In my life, I will contact many people.
Some talked for a moment and gasped in admiration. Even with limited words, I feel unfathomable.
Some of them are also very severe, but they are still not fully enlightened and have some shortcomings.
This feeling actually comes from a set of criteria.
What criteria?
At which level does a person form his own logical closed-loop.
Some people may be "giant babies", standing on the "top of ignorance". Some people may be true masters, constantly enlightened and standing on the "plateau of continuous stability".
There are about five levels to judge whether a person forms a closed loop and what kind of closed-loop it forms.
The first level: thinking has no logic, thinking has no closed loop.
You said A, he said B, there is no intersection between the two.
Maybe he can't even understand what he wants to say. The sentence itself has logical loopholes.
The second level: thinking has logic, thinking has no closed loop.
There is thinking, there is reasoning, and every sentence fits perfectly. But put all the words together, I don't know what to say, the views are contradictory.
What should a more advanced model of thinking look like?
The third level: thinking has logic, thinking has closed loop.
But this closed-loop may be a low-level closed loop. This is a sad and terrible thing, because he may be on the "top of ignorance".
For example, when confronted with conflicts, problems, and challenges, he likes to say that "yin and yang are related to each other. this has been the case since ancient times."
"Why did the business fail? Find xxx to work with and you will succeed. "
"Why is the body not good? Eat some xxx and you will recover. "
A sentence of yin and yang, already 50%+50%, covers the whole situation.
You will find that all his problems can be explained by yin and yang. Slowly, this person formed his own logic closed loop on the "yin and yang view", and he found that this logic can explain everything in the world. He will think that he has insight into the laws of the world.
However, yin and yang, right and wrong, left and right, good and bad, such a coarse "resolution" logic closed loop can only make oneself feel impeccable, but it is not of much practical use. This is what we often say, "air-to-air", "can't land".
Once a logically closed loop is formed at a lower level, he may be almost unable to move forward.
Past experience, on the contrary, has become a constraint and a stumbling block to continuing to rise.
He didn't know he didn't know, very "self-consistent and happy".
The fourth level: thinking has logic and thinking has a closed-loop. But it has evolved into high-level thinking closed loop.
At the top of ignorance, after being instructed by a superior person, or experiencing a history of blood and tears, or suddenly having an epiphany, he found that his original closed-loop resolution was so low that the logic system was completely shattered and dropped to the valley of despair.
From then on, he knew he didn't know much. He learned modestly, accumulated knowledge and slowly climbed the slope of enlightenment.
People with a high-level logic closed loop will say this:
This matter, from the level of dimension, there are 15 levels, decomposition;
From the time dimension, there are 8 stages, evolving continuously.
From the overall dimension, affected by 20 external factors, it is constantly mutating.
At higher resolution, a logic closed loop is formed, which is completely self-consistent, and it has higher operability and perspective.
He will not sum up all the problems as "yin and yang are not harmonious" and "the five elements lack fire". he knows he knows, but he knows better to respect the diversity and complexity of the real world.
Such people are already rare and excellent.
But, but, is it perfect?
People at the fourth level also have problems.
When the world changes, the old closed loop is out of touch with the new era, resulting in loopholes in the closed-loop.
Because of the closed-loop, he continued to explain the new world with the old logic.
He was once admired, but now he is lamented.
So what I really admire is the people at the fifth level:
At a high level, it forms a logically closed loop, but it breaks itself up and learns all the time.
He didn't even know that he knew it. He sat down with someone and chatted casually. His words could actually make the other person sobering. You will suddenly realize that other people's epiphany is only his basic skills.
Thinking is always open, enthusiasm for life, curiosity for knowledge.
You may even feel terrible because this is a real expert. This is really standing on the "continuously stable plateau", overlooking everything while still continuing to climb.
Bravely break oneself, abandon the stock, no matter how the world changes, always learn, fill in their own knowledge system, and never be satisfied.
Such people are not only rare but also one in a million.
End
From the first level of thinking without logic and thinking without closed-loop, to
the high-level of thinking closed-loop, to the fifth level of continuously fragmenting himself, which is the growth route of human beings.
From the "top of ignorance" to the "valley of despair", slow climb to the "slope of enlightenment" and finally stand on the "plateau of continuous stability", which is the road of human evolution.
However, a very interesting phenomenon is that the two groups standing on the "top of ignorance" and on the "continuously stable plateau" often look down on each other.
If the two sides could have had a quarrel, it would have had a result.
But I think there is one thing that we should reach a consensus on. We should try to become better and try to break ourselves.
People's greatest sorrow is to form their own logic closed loop too early at a low level. Since then, the cognitive exchange with the world has been closed.
So in today's world, the only constant is change itself.
When necessary, one must push oneself down from the top of the mountain and break oneself so as to be enlightened.
I heard that when the child was born, there was a piece on the top of the head that didn't grow properly, called fontanelle, which won't close until two years old. Before that, it was said that children could see everything and know about the whole universe. Only when their fontanel doors are closed will they become human beings.
Don't sew up your brain, open, open, reopen your logic loop.