A person who is interested in cultivating and improving his willpower,
Will gain great power,
This power can not only
Completely control a person's spiritual world,
And it can make people's minds reach unprecedented heights.
Willpower is a kind of ability
The magic key to human insight and conquest.
Only when man and his willpower communicate with each other and integrate them can the world have a driving force. Emerson
Strong willpower can stand proudly even in the face of devastating blows. -Tennyson
Dr Russell Conville said, "Throughout the ages, there has been too much talk about the secret of success. But in fact, there is no secret to success. The voice of success has been lingering in the ears of all sentient beings, but no one pays attention to her. And what she repeatedly said is one word-willpower. Anyone who hears her voice and feels it with heart will get enough energy to climb the peak of life. In the past few years, I have been working hard for a cause-trying to implant an idea in the minds of Americans: as long as we give willpower to control the freedom of life, then we will go forward bravely. "
In fact, human willpower contains some mysterious power. However, as a common "spiritual function", willpower is a well-known thing, and we can feel its existence every day. Many people will deny that man is essentially a spiritual animal, but I'm afraid no one will doubt that everyone is more or less influenced by his own willpower.
Although different people have different views on the source of willpower, how it affects people, and its positive role and limitations, everyone agrees that willpower itself is an indispensable part of the human spiritual field, and even in each of our lives, willpower plays an extraordinary and important role.
Some people think that willpower is "a conscious psychological function, especially in deliberate action". However, whether the word "conscious" is essential to the definition of willpower is still a debatable question, because some seemingly unconscious actions may reflect a person's willpower; Other behaviors that are divorced from the guidance of human willpower must be conscious. All human voluntary behaviors are considered, because even if this behavior is made in an instant, thinking factors still play a role in it, just as the proverb says, "as fast as lightning." So I think willpower should be defined as "the power of self-guidance".
Willpower always works with people's feelings and knowledge, but we can't think that people's feelings and knowledge are equal to willpower, nor can we confuse desire, sense of right and wrong with willpower. One can go against one's willpower and let one's senses control him; You can also mobilize your willpower and protect yourself from emotions. Sometimes people are familiar with the process of willpower, but sometimes it is done quietly in some secret way. But generally speaking, when a person is completely dominated by willpower, he can't feel the power of desire, emotion and senses, and willpower may act in full accordance with moral and ethical standards; Or completely put aside moral issues, ignore moral requirements and take action according to some other factors.
The power of self-guidance
A person's willpower represents the way he lives or does things; Will guides itself and directs other parts of the human body.
Willpower not only refers to making up your mind, but also refers to the sensibility of understanding and understanding, or the imagination of conception; Willpower refers to all "self-directed spiritual power itself". Royce said: "In a sense, willpower usually refers to all our spiritual life, and it is this spiritual life that guides all aspects of our behavior."
When people are good at using this beneficial power, they will have determination. And a person's determination means that willpower is at work. The psychological function of people or the obedience of body organs to determination just shows the great power of willpower.
No one will make up his mind to do what he thinks impossible. For example, a person can't make up his mind to lift an arm that can't move, nor can he make up his mind to fly without the help of equipment. People may have had the idea of trying such an impossible thing, but they can't really make up their minds to try it, so they won't have the real courage to do it.
Psychologists generally believe that willpower has both static and dynamic aspects. On the one hand, it is the power to guide human actions; On the other hand, it is people's behavior in these actions. Therefore, when a person can show great determination and strength in an event or a series of events, he will be considered to have strong willpower (static); The characteristics of his willpower need to be reflected by the strength and persistence of his determination or action. In this way, the willpower shown in this process becomes the dynamic willpower. His determination has also become an act of guiding self-psychology.
Willpower can be regarded as a kind of energy, and according to the size of energy, it can also be judged whether a person's willpower is weak or strong; Is it a good development or an obstacle?
When Molly Molok, the leader of the Moors, was seriously ill in bed and tortured to death by an incurable disease, a war broke out between the Moors' army and the Portuguese. When the war was at a critical juncture, Molly Morlock jumped out of her hospital bed, reorganized her army and led them to win the war. As soon as the war was over, he was exhausted and passed away.
This is an example of extraordinary willpower being strengthened. Coincidentally, an acrobat named Blondin once said, "One day, I signed an agreement to push a trolley along the steel cable on a specified day. It was signed a day or two before my back pain broke out. When I had low back pain, I called the doctor and told him that I must cure it a day ago. Otherwise, I will not only lose the money I should earn, but also be fined a lot of money. However, my condition has not improved. On the last night before the performance, the doctor and I had an argument. He strongly opposed my walking a tightrope the next day. The next morning, my condition still didn't improve, and the doctor forbade me to get out of bed. I said to him,' Why should I take your advice? If you can't cure me, why should I take your advice? When I arrived at the scene, the doctor arrived and advised me not to do that, saying that my physical condition was not suitable for performing. But I did it anyway, even though my waist hurt until the minute before walking the tightrope. I prepared the balance bar and trolley, held the handle of the car and pushed the car along the wire rope. As a result, my performance was as smooth as any previous performance. I pushed the cart to the other end and then pushed it back along the rope. But when it's all over, my back hurts. What made me finish the tightrope walk with low back pain? The answer lies in my willpower. "
Willpower, first of all, refers to the spiritual strength shown in the face of an act that is determined to be completed. A person's strong willpower means that he can achieve his goals with great inner energy through willpower itself, through his own body or through other things. This is what Emerson said. Willpower is "inspiring and motivating".
In this sense, people's willpower can be compared to rechargeable batteries, and its discharge energy depends on its capacity and its carding system. In the case of proper operation, a lot of energy can be accumulated and powerful current can be released. Stimulated by an event or a special situation, a person may show great willpower and then generate extraordinary energy. Therefore, willpower can be regarded as an accumulated ability, an energy that can be increased in quantity and improved in quality.
Willpower is not only the driving force in thought, but also the force closely related to people's goals-this goal can be temporary, immediate, or permanent, distant future; It can be just a small aspect of behavior, or it can be a complex combination of interests related to people's lives. The role of willpower in long-term goals depends on the role it plays every time you make up your mind to complete something.
In some independent and accidental events, willpower may show great strength, but if faced with the whole process of some events or the grand goal of life, willpower may be overwhelmed. In other words, if a person's determination is often not firm, then he can't maintain strong willpower in long-term sustained actions, and he can't have the perseverance to achieve long-term goals. Therefore, it is very important to cultivate and improve one's willpower if one wants to win a successful life. As the saying goes, "the strength of a chain depends on the strength of its weakest link."
Human behavior is largely determined by willpower, and willpower depends on people themselves, because in the final analysis, people are still making choices. On this issue, there is a contradiction between willpower: willpower has great power to guide itself, but how to exert this power and what kind of goals to achieve with it are all decided by people. It is this contradiction that causes us to think about freedom of will.
Motivation breeds willpower.
A French writer once said, "Willpower is choosing action." This statement is not very accurate, because willpower itself cannot make a choice, and it is people who make a choice. But in a broad sense, willpower can also be defined as the power to choose what you should do. This choice is often related to willpower, which is accompanied by corresponding actions. As long as the mental and physical conditions permit, we will generally do it according to our actual choices. When conditions don't allow, we may desire it in our hearts, but we won't choose to do it in our minds. In this sense, choice also includes rationality. Only with good reasons can people have willpower.
Sufficient reasons constitute motivation, and people think that motivation can be used as the basis for action. When a person recognizes a certain motive, that is, it provides sufficient reasons for his determination in this respect, then he has chosen the appropriate behavior to obey this will. But it may also happen that many people seem to agree with the reasons for a certain behavior, but they are not determined to practice it. Why? That's because there may be other subconscious reasons for not taking action or taking the opposite action.
Therefore, we believe that the display of willpower has four related steps:
1. present what you might do in your mind;
2. Present the motivation or reason of the goal you want to accomplish in your mind;
3. Explain sufficient reasons in your mind;
4. Make up your mind for good reasons.
As Professor Joshua Royce said in his book, "We can not only feel our own behaviors and attitudes; In addition, they often pay different attention to their own behaviors and attitudes. We should pay more attention to some things and less attention to some things; In terms of specific actions and behaviors, we sometimes choose one tendency, but sometimes we choose another tendency to achieve our goals and wishes. "
Motivation requires people to take action to realize their wishes. Motivation cannot be completely separated from the will to act, because it is the cause of will. If we must distinguish the subtle differences between motivation and will, we will eventually come to an absurd conclusion that there is almost no difference between them, because they are actually integrated.
Although motivation must be supported by sufficient reasons to arouse willpower, reason is not the direct force to make willpower work, it is just a reason. The person who exerts a direct effect on willpower is a person, and he can easily find enough reasons to make up his mind. In the final analysis, "man" is the supreme commander of behavior.
Willpower is a born king.
Speaking of the freedom of will, in fact, it means that will exists and is playing a role. If a person has no ability to decide what he should do, he is not a complete and harmonious body organization.
Willpower may be fragile, but even so, it is still free within the limited range of willpower.
People's will and ability will not be bound by anything. Willpower itself has no feeling, but human senses perceive things; Will will not produce desire or disgust for a certain choice, but human emotions will produce likes and dislikes; Will will not judge the essence and value of a goal, but human wisdom; Will will not measure a goal or a choice, but human conscience and moral sense; Will will not measure and compare various goals, and finally decide whether to choose or give up, because choosing and judging this behavior is human reason.
People's perception, wisdom and judgment of right and wrong may be limited. Therefore, it may be very difficult to think and judge various motives, and it may even be impossible to decide which motive should play a leading role. However, these weaknesses exist in people, not in people's willpower. These weaknesses have nothing to do with willpower! By definition, freedom of will is unrestricted for anyone, regardless of whether the person himself is restricted or not. Because any restriction may be gradually lifted with the growth of people, the change of education level and moral sense, so as to obtain real freedom. In a sense, people can always find sufficient reasons for any kind of motivation unless they are troubled by illness.
Most people think that evil thoughts are bound, but the restriction of evil is because people tend to choose a moral motive. But a society can also be full of evil. At this time, we can explain that it is evil to indulge their greed only after obtaining the permission of willpower. A wise force, a force that can set goals and stick to them, may ignore the correct rules of action that can guide them forward, and eventually completely lose their way and cannot reach the destination they should have reached. As samuel johnson said: "A person who completely trusts emotions and feelings will gradually obey them and eventually be subject to them, instead of becoming a free person, or saying that he has lost his true freedom, which is actually the same thing."
An upright person often finds enough reasons to use willpower for the right motives.
Therefore, willpower, as a part of people's inner life, follows certain laws and rules. It must follow the general laws of life and its own internal laws. Willpower loses its purpose of existence if it doesn't follow the rules. As a function of thought, it can act on personality, environment and ethics. However, it shows everywhere that all wills have sufficient reasons to support them. Will without reason and discipline is meaningless. Will that doesn't obey the rules can't be called free will, or even will at all. The will to break the rules is capricious. And this capriciousness means that people's thoughts are very susceptible to the influence and interference of uncertain factors. If a person is in this state, what is the difference with a slave who obeys Nuo Nuo? Because he can't act wisely to achieve the set goal and finish the road he has chosen.
If willpower is not from the heart, it is not free. But "spontaneity" in the true sense must also be consistent with its inherent regularity. Rules are the essence of freedom. Anything that is free is "free" because its activities will not be hindered by its internal laws.
Willpower cannot surpass itself, and it is not necessary for willpower to seek freedom to surpass itself. Birds can fly freely in the sky, but they can't live freely underwater. Flying is the freedom determined by birds' nature, and the defects of birds themselves are not the constraints imposed on this freedom. In the same way, the limitation of personal thought does not hinder the freedom of willpower itself.
Dr. Edward Clark said: "Willpower is a natural king, and its authority is recognized by all parts of the human body within a certain range." Like most kings, once he decides to expand his territory or increase his power, he can do it. As long as he uses administrative power and law enforcement power and takes direct and powerful measures, he can make every organ and organization accept his domination wholeheartedly. On the contrary, if he is indifferent to his position, lazy and careless, and tired of constant vigilance and efforts, he will find that his authority is slowly disappearing until he finally becomes a slave to other senses. "
There are countless opportunities waiting for you to grasp. An impassioned passage written by Lelund can provide evidence for this statement: "If a person has the heart to cultivate and improve his willpower, he will gain great power, which can not only completely control a person's spiritual world, but also make his mind reach an unprecedented height. At this time, intelligence, talent or ability that a person has never imagined can become a reality; What people can't see for a long time actually exists in people themselves, and the magic key that can open people's insight and conquest is willpower. "
As Emerson told us: "Only when man and his will communicate with each other can the world be driven." What we want to convey to readers is how to drive our infinite willpower.
So far, we have made a general survey on the common sense of willpower, with the purpose of making you clearly understand the position of willpower in life-inspiring you to train this supreme power you have, which will benefit you a lot. This kind of training requires a person to pay the price, but it is also a kind of enjoyment.
As for what this book can really do for readers, it is entirely up to the readers themselves.