When I first started working, my colleague asked me: "If you win five million in the lottery, what are you going to do?" I replied: "Buy a lot of delicious food, eat as much as you can, and buy a house." , travel around, and then buy a house next to the school, close to work..."

I always keep discovering that I was a fool in the past. People's level of understanding is always at a certain stage of cognition. The nature of cognition It reflects your own point of observation, which is probably not about the way the world is.

It is difficult for people to imagine scenarios beyond their own life experience. Even if they can imagine, they cannot do without their own profession.

Your cognition is subject to the scene and circumstances you are in;

Just like the joke. Two beggars chatted and asked, "What does the emperor eat every day?"

A said: I can definitely drink two bowls of porridge every day. B said: He is already an emperor, and he still drinks porridge. He must be eating big meat buns, and he has enough.

I believe that if they became emperor and the scene changed, they would not say this.

What you think is an objective judgment or choice is actually just your point of view. It does not say what the world is like, it can only show where you look at the world from;

There are many historical facts in history. Historical facts are real and objective. Then connect historical facts with a line. This line can be subjective, as long as it is logically consistent.

For example, the demise of the Ming Dynasty is a fact. So why did the Ming Dynasty perish? That's the line, it can be subjective.

You said: The Ming Dynasty fell because the big landlords exploited the peasants, making them unable to survive. The peasants rebelled, okay. You can also say that the Ming Dynasty perished because Emperor Chongzhen was also stupid and incompetent. He made many stupid moves in the late period, and in the end the Ming Dynasty perished. That is also acceptable.

The line mentioned here is the angle from which you observe the world.

As the saying goes, there are no right or wrong opinions, but there are true and false facts.

People who understand will not care about "what you say", but care about "what you are" revealed in the words you say.

There is a story that is often told that actually illustrates this truth.

Goethe takes a walk in Weimar Park. When he was walking on a path that only allowed one person to pass, he came face to face with a literary critic who had once reduced all Goethe's works to nothing. The critic stood opposite Goethe, thrust his chest forward, and said arrogantly:

"I will never give way to a fool!"

The critic's posture made Goethe Feeling very amused, he nodded his head and said with a smile: "I am exactly the opposite of you, sir." As he said this, Goethe stood aside.

Suddenly, the critic's face turned red and he was ashamed.

Goethe jumped out of the conversation itself, saw the essence of the other party, freed himself, and solved the problem from the perspective of a third party.

We must have a clear-headed attitude toward cognition.

Mrs. Thatcher’s famous statement:

The idea here is actually what we call cognition. Your perception is your destiny.

Going back to the beginning, cognition will be affected by various environmental factors, but cognition can also change the environment. This is because cognition and environment are a system and can influence and change each other.

Cognition essentially reflects your observation point, which is probably not about the way the world is.

If you take it as absolute, then you will fall into the hole you dug.

Cognitive iteration is actually to break the original framework, change the perspective of observation, and give yourself greater possibilities.