Cognition is more important than diligence
Western philosopher Schopenhauer said: The biggest prison in the world is human thinking consciousness.
Most people want to get immediate benefits every day, but never want to open their cognitive cage.
If you carefully review the mistakes we have made in the past or the opportunities we have lost, you will find that:
The vast majority of mistakes are caused by our own "cognitive limitations", not by others' deliberate destruction, let alone the environment.
A person's life is a process of constantly fighting against his own cognitive limitations.
Choice is more important than hard work, and cognition is more important than diligence.
01 Cognition is more important than diligence. People pay for their own cognition throughout their lives.
Every penny you earn is the realization of your cognition of the world; every penny you lose is because of your flawed cognition of the world.
You will never earn money beyond the scope of cognition.
Sometimes, you can make money by luck, but the money earned by luck will often be lost by strength in the end. This is inevitable.
The higher the cognition, the more objective people look at things. They follow the essence of things and act according to the rules.
The lower the cognition, the more subjective the person is in looking at things, the easier it is to be confused by appearances, the easier it is to be biased, and the more likely it is to follow blindly, and finally it can only be manipulated.
Let me give you an example.
If someone says to you: If you only give me 100 yuan, I will teach you how to make 1,000 yuan immediately, would you be willing?
I believe that most people would be willing, because you can make money immediately, what a practical plan, of course I need it.
Then when you give him 100 yuan, he will tell you: Go find 10 fools like you immediately.
It seems so reasonable, but so absurd, this is the essence of pyramid schemes and many scams.
The so-called game of passing the flower is to pass from high cognition to low cognition. After so many years, there are still a large number of people who are deceived.
Without deep thinking and not improving your own cognitive level, all hard work is in vain.
Just like the sentence in "The Godfather":
People who see the essence in one second and people who can't see the essence of a thing in half a lifetime are destined to have different fates.
Whether it is work or entrepreneurship and investment, improving cognition can see through the overall situation, and seeing through the overall situation can lead the overall situation first.
02 The essence of cognition is wisdom. How can we improve our cognition?
The first is to learn. When our knowledge accumulates to a certain level, we can naturally discover the true logic of the world.
However, many people nowadays are learning on the surface, but they are just looking for shortcuts.
They always try to find a universal key so that they can solve all problems without thinking or thinking.
This is not called learning, this is called laziness.
This is why many bosses, although they have spent a lot of money to participate in so many trainings, still cannot change the slightest reason.
The way they go to classes everywhere just looks very hard.
Improving cognition has nothing to do with spending money. You can spend money to buy other people's experience, but you can't spend money to avoid detours.
So, do those who are knowledgeable and cultured have high cognition? Not necessarily.
Many people who have studied to a doctorate are still easily deceived.
Because culture does not necessarily mean talent, and talented people do not necessarily have wisdom.
The essence of cognition is wisdom, which is one dimension higher than talent, and talent is one dimension higher than knowledge.
03 Improving cognition is the root of counterattack. To improve cognition, knowledge alone is not enough, and independent thinking ability is also required.
Independent thinking ability is the most important ability of a person.
In the era of algorithms, people are abandoning independent thinking ability, because algorithms can calculate your preferences based on our behavior and directly push our favorite ones.
People are becoming more and more lazy, and they are even too lazy to choose and distinguish.
In the future, people's behavior will be guided by emotions, not by values, let alone by thoughts.
People are abandoning all profound things, including literature, philosophy, thoughts, etc., because these things are too heavy.
Life is already very bitter, and people don't want to live in bitterness and hatred all the time.
So they keep looking for things that can numb themselves, and the Internet entertainment industry represented by live broadcasts, short videos, and games will become more and more developed.
Because these things can make people happy, even if it is short-lived.
But because the content is constantly updated, everyone is happy to do it.
Therefore, most people may become more and more stupid, and only a small number of people retain the ability to think independently.
Society will continue to identify those "low-cognition" people through various methods, and they will be harvested again and again.
Those who occupy the cognitive high ground have the right to interpret the future, which not only affects the future of business, but also affects the direction of society.
Improving cognition is the root of life's counterattack and the root of preventing being harvested.
The most precious thing in life is not that you see the real scenery after flipping through cognitive obstacles.
The most precious thing in life is that when you can see the mountains at a glance, you can still keep your original intention, be as kind as before, and be as innocent as before.