How to achieve cognitive breakthrough? Today, I’m going to start with these 23 interlocking questions, step by step, to help you achieve a qualitative breakthrough.
1. Why do so many people’s lives inevitably fall into chaos?
Because of the uncertainty about the future.
And only by creating clarity can you eliminate the ambiguity in your heart.
How to create clarity?
From chaos to clarity, the key is to constantly deepen your knowledge of things through learning. The clearer your knowledge is, the more determined your actions will be, and then you can continue to do those high-energy and challenging things.
What is growth?
Growth is the process of overcoming nature.
And the essence of growth is to make things clearer to the brain.
3. Why do you need lifelong learning?
The more you know the pattern, the better you can pinpoint where you are, predict future outcomes, and increase your confidence in the future and your patience to continue taking action.
You can’t be patient enough with something unless you know in your heart how good it is to keep doing it.
4. How to find more high-quality learning resources?
Pay attention to what you think is a good book that has been mentioned several times by its author. This information is often a clue to how you can continue to find great books.
What is the real learning?
Reality is the best “judge”. What’s the use of learning more if you can’t make real changes in yourself?
It doesn’t matter how much you remember after reading the book. It doesn’t matter if you forget the whole book. As long as one point or sentence touches you and makes a real difference to you, the book hasn’t been read in waste.
Therefore, it is better to change a little than to know a hundred points.
Real growth lies not in how much you learn but in how much you change.
6. How do you really start learning?
A person’s emotional capacity is much greater than his rational capacity.
What your brain is really interested in is knowledge or things that really touch you on an emotional level.
So you just learn the things that move you, and you try to break up different systems of knowledge, just take the points or pieces that move you the most, and put them together into your own network.
That is, first use the perceptual ability to help you choose, and then use the rational ability to help you think deeply.
Using this key trigger method can help you learn to read more effectively, learn more effectively, and even find your true passion.
The “by the seat of your pants” approach is so effective because it helps you perceive what is right for you and what you need, keeping you in the stretch zone of learning.
In addition, when you read a sentence or paragraph and think 🤔, be sure to write it down immediately, these are the essence you can really absorb.
Finally, use the Feynman technique to say a thing clearly in the simplest possible words in your own language so that laypeople can understand it.
What is the nature of learning?
Learning is about connecting new knowledge to old knowledge and then stitching the links back together with deliberate practice.
8. What is the most important thing to pay attention to about learning?
Whenever you encounter a jam, learn not to go down, there is only one reason: that is, you have learned the basis is not skilled, did not reach the degree of mastery.
So be slow in your mindset and allow yourself to learn little and slowly; In the movement to “fast”, require their skilled, fast.
To be willing to change gradually, in order to achieve real mutation.
9. How to work and study consistently and efficiently?
Those easy students with excellent grades, they never overconsume themselves when learning, as long as they feel inadequate, they stop and take the initiative to rest, which makes their energy bucket water level quickly rise.
It uses a technique similar to the Pomodoro Technique: constant focus, intermittent breaks, and time to recharge after each burn.
10. How can you increase your self-control and action?
Push yourself to do the most important and difficult things for you during your most energetic part of the day, and once you get into the positive reinforcement loop, you’ll have powerful action. This is the secret to increased self-control and action.
11. Why do you have to plan? Isn’t it painful to limit yourself to a time frame?
The goal of planning is not to stick to a strict plan, but to keep yourself informed.
It’s okay if your plans change for the day. With this plan, you can get yourself back on track quickly after finishing temporary tasks, but without it, you’re more likely to end up in a state of confusion and confusion where your goals and time are unclear.
12. What do you need to pay attention to when making a plan?
Try not to set too many goals at once, actively lower expectations, and don’t rush to see results. Because as long as you have many goals or desires, you are bound to be anxious and eager to achieve.
13. Is there any harm in rational thinking?
The limitation of rational thinking is that it believes only what it sees and hears, and it actively doubts and rejects the unknown beyond the known.
Therefore, the limitation of rational thinking can be skillfully avoided by following the path of optimistic thinking (sensibility), pessimistic planning (rationality), and optimistic implementation (sensibility).
How to do good emotional control ability?
Life is all about choices.
If you can pause for a few seconds to think about a situation that requires you to make a choice, you may be able to activate your rational brain and use metacognition to examine your current thoughts and make a different choice.
What is metacognition?
I think it’s the ability to feel what you’re thinking, what you’re thinking.
A person’s personality and temper are also determined by his or her ability to see things from multiple perspectives: people with a single perspective tend to be stubborn, impatient and obsessive, while people with multiple perspectives tend to be more intelligent, peaceful and tolerant.
In fact, there are many excellent books and articles that show the author’s unique perspective on a problem, and if you pick them up, you can learn from them.
The so-called patience or good temper is a lot of times actually lower expectations of others, for example, to treat anyone, generally assume that he is honest, kind and honest, try to think about his behavior from a good perspective.
If come up against really a worry, can disperse his worry through writing copy, when you write down, you can discover also it doesn’t matter big deal, everything is delusion actually.
Therefore, when you are in a bad mood, anxiety and other symptoms occur, in fact, your reason is held hostage by your emotions. At this time, if you use your reason to “write down” the inner emotions, the emotions will calm down, and your reason can control the body, control the overall situation.
Why pay attention to your attitude and language?
Your attitude towards a situation affects your behavior, and your behavior affects the outcome.
Therefore, if something bad happens to you, always say “sorry” and “thank you” to prevent yourself from being overwhelmed by bad feelings.
Pay attention to your own language, language can affect your thinking:
- No matter what happens, say something positive instead of negative.
- No matter what people you meet, say kind words, not harsh ones.
- No matter what the problem, say open words, not absolute words.
Anxiety is one of the top 10 keywords in 2021. How to better relieve anxiety?
Let your feelings return to your present actions: work, study, run, sleep, eat.
The key to being in the moment is not just to focus on it, but to enjoy it, and this enjoyment will make you more calm, less panicked, less anxious, and more of yourself.
Master why growth is fast?
Seen is chicken soup, done is dry goods.
You and the master know a lot of truth, the difference is that the master did, you just want to stage.
In addition, as soon as an expert discovers a good habit in someone else, he or she immediately makes it his or her own, internalizing it. Do you think he’s growing up fast?
Why masters love meditation?
Meditation can make you smarter, and scientific studies have shown that the cortical surface area and gray matter thickens with this mindfulness meditation practice, meaning that practicing meditation can physically make you smarter.
Because a person’s cortical surface area and gray matter thickness are factors that affect how smart they are.
Why masters all love reflection replay?
Reflection is a process of self-improvement, and the better it is, the more nuanced it is.
In reflection, you can take enough time to reflect on the short thought process at the time, find the shortcomings, and refine it.
At the same time, finding a better perspective can activate the rational brain, eliminating emotional ambiguity and changing the default choice of instinct, so that you don’t get stuck in the emotion, unable to get out of it or unable to make a better choice the next time you face a similar problem.
Long-term practice of replaying will greatly improve your cognitive level, emotional level and decision-making ability.
How to reset?
The review mainly focuses on three points: recall the process of trigger points, dig out the deep reasons and formulate improvement measures.
Keep the other person’s emotions and opinions separate at all times so that useful lessons can be learned even in the worst of situations.
Is pain really such a bad thing?
Pain is not a bad thing, it is god to give us growth signals and hints!
If something happened to you that day that made you miserable, be sure to reflect deeply on it and find out what was the root cause of your misery. To optimize your thinking so that you can immediately kill a similar pain in the future.
This is true growth and strength.
As a result, whenever something difficult or uncomfortable comes up, I like to know that the opportunity for self-improvement is here again.
You know what? Exercise makes you smarter
Scientific research has shown that exercise causes the brain to grow more new neurons, which means it can physically make you smarter.
Then, do high-intensity, high-difficulty mental activities, such as writing, programming, reading, problem solving and memorizing within 1 to 2 hours after exercise.
That way, you can stimulate your new neurons, grow them, and actually physically keep getting stronger.
21. How to change others?
Whatever saved you, you better try to save the world with it.
If you want to change a person, the better advice is not to persuade, but to change yourself, to influence others through your actions and results.
Therefore, it is important to focus on the long term and make yourself a truly “valuable, influential and attractive” person.
What is the key to change yourself?
The key to changing yourself is creating value.
Writing is the cheapest way for the average person to create value. It unlocks the “shackles” that limit your life possibilities.
And a worthy work, especially a well-polished one, can have a far greater impact than just one person Shouting from the podium.
Therefore, if you have your own work or product, don’t go to the customer with a flashlight, and don’t try to convince others. If you find that the person is still being convinced, it just proves that the light and heat of your work is not enough.
So, be serious about producing content that has long-term value (preferably 10 years). Let the content grasp the pain points of readers, meet the needs of readers, and finally get the attention and support of readers.
What is long term value?
In my current situation, there are two good writing paths:
- 1. With the help of the field of mobile terminal performance optimization, deeply dig and explore the implementation mechanism and mystery of the computer bottom layer.
- 2. Build a basic cognitive system of thinking necessary for Internet people.
What are the characteristics of the best writing style?
Good writing is talking, and good talking is writing.
First use the appropriate story to attract the interest and attention of the other side of the “perceptual person”, and then convey the truth to the “rational person” through the “perceptual person”.
What does proper writing look like?
Stay away from hot topics, read quietly, relate with heart, continue to polish, and strive to use the lowest level of knowledge and simple to understand the expression to drive readers to update their knowledge system.
You have to make sure your work is good enough. It’s good enough to be a revelation, a revelation, a transmission of extreme beauty, or a great help to others, and to have a long life.
In a society with advanced means of communication, values should be upheld. Because the world has no lack of communication channels, but the value is still scarce!
Writing, growing, and succeeding are the same thing: writing is producing valuable content, growing is being valuable, and succeeding is what we contribute to society.
Fundamentally, they all follow the law of value exchange.
Therefore, “all success comes down to altruism”. It is the cause of all happiness and success in the world.
Where is the biggest advantage of introverted people?
Introverts tend to be socially disadvantaged, but they tend to be more creative, so focusing on creativity and connecting with the outside world with the value of it is often a more advantageous life track.
Every Saturday night, I watch a high-quality movie and write down what is valuable and what touches me.
Last Saturday, I saw “Becoming Warren Buffett,” a kind of autobiographical movie in which Buffett reflects on his life experiences and thoughts, as well as the perspectives and perspectives of his family and friends.
Overall, I found the movie very valuable, in this movie, I took “Warren Buffett is what makes him Buffett, what makes him successful? “This is a problem to watch and analyze.
Here, 👇, are the 12 characteristics of Buffett’s success in the movie and some of my thoughts:
- 1, lonely, independent personality: the real strong are maverick.
- 2. Interest-driven: You have to spend a lot of time focusing on what interests you most, constantly improving, constantly compounding, and not caring about anything else.
- 3. Competitive: You want to be number one in everything you’re interested in.
- 4, a lot of reading: spend 5-6 hours a day reading high-quality books, only a lot of high-quality input, in order to have relatively high quality output.
- 5. I like quiet and simple environment very much: only simple and quiet environment can create more and better things in efficient flow state. It’s not that people who seem to have a lot of self-control are more self-disciplined than others, but rather that they try to avoid situations full of temptation — the real “secret” to being self-disciplined and productive.
- 6. Strong thinking ability: thinking ability is like the internal skill of martial arts practitioners, which determines the speed and possibility of learning and mastering all other foreign martial arts and moves. It is also like the underlying operating system of a computer, determining the speed of computing and the speed at which problems can be solved.
- 7. Curiosity: Have a strong curiosity about the things you are interested in. In order to understand its essence, you will continue to think deeply and dig deeply.
- 8. Patience: Patience is a core skill for every long-term believer. The more confident you are about the future, the more patient you are about the present.
- 9. Do only what you know: Don’t invest all your resources in a subject that you don’t fully understand and study.
- 10, checking: buffett will do our best to find out all the mistakes and correct that day, and every day if you can find the mistake in this day and correct, then you are yourself with a little progress than the previous day, although the progress of the day is very small, but in the long river of time, day after day, through the long-term accumulation of compound interest, you will change a new self.
- 11, strong emotional control ability: if you can’t master your emotions, then as long as you encounter a little uncomfortable things, it is likely to affect your efficiency and mood all day long, therefore, master the ability to control emotions is a necessary skill for everyone.
- Know how to continue to build their own personal influence: compound interest, is the fifth miracle of the world. Influence, in my mind, is the sixth miracle. If there are two excellent programmers, one is known by 100 people, and one is known by 100,000 people, then the social value of the latter is 1000 times that of the former. In this world, value equals benefit. You get as much benefit as you can create for others, and the more you give, the more you get.
Therefore, from these characteristics, it is obvious that the truly successful people have many characteristics in common, and these characteristics can be cultivated through practice.
At the time of writing this article, I have integrated many of these traits into my daily routine through long-term practice, as shown in the picture below:
This weekly schedule is a long-term work polished by me after 2 years of continuous practice and review. I share it with you today in the hope that you will find something that truly touches you and begin your transformation.
The future is here, and I sincerely invite you to join us as the awakening of this new world.
Reference links:
- 1. Cognitive awakening — the driving force for self-change
- 2. Cognitively driven — doing something useful to others
- 3. Becoming Warren Buffett