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Cheetah CEO Fu Sheng said that the biggest difference between people is their cognitive differences.
What is cognition?
Cognition is actually our thinking activities, our thoughts.
To be more specific, cognition is our "three views", our views on ourselves, others, and everything, our insight, and the basic elements on which we make all decisions in life. .
So what determines our perception?
01 Your behavior shapes your perception
In an experiment, the researchers made a box out of PVC pipe and cardboard, each side was 1.5 meters high.
Next, the researchers invited some volunteers to complete the puzzle of compound words. The researchers first gave three sets of new words, and then asked the volunteers to add another set of new words, which should be related to the previous three sets of words.
When volunteers finish the game, they can either choose to sit in the box or outside.
Will these two choices affect the effectiveness of their questions?
The results of the experiment found that the people sitting outside the box came up with many more phrases than the people sitting inside the box.
When I saw the results of the experiment for the first time, I felt like "destroying the three views". How could sitting in different positions affect people's thinking activities? Is our thinking activity so "vulnerable"?
In fact, our thinking is really so "fragile".
For example, if a person is in a bad mood, forcing himself to laugh, smiling, he will find that he feels better. For another example, a person who is not self-confident, holds his head high every day, and after a long time, he finds that his self-confidence has been greatly improved.
The opposite is also true. For example, if you read a book with a frown, you will find that you are more likely to disagree with the opinions in the book.
All your body movements will affect your thinking activities. This idea is derived from the science of "embodies cognition".
In the experiment we just mentioned, the reason why people have different results in the box and outside the box is that when we can move our bodies independently and feel the smooth movements of the body, our thinking is more easily affected. Restrictions are more likely to be creative.
Does this have anything to do with what we are going to talk about today that determines cognition?
For most people, acquiring cognition naturally means reading a book, listening to the master’s course, and talking to a master...Yes, this is what we usually think is an important factor in determining cognition: the text or sound of the "dry goods version" information.
This information is not only the source of our cognition, but also an important nourishment that determines whether our cognition can be upgraded.
Our understanding of "cognitive cognition" is not wrong in itself, but it ignores a very important dimension: our behavior is also affecting our cognition.
In other words, our behavior is shaping our thinking and mind, and has an irreplaceable influence on our cognition.
What important inspiration does this give us?
When you pay attention to your own cognition, you might as well focus on your behavior first.
Your behavior can tell you the secret of cognition. When you want to change your cognition, you might as well change your physical activity, posture, language, etc. first.
Franklin once had an opponent who often criticized him.
After Franklin knew about it, he wrote to contact the opponent. He mentioned in the letter that I heard that you have a rare book, could you lend me a look. The opponent quickly lent him the book.
Who would people lend their things to? Certainly not the enemy, we usually only lend our own things to relatives and friends.
When the act of sending out the book happened, this former opponent had changed his mind and no longer placed himself on the opposite side of Franklin. After that, they really became friends.
Behavior and cognition shape each other. If you want to change or overthrow a certain perception, you might as well start with behavior.
Tips：
1. Participate in more practical activities. The essence of "the unity of knowledge and action" is that action promotes cognition. Cognitive activities without action are often "hooliganism".
2. If you want to change your cognition, you can change your behavior first. For example, if you are hostile to someone and want to let go of the hostility, you can first make the gesture of acceptance, shake hands, smile, and try to communicate.
3. Pay more attention to your body posture, facial micro-expression, language, way of doing things, etc.
02 Cognitive scale determines a person’s cognitive pattern
Understanding the influence of behavior on cognition can help us find the source of cognition and bring a new perspective for changing cognition.
Back to cognition itself, what determines our final cognitive pattern?
There is a saying called "The situation determines the ending." The size of a person determines how exciting the ending is.
The pattern is actually a person’s perception. But not every cognition can be called "pattern".
Of all your cognitive content, only the part with a "large scale" can be called a "pattern". The larger your cognitive scale, the larger your pattern.
Cognitive scale includes time scale and space scale.
In the book "Cognitive Scale", An Zhu, the founder of Aiju Charity Innovation Organization and a leader in China's social innovation field, mentioned his own experience of doing charity.
In 2004, Anzhu launched the "One More Kilogram" campaign, a charity event for backpackers, encouraging backpackers to put more books and stationery in their bags and hand them over to village teachers.
After launching the activity, Ann Zhu envisioned how far the activity could develop in three years. The goal set was to affect 50,000 rural school students.
In 2006, the goal was reset: to affect 1 million rural students. As the project progressed, the goal was changed to affect 10 million students.
Anzhu calls the logic he follows when setting goals as "spatial scale."
Spatial scale is the focus of thinking on spatial coverage and spatial influence. The larger the impact space, the more the population base affected, and the larger the spatial scale.
For example, if you open a milk tea shop, you want to open 3 local shops first, and plan to open 10 shops in the whole province in 2 years. In 5 years, you want to open 100 shops nationwide.
From 3 to 100, from local to the whole province to the whole country, and even to the whole world, the space and number of people you can influence are more and more trends.
The time scale focuses on thinking about how long you can do things.
An Zhu mentioned that when he was writing an article, he would think about his article. After three to five years, would anyone be reading it? This time scale model will make him pay more attention to the quality of the content.
When I first wrote an article, I always focused on the reading data of this article. Whether it can have a good number of clicks and whether it can "explode", that is, it is reprinted by many platforms.
Under the guidance of this goal, I did write a lot of explosive articles. But looking back now, there are some articles, not to mention whether anyone will read them in three to five years, and it is not certain whether they will be read in a year. Some of these hot articles are even more so, and no one will read them again after a month.
Regarding the choice of space scale or time scale, An Zhu said: "It is difficult to say which is better and which is worse, but if we can master different thinking, our world will become more open."
Whether we should use the spatial scale or the time scale to guide our own cognition is not an either-or option. In many cases, you can combine them into one.
We often say that a person is short-sighted and lacks pattern thinking. In fact, he lacks "spatial scale" and "time scale" thinking. If you can magnify both the spatial scale and the time scale, and think about the value and the value of doing this thing yourself, your pattern will naturally become larger.
For example, some people are very stingy when they become bosses, and they only look at their immediate interests. The typical pattern is small. If he puts his behavior on a large scale of time and space, ask himself, what kind of impact will his stingy behavior have on him in three to five years? Can you continue to increase your spatial influence?
If you want to become a person with a big structure, you must first become a person with a large enough cognitive scale.
The bigger the scale and the bigger the pattern, the more prosperous your ending will be.
Tips：
1. Thinking from a spatial scale is a process from point to surface to volume.
2. Whether it is a spatial scale or a time scale, how much you have to span depends on your specific ability at the moment, and it changes with the change of the ability value, and finally realizes the transition from a small scale to a large scale.
03 thinking mode is a nuclear weapon for cognitive upgrading
There is a saying in "Lifelong Growth": "Entering a mode of thinking is like entering a new world."
Two different thinking modes are mentioned in this book, growth thinking mode and fixed thinking mode.
A growth mindset thinks that one's talents can be cultivated through hard work acquired, so he will focus on how to improve himself, don't believe in the so-called talent, be able to face failure calmly, and be good at learning from mistakes.
A fixed mindset, thinking that one's talents are immutable, so will focus on how to prove one's abilities, believe in talent, be afraid of failure, and refuse to work hard.
What impact do these two thinking modes have on our cognition? Before answering this question, let’s take a look at the four cognitive states of people mentioned by Fu Sheng.
Fu Sheng said that there are four cognitive states of people: the first is not knowing that one does not know, that is, the state of self-righteous "full cup".
In this state, the individual feels omniscient. In other words, this person's cognition has no boundaries.
The second is to know that you don't know and prepare to improve your cognition. Fu Sheng called this state "the mentality of starting to have an empty cup".
When we know that we don’t know, it means that we have stepped out of the omniscience of being full of glasses, and we begin to admit that we have something we don’t know, and we begin to have cognitive boundaries.
The third is to know that you know, that is, to grasp the law of things and improve your own awareness.
We not only know what we don’t know, but we also know what we really know. Cognition not only has clear boundaries, but also clear different areas within the boundaries.
We all know which areas are more profound, and which areas are just the best.
The last one is not knowing that you know. This is the highest state of cognition, which is what we often call the "empty cup mentality."
If one enters the empty cup mentality, he knows what he does not know, and also knows what he knows.
Moreover, this state of knowing or not knowing will be unified in the past tense, allowing the future self to replace the old cognition with new cognition at any time, and never stick to the cognition once acquired, even if it is It took a lot of hard work to get the knowledge.
In the fourth state, the cognition of each of us can truly be like a river, continuously flowing and rushing. We often talk about cognitive upgrades and cognitive iterations. In fact, they are all based on an empty cup mentality.
When we look back now, what kind of talent has an empty cup mentality?
Is it a person with a fixed mindset? Obviously impossible. If a person has a fixed mindset, he will cling to the cognition he has acquired in the past. Because once there is a change, abandoning the past self is a complete denial for him, and a sudden overthrow of his value.
It is difficult for us to expect a person with a fixed mindset to become a lifelong growth.
People with a growth mindset are not afraid of change or overthrowing past cognitions. For them, cognitive iteration is self-improvement rather than denial. Therefore, it is easier for them to enter the empty cup mentality and become a lifelong growth.
Wan Weigang said: "The more advanced people are, the more humbly they are, and the more backward people are more proud. The less you know, the less you know that you don't know."
People with a growth mindset can remain modest and use an empty cup mentality to achieve continuous upgrading of cognition.
Tips：
1. Get in touch with open knowledge. Open knowledge can be falsified, accept and welcome challenges, and be ready to update at any time.
2. Establish "green light thinking". Don’t take information that is different from your own perception as a denial of yourself, but as an opportunity for growth and give the “green light” to new knowledge.
3. Friends who explain. The more you feel that you know everything, the more you have to try to explain clearly the knowledge or field you think you know. Once you begin to describe in words, you will find your own cognitive boundaries.
04 Write the underlying code and start a new era of life
The body shapes our cognition, and the scale of thinking determines our cognitive pattern, and ultimately affects the outcome of a person.
Regardless of whether it is the influence of the body on cognition or the influence of scale on cognition, there is a prerequisite, that is, we have a growth mindset.
Only when you have a growth mindset can you change your body movements, activities, and behavior habits, thereby changing your own cognition; only when you have a growth mindset, can you use the two dimensions of space and time. Think about the value of doing something and a decision.
It can even be said that only if you have a growth mindset can you examine your own perceptions.
For those with a fixed mindset, it doesn't make much sense what cognition is and whether it should be upgraded or not. Their sense of value does not come from the dynamic process of hard work and progress. Their sense of value comes from being constantly "proven" in reality.
From this perspective, the growth mindset is the underlying code in our cognition.
If you want to become a life-long growth person, want to realize the continuous upgrading and iteration of cognition, then first write the underlying code for yourself.
This low-level code will help you become a lifelong growth, constantly reshape your behavior, expand your cognitive structure, and continue to open a new era of life.
Cognitive growth never ends.
Are you ready to start?
Liu Yiyi, a man of temperament, the author of the founder of the rich book, a heavy reader, reads 200+ books a year, I hope we can break through thousands of books and travel thousands of miles, and can often hear the "swish" sound in our ears It is the wind when growing up.