"Reason has no influence on the group, and people are only influenced by unconscious emotions. Groups are not good at reasoning, but they are eager to act. "

Gustave Le Bon

"The world is so big, I want to see it." The resignation letter of a female middle school teacher in Zhengzhou was once turned crazy. However, more than a month later, when the reporter found this wayward female teacher, she found that she had never left Zhengzhou until today.

This is probably the subtle conflict between willfulness and rationality. Generally speaking, there is a certain game between psychological impulse and behavior execution, which constitutes a certain symbol of psychological maturity.

"The stock market is crazy. I want to speculate." In today's China, I don't know how many pink rookie investors shout this sentence every day and rush into the great stock market. In fact, they are more willful than Zhengzhou female teachers, and inexplicably speculate on some inexplicable stocks that fall from the sky.

More than one hundred years ago, Gustave Le Bon, a Frenchman, studied group psychology with great interest. In his view, "rationality has no influence on the group, and people are only influenced by unconscious emotions. Groups are not good at reasoning, but they are eager to act. They are easily moved by miracles and affect their imagination. It is definitely not the fact itself, but the way facts attract people's attention. "

People with this kind of group psychology, Gustave Le Bon called them "rabble", "know the art of influencing group imagination, and at the same time master the method of ruling them."

The difference between female teachers in Zhengzhou and hundreds of millions of investors is that the former is impulsive, but it is restricted by individual rationality in concrete actions, while the latter, driven by some facts and theories, falls into group blindness that completely exceeds rational judgment. Because of the encouragement of the environment and people around us, everyone ignored the risks intentionally or unintentionally.