Part I: Look at yourself and get rid of anxiety.
Starting from the triple brain of human beings, combined with the concepts of human subconscious, sensibility and the edge of comfort zone, let us know ourselves, examine ourselves, explore the potential limit from a scientific perspective, and learn to use the ultimate ability of human beings-metacognition.
The next part: the appearance of the world, borrowing power to move forward.
From how to achieve "deep learning" and "extreme concentration", and then to improve learning ability, executive ability and emotional strength to reconstruct the cognitive system, so as to open the driving force of self-change and realize cognitive awakening.
From confusion to vigilance, from confusion to clarity, the author slowly unveiled the secrets of "desire awakening" and "method awakening", and learned how to stimulate and maintain the internal motivation of self-improvement and how to turn bitter perseverance into scientific cognitive drive.
In this issue, let's take a look at the preface of Cognitive Awakening, chapter 1, chapter 2.
Humans have three brains: instinctive brain, emotional brain and rational brain.
The instinctive brain originated in the era of reptiles and was in charge of instinct.
Emotional brain originated from: the era of mammals, in charge of emotions.
The rational brain originated in the primate era and is responsible for cognition.
In other words, the earliest developed human brain is an instinctive brain. If the instinctive brain is 100 years old, then the emotional brain is equivalent to 55 years old, while our rational brain is less than 1 year old. It can be seen that the rational brain has weak control over the brain, so most decisions we make in life often come from instinct and emotion, not reason.
However, growth is a process of defeating nature, and awakening and growth is to make the rational brain strong and overcome nature as soon as possible.
People with rational brains can better:
Based on the long-term, take the initiative to get out of the comfort zone;
Restrain yourself for potential risks and delay satisfaction for possible benefits;
Be patient and insist on doing "useless things" that can't see the effect in the short term;
When facing comfort and entertainment, resist temptation and make different choices from others. ...
However, did the students find that the fundamental difference between people is the difference in cognitive ability, because cognition affects choice and choice changes fate? Therefore, the essence of growth is to make the brain's cognition clearer and play the role of rational brain.
Learning knowledge is the best way to eliminate cognitive ambiguity and get rid of anxiety.
So I began to make plans and built seven or eight knowledge trees (that is, the knowledge system I want to learn). Next, many people will fall into constant anxiety. They worry about what they have to learn and where all the time has gone. It's too difficult, they have entered a state of five times anxiety.
In fact, the reasons for anxiety are nothing more than: eager for success and wanting to do many things at the same time; It is easier to take refuge, and you can see the effect immediately without too much effort. However, my desire is greater than my ability, and I am extremely impatient.
What should I do? There are several ways, you can know:
Restrain your desires and don't let yourself do many things at the same time;
Face the reality and see clearly your true ability level;
Give priority to important things and try to do only the most important things;
Accept the environment and do what you can within the limits;
Face the core and force yourself to break through.
Anxiety is eliminated, there is something to do, and then there is patience.
However, lack of patience is human nature. Many times, we lack patience with difficult things because we can't see the overall situation and don't know where we are.
Here, you can learn the concepts of compound interest curve and comfort zone edge.
Compound interest curve: it embodies the universal law of value accumulation: the growth is slow in the early stage and will increase rapidly after reaching the inflection point.
Edge of comfort zone: No matter individuals or groups, their abilities are distributed in the form of "comfort zone-stretching zone [diagram]-difficult zone". If you want to grow up efficiently, you must always be on the edge of the comfort zone. Jumping into a difficult area will make you frustrated, while staying in a comfortable area will make you stagnate.
Therefore, the edge of the comfort zone: the learning difficulty is the least, the demand is the most suitable, the effect is the fastest, and it is easy to generate traffic. It is suggested that partners can choose a task on the edge of the comfort zone to complete, and then talk about your experience!
Compound interest curve and comfort zone edge are good friends. Together, they can let us see the power of patience at a macro level, which applies to everyone.
I don't know if there is anyone around me: I read 50 books a year and maintain a high investment. They basically listened to all the audio when they were studying in Fan Deng, and they also listened to a lot in the form of listening to books during the fragmentation time! Maybe it's you and me, too It takes a lot of time to learn input constantly, and then, there is no thinking, no action, no change. In the end, it just sounds familiar, but I can't remember exactly what it is and what its value is. This kind of reading in the unconscious state, we will instinctively take refuge, and become easier and unconsciously immersed in the superficial learning volume. Learning only stays on the surface and falls into the whirlpool of desire. Want to learn everything, want everything, busy but with little effect; But if we can go deep into the bottom and focus on actual changes, we can jump out of this blind, anxious and impetuous cycle.
Let's talk about the platform period.
The relationship between learning progress and time is not the linear relationship we imagined (how much we have learned), but a wave-like rising curve.
Almost any study is like this. At first, the progress is very fast, then it will slow down and enter a platform period. During the platform period, we may have made a lot of efforts, but it seems that we have made no progress or even regressed, but this is only an illusion, because the neurons in the brain are still connected and consolidated. After reaching a certain node, they will enter the next rapid rising stage.
Therefore, don't be depressed because of your slow progress, and don't be anxious because of the rapid growth of others, because you have been learning, thinking and changing, that is, you are constantly improving your cognition and changing.
Chapter 2 Subconscious: Eggs Left by Life
Life is a game of disambiguation. We are competing not only for the growth rate, but also for the growth model. On this track, the leading groups are doing the same thing consciously or unconsciously: eliminating the ambiguity of cognition, emotion and action.
So what is fuzzy?
The reasons for ambiguity are: the speed of processing all kinds of information is not equal, and it is difficult for consciousness to interfere with the subconscious, but it is easy for the subconscious to control consciousness, so people always do things they don't understand, such as clearly wanting to learn, and then turn around and pick up their mobile phones.
Stratification of consciousness: let the subconscious mind take charge of the physiological system and the consciousness take charge of the social system, so that consciousness is liberated and can fully participate in advanced social activities. But the stratification of consciousness also brings ambiguity.
1 Learn knowledge and eliminate cognitive ambiguity (internal);
The purpose of learning knowledge is "disambiguation", and the method of acquiring knowledge is also "disambiguation". The purpose and method are unified.
The way to improve thinking ability is to constantly clarify the core difficulties and feelings, and focus on this.
2 Dismantle troubles and eliminate emotional ambiguity (external):
Face it squarely, see it clearly, disassemble it, dissolve it, and don't give it a chance to enter the subconscious and blur it; Even if you have entered the subconscious, you must find a way to dig it out.
3 clear the inside and clear the outside to eliminate the ambiguity of the action:
The real reason for the lack of action is fuzzy choice, that is, when faced with various possibilities, it is impossible to make a clear choice.
Think about how to have a clear enough goal, refine and concretize the goal and process, establish a one-way channel among many possibilities, and keep yourself in a state of "no choice" all the time.
Learn by feeling
"fuse does not read" means that once you see inspiring content while reading, it will trigger the fuse and stop reading immediately. What do you do after you stop reading? Ask yourself questions around this trigger point. Why did this just inspire me? Can I use this inspiration for three different things? Is there any other similar knowledge about this inspiration point?
Use perceptual ability to help you choose first, and then use rational ability to help you think. The touch in the text comes from sensibility, and the problem comes from rationality.