The difference is the ability to sink.
People with a strong focus are able to actively block interference, choose the information they need and become immersed in, and even practice it, which gives them the ability to go into deep reading and thinking at any time and place. And those who are weak are easily distracted, and any wind and wind will make them uncomfortable.
Human beings end up at different levels because of different immersion capabilities. On a broad scale, people with strong immersion capacity are often in the dominant layer, and those with weak immersion are often in the dominant layer.
Section one: Emotional focus: a move to boost your attention.
It’s an interesting thing to look at your attention with a meta-cognisance, and I believe you can easily observe this: the body is doing an A, the brain is thinking B.
• While running, the hands and feet move while the brain is thinking about tomorrow and tomorrow;
• When eating, his mouth moves and his heart is worried about his relationship with others;
When you sleep, you don’t move, you think like a waterfall.
These scenes are common, commonly known as distractions and desertions, but you probably don’t think it’s a problem at all, even being content with yourself. However, this “doing A and think B” pattern really affects us, making us unwittingly troubled and becoming foolish. In a sense, it is the source of our distress and incompetence.
“Action” is like a body. “Feel” is like a soul.
In order to see this, we can try to decipher attention. In retrospect, our attention can be divided into two parts: “focus on action” and “focus on perception”, for example:
• Running is action and the rest is feeling;
When eating, eating is action, and the rest is feeling;
♪ Sleeping is action, the rest is feeling… ♪
At first, action and feeling were the same.
We’ll feel it all in our hearts and minds when we do something, and focus all our attention on things that are relevant to the present, so run, eat, sleep… This is usually the case when we start learning a skill, or when we’re just children, when we’re good at investing, being receptive, peaceful, and spiritual.
As action becomes more skilled, we focus less and less on action, and more and more attention is diverted from other places, so that we no longer have patience to act. Since then, the distraction has replaced the focus and the physical and mental separation has begun (see figure 4-1).
Figure 4-1 Physical and psychological integration and separation
Actions that lack feelings are like bodies that lose their souls; those who lack feelings are absent, blind and deaf to everything. More precisely, we have a confused soul in our body, a soul that always “do A and think B” : take a look when brushing your teeth, walk and take a shower and walk away from it all the time.
In the walk of God, action loses perception and attention is not able to form feedback loops because of a lack of feeling, so the body and movement begins to unconsciously become numb or disfigured. If you don’t believe it, you can feel it now: Is part of the body always rigid when you walk away and part of the look always tense?
However, as far as the pattern of physical and psychological separation is concerned, the physical impact is small and, indeed, it has a continuing negative impact on our emotional state and capacity-building.
The reason for the distraction and the harm.
There are two reasons to be distracted: to find the present boring, so to pursue something more interesting; and to find the present painful, so to pursue something more comfortable. Because the body is trapped in reality, it has to keep its mind empty.
Wherever we are, whatever we are going through, if the reality is a little dissatisfied, we can get our minds in the air, get out of trouble and enjoy the comfort and pleasure that we imagine. In other words, the cost of being distracted is too low, and human nature is desperate for success and easy to find, so, by default, we are all consciously in the comfort zone.
Unfortunately, “scrambling” means that afterward we have to bear all kinds of damage, the biggest of which is the deterioration in the quality of life. Because when we walk, we either sink in or worry about the future or fantasies about things that are not possible, and we can live at any time, but only now.
And life is made up of a current piece of life, a single piece of body and body, a high-quality life focused on happiness, and a separate piece of body and soul, a low-quality life of distraction. Fragmentation can also lead to delay and inefficiency, as emotions tend to lag behind behaviour, and people tend to move slowly and need emotional transitions.
Thus, when faced with difficulties, people who are physically and mentally separated are always unwittingly returned to the comfort zone, while those who are physically and mentally integrated are more likely to jump out of the comfort zone and face the difficulties.
In the long run, a person ‘ s concentration may signal the magnitude of his future achievements. When Bill Gates first met Warren Buffett, Gates’ father gave each of them a card, and each of them wrote a word about what had been achieved. As a result, the answers were identical and focused.
Of course, we do not have to take too much responsibility for our own distractions, which, at the micro level, are one of our natures. Not only you, everyone does. The reason behind this is the memory mechanism of our brain.
Humans are certainly less capable of remembering than computers, in terms of both capacity and accuracy, but that does not affect the speed at which we extract them, because the human brain uses contextually relevant memory methods, i.e., to remind us of specific content, such as that we can think of someone, something on the basis of any element, such as name, voice, time or scene, and the computer handles all information on an equal footing, and every extraction is searched from the database. The manner in which contextually related memory can significantly reduce brain energy consumption and compensate for the lack of brain neurons processing.
However, evolution is a double-edged sword, and one of the side effects of context-related memory is:
Any information we hear, see, touch, taste, smell brings out some other memory, and, because the perception is controlled by subconscious, the subconscious never disappears, this distraction can happen as long as we wake up. That is why we need to exercise our knowledge, because growth is the process of overcoming nature, and we have to restrain it with consciousness and self-control, or we will be subconscious and unaware.
Take it back. Back to the moment.
If, as a child, a person has developed a habit of full commitment and well-defined focus, then he will not only gain intellectual wisdom but also emotional peace. After a long period of consolidation, he can create a huge gap with ordinary people, who, after all, are largely unaware that attention is divided into actions and feelings. If we knew that principle earlier and applied it and amended it, perhaps fate and quality of life would be different. But it is not too late to know, because one move is enough to turn the situation around: a return to feeling.
When you run, you take your feelings back, you take your legs up, you breathe into your mouth and the breeze in your face; you take your feelings back when you sleep, you feel your body’s stress and laxity; you take your feelings back when you eat; you feel the sweetness of every meal, you feel the whole process of everything, and don’t rush into your mouth before you finish.
Physical feeling is always the best medium for entering the state of the moment, and the process of feeling things disappear is a good focus. It reminds us that the need for physical and mental integration is not only to focus on but also to enjoy the present, which will certainly make us more comfortable and not panic.
We’re going to get back to the moment, we’re going to get less trouble, we’re going to get more energy, we’re going to get more emotional, we’re going to get softer, we’re going to get more sensitive, we’re going to think deeper… This habit involves all aspects of life, and changing it is tantamount to changing its own bottom pattern of behaviour, which cannot be underestimated.
Finally, you may have heard one more story, but with today’s reflection, you will soon understand what it means.
A pedestrian asked the old monk, “What were you doing before you got there?” I’m sorry.
The old monk said, “Get wood, fetch water and cook.” I’m sorry.
And the pedestrians asked, “What happens after that?” I’m sorry.
The old monk said, “Get wood, fetch water and cook.” I’m sorry.
Then the pedestrians asked, “What is that? I’m sorry.
The old monk said, “Before the way, when you cut wood, you pick water, and when you pick water, you eat, and when you do, you cut wood, you carry water, and you cook. I’m sorry.
Section II: Learning focus: Deep insulation is the safe handle of an evolutionary double-edged sword.
Two million years ago, when humans were part of the same species as chimpanzees and gorillas, humans began to move madly towards the wise. Evolution has given humans a highly developed nervous system, giving us a great sense and a great ability to think, thereby creating civilization.
Evolution, however, is a double-edged sword that brings human power and pain. People are unsatisfied with too much information, or suffer too much from too much desire, or suffer from a lack of capacity to worry, and are unable to live in good or bad conditions. Just as we are today, we are always struggling to get rid of cell phone interference, to acquire enviable skills, to have the life we want, and so on. Low-level animals don’t have such troubles. They only have intuitive information that actually exists in the environment. – The hungry lion only cares about the information that will help it hunt the antelope, and the hungry lion focuses on the warm sun…
In this sense, the enjoyment of the benefits of evolution also bears the pain of evolution, although there is no need to worry, as some wise people have deliberately or inadvertently escaped from this constraint by adopting an extremely effective mode of behaviour that often leaves their emotions and abilities in a state of peace and efficiency. If evolution is a double-edged sword, then they will be able to find and capture the security handle of the double-edged sword. And when the people were still in a state of understanding, they had learned to hold the handle of the sword in their hands.
Fundamental differences in human emotions and capabilities
In order to better understand, let’s start with the “capability to choose information on its own initiative” because differences in human emotions and abilities come from differences in the way we focus on our own attention. For example, meditators are more able to proactively focus on their own breath and feelings than others who are not focused, to block other myths.
It’s emotional, it’s capacity. People with weak capacities are highly distracted, they must learn in an ideal environment, and any move in the wind can make them uncomfortable; they can always resist trying to do something more interesting, and a hot news and interesting chat can divert their attention away from important things. The opposite is true of the powerful, whose advantage lies in their ability to actively shield, select and insulate the information they need, for which they may even practice, for example, by deliberately focusing on the sound of their voices, which gives him the ability to go into a state of deep reading and reflection at all times.
Human beings end up at different levels due to different immersion capabilities. On a broad scale, people with strong immersion capacity are often in the dominant layer, and those with weak immersion are often in the dominant layer. If we want to emerge from the crowd, we must deliberately sharpen that quality, perhaps the golden key to our destiny.
The method of deep immersion
In the above, I have introduced the concepts of “active choice of information” and “deep in immersion ” , but the former is only an entry point, and the latter is the key. Because people who can choose information on their own initiative may not necessarily be insinuated, many people who can put down their mobile phones, pick up books, give up entertainment, sharpen their skills, or even practice so much that they can work hard to impress themselves. It’s like finding the security handle of a double-edged sword without knowing how to capture it.
One of the reasons why there are so many people in the world who can focus, but very few of them are outstanding is that most people lack the capacity to immerse in depth. However, the ability to obtain deep immersion cannot be based solely on passion, but rather on technology and methodology. Unfortunately, many of the great achievements of their predecessors, despite their deep insinuation capacity, are rarely clear about what this capacity is and how it should be acquired. Fortunately, the book ” Deliberate Practice” gives us a broad answer.
Psychologist Anders Alexon and scientist Robert Pool, after extensive research, pointed out that so-called geniuses, which are not mysterious, are essentially “right ways” plus “a lot of practice”. In other words, we have not become as brilliant as genius because of wrong methods or lack of practice.
In terms of methodology, the efforts of the vast majority of people who lack guidance fall within the category of “naïve practice ” , which is to do something over and over and over again, and to expect that it will be the only way to improve performance and improve levels. This is a long way from a repetition of the term “deep in the head” and “right in the way”. The “right approach” usually has four features.
First, there are clearly defined objectives. For example, if you want to practice the piano, tell yourself, “Don’t make any mistakes three times in a row and finish the song at the right speed.” “I want to practice the piano for half an hour.” The clearer the definition of objectives, the higher the sensitivity of attention, the more energy is concentrated and the better skills. If the target is too large, then it is broken down into small targets, also to make it more specific and precise.
Second, the practice is extremely focused. Everyone knows the importance of focus, but the key to insinuation is to be “extremely” focused, that is, 100 per cent of the energy invested in a short period of time is better than 70 per cent of the energy invested in a long time, because the real motivation for focus is not persistence and patience, but constant discovery of subtle differences in techniques and persistent attention, and the more energy concentrated, the more subtle it is.
Extreme focus is not only the key to learning, but also the source of inspiration. As shown in figure 4-2, the author Barbara Oakley described in the book The Way of Learning: the brain has two models for learning, one for focusing on consciousness and the other for dispersing subconscious.
Figure 4-2 Awareness and subconscious working patterns
The focus model is that, when we focus on something, the frontal cortex automatically transmits a signal along the neural route, which flows to the various brain regions that are relevant to our thinking. In this model, we may find answers, or we may not find answers, because the real answers may not necessarily be in the brain of our conscious attention. This is a time when subconscious dissipation patterns are needed to help us by enabling the brain to jump out of its original work area and to connect neurons randomly to unrelated areas, so that answers can be found that might solve the problem.
However, one condition for subconscious work to be fulfilled is to completely shut down the sober mind, i.e. to forget the original thing. Two models are like light from a flashlight: the beam is tight under the focus mode, it has a strong permeability, and it hits a small area in a straight line; if it goes to dispersing mode, the beam is scattered, although the light is less intense, but the light is wider. It is important to note that a flashlight cannot light both at once.
So the secret to being smart is to stay extremely focused and turn attention to another thing that has nothing to do with it. It’s just that it’s hard to get a sense of what it’s all about; it’s all gone and it’s all gone. In this way, inspiration and answers will appear in an approximate manner.
Akimid was ready to go to the public bathroom and relax completely because he had no idea how to prove the Crown, but the moment his body entered the tub, the spilling of water inspired him. Many examples show that scientific discoveries or other intellectual breakthroughs occur at a time when the person concerned has no expectations and is thinking about something else.
So, the good learning model is that there’s a very clear line between B, A and B when you’re doing A. If you think of B when you’re doing A, and you think of A when you’re doing B, then you don’t have enough depth and subconsciousness to open up, and this borderless habit can do a lot of damage to ability. Li also said: “You have to learn to play, you have to play.” “It is a good thing to develop a human personality and a human being.”
Thirdly, effective feedback is available. Generally speaking, whatever we do, we need feedback to accurately identify where we are and why we are. In the absence of feedback, we are prone to mistakes and distractions, and it is difficult to quickly upgrade individuals. It is therefore a good thing to have a coach, and it is a good thing to have a teacher criticize it, and closed-door car-making exercises can not only distract people, but also keep them at a low level for a long time. Therefore, finding ways to obtain timely and effective guidance and feedback is an important condition for continuous refinement. If conditions are limited, feedback can also be obtained through book images, communication with others or self-reflection.
Fourth, always in the stretch area. There is no point in repeating what is already in hand, but a task that is too difficult to challenge can also frustrate itself, neither of which can bring people into immersion, and the good should be in between.
The famous psychologist, Mihari Cheksen Miharai, proposed such a model in his book Heartstream (see figure 4-3): When people are tired of current activities, it means that they should be made more difficult; when people are anxious about current activities, it means that they should remain focused on practice at this level, so that they can enter and immerse themselves in the routing.
Figure 4-3 Cardiopaths
Each and every one of us must have had the experience of being intoxicated by the love of a thing, forgetting time and being tired of it, whether it be a matter of entertainment or study, a state of self-empowerment. But if there is to be something to be achieved, there can be no reliance on this precarious spontaneous state of affairs, and solid patterns of behaviour must be established. Because we face not only interest, but also the core difficulties of fear.
That is to say, every day we have to do things that make us feel somewhat difficult but that can be accomplished by working hard, namely, jumping out of the comfort zone, avoiding the hardship zone and being in the stretching zone.
It is good that we can build active immersion patterns based on the four above-mentioned points (see figure 4-4), which can be consolidated into deep immersion at the bottom of the process, thus irradiating all aspects of life.
Figure 4-4 Deliberate exercise of the four elements
The day I learned to practice this theory, I started to practice.
When her daughter used to practice the piano, her mother would ask her to take the new chorus bullets 10 times, and the mission would be completed as long as it was enough, and now I have changed the way I practiced the piano with the principles of deliberate practice.
I first heard her play, and I found a lot of inexperienced and error-prone places, and I asked her to practice only the first section today, not the second one (to split the big target into a small target) and then only the wrong place (to practice in the stretch area) and to do it as long as it was able to keep flowing three times. During the exercise, I will correct her finger and key errors in time (timely and effective feedback), so that she will soon be in a state of concentration (insulated), and in a few moments I will be fine.
Although the daughter ended up being tired, she was clearly full of achievements, as she was no longer afraid of the hardest places. If that is not the case, she will go over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, and this practice is very ineffective.
Carefully aware of the four above-mentioned elements, we can enter deep immersion, moving from “focus” to “excellence,” and, of course, to true excellence: a lot of practice.
How much of this exercise needs? Chen An, the pianist, may be able to provide us with an answer. She started practicing at the age of three and a half, and then a year and a half later she played an eight-grade hard piano. In a programme interview, she confessed that she had to practice four hours a day, and in an earlier interview she said, “I practiced every day, not one day. I’m sorry.
It is clear that geniuses also require a lot of practice, or that it is the “right way” plus “a lot of practice” that makes geniuses. Whoever has the capacity to immerse in depth must be able to move up a certain field.
So, from now on, take a good look at yourself.
• Looking at their own attention — passive attraction or active choice?
• Examine their immersion — distraction or extreme concentration?
• Looking at their practice — is it easy to taste or a lot of input?
The wisdom of those who preceded us is sufficient to lead us to excellence, and with our hearts, we will be able to achieve ourselves and to benefit others in the great tide of evolution. Case number: YXA1BLPwontXDyzK6wUlpla
I don’t know.
Keep your eyes on the road.
