? Healthy physical quality;

? Positive emotions;

? Continuous concentration;

? Faith and meaning.

In the course of billions of years of evolution, all kinds of creatures on the earth have gradually formed the instinct of stress response (or reflection) to changes in the external environment. For example, amoeba is a single-celled animal, which has no unique nervous system of advanced multicellular animals, and its response to external stimuli can only rely on cytoplasm. Amoeba will stretch out its prosthetic foot to swallow food when it meets food, and will deform and contract when it is stimulated by acid, so as to avoid acid as much as possible. This can be regarded as an important instinct of primitive creatures to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

It is an obvious truth that the pursuit of happiness is everyone's motivation in life. Life is meaningless if you don't go and pursue happiness.

Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, believes that the pursuit of happiness is the highest goal of all people's lives. This is very obvious, because in the eyes of Greeks, there is no better word than happiness. Happiness means some kind of highest state. With this state, life is complete and nothing else is needed. So the real question is, what is this happiness? This is the difference between people. Some people will think that satisfying their desires and making themselves happy is happiness; Some people think that winning honor and being appreciated by others is happy; Some people think that making a lot of money is happiness; Others think that philosophical meditation is the happiest.

Maslow, a famous American psychologist, believes that human needs can be divided into five levels, from bottom to top, namely physiology, security, belonging and love, self-esteem and self-realization. When low-level needs are met, people will automatically turn to higher-level needs.

Professor Zheng Yefu, a famous sociologist in China, believes that human beings have three basic needs: comfort, bravado and excitement! Comfort refers to the elimination of physical pain, without hunger, cold and long-term thirst for sexual desire; Fear is man's second need, refers to the desire to surpass others and achieve success, and is the sublimation of man's physiological desire; Stimulation is the third demand of human beings: it refers to the awakening of emotions. Although people pursue comfort, they are not satisfied with a quiet and leisurely life, but are eager to experience accidents, challenges and surprises with a higher degree of awakening. Zheng Yefu believes that these three needs coexist for a long time, and there is not only one dominant position.

Csi believes that Zheng Yefu's human needs model (that is, comfortable, awesome and exciting needs) may not be generally accepted by the mainstream of society. In fact, it thinks about the needs and happiness of life from different angles with Teacher Li of Fudan University, and has the same effect with Maslow's five-level needs theory, including Freud's id needs (such as physiology and safety) and self-awareness needs (love and existence).

Recently, Lao He learned how to become a master of energy management from Mr. Tom Chang in his courses. Teacher Tom Chang put forward four important contents of a happy life from the perspectives of physiological needs, psychological needs and spiritual needs: healthy physical quality; Positive emotions; Constant focus, faith and meaning. Csi believes that these are the four indispensable cornerstones of a happy life and the four necessary ways to realize a happy life. It is very worthy of your friends' serious study and thinking.

Teacher Tom Chang is the founder of Apricot Grove, a medical platform. Graduated from Union Medical College and Johns Hopkins University, he has helped many entrepreneurs improve their energy level. He summed up this scientific method of energy management into a pyramid model. So what exactly is this pyramid made of?

Hello, I'm Tom Chang. Welcome to how to become a master of energy management.

What kind of state is a person with good energy? You may have come into contact with such people, or you are such a person yourself:

Every day, I am always refreshed, angry and striding;

Concentrate on work, high efficiency, work like hanging up;

Optimistic and open-minded, not anxious when encountering difficulties.

Such people are generally experts or leaders in their own positions. We want you to be such a person when we talk about managing your energy.

Is energy natural?

In ancient times, there was a very famous energetic man, and even the word "energy" appeared because of him. Who is this man? His name is Kuang Heng.

You may not be familiar with this name, but you must have heard of the allusion of "poaching". Kuang Heng is the protagonist of stealing light.

The word "energy" comes from the biography of Han Kuang Heng, which originally said:

He is eager to learn, his family is poor, and he is willing to spend on financial aid, especially on energy.

What do you mean?

In other words, families in Kuang Heng are very poor. During the day, he helps people to farm in the fields and has no time to read books. In the evening, he had to borrow them. You can also say that he stole the candlelight from his neighbor's house to study. Finally, he became the prime minister of the Western Han Dynasty. It can be seen that his energy is very abundant, exceeding the average person.

You may think, is energy a gift?

I can tell you for sure, no.

Because I used to be a person with poor energy, but through the management of energy, I have reached the present state.

So as long as you learn the scientific method of energy management and become your own habit, you will definitely become such a person. Just like exercising a muscle in the gym, as long as you master the training method, that muscle will definitely grow out.

How to manage energy

What should I do? There is a pyramid model of energy management, which explains its composition well. If you understand this model, you will know how we should improve our energy in a planned way.

The first layer of pyramid model-physical quality

If a car only needs one kind of fuel, that is gasoline, or if there is an electric car now, that is electricity. But human energy is composed of four layers.

The first level is physical strength, at the bottom of the pyramid.

The production of energy is closely related to health. It can be said that physical fitness is the basis of energy, just like the horsepower of an automobile engine.

Why do people with good physical fitness have more energy?

Because of the current medical discovery, people with good physical fitness, especially those with outstanding cardiopulmonary ability, will have better blood supply, oxygen supply and sugar supply to the brain. Therefore, the work efficiency of the brain is also high, and it is not easy to get tired after working for a long time.

For example, do you know which school in the world has trained the world's top 500 CEOs the most? Not Harvard, Yale and other world famous schools, but the United States Army Military Academy, which is what we often call the West Point Military Academy.

Later, some people studied this problem and interviewed many CEOs of large enterprises who graduated from West Point Military Academy and asked them which training at West Point Military Academy would be most helpful for their future work. These graduates mentioned four things the most:

The first is the study of strategy;

The second is discipline and team consciousness;

The third is to cultivate a sense of purpose;

Fourthly, the West Point Military Academy has high requirements for students' physical training, which lays a very solid foundation for them to cope with heavy work in the future.

So good physical fitness is the foundation of energy and the bottom of our pyramid. Physical fitness is related to our health, diet choice, exercise habits and sleep quality. I will give you the corresponding promotion methods from these four aspects in the later courses.

The second layer of pyramid model-emotion

It is not difficult for you to understand the influence of emotions on energy. For example, when I get up in the morning, I meet a very happy thing, and I feel in a good mood and full of energy all day.

But if I get up in the morning and encounter an unpleasant thing, I feel very happy, unhappy all day and not in the mood to do anything. Now there is a lot of evidence in psychology that emotions have an impact on people's memory, cognition and decision-making.

I once told a friend the importance of positive emotions. He asked me, and he said, "No, you are crazy to see so many geniuses. Van Gogh and Beethoven, these people are emotionally unstable and often depressed all their lives. Why did they create so many great works? Do negative emotions sometimes work? "

I don't know if you have the same problem, but it's really not. Later, historians' research on these people found that their emotions did fluctuate greatly, sometimes they were very excited and positive, but they soon became very depressed and depressed.

However, please note that their highest output and creativity are not at the trough, but at the peak, when their positive emotions are very high.

In other words, although they have experienced a lot of mood swings, they are really efficient and effective when they are in the best mood.

So I said that positive emotions are the guarantee of energy output.

For example, physical fitness is like the horsepower of an automobile engine, and emotion is like the spark plug of an engine. Without positive emotions, no amount of horsepower can start.

The third layer of pyramid model-attention

Attention can make our energy have an effective output and create effective results.

Just like the road where a car runs, no matter how powerful your horsepower is and how good your spark plug is, if you don't drive on the right road, you won't reach the finish line.

Therefore, Mihaly, a psychologist who put forward the flow theory, once said that attention is the most important resource that we can control independently.

It is like a channel between our brain and the outside world, which can shape the world and in turn shape ourselves. Energy without attention is like an idling engine, which can't output energy and people's consciousness can't grow and take shape.

For example, the classmate Huang I talked about in the audition actually helped me the most is attention training. I have always been an inattentive person, and I can concentrate on one thing for a short time. If I used to read for more than ten minutes, I wanted to do something else. If you have similar questions, you must know what I'm talking about.

I used to comfort myself with "I can work with multiple threads", saying that I can do several things at the same time, which is very efficient. But later, compared with this classmate Huang, I found that if I do several things at the same time, I actually do simple and passive things. For example, reply to emails and read articles.

However, if something is particularly important and challenging, it is often only delayed. For example, I can do this course, or I have to think about some strategic issues of enterprise development, or I have to consider having an important conversation with others. Such things are often not done well.

So, if I hadn't trained deliberately to improve my concentration, maybe you wouldn't have heard me tell you this energy management course today.

The Top of Pyramid Model-Sense of Meaning

This is translated from the English meaning, and this is the meaning of our life.

Sense of meaning is the highest pursuit of human life, the underlying logic that drives us to do things, the operating system of life and the ultimate source of energy.

Why are meaningful people more energetic? I'll tell you a story about my friend Li Xiaofeng. Li Xiaofeng is my classmate in Chaos University and the founder of Titanium Technology.

If you are a game lover and have played Warcraft, you may have heard of the name Sky, which is the nickname of Li Xiaofeng. SKY is the world champion of defending WCG World of Warcraft Challenge, and is called "Ren Huang", which means he plays Terran best.

I talked to SKY about his growing experience. Like me, he studied medicine before, and later became a professional gamer and a world champion. I think it is amazing. So I asked him how you did it.

He told me that the training of professional gamers is comparable to any professional sport, and they have to train for more than ten hours every day. Mechanically repeating some actions, such as tapping the keyboard and clicking the mouse, hundreds of times per minute, often feel nauseous. For several years, he almost slept in the training room and trained while awake.

Most people simply can't hold on. He had a younger brother who went to training with him and later quit. So there are tens of millions of people playing games all over the world, but few can become world champions.

This reminds me that when I was in college, maybe you loved playing games in dormitories and Internet cafes, just like me. But after playing, I often feel very empty, my spirit is very poor, and I can't hold on at all.

But why has SKY been able to do this for more than ten years, endure such high-intensity training and finally become a world champion? The answer is that SKY found meaning in the game and the direction of his life energy release.

He said that when he first met the mouse and keyboard game, he was completely shocked. He felt that the game was created entirely for him, which satisfied his desire to be a hero and travel around the world with a sword since he was a child. Later, becoming a professional player, representing the team and the country made him feel more meaningful.

Now, he promotes the popularization of competitive games by himself, which can help talented teenagers embark on the road of professional players. I think it makes more sense. And the game is just a way for me to vent my emotions, which has no meaning at all.

So Nietzsche said:

"Only by knowing the meaning of life can we endure everything."

A person with a sense of meaning, just like a lighthouse when sailing and a road sign when driving, will generate great energy and lasting energy in life.

It is even found in medicine that the risk of Alzheimer's disease is 58% lower for the elderly who have a sense of meaning in life than for the elderly who have no sense of meaning. Many elderly people even have brain lesions, but they have never been sick and have no symptoms.

So in our pyramid model of energy management, the sense of meaning is the top part.

The pyramid is finished. Let me sum it up. You can remember a formula:

Good energy = abundant physical fitness+positive emotions+ready attention+clear sense of meaning.

It's that simple.

Hearing this, I think you must be very excited and feel particularly magical. It turns out that energy management is so simple. But I must tell you that it sounds simple, but it is not easy to do.

But don't worry, the goal of this course is to help you master these methods and establish these habits. In the next few classes, I will tell you how to manage the pyramid from these four aspects.