Do something difficult

Readers often ask me: I feel like my brain is rusty and can't turn around. Is there any way to turn my brain and improve my thinking ability?

Under normal circumstances, I always give the simplest suggestion: try to read some more complicated articles or books that need to spend, start with the degree of barely understanding. Don't force how much you can understand, and you don't have to pursue how much gain from it, but you have to work hard to read it.

why? The purpose is not to inspire from them, but in this way, to exercise our brain and let it gradually get used to this mode that needs to move the brain. As a result, when we encounter a problem, we can quickly let it run.

Once the habit is formed, thinking for you, it is no longer a thing that needs to be deliberately done -it has become a very natural and no need to interfere.

In this case, you can save more energy to focus on the issues you have to think about itself, without having to force yourself to force yourself to think and fight your own inertia.

Similarly, you can put more energy into other difficult things, make it step by step, become your own default mode, let yourself master it and internalize it.

I have said in many articles: the essence of the brain is a Bayesian machine. What does it understand the external world? Rely on input.

All behaviors in our daily life are training it. If you stimulate it, it will remember and use it to adjust itself; what you feed it will become what it will become.

You feed it to make it rough and indiscriminately, and you don't need to move your brain, and your brain will become lazy and slack, because it finds that this is enough to deal with the life of each day; you feed it to the information that is highly complicated and requires repeated chewing, and the brain will work hard to work hard Change yourself and adjust yourself to adapt to the difficulty of information until you are handy.

Further, when your brain is used to and adapts to these high -intensity information, what will happen back to see those information that does not need to be trained? You can't read it at all. Because you will feel that this information is too water, no nutrition, and difficult to swallow.

Your brain will subconsciously reject them, just like you have rejected those difficult and complicated information.

In the end of our lifetime, the brain has been doing one thing: what needs to be done hard to do it into an automated processing mode without the need to move the brain.

This characteristic is almost limited. You give it a strong and long -lasting challenge and stimulus, the brain will digest these stimuli by yourself, and through self -improvement and construction, change your inner structure and adaptability to adapt to the new situation it considers.

This is actually the process of growth. Growing is to constantly turn difficult things into simple things.

Let's get a glimpse of the mechanism behind this process.

There are 86 billion neurons in the brain, and most of these neurons are actually developing when we are around 3 years old. In the end of our lifetime, the brain will not grow new neurons. So why can we continue to learn new knowledge and remember new things?

The reason is that the brain will continuously absorb information from the outside world, and use this information to optimize the structure and efficiency inside the neural network: the more frequent and important the information, the brain will give it a separate path to make it easier to be activated and more vividly activated and easier to be activated. Extraction; the less important and less used, the brain will arrange it to a more remote position.

In this way, we will model the external world to make our inner world more fit the external world.

This mechanism tends to improve at the age of 25-30. Before this stage, the main work of the brain was modeling. Therefore, when we were young, we would feel that we were full of passion, our brains turned very fast, and had a strong curiosity and curiosity about everything, because the brain urgently needed to obtain more information to build this basic basic information Model.

After this stage, the brain's model of the external world has basically been established, so its main work has become a repair. It no longer uses external information to establish a understanding of the external world from 0 to 1, but try to embed the external information into the existing framework to improve and repair this model.

Therefore, why is it easy for us to feel that after a person becomes more mature, it will become more stubborn while becoming more mature. What? To a large extent, his mind world has more or less solidified.

Like a science fiction writer Douglas Adams's classic saying:

1) Any technology I already have when I was born is part of the common order of the world.

2) Any technology born between 15-35 years old will change the revolutionary product of the world.

3) Any technology that was born after the age of 35 is violated the law of nature and is condemned.

But does this mean that we can no longer improve ourselves after learning after the age of 30? Of course not. In fact, the way the brain understands the world and the way to handle the information of the outside world is also part of the mental world, and it will also be included in the modeling.

What does that mean? Simply put: If you are young, you think from the heart: the world is complicated and changing, and I always need to keep an open mind to face and understand it; if you are modeling Taking brain thinking as a basic way of cognitive world, then the brain will also write this cognition and habit into the model and use it as a way of behavior after the mental world. Take a step back 10,000 steps, even if your mind world is solidified, is it impossible for you to re -cultivate the habit of moving your brain? Of course not. The plasticity of the brain is very strong. If you persevere to exercise it and stimulate it every day, it will improve the existing mind world step by step, so that it will be closer to the way you train.

However, the sooner you train it, the sooner it will mold; the later you act, the speed of its speed will be slightly slower, and the molding time is only a little later.

So, if I want to share a most simple and most effective behavior habit, I think it will be this:

Do something difficult every day, don't let yourself be immersed in comfort.

This is the essence and meaning of lifelong learning: I always assume that the world is complex and changeable. Every difficulty and challenge I experience will enhance my experience and become my nutrients and bricks. To be stronger, the gap between my mind world and the real world is smaller.

This principle is applicable in many places.

For example, such as exercise. What is the logic of exercise? First use a low -intensity to stimulate the body and make the body uncomfortable, so the body will work hard to adapt to it; wait for adaptation, and then improve the intensity, so the body is not adapted again, and you need to adapt to it again ... Continue to repeat such a process continuously Essence

Until reaching an ideal state, it is maintained in this intensity to avoid slackness of the body.

For example, you have never ran, so you can only run for 10 minutes at first. Slowly, wait until the body is adapted for 10 minutes, and gradually increases to 15 minutes, 20 minutes ... This is a process of constantly persecution of the body to adapt. Until the end, you can run at a relatively stable speed for 1 hour, then keep it at this intensity to avoid your own regression.

The same is true for strength training. Start with the simplest actions and the lightest weight, to achieve your own limit; wait for adaptation, then add weight ... until it reaches a more ideal weight.

In other words, the essence of exercise is to constantly give the body an external challenge to make it feel uncomfortable, so as to desperately change itself to adapt to external challenges. When it is adapted, give it a new challenge ... Repeat it continuously, let it fall into the cycle of uncomfortable -adaptation -new discomfort ...

In this process, the body will continue to strengthen ourselves, improve yourself, and gradually make yourself stronger, healthier, and achieve the purpose we want.

Therefore, a very important suggestion is: If you are very busy every day and have no time and energy to exercise, then don't let yourself be in a comfortable state for a long time -you must create an opportunity to move yourself, even if you just do it for a few minutes Exercise can also be. A few times, constantly awaken your body, from time to time to stimulate it, tell it: This comfortable state is an illusion, the outside environment is not like this, you need to adapt to the new environment -so that you can make yourself more healthy.

This approach is called snack movement, and it is more adapted to the more and more busy modern society, so it is gradually being valued by the academic community.

Similarly, we sit in the office every day, sitting all day, this is a comfortable and stable state. But is this state healthy? Very unhealthy. A study in 2021 found that about 1.6%of the world's hypertension, 2.2%of a variety of cancers, 4.5%of type 2 diabetes, 5.0%coronary heart disease and stroke, 6.9%gastric cancer, 7.2%depression, and the depression, as well as 8.1%of dementia can be attributed to sedentary. (Katzmarzyk et al., 2021)

At the same time, sedentary thinking and cognitive ability of the brain will also have a significant negative impact. why? Because sitting for a long time is a state of comfort. Over time, the brain will think that this state is suitable and sufficient, and there is no need to force ourselves to become stronger -therefore, our overall operating efficiency will gradually decline, and our overall operational efficiency will gradually decrease. To save more resources and energy.

Conversely, what is healthy practice? It is forcing yourself to constantly change his state and move more. It is not as comfortable as sitting for a long time, and it is also uneasy at all, but it is this kind of trouble that allows the brain to continue to live in peace and maintain the full speed of the entire body and cognitive ability.

Another example is that I am practicing intermittent fasting, which is also a way to break the stability of the body. By continuously switching the body by using glucose energy and fat supply, letting the body is always in a good state of operation, so that every organs and internal stability of the body are smoother and more efficient.

For another example, we all know that stress is a bad thing, it will bring anxiety and fear, affecting our performance and performance -but is this really the case? In fact, many studies have found that chronic pressure is harmful, and acute pressure is not only harmless, but is beneficial.

Because it can stimulate the brain, promote the brain to enter the stress state, and let the brain find that the existing mind world is not in line with the real world, so as to better repair it. As long as this stimulus is not a long -term, it is forced to operate over load in stress in stress, which is beneficial.

In our common sense, one thing, you use it, it will wear; you do n’t need it, it is a kind of recuperation and protection for it; but the brain is not like this, it is the opposite: the more you use it, the more you use it, the more you use it, the more you use it, the more you use it, the more you use it, the more you use it, the more you use it, The better it is; you do n’t use it, it will wear it.

In other words, what do we make us stronger? It is a more difficult thing, and in the process, the efforts and actions we have made.

So, what is the gap between excellent people and ordinary people? Many times, in fact, it may not be so complicated. It may just be that excellent people can let themselves cross the threshold of the front line and continue to do some difficult things.

For example:

The first person:

1) When learning a method: Oh, this method is really good, I must use it!

2) Encountered the corresponding scene: Did you learn a way last time? Do you want to try it? Forget it, it feels troublesome, next time ...

3) I encounter difficulties and obstacles: Did I understand the mistake? Sure enough, I still have to use the old method. Maybe you still have to find a way that is more suitable for me.

4) After a period of time: Teacher, your method is good, but it doesn't seem to be suitable for me. I can't use it. Thank you.

The second kind of person:

1) When learning a method: Oh, this method is really good, I must use it!

2) Encountered the corresponding scene: Finally, you can try it, let me think about what to do, and then write down each step and make a review.

3) Difficulty and obstacles: Why not work here? Do you need to fine -tune? Let me do an experiment and see how to adjust it better.

4) After a period of time: Teacher, your method is particularly good. I have made some adjustments based on my actual situation. You can see it, and you are welcome to give some guidance.

Which kind of person are you?

Which kind of person do you want to be?

Of course, doing difficult things does not mean that you have to put too much pressure on yourself, and it is very important to pay attention to moderate. How to grasp this degree? An empirical rule is:

1) Starting from completing a minimum result;

2) Stop when you feel tired.

For example: For example, if you want to learn a certain field, but you have no foundation, you ca n’t understand a lot of content. What should I do? You can first find a minimum result for yourself, that is, let yourself clearly feel that I have a small step closer to this field. It can be a term, answer a question, and understand a concept ...

Following this minimum achievement, concentrate on overcome it. For example, if you are confused about a concept, then concentrate your energy to make it clear, to check the materials, ask others, and learn the theme until you can make it clear with your own words. Don't rush into this field with information that you haven't understood, so that you will have more and more problems.

In this process, pay attention to keeping one more comfortable and not needed to maintain and promote your strength. For example, if you can take about one and a half hours every night, you can try to check a little information and sort out information in 15 minutes, spin the concept to each day, and solve it bit by bit.

For another example, if you want to learn a programming language, you can find a simple demand (such as automated processing certain data), and try to implement this demand. This is a minimum result. Focusing on this achievement, you can check the information, check the tutorial, and study how to write the code, what can be used by the modules, and so on.

Similarly, split until every day, let yourself act every day and feel the feel. There is no need to pursue it to complete it in a short time, but you must not fish for three days or dry the net for two days.

In this way, your life will not be too affected, and you can reduce the resistance of continuous action as much as possible and let yourself practice it for a long time.

What is the key? Through a little difficult thing every day, let yourself adapt to and get used to such thinking and lifestyle. You may slowly discover that many seemingly difficult problems are actually not so difficult; in fact, I have the ability to solve them, and I can do it.

When you look back, you may find that you have left that former self.

This article is also a summary and description of my own. For me, whether writing or making products, helping me the greatest habit is that this is a bit difficult.

My requirements for myself are: never do duplicate things. Even if it is to solve the same problems and do the same job, I must add some new things inside. Therefore, forcing me to think, observe, and resume to improve my database.

I also share this habit today with everyone, I hope to help everyone.

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