In life, seeing a car on the road, smelling the food in a restaurant, touching metal with our hands, and hearing beautiful music are all information received through our senses.
We collect external information through sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste, etc., and use it to distinguish the different essences between things.
After the information is collected, it is transmitted to the brain, which processes the collected information and integrates it through the "crafts" of synthesizing, organizing, and extracting.
Information processing from the outside to the inside
The information collected through the external senses directly governs our thinking and actions, which is equivalent to placing the body under the control of the surface level of consciousness, and the information does not need to be processed in depth.
Advantage: You don't have to have a strong knowledge base, you just have to accept a lot of external information and analyze it to make decisions.
For example, in stock trading, you do not need to have professional stock knowledge, as long as you have collected a huge amount of stock data and information, and after analyzing it, you can make a judgment on whether to invest.
Disadvantage: It is more dependent on external information.
The first step in the process is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing and how you are doing it, and how you are doing it.
Processing information from the inside out
The body is governed by the active consciousness of the brain, and most of the information is consolidated from experience and experience, etc.
The brain is the only one that is able to process and integrate the information that is already stored in it.
Advantage: You don't need a lot of external information to make a decision based on internally organized information.
For example, some people may have only observed the market for a few days, and then invested their money in a big way, and ended up making a lot of money, without collecting a lot of external information, but more based on their own experience and intuition, which allowed them to get ahead of the curve and become successful.
Some of the big boys tend to have a strong internal cognitive ability. Because the face of the same thing, the amount of information extracted is different, through the only information big brother can rely on a strong internal cognition, access to more useful information, through the information obtained, the brain of the whole picture of the information, through the iceberg a foot to see the potential of the market, and fully invested in the final in the market shape is notable when the market has been dominated by the market.
Disadvantages; no strong information integration ability, cognitive system is always at the low end, and when you see the time, it is already the last train.
Cognition is not static, but can be upgraded later in life.
Because the core of cognition is the processing of collected information, the method of processing information is superior or not, which determines whether your cognitive system is advanced or not.
Upgrading cognition can be accomplished by learning knowledge. One's cognitive system may not be superb, but one can learn from the biographies of celebrities, cases of successful events, and the ways of doing things of the best people, learn from the efficient cognitive systems of other people, learn from their strengths, and then assemble them into one's own cognitive system to accomplish the upgrading.
This is what it means to read a lot of books, and to be able to write as if you were a god, by reading more and more and transforming it into an internal cognition.
The advantage is that you can learn the strengths of other people's cognitive systems more quickly. The disadvantage is that it takes time to get used to the idea, and it takes time to get good at it.
Upgrading cognition can be accomplished by practicing, which means upgrading one's original cognition by constantly polishing it. For example, walking from A to B was not efficient in the past, but we can shorten the time by jogging, and strengthen the speed of running by exercising our bodies to gradually improve the efficiency. We can also use tools and vehicles to accomplish the goal of getting from A to B. We can explore our own shortcomings in practice, and gradually improve our own knowledge in practice.
Advantages: The cognitive system is tightly integrated with the action through practice, so that it can be used as a guide, and the mind can move at will. The disadvantages are: you can't learn to upgrade your system as fast as you can, and you may waste your time and energy by taking a wrong turn.
The combination of learning and practicing is undoubtedly the best way to upgrade your cognition.
Because when you contact information through your senses, there is not only one perception involved, such as square dancing, the first visual acceptance of the leader's information, the auditory acceptance of the music, the brain analyzes the beat and the movement, which in turn allows you to make the final movement, and the life of a blind person is through the sense of touch and the sense of hearing to complete the self-care.
So one kind of information alone doesn't allow us to accomplish what we want to do, but rather we see things through the combined perception of multiple pieces of information.
The barrel theory visualizes the effect of overall improvement. Sometimes the reason why we can't upgrade is precisely because of the shortest plank, and although one aspect of excellence can upgrade the cognitive system, it undoubtedly requires more effort because the further you move forward at the top, the more expensive it is.
The advantage of interdisciplinarity in finding solutions to problems is gradually becoming more pronounced, so don't look at a problem from just one angle, look around it, and maybe when you get around to a certain angle, you'll see a way to solve the problem.
When we focus our attention on one thing, then we treat the cognitive process of this thing is strengthened, for example, in the noisy environment you listen to the leadership of the teachings, then you can only hear the words of the leadership by strengthening the attention, concentration, and flinty ears to listen to the words of the leaders, and the noisy environment is reduced to the background, the interference will be reduced to a minimum, and when you are distracted by listening to the environment even if the environment is not noisy, because of the lack of attention, the environment is not the only thing that can help us. The first thing you need to do is to get a good understanding of what you're doing and how you're doing it.
The information collected by strengthening your attention will be processed by your brain and analyzed at a deeper level.
So, do we always need to be highly concentrated.
If one is highly focused on the white cup, it may be difficult to spot the black portrait, as this limits the mind to expanding and cognition.
Attention, as a valuable resource, is not inexhaustible, and must be utilized, or even if you vomit, you may not be able to achieve the goal.
Cognition determines a person's field of vision, and the field of vision determines a person's realm, so which realm you want to become depends on where your cognitive level stays.
A high level of cognition allows us to navigate in the heavy society, can be in front of the opportunity to make a decision, can make life better, can also make you shine.
So hurry up and start our cognitive upgrade road.