I don't know if you have such an experience: even the same thing that you are very familiar with, your feelings are very different at different stages of your life.

For example, a classic TV series, a classic book and a classic famous saying can be read and updated frequently. Every time we look back after adding some social experience and sentiment, we suddenly find that I didn't understand it at that time.

Take a scene in the TV series "Bright Sword" as an example. I believe everyone has read the following story, but people with different cognitive dimensions will have different cognitive depths, and most people have not deeply understood the mystery-

Zhu, a Kuomintang general who was still recovering from serious injuries, was lying in his hospital bed. After listening to his subordinates' reports on the battlefield, he judged that Chairman Mao was performing a big drama.

Next, Chu Yunfei described the situation on the battlefield in detail:

"After the communists crossed the river, the strategic situation was this: the first field army marched to the northwest, the fourth field army marched from the two lakes to Guangdong and Guangxi, the third field army marched to Fujian, and the second field army made a detour to the west after attacking southern Anhui and Jiangxi. I am afraid that the next step is to enter Sichuan, Guizhou, Kangkang ... "

What is the whole chess game behind such a series of layouts? Although Chu Yunfei is far away from the battlefield, he is very clear about the direction of the whole war, so he gives a conclusion that shocked the audience-Mao Zedong is implementing a "strategic detour":

"On the surface, avoiding its edge and not confronting Bai Guanchang (Bai Chongxi)' s heavily armed group head-on, in fact, it is directly completing a huge encirclement behind our army (Kuomintang), and then fighting back and annexing all the national troops in the territory in one fell swoop."

Then, Chu Yunfei said, "I personally feel pessimistic about the prospect of war. I am afraid that the national army will lose this battle. " . When this was said, the audience was shocked. ......

You know, Zhu's military accomplishment and strategic vision are obvious to all within the Kuomintang. When analyzing the war situation, he stood far above the people present. If even he says so, how can others refute it?

Anyone who has seen Liang Jian should have seen this story, and many people should have passed it without delving into the mystery of this story.

Some people are also very interested in this plot, so they ask: Is Chairman Mao "strategically circuitous" in the play?

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Adhering to a serious, rigorous and responsible attitude towards history, I decided to carefully consult relevant historical materials. Before the consultation, I determined the approximate time range:

On the one hand, in the plot, Chu Yunfei said that "the strategic situation after the communists crossed the river is like this ..." Historically, the "Battle of Crossing the River" was launched on April 2 1949, so Chairman Mao should implement this strategy after April 2 1.

On the other hand, before Chu analyzed the war situation, his subordinates were reading the news about the Seventh Army of Bai Chongxi in the newspaper: 10 Battle of Shengtangpu in August and 16 Battle of Qingshuping in August. Thus, it is not far from the Battle of Songhu at this time, and Chairman Mao should implement this strategy before August 10.

With such a time range, the difficulty of consulting historical materials is greatly reduced.

It is worth mentioning that during the War of Liberation, Chairman Mao sent hundreds of telegrams to various military regions. In this way, he directed the war and made overall plans.

With the historical data of the contents of the telegram, we can get closer to the real history. Please look at the original works of Chairman Mao in these telegrams and deeply understand what is called "strategic planning wins a thousand miles".

Finally, I found the historical materials: On May 23rd, Mao Zedong drafted a telegram for the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to the General Front Committee, Liu Bocheng, Zhang Jichun, Li Da, Su Yu, Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan, Peng and He Long.

"One may occupy Lanzhou, Ningxia and Qinghai before the end of the year. At the end of the year or the beginning of the year, prepare to split up. One route, headed by Peng, is located in the northwest and will start operating in Xinjiang next spring; The first route is led by He, managing northern Sichuan, so as to cooperate with the Second Field Army to solve the three provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan and Xikang. " (Remarks: It confirms what Chu Yunfei said in the story: "The first field army marched into the northwest")

"The Second Field Army should also be prepared to go west with the main force or the whole army within two months to operate Sichuan, Guizhou and Kang." (Remarks: It confirms what Chu said in the plot: "After the Second Field Army attacked southern Anhui and southern Jiangxi, it will detour to the west, and I am afraid it will enter the Sichuan-Guizhou-Kangqu area next")

"Millet, Zhang Dianzhu. You should prepare quickly, enter Fujian as soon as possible, strive to occupy Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and other key points in June and July, and prepare to capture Xiamen with your cameras. " (Remarks: It confirms what Chu Yunfei said in the story: "Sanye marched into Fujian")

"The main force of the four fields can reach Xiangxiang and Youxian in early or middle July, Yongzhou and Chenzhou in August, and rest in September. 10 Bai Chongxi can retreat to Guangdong and Guangxi, and 1 1 month or1February may occupy Guangdong and Guangxi. " (Remarks: It confirms what Chu Yunfei said in the plot: "The Fourth Field Army marched into Guangdong and Guangxi from the two lakes")

According to the above historical records, it can be judged that the plot of Liang Jian accords with historical facts. Of course, this layer is not enough. At most, we feel that "Chairman Mao's vision is really long-term" and "this is really a drama of conscience", that's all.

In order to understand the mystery, we have to taste the story again and again and dig deeper-

What is the practical value of reading Chairman Mao's books for us?

How to improve your cognitive dimension by reading Chairman Mao's books?

Let's talk about two aspects in detail.

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On the one hand, people with high cognitive dimension like reading history.

The ancients said: "Take copper as a mirror, you can dress up, learn from others, know the gains and losses, learn from history, and know the rise and fall."

The plot of "Bright Sword" is very classic. When analyzing Chairman Mao's "great circuitous strategy", Chu pointed out that in the history of China, Genghis Khan had implemented the "great circuitous strategy" to destroy the gold and the Southern Song Dynasty in one fell swoop.

"In A.D. 12 16, Genghis Khan summoned the Han people to surrender to Guo Baoyu and asked about the best way to conquer the Central Plains. Guo replied: "The Central Plains is strong and cannot be ignored; Southwest governors are brave and available; It is better to take it first, so that you can get money, and you will have great ambitions. "

Guo's words undoubtedly inspired Genghis Khan. On his deathbed, Genghis Khan put forward a strategic decision to take advantage of the feud between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty and implement a strategic detour through the Song Dynasty in order to destroy the Jin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty in one fell swoop.

We can get inspiration from ancient war cases when the Communist army implements "great circuitous strategy" and "great deep combat".

Judging from the direction of large-scale deep combat, the Mongolian army went counterclockwise, that is, from northwest to southeast, while the Communist army went clockwise, that is, from southeast to southwest, to outflank our army.

Specifically, the Mongolian army attacked the Southern Song Dynasty from Jianghuai in the east to Sichuan and Shaanxi in the west, and the Communist army attacked our army from Beijing-Guangzhou Line in the east to Yunnan-Guizhou in the west. I'm afraid history will repeat itself. ......

Similarly, based on the rigorous attitude towards history, I consulted the historical materials about the Mongolian army's destruction of gold and song, and found that the plot description was indeed consistent with the historical materials.

This detail can't help but arouse our infinite thinking: will what happened in history be repeated now and even in the future? You can say "no" or "yes".

Say "no" because you can't repeat it intact; Say "yes" because the underlying logic, deep mystery and inner wisdom of the event are interlinked and will definitely happen again.

Therefore, anyone who has made great achievements in society, has a wide range of knowledge and profound thoughts has a strong interest in history, because they have a common inspiration-history is a mirror, through which we can see the future!

Chairman Mao once said, "When we look at history, we will see the future." "History cannot be cut off, as if everything started from scratch. This view is wrong. "

Chairman Mao has the habit of "loving books like life", and he has read 17 times only "Zi Tong Zhi Jian". In addition, he also intensively read historical works, such as Lu Jian Bian, Yu Lan and Twenty-four History.

Through years of reading, he has long been familiar with the history of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, and made many "strategic deductions" on the events at that time, absorbing such rich wisdom of predecessors, which can of course be used for reference!

Undeniably, if we want to improve our perception and cognition in life, personal practice is essential. At the same time, if there is any way to speed up our cognition, it is reading, especially those books related to history and great men.

1In April, 932, when the Red Army captured Zhangzhou, Fujian, Mao Zedong accidentally obtained two books written by Lenin-Two Strategies of the Social Democratic Party in the Democratic Revolution (hereinafter referred to as "Two Strategies") and Left-wing Pediatrics in the Communist Movement (hereinafter referred to as "Left-wing Pediatrics"). From then on, he began to touch these two books.

1933, I sent Two Strategies to Peng for reading, and attached a letter saying: "If you want to read this book during the Great Revolution, you won't make mistakes."

What's the matter? It was during the "First Cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party" from 1924 to 1927 that the immature * * * failed to handle the relationship with the bourgeois political parties, thus making a "right" mistake and suffering a devastating blow, leading to tens of thousands of party member's bloodshed and the failure of the Great Revolution.

"Two Strategies" has long discussed how proletarian political parties view and participate in the bourgeois democratic revolution. Revolutionary strategies such as "striving for leadership" and "forming an alliance with peasants" put forward in the book are also fatal mistakes made by "right capitulationism" represented by Chen Duxiu. If you had read this book earlier, * * * wouldn't have paid the price of blood!

Soon, I gave Peng the book "Left-wing Pediatric Diseases" with a letter saying: "Look at the book you sent before ("Two Strategies "), which tells you that you don't know the other; You didn't know until you saw Left-wing Infantile Disease that "left" is as harmful as right. "

At that time, 1933 was also a period when "left" dogmatism prevailed within the party. Various "Left" phenomena analyzed by Lenin, such as closed-doorism, refusal to win the majority by taking advantage of contradictions among the bourgeoisie, and refusal to do hard mass work, are quite common under the leadership of the Party.

This "left" approach led to the failure of the Red Army 1934 "fifth counter-encirclement campaign" and forced to implement the strategic shift-the Long March, which made * * * pay a bloody lesson!

Both "Left" and "Right" deviations have brought disastrous losses to * * *, and these mistakes have long been written in Lenin's works.

Is this a coincidence? Not at all! These are all the wisdom that Lenin gained in the practice of Russian revolution.

This further confirms the sentence: history will not simply repeat itself, but the underlying logic is interlinked, and you can see the future by looking at history.

So, will the same underlying logical events happen in our life today?

The answer is yes.

Once you understand the inner meaning of "left" and "right", you will find that there is nothing new under the sun. Too many people are repeating the mistakes made by our predecessors, even ourselves!

"Left" and "right" are ugly. Do they feel far away from us? Reading Mao Xuan, when you really understand it thoroughly, you will find how grounded it is, and you will understand how important it is to take history as a mirror (by the way, in the school of Mao Xuan on the knowledge planet, we explained the "left" and "right" of grounding gas).

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On the other hand, it is very important to choose what kind of life height and cognitive dimension the circle reaches.

Take Chu Yunfei in Liang Jian as an example. He is the fifth graduate of Huangpu Military Academy. It is conceivable that he spent a long time in the circle of the best military generals of that era, and it was on this basis that he could understand Chairman Mao's "great detour strategy".

How do other people react to the same information?

There is another detail in this story: when a subordinate analyzes the war situation, he draws a conclusion that there is a lot of room for manoeuvre based on many trivial factors.

Look, why did he come to the opposite conclusion with Chu Yunfei? Because of different cognition.

The more you read countless people, the more you can feel a very obvious phenomenon-the cognitive models of different types of people are completely different, and the cognitive differences between circles are often much larger than most people expected.

Limited by the horizon, in reality, many people only pay attention to the details and ignore the overall macro environment. It's like saying that the whole country has entered the cold winter season on a large scale. At this time, someone stood up and said that it doesn't matter, because he has a lot of firewood, and making a fire outside can raise the temperature in the whole country?

How funny! In the face of the general trend, let alone a fire, even a hundred fires, what can we do? Just like Chu Yunfei's classic comment before: "What is there to brag about the small victory in the big defeat?"

Sure enough, at this moment, Chu directly turned against him and said that he lacked strategic vision, and the result was bound to come to the wrong conclusion.

Savor carefully, isn't similar phenomenon still happening in our life? People with independent thinking and profound insights like Chu will naturally not be affected by this conclusion. Plus, he is the chief executive, and this subordinate will not argue endlessly like a "thug". But what if Zhu Yunfei is not the Chief Executive?

There is a cruel reality that it is difficult to communicate between different cognitive circles, so people with high cognitive dimensions tend not to be entangled in "leverage".

But what about people with little experience? Will you be misled by the conclusion that there is a lot of room for manoeuvre, go to the battlefield with a gun in high spirits, and finally don't even know how to die? In layman's terms, it means "being fooled and lame."

The most difficult thing for people to know is themselves, so how to judge what kind of cognitive dimension they are in? The simplest and most effective way is to identify the people around you, see the circles they often contact, what topics they often talk about and what they think.

As the saying goes, "He who is near the ink is black". If you taste it carefully, you will find this sentence extremely accurate. There is a saying in psychology that "everyone around you is your subconscious", and people are easily hinted by the behavior of people around you. The more people who are in frequent contact with themselves, the easier it is to influence each other subtly.

Why do you want to "take history as a mirror" and read books related to history and great men? It is because it is easy to make our thinking depth close to those great men and let their wisdom nourish our cognition.

In this respect, Chairman Mao is the best case, and he himself is a "lifelong learner".

Of course, some people say that reading is difficult. Is there any simple and quick way? Of course, that's a change of circle-staying in Chu Yunfei's circle for a long time will naturally upgrade the cognitive dimension; I have been in this subordinate circle for a long time, and I am "flickering and lame" unconsciously.

It's just ..... in real life, it's hard to find a circle to improve the cognitive dimension together. Even if you find it, it is easy for you to feel "difficult to fit in" and "out of place" when you first enter. What should we do?

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Let's sum up some conclusions just now:

First, reading history can quickly improve the cognitive level, and history can see the future;

Second, people with different cognitive levels look at problems in different ways;

Thirdly, the easiest and quickest way to improve the cognitive level is to enter a high-dimensional circle, because "those who are close to ink are black."

That's what I want to express to you.