If you ignore this behavior and turn a blind eye to it, it is very likely to turn into the evil consequences of "a thousand-mile dike that is destroyed in an ant hole."
3. Timely make up for the "broken window"
A small matter or a subtle change that is not worth mentioning. After continuous evolution and amplification, it will have a great impact on its future and even become a decisive factor. Therefore, when any problems arise, they must be corrected in time to prevent the further expansion of adverse consequences.
Make a good thing worse, often caused by a small-looking behavior. Just like the first time you lower your requirements for yourself, and finally your requirements for yourself become lower and lower... So, don’t give yourself the chance to let go for the first time, don’t break your first window.
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