Consciousness is more important than intelligence, and choice is more important than effort

When reading, the same class always some students very hard results but generally like, and the other part always seems very easy to have a good result. This is usually considered to be the difference in IQ, it is true that there are differences between human brain function, but it may not be as important as we think, perhaps the brain's functional differences are not caused by the two groups of people said the major differences between the main reasons.

Children learn things faster than the old, children operate the ipad play the game that Shunliu degree even beyond the normal adult; in the elderly, looking at the smart phone tablet that kind of awkward, and their usual state of humour difference. Do children have a much better brain function than middle-aged people? Of course not.   Adults are far stronger than children in analysing other issues, but why is it so inept to operate the ipad, play a smartphone, and play video games? Because I am a designer, I often watch people use electronic devices, often help the middle-aged and old people around them to solve the "simple problem", in the process, I gradually realized that the elderly use of electronic equipment of the difficulty stems from their "consciousness", not because their brains began to degenerate.

The so-called "consciousness" is that they have not yet begun to use electronic devices have said to themselves: "This is very complicated, this thing is expensive, improper operation will be broken, this is a young man's thing, this age will not operate is taken for granted, the young people have the obligation to help me ...". Then the behavior they showed up was probably to start asking for help if they didn't try, and when they didn't help, they failed one or two and then gave up, and asked when someone came to help them. Perhaps they are in the mind of the word "machine" the concept of influence, they always feel that the machine if the improper operation will wear, it can not work properly, need to be repaired before use, so they always feel that electronic equipment can not be casually tried, but the fact is obviously not so. This is a "dare" to try.

Another is, "Do not want to" try, think this is irrelevant pediatrics, anyway, there are young people to help me to take care of themselves, the heart of the electronic products are not interested in, feel that their life has enough entertainment, there is no need for SMS phone calls, there is no need for bank interest balance treasure, no need to study the power of useless, There is no desire to try. Long-term to form a kind of thinking, feel that the new things are not practical, superfluous. They didn't know what they had lost.

Look at how children use digital products, first of all, as long as the ipad appears in their vision, they are completely attracted to this thing, no matter how boring the contents of the show, they feel that this thing will move with a voice to touch the reaction, which is different from anything else they have seen in the world, is fun and fun. So they don't want to try, and they have a strong desire. In addition, they do not "dare", they do not have the fear of the "machine", but also do not worry about breaking it, do not have to bear the consequences of the broken. So they use electronic equipment is no scruples of the disorderly press, as long as there is a random click on the things they want to the result, they will remember, and rightly think that this button is out of this thing, and not like the big people in the heart is still asking "why do you press here to come out of this thing?" "Because the big people need past experience to give them a reason, so the interface design button to look like a button to stand out, adults can understand that this can be pressed." The child will only want to press this position to pop things, so he presses, whether he is protruding or flat, the child's thinking is to achieve the purpose is the reason for action, and adults always consider the gains and losses before action.

Forgetting that an artist has summed up the theme of the two eternal contradictions of man is "desire" and "fear". Desire drives you to explore, and fear makes you afraid to lose and stop moving forward. Children do not have the past, so they have no fear, they only desire. Old people know that their future is not many, they have no desire, only the endless memories of the past, fear of losing, the rest of the fear. In short, the child looks forward, the old man looking back. So the child can move forward to accept the new things, the old man who think about what will be lost (will damage the machine?) Will you be confused? ), and the lack of desire, so they will not be easy to try, even if it is a little bit of confusion about the screen so insignificant behavior.

so the ability of the children and the elderly to use electronic products, most of the difference is not caused by brain function, but the mind of the "consciousness." Electronic products In this example is the "dare not to try" consciousness. In the minds of middle-aged and older people, "where risk is considered in advance" hinders their ability to use electronic products. In the case of electronic products, I have recently found a counter-example that shows that older people can be as shunliu as children, who have long liked to study electronic products and devices, even if they grow older, they will not affect their acceptance of electronic products and operational ability, because they have "desire" To study and accept new things.

The use of electronic products is only a small example of how "consciousness" affects one's ability. Think about other things, like the article at the beginning of the two kinds of students reading ability differences, will be only "consciousness" on the difference? I've been thinking about it, and I think the difference in consciousness is much more important than the intellectual difference.

As an example of reading, my own previous reading speed is relatively slow, I thought I was more stupid, processing information is slow so read slowly, until I read a book called "Super Fast reading" after reading speed in a short time, such as the promotion of a lot more than the method of teaching in the book is now summed up is "Skip reading", It is not to try to read each word, but to refine the important words in the sentence and to understand the meaning of the text in terms of context. In fact, this skill is not difficult, as long as a little practice can be done, and this technique I know before, but I have not deliberately practice and use.  "Super fast reading" The content of this book and introduce this technique is only a small amount of space, most of the other content is actually saying how good this method, why do you need this method? After reading the book I changed the most is not my reading skills, but my "consciousness." I realized that only a quick reading of words could increase the speed of comprehension and improve the memory, while the previous word did not read but was detrimental to comprehension; In addition, I realized the benefits of a lot of reading, so I have the motivation to increase the speed of reading, so more efficient to receive information. When I realized that I had accepted the method after two, I practiced the technique, and I told you how to practice it, telling you that it was easy to practice and that everyone could achieve it. So after I read this book "consciousness" got promoted, my "intellect", my brain function did not ascend, but my reading ability, understanding ability and the memory of the article did improve. The awareness that the former "fear" omits the text information becomes "eager" to receive a large amount of information in memory. I was like a man who was afraid of falling and trembling trembling suddenly turned into a cheerful running child, running between the books and words, all this is just "consciousness" change.

To go back to the student's example, reading ability, comprehension ability, memory ability for a student is the difference of learning efficiency, decided to be immersed in hard work are mediocre results, or only a few hours a day to learn excellent results. The difference in consciousness of just one reading can produce a huge difference in learning effects, and if you add "conscious" differences in every other aspect? "Consciousness" may be the important factor that makes up the difference between two kinds of students. Think of the two children from the different family environment impact, the difference of consciousness of education, encourage expression and discourage expression, the consciousness of freedom of thought difference, whether pay attention to personal experience, the difference of consciousness of practice, whether to encourage cooperation, the difference of consciousness of team consciousness, whether to encourage responsibility, the consciousness difference of sense of responsibility ...... These subtle differences in consciousness directly result in a child's learning efficiency and efficiency. Many aspects of the performance differences, these performance differences in the accumulation of even their future life direction and height of the difference.

Not just reading or operating electronic equipment, to do a good job quickly, you must abandon the old person's "consciousness", must have enough "desire" enough "fear". Conversely, if you want to do a long walk, such as to maintain a marriage or feelings, it is enough "desire" enough "fear." The key is that "consciousness" must be consistent with your goals. Just like "about the face" in the "goal-oriented design method" Objective centered design, life is designed to have design ideas, ha ~. The right mindset gives you the right choice, and the right choice gives you the right direction. Choosing the right direction is more important than your hard work, and the farther you go in the wrong direction, the farther away you are from your destination. we often use the wrong sense to accomplish a lot of reasons, like the middle-aged people think disorderly point will break equipment, feel that mastering electronic equipment is not important, sometimes by their own old consciousness limit, and do not update the concept in time, most of the time is affected by other people or social atmosphere, Especially the influence of the collective consciousness of the previous generation.

If you pay attention to some phenomena of China's society and history, it is not difficult to find that our national cultural concept is biased towards the "old person consciousness" in the western countries, that is, fear is greater than desire, it is not easy to accept new things, not only our country, but the whole East Asian Confucian culture biased conservative, There are still a lot of gaps with the US in the innovation and entrepreneurial climate of developed countries like Japan and South Korea. Culture is the collective "consciousness" universally recognized by everyone in the whole society, so culture will ultimately affect the economic ability of a country. Why can internet companies subvert traditional industries? Why are the founders of Google, Facebook, Tesla's new industry giants so young? Because young people can easily accept new consciousness, more efficient consciousness to overcome the industry's other "elderly".

The purpose of my writing this article is to think of more people, especially those around me, who are better able to accept new ideas and consciousness. Because the world is developing and growing faster and faster than the speed of the previous generations, the experience of the older generation has a lot of consciousness that does not apply to our lives at this rate.  A lot of things can not be simply as our previous generation to rely on experience and ideas to be able to say clearly, we need to be like children, more to try, dare to fail, or stop, think, abandon the prejudice of the past to rethink the meaning of each thing. With less prejudice, more understanding and tolerance, you will find that many things are not only possible. The world is a lot bigger than you think.

Consciousness is more important than intelligence, and choice is more important than effort