1. Why do we buy a new dress on a whim and find it ugly in a few days? What caused our impulsive consumption?
It is that the short-term memory area of our brain is too active and easily influenced by emotions and the outside world. When a salesman praises the United States, the short-term memory area will suddenly get excited, covering up the rationality controlled by the long-term memory area of the brain, so he will make irrational consumption behavior.
2. When we begin to learn new knowledge, why is it difficult to understand and remember? A few days later, I suddenly realized. Why?
This is because the short-term memory area in the brain has limited capacity and can't process a lot of new information in a short time, so learning can't be forgotten.
After a few days of epiphany, the information we obtained slowly precipitated into the long-term memory area of our brain, which was easy for the brain to process.
3. Why do many people clearly make up their minds to lose weight, but they can't help it when they see hot pot and delicious food?
This is because your individual behavior has been completely dominated by the short-term memory area of your brain, while the long-term memory area has not been trained, so you have no ability to control yourself.
4. Why do people procrastinate?
The essence of procrastination is that the short-term memory capacity of the brain is not enough, so it will reject and reject those challenging things.
For example, I didn't do my homework or read a book, but I still have to brush my mobile phone and watch short video TV series.
This is because the brain has not read for a long time and has not challenged difficult learning, so it can only choose those things with low information density and low difficulty for self-digestion.
From the above statement, we know that human behavior is dominated by two working areas of the brain.
One is short-term memory area, and the other is long-term memory area.
Short-term memory area has limited capacity and is easily influenced by emotions and external factors, leading to human irrationality.
The long-term memory area has a large capacity and has the functions of summarizing and integrating information and processing responsibility information.
If you remember a long list of numbers in a short time, it means that your short-term memory area is developed.
If you are thoughtful and very rational, it means that your long-term memory area is developed.
A person often cannot achieve the goals set for himself, nor can he exercise self-discipline. In fact, it is not that he doesn't want to exercise self-discipline, but that he has no ability to exercise self-discipline. It's something wrong with his brain.
In other words, the short-term memory area of his brain is becoming more and more active, and the capacity is getting smaller and smaller, while the long-term memory area is not deliberately exercised, just like muscle atrophy and loss of control.
What causes brain problems?
With the rapid development of the Internet, many people's brains are immersed in fragmented information for a long time, and people need very little brain capacity when dealing with fragmented information. Therefore, it is a refreshing thing to find that they will have a sense of accomplishment when dealing with this information.
Leaving the brain in the information processing of fragments for a long time will make the brain lack of exercise, resulting in smaller and smaller brain capacity. Therefore, people are more willing to accept fragmented information, such as brushing off videos and brushing friends.
In addition, the more fragmented information stimulates the short-term memory area of the brain, the more active and excited it is, and thus it is controlled by it. The more people lose the rational control function of the long-term memory area, the more people cannot self-discipline.
How can people become self-disciplined?
1. Don't stay up late, let your brain have enough sleep.
Because the information in the short-term memory area of the brain can only be deposited in the long-term memory area during deep sleep and efficient sleep. If you stay up late and don't get enough sleep, you can't play the rational control function of long-term memory area.
2. Remembering things for ten minutes every day can improve the capacity of short-term memory area.
3. Keep a diary every day, so as to train the ability to summarize and summarize in the long-term memory area of the brain.
4. Read a high quality article every day. Reading written works is to train the brain's concentration and improve the brain's association ability from words to pictures.
Learn and understand a new knowledge that you didn't know before every day.
If you can persist, the effect will be immediate. After your brain power is enhanced, your willpower will be greatly improved, and you will not refuse or evade challenging study, and the planned goals will not be difficult to accomplish and will not be delayed. ?