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¡ª¡ª"Isn't it? What you want is not an option, but the choice itself?"
¡ª¡ª"Yes, think about it carefully, isn't everyone like this?
According to Sheena, this is the result of evolution. Humans are animals shaped by choice. The desire to choose is actually the lowest instinct of human beings, just like the desire to survive.
After understanding this layer of truth, everyone will know why people often make wrong choices? How to improve the correct rate of selection?
Daniel Kahneman once divided the human brain into two parts, the rational brain and the emotional brain, in the famous "Thinking, Fast and Slow".
The rational brain is like a rigorous scientist, responsible for analyzing the data collected by the body one by one to help you make the best decision.
For example, if you want to buy a fund, you need to analyze its fluctuation trend in the past year, look at the working time of the fund manager, whether it has gone through bulls and bears at least once, and so on. These analyzes must rely on the rational brain.
The perceptual brain is just the opposite. It does not do any analysis at all, and directly responds quickly to external things.
For example, if you see a tiger rushing towards you, you will run away without even thinking about it. This is the perceptual brain giving instructions.
The desire to choose is dominated by the perceptual brain. As long as you have options in front of you, your desire to choose will be automatically stimulated.
As for how to choose and which one to choose, it is up to the rational brain to be responsible for the analysis.
In other words, the desire to choose is an irrational instinct. The choice is rational thinking.
So, what is the relationship between the two? You may think that reason must dominate. Impulsive situations are rare after all.
In fact, the truth is just the opposite. The rational brain is the follower of the emotional brain.
Its responsibility is not to correct the perceptual brain, but to verify the perceptual brain.
For example, when you meet a person, your sensibility tells you that he is not a good person. At this time, your rational brain will start looking for evidence to verify the judgment of your emotional brain.
For example, speaking too loudly means that he does not consider other people's feelings, and erratic eyes indicate that he has ghosts in his heart, etc.
This is the relationship between the desire to choose and the choice. Once the emotional brain activates your desire to choose, the rational brain will only help you analyze the options.
It will never tell you that at this moment, you should actually be content with the status quo and not consider making any choices.
Of course, we are not saying that there is a problem with the desire for choice itself. Rather, why is it so powerful? You must know that most of human instincts must have made great contributions in the course of evolution.
The greater the merit and the more useful it is, the stronger this instinct becomes.
For human beings, the desire to choose is such an instinct related to life and death. To understand this point of view, we have to observe from the perspective of human evolution.
Hina believes that when humans were still apes, compared with other animals, there was no obvious physical advantage. Because we can neither fly nor have sharp minions.
So, how do humans compete with other animals for limited survival resources? This requires that humans have to explore the environment more actively and find survival resources earlier than other animals.
The essence of exploration is actually choice. For example, if you see a fork in the road, do you take the familiar old road? Or take a new road that has never been taken? Do you just give up when you see something you haven't eaten? Or take the initiative to try?
In the process of continuous exploration, human beings are constantly faced with choices. Over time, the choice becomes an instinct. Since it is instinct, it needs to be released.
It's like eating when you're hungry, and sleeping when you're sleepy. With the instinct to choose, you have the impulse to choose.
Note that this does not mean that only humans know how to choose. Other animals also have a sense of choice. However, human beings have the strongest desire to choose among all animals. Human beings are most prone to choice, and least able to bear not having a choice.
Speaking of which, we can open a brain hole. From the perspective of the entire human race, what is the use of choice? You will find that selection is actually a trial-and-error mechanism endowed by nature to human groups.
You see, when a person makes a choice, there is a certain risk. For example, if you see something poisonous, if you eat it by mistake, you will die.
For individuals, choices have both advantages and disadvantages. But, for a group, it's pretty much harmless.
?Because one person chooses the right one, others can follow suit. If you choose wrong, others can learn from it and avoid making the same mistake.
In other words, for individual human beings, choice is a necessary survival instinct. For groups of humans, it is an effective trial-and-error mechanism.
Speaking of this, you may ask, can we restrain this instinct through training? Like dieting to curb hunger?
Hina believes that there is no need to answer this question at all. Even if you could, she wouldn't advise you to do so.
Because the desire to choose not only shapes our psychology, but also our body. Once you restrain it, it will not only affect your mentality, but also affect your health.
From a biological point of view, it is the prefrontal cortex of the brain that is responsible for making choices. Among all creatures, the human prefrontal cortex is the most developed and accounts for the highest proportion of the brain.
Originally, this was a good thing, allowing us to make better decisions. But the problem is that this area is not only capable, but also has a strong temper, and is also very sensitive.
In addition to undertaking decision-making analysis work, the prefrontal cortex also has an important function, which is to perceive the right to choose.
Once it finds out that it has lost the right to choose, it will immediately trigger a series of negative physiological reactions. "
Kang Xuming paid the most attention to Hina this time, because he spoke directly to his heart, "What? Without the right to choose, there will be negative physiological reactions in the prefrontal cortex?"
Chu Lihua nodded, "Yes, and it has a great influence. Xi Na cited an experiment in her book.
A baby, put a piano in front of him. When he pulls a string, a machine next to him plays a piece of music.
Each string corresponds to a specific piece of music, and you can click whichever one you want to hear. The baby is having a great time.
Later, the staff disrupted the order. The music is still the same, but the playback is random. That is to say, the baby pulls the same string, and the music played is different every time.
After a few more attempts, the baby will become irritable, angry, and even cry. Sheena believes that babies not only want to listen to music, they also want the right to choose their own music.
These emotional changes are due to the brain's prefrontal cortex, which perceives the loss of the right to choose, and triggers a series of physiological reactions. "
Chu Lihua stopped, and the people sitting around on the grass began to whisper and discuss with the people next to them. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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