The amazing "5 seconds"

Author: Insight · ELM

This is everything, at this moment, forever.

Psychologist Mel Robins was lazy and procrastinating when he was in college.

In order to graduate smoothly, Mel decided to go to the library to write the paper at 6 o'clock every day.

However, whenever the alarm clock sounds, she always emerges all kinds of reasons to get out of bed: insomnia, bad health last night, and other things in the morning ...

Until one day, she saw the broadcast video when the rocket was launched. When the broadcaster raised from 5 to 1, the Rockets immediately ignited and lift off.

When the alarm sounded again the next morning, Mel also tried to count the countdown in his heart for 5 seconds, and immediately got up immediately when he counted to 1.

With this method, she successfully overcome the problems of Lai bed and successfully wrote the paper within the prescribed period.

After graduation, she applied this method to all aspects of life, as a result, promoted to professors within 5 years, and wrote 3 best -selling global works.

This is the origin of the "5 seconds".

As Mel said in a TED speech: "If you can start in 5 seconds, you can be anyone you want to be."

Do n’t hesitate to encounter what you want to do. If you do the consequences of 5 seconds, you will find that your life will be very different.

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Writer Liu Run said: "Thinking between and getting it, across a groove of‘ do ’.”

It is this gap that distinguishes the sentient beings.

Those who want to do not do always think that there is still a lot of time in the future.

As everyone knows, the best timing is exhausted in the delay in a minute and one second.

The Gray, who invested by Bell on the same day, said "wait" when facing the urging of a friend of the patent bureau. In the end, Bier applied for a patent one day and passed by the title of "the greatest inventor in the 20th century".

After hearing the charge of the Waterloo Battlefield, Gruch said, "Wait" when facing the subordinates that urged troops to rescue, and eventually buried Napoleon's entire battle and became a sinner in France.

Writer Li Shanglong said: "At this time, everything is everything, it is forever."

Those who can really grasp the future are the present.

GM's CEO Jack Welch has mentioned such a story in autobiography.

Jack had passed the corridor and heard two colleagues complaining about the company's accounting process.

One of them said: "Such a large enterprise does not even have independent financial systems, it is too bad."

Another person just wanted to echo, and after seeing Jack was shocked, he immediately apologized to him.

After Jack asked the names of the two and his department, he returned to his office without saying a word.

A week later, when the two employees were worried that they would be fired, they suddenly received the email sent by Jack:

"The financial system has been launched, welcome to use and make your suggestions."

It turned out that after hearing the complaints of employees, Jack immediately convened a technical team to discuss, and the development of the financial system was launched on the afternoon.

Looking back at Jack's 20 -year career, whether it is a response to the market or the change of technology, he can always take action on the same day after making correct judgments.

Thanks to this, GM seized the market opportunity for a time, and it became an industry giant with a market value of over 400 billion US dollars from the endangered bankruptcy counterattack.

Musk once said:

"No matter how wonderful ideas are, there are tens of thousands of people who can think of the billions of people around the world. Only when you think of it, you can do it in front of them."

Don't underestimate the damage of waiting, don't overestimate the patience of time.

If you are hesitating before action, you can get closer to the life you want earlier.

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There is a legendary story in the Bible.

People who rushed to the Holy Land were stopped by a dead sea.

The bloody sea surface covered with dead corpses, and the dark mist was confused in the air.

When Moses stepped on the sea, the sky was clear, and the dead sea automatically separated to both sides, exposing a smooth and unobstructed road.

Life is often like this: when you are hesitant, you just feel the thorns; wait for you to get along, you find that your way is all open.

Stanford University found in research that the human brain likes to maintain a stable state.

When the situation becomes uncertain, the brain will deliberately enlarge the risk of action to prevent us from making changes.

But as long as you take the first step, you will find that it is difficult to get up to heaven. In fact, it can be easily completed.

Former Soviet scientist Lewby, once set the next rule: timing for everything for himself.

Whenever the time starts, the timer seems to remind him that time is desperately passing, and you don't do anything.

As a result, Lybiev had to force himself, abandon all thoughts, and immediately took action.

In his 56 -year "time diary", even if it was used in a daze, there were clear records.

Only "hesitation" has never appeared.

Seemingly difficult things, Lybiev always do it first, and then encounter problems in action to solve the problem.

With such execution, Lewev has achieved great achievements in various fields such as mathematics, biology, philosophy, and more than 70 monographs in their lives, with a total number of more than 10 million words.

There is a classic line in Oscar's best film "Green Paper":

"Too many people who are disappointed with life dare not take the first step."

Behind the incompetent, it is often not enough ability, but a hesitant to start and worry about the ending. Such emotions not only have no complementary things, but also make you constantly consume yourself and fall into emotional internal consumption.

The difference between people is nothing more than someone who is in front of the mountains and rivers, but some people come out of Liu Dianhua.

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In front of the British Westminster Cathedral, there is a period of deeper epitaph:

"When I was young, I dream of changing the world, but after entering the twilight years, I couldn't even have my own family.

Finally, I was lying on the bed and realized that if I started from changing myself, I might change my family;

With the help of my family, I may do something for the country, maybe it can really change the world. "

This reminds me of the famous wrestler Aya Carolin.

In 1988, Ya Carlon was severely injured in the game and was paralyzed in bed.

The injury was delayed to treat it, because he was afraid of imperfect rehabilitation plan, which would never return to the field.

He consulted dozens of well -known doctors and collected nearly a hundred rehabilitation plans.

A month later, Ayar Corolon still did not start recovery, but instead collapsed in the tangled.

Until the mother who took care of his mother was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, Ya Caronon no longer observed to return to the field, but reduced the goal to rapid recovery ability.

Through rehabilitation treatment, he could soon use the crutches to move freely. At this time, he said to himself: Maybe I can go further and throw the crutch.

In this way, every time he gets a little progress, he will set the goal of the next stage and always let himself walk on the road of recovery.

After 3 years, Aya Carlon participated in wrestling competitions. Compared with the restoration time of the best plan, it was 9 months in advance.

Sometimes, we are too obsessed with the perfection of the results, and we are afraid of possible disappointment, so we refuse everything.

People who are really powerful have never started to act until all conditions are mature.

If you want to become a river, you will be in line first;

As Bacon said to his students:

"If there is any so -called optimal solution, it is 'Starting now'! Starting from what you can do, don't delay for a moment."

Thinking, it is a problem; if you do, there is an answer.

When you no longer suffer from losses, every shimmer you picked up in action will gather into the highlights of your life at a certain unexpected time.

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Mel explained to the "5 -second rule":

"Immediately after 5 seconds, you do not give the emotions such as fear, hesitation, inertia and other emotions to react.

We can truly become our owner only from these negative emotions. "

Like a praise, do what you want to do now, everything you want will come.

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