Be a Man and Do Things Pillow Book

Chapter 19: Be a Thinker (3)
The core of thinking education or thinking training is to train the thinking of the brain as a skill, just like training painting skills, eloquence skills, and motor skills.The instinct of thinking is not equal to the ability of thinking. The formation of any kind of ability is the result of repeated skill training.No one is born to speak, even though people have the instinct to speak, and no one is born to know how to think, these abilities are cultivated in acquired training.And if you want to continuously improve your thinking ability, you must regard thinking as a skill and train it repeatedly.In today's information age, whether it is scientific research, artistic creation, military decision-making, advertising planning, business management, or reading and learning, interpersonal communication, self-planning, and career development, we all need superb thinking skills, because we are in a In the era of high intelligence, improving thinking ability is no longer a requirement for a certain type of occupation or a certain type of person. It has penetrated into all levels of social life and has become a requirement for all occupations and everyone. This is the result of our new era. It is determined by the rules of the competitive game, and if you want to participate in the competition, you must abide by this rule, otherwise you will only be ruthlessly eliminated.

Training thinking as a skill is a specialization of intelligence.In the past, although no one felt the need for someone to teach him how to think, it does not mean that there will never be a need.Didn't human beings who were illiterate in ancient times still live a leisurely life?But try it now, let alone illiteracy, any lack of modern basic skills will make your life "ugly".

Buying a fishing rod and hook does not necessarily mean that you can catch fish.

An entrepreneur asked after listening to the thinking training master's class: "Can the thinking methods I have learned help me increase the company's profitability?" The thinking training master said: "No." Angrily said: "Then why should I spend time and money to attend your class?" The master of thinking training smiled and asked: "Tell me, can the knowledge you learned in elementary school help you increase the company's profitability? "The entrepreneur thought about it and said: "No." The thinking training master asked again: "So can the knowledge you have learned in middle school and college help you increase the company's profitability?" The entrepreneur was silent.The master of thinking training then asked: "In your learning career, is the only learning goal to increase the company's profitability?" The entrepreneur argued strongly: "But the purpose of my study here is to find ways to increase the company's profitability A way!" The master of thinking training said humorously: "It seems that you are not a good student. I have already taught you the thinking method of how to think of a way, why do you still ask me?" He still didn't understand when he saw the entrepreneur. , He told a joke: "There was a man who wanted to go fishing, so he went to a fishing tackle shop and bought a fishing rod and hook. Did you catch any fish?' said the salesman, 'No.' Hearing this answer, the man shouted angrily, 'If you couldn't catch any fish, why did you sell them to me?'"

Hearing this, the entrepreneur also smiled shyly.

Similar things are often encountered in the process of thinking training. People always come to receive training with one or another realistic purpose. Some people want to improve their academic performance so that they can be admitted to an ideal university; some people want to improve their management. Difficulty, improve the company's profitability; some people want to find a good job, want to be gilded.When they hear that thinking training can't help them achieve these realistic goals, their first reaction is disappointment. Obviously, these people don't understand their own learning goals, and don't understand what benefits thinking training can bring them. Reckless to accept thinking training, there are not a few people who get on the bus first and then pay for the ticket, which often brings a lot of unnecessary trouble to the thinking training.

So, what is the practical value of thinking training?And who needs thinking training?To clarify these issues, it is necessary for us to clarify the relationship between "body" and "use".We all know that cups can be used to hold water, and we also know that cups can be used not only to hold water, but also to hold sugar, wine, and sand... If a cup is a "body", then it can hold water, sugar, wine, Shengsha and so on are all the purposes of the cup, that is, "use".It can be seen from this that there is no "use" without "body", and the quality of "body" directly restricts the size of use.The purpose of thinking training is to improve the quality of thinking, perfect the "body" of the "brain", and lay a solid foundation for the use of the brain. As for what each person wants to use the "brain", it is not the task of thinking training. personal matter.You can use a smart brain to analyze and reason, and you can also use it to imagine and create; you can use it to paint and write, or you can use it to conduct scientific research and business.It can be said that there are as many uses of the brain as there are occupations, but any occupation cannot do well without a good mind, and the practical value of thinking training lies in the fact that it cultivates good minds through a series of scientific training. The mind, develops a top-notch mind, and therefore those who wish to improve and optimize their minds are the ones who are most in need of mind training.As for what to do with a good mind, this is a personal matter. It is like a thinking trainer giving the best tool to the students. It's up to the students themselves.

Give your brain some time to think.

People often complain that their minds are always thinking about things that are useless.In fact, just like our hearts are constantly beating, our brains are constantly thinking as long as we are alive.Regardless of whether the content of thinking is useful or not, the brain is always thinking about various things, even when we sleep, we still dream!
From a formal point of view, thinking always thinks from one thing to the next thing, from one concept to the next, which is called association.Every specific image or concept in the association is like every link in the chain. If these images or concepts are connected, it constitutes the whole process of thinking.

When we are working or studying, the association made by the brain is a purposeful association controlled by the will. Under the control and control of the will, the association can help us solve many specific problems.When we finish our day's work and lie on the bed and are about to fall asleep, the brain is freed from the intense work and study of the day. At this time, the brain will temporarily lose control of the will and "think wildly" aimlessly. Just in this "crazy thinking", I gradually fell asleep.This kind of "crazy thinking" without volitional control is free association.

Free association can occur during the day as well as at bedtime.For example, when we don’t have any important things to do urgently, we may be idle for a while, sit there and enter the state of free association unconsciously. At this time, we may make up a story for ourselves and become Prince Charming Or Snow White, or become a hero with strong martial arts in the imagination, which is often called "daydream".Free association sometimes appears in class. For example, the teacher is explaining Zhu Ziqing's prose "Moonlight in the Lotus Pond" vividly, and I listen to it, and I start free association unconsciously. Lianhua, the surroundings are extremely quiet, and the cries of autumn insects can be faintly heard in my ears... I woke up suddenly, and found that I had "lost my mind" while listening to the class just now.For example, sometimes, the Chinese teacher writes the composition on the blackboard, and we start to associate freely. Individual characters and pictures appear in our minds. After sorting out the many messy things that came to mind, it becomes a very good composition.

From the perspective of human evolution, human thinking should be more and more developed, and the content of associations should be more and more abundant. There should be more and more free associations, not less and less.Free association is an advanced function of human beings, and it is difficult for computers to have the function of free association.The most advanced computer in the world can only write a composition of more than 200 words at most, and it is often incomprehensible.A thinker is a person with rich thinking associations. They think of things that ordinary people don't think of.

Although we often carry out volition-controlled and purposeful associations every day to solve certain problems, as long as we have a little leisure, the brain will automatically enter the state of volition-free and purposeless free association.Free association takes up a considerable amount of our day.However, free association is by no means a waste of time, because free association is the basic form of brain thinking. Although free association is pure thinking without volitional control, it is the basis for advanced and purposeful thinking.Therefore, Freud called free associations and dreams, which seem to have no purpose, no logic, and no specific meaning, at the subconscious level as "primary thinking processes", while the purposeful, volitional thinking at the conscious level The controlling thoughts are called "secondary thought processes".Free association is by no means morbid thinking, and it is by no means a pile of things without any connection.The only difference between free association and the thinking during work and study is that it is not very purposeful and utilitarian.

Free association is not irregular and illogical "random thinking", but it is indeed regular.Free association is also a reflection of objective things, and objective things have laws, and when reflected in free association, it becomes the law of association.The research results of psychologists show that the basic laws of free association include approximate association, contrast association, approach association and meaning association.

If volitional, purposeful thinking is compared to running somewhere, free association is like walking.Walking can give the body a positive relaxation and rest, while free association can give our tense brain nerves a positive rest.The brain can become extremely active during free association, and can get rid of the specific affairs in front of you, allowing yourself to think about things that are more important and far-reaching than the trivial things in front of you, so that your inner desires can be fully displayed, and you can see The true face of the heart that we usually ignore.Free association is a natural force of man and cannot be subdued.People have the ability to associate freely, and also have the right to associate freely.We can completely draw a "special zone" for our minds, tell ourselves that we can think about anything, and we can think about nothing, so that we can associate more freely.

After a period of free association, our brains will become very active, especially creative, and our thinking will become particularly flexible.If you don't believe me, here's a test: Before you start free association training for the first time, put a tape recorder in front of you, close your eyes, and say what comes to mind immediately, in simple words, Finally, count how many words were spoken in 1 minute.This is used to examine the speed and ability of the brain to associate freely.This is not only a simple free association detection method, but also a free association self-training method.After a period of free association training, and then test the brain's free association ability, you will find that the number of words that can be spoken per minute of free association has been greatly improved.

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