Therefore, people's life is a process of constantly confronting their cognitive limitations.
I want to get immediate benefits every day, but I never want to open my cognitive cage.
In fact, people have been paying for their own cognition all their lives.
Every penny you earn is your realization of world knowledge; Every penny you lose is because your understanding of the world is flawed.
Unless you rely on luck, you will never earn more money than you know; But inevitably, the money earned by luck will often be lost by strength in the end.
The fairest place in society is that once your cognition and wealth don't match, society has 100 ways to harvest you until they match each other.
Cognitive capital is the biggest capital in the future society.
Therefore, it is extremely important for each of us to enhance our cognition. Let's share some ways to improve our cognition today.
I am the best example in this respect. As can be seen from the article I wrote the day before yesterday, a year's extensive reading has unconsciously changed my thinking cognition.
Reading is the most common way to learn from predecessors, and build your own cognitive system on the shoulders of predecessors.
Get new knowledge through reading, and conduct self-review through reading to achieve the purpose of self-correction and self-progress.
There is only one definition of a really good book: a book that can change your cognition. In other words, take an intersection between a recognized good book and a book that suits you.
For example, Zen and motorcycle repair art have changed the way children look at the world around them.
"The Road Few People Walk" makes me understand that the road to mental maturity is a road few people walk, and it is also a road we should stick to all our lives.
"How to Solve a Problem" laid the angle for me to think about the problem;
Poor Charlie's collection made me more aware of the importance of multiple thinking frames.
There are Cheng Jia's "Study hard and think hard", Li Xiaolai's "The Road to Wealth Freedom", cognitive awakening, cognitive dividend, metacognition, beyond feelings, principles, thinking speed, non-violent communication, economic principles and so on. These books all affect their cognition to varying degrees.
These books need to be read repeatedly, truly integrated and become a part of your mind. Your final cognition is closely related to the inspiration of these books.
Walk around, take the road that others have never taken, take the road that others don't want to take, and take the difficult road. Experience frost, rain, snow, lightning, thunder, cold and heat that others have never experienced. Then take some risks that others dare not take, go to places that others can't reach, increase the width of life and inspire themselves to think about the world comprehensively.
From 20 12 to now, I have traveled all over the country in eight years, about 120 cities. I think this process is also a process of improving cognition.
After traveling for several years, I am familiar with the geography of China. I can immediately see which place is in which chess piece, and I also know where the plateau is and where the plain is.
At the same time, I have tasted food streets all over the country, such as Huimin Street in Xi, Zhongshan Road in Xiamen, Jinli in Chengdu, Chenghuang Temple in Shanghai, Sifang Street in Lijiang, Zhongshan Road in Nanning, Confucius Temple in Nanjing, Central Street in Harbin, Shangxiajiu in Guangzhou and so on.
Another advantage of traveling is that you can meet people from all walks of life from all corners of the country, learn a lot from them in strange fields, and get in touch with things beyond your own cognition.
Going to different places can also experience the lifestyle of local people, the fast-paced big cities and the slow-paced life of Tibetans who drink sweet tea every day.
There will be many interesting things and thrilling things along the way; You can also experience the excitement of roller coasters, grass skiing and sand skiing, and camping in the desert; I have also seen sunrises and sunsets in many places, at sea, in deserts, in grasslands and in famous mountains.
So to some extent, traveling is also a process to enhance your understanding of the world.
Chatting with different people, especially with experts from all walks of life, will give you different perspectives and wisdom about the world. For example, Mr. Xu, who has met twice, feels that it is a learning process every time he chats with him. Every time he thinks it's better to listen to you than to study for ten years, because I think his cognition is higher than mine.
There are differences between people, and this difference will get bigger and bigger with time. In addition to the differences that can be seen externally, the most important difference is cognition. Those who are particularly knowledgeable and insightful are called formidable people.
The typical feature of a powerful person is that it can give you great inspiration, and it is not an exaggeration to even wake up the dreamer with one sentence. Why? Because they can think in a higher dimension. For example, what you see is traffic congestion, and what he sees is resource competition; What you see is the performance, appearance and price of the vehicle, and what he sees is TCO (total cost of ownership); What you see is the product characteristics, and what he sees is the business model; What you see is the struggle between power and interests, and what he sees is the organizational mechanism.
Constantly looking for powerful people around you, looking for powerful people you can contact, talking to them or even just listening can benefit a lot. Because it will bring you a brand-new idea and raise your inner standard of "good".
Powerful people don't necessarily mean strong in all aspects, as long as they are better than your cognition in a certain field, such as friends with particularly strong learning ability, such as friends with particularly strong business, such as friends who are particularly good at dealing with people, such as experienced friends, such as friends who are good at psychology, friends who are good at emotions, and so on.
Thinking mode is essentially a model and an abstract understanding of environment, questions and answers. Typical frameworks, such as Maslow's hierarchy theory of human needs, four-quadrant management of time management and five-force model of competitive analysis. Every discipline and every direction has its own corresponding mode of thinking, and mature disciplines will have more modes of thinking.
Each model has its own scope of application, but also has its shortcomings and deficiencies. This is caused by the advantages and disadvantages of abstraction.
But it is not enough to master only a limited thinking frame or a single frame.
One of Charles Munger's core ideas in Poor Charlie's Novels is to establish a "multiple thinking mode". He hoped that everyone would know more about the thinking modes of different disciplines and backgrounds. The more patterns and frameworks you have, the harder it is for you to make stupid mistakes. People who have only one mode of thinking and framework are not wise, but people who are easily led by the nose. People who are easily led by the nose are destined to be harvested.
To enhance the cognitive depth is to enhance our cognitive level, that is, when facing specific problems, we should dare to jump out of the barriers of specific problems and establish the consciousness that any problem should have a universal solution. If we don't find it, it must be our own problem; After finding this solution, you can safely know whether it is effective without verification; When applying this method to solve other specific problems, it is necessary to make targeted analysis and application in combination with specific situations.
In the face of these difficulties, you can regard them as a ladder for growth. The solution to your troubles is not to ask for help everywhere, but to improve your cognition. In this way, every puzzle needs to be solved from the cognitive improvement, and the process of solving puzzles will bring new cognitive improvement.
Because the essence of paid learning is to enhance cognition. When cognition is improved, cognitive differences are formed. The greater the cognitive difference, the more you accumulate and the more you make money.
In fact, what we get from school is cognition, whether it is professional or systematic or even well-known but deeper, which reasonably leads to cognitive differences. Therefore, there are many industries. As the saying goes, interlacing is like a mountain. It's just poor cognition.
Making money depends on poor cognition.
Doctors tell patients how to solve diseases they don't understand;
The teacher tells the students how to know all the questions they don't understand;
If the toilet at home is blocked, ask a professional to tell you how to fix it.
Finally, no matter what you have learned, you should consciously apply it to your daily life, and constantly practice, act and verify it, so that knowledge can be gradually transformed into ability. At this time, you will start to make progress and your cognitive ability will gradually upgrade.