Translator: Gao Tianyu
1, the higher the IQ in childhood, the lower the risk of death from various causes in adulthood. Including the risk of death from respiratory diseases, heart disease, stroke, dementia and suicide. People's socio-economic status has only a slight impact on the probability of death.
2. The role of genetic genes far exceeds that of school education or family environment.
3. People with strong self-control have higher intelligence, and their frontal lobes are more active, which is a part of the brain that matures later.
For amnesia patients, the date is the most ideal memory clue. Their memory has a chain effect: when they recall an event according to the date, they can use some elements of this event as clues to recall other memories. Memory seems to have a more reasonable layout, allowing him to extract information at the right node. With the right conditions, many people should be able to remember more. They can only remember their own personal experiences, and it will take several months to recall them. The road to old memories takes some time to form. Only 60 people in the world have confirmed super memory.
Super-memorizers often indulge in personal events and fantasize repeatedly afterwards, which may have shaped their accurate memories.
Amnesia doesn't mean that my whole life is kept in my mind like a movie, but it reminds me to recall the past. I not only have a lot of memories, but also can extract them.
5. Witnesses may claim that they are 100% sure of something, and the research points out that their testimony is only slightly more accurate than that of witnesses who claim to be uncertain.
6. Many false memories are constructing scenes that may have happened in the past for us to better simulate future events. An unreliable memory may also shake the stability of your personality. You may think that your personality is inherently immutable. In one's life, one's personality may undergo profound changes. Everyone's ego does contain several different people.
7. When you use your mother tongue, it will play an important role in your choice. Your mother tongue will connect you with your emotions more strongly, thus affecting your choice. Speaking a second language will not only make you think hard about the way you speak, but also about what you say and even do.
8. Concentration is a quality like candlelight. It is unpredictable, but it needs constant protection. It is always in motion and will change with observation. It is the present of our life. If a person grasps the present, he can play a higher level, and if a person can concentrate on it, he can make great achievements.
9. People's intentions can be unconscious, and people's decisions can also be formed unconsciously. Once the intention enters consciousness, it is likely to be interfered by other processes.
10, when family members are in danger, we tend to take risks. If courage will make a person take huge risks and suffer irreparable losses for a lifetime, then courage can evolve into instinct, and the only way is kinship selection. Courage is to do something that is beneficial to your family and not directly beneficial to yourself. And animals. The army is simulating such an evolutionary environment.
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12, pop music is touching because the generate in the song expresses the singer's emotions. In opera, emotions come from composers, and actors must exercise absolute restraint on themselves. There is no microphone in singing. Opera is more complicated than performance, because singing is more complicated than speaking.
1 3, babies can make sounds with their whole bodies efficiently, and we are trying to restore this efficiency, just like babies. The secret of all this is to use the diaphragm and the right muscles to push the sound out in the right position.
1 4, the voices of a family often sound alike. The shape and length of vocal cords are influenced by heredity, and the timbre also has a genetic basis. Some people are born with good sound quality and get better after training. Even personality traits such as motivation and responsibility may have a genetic basis.
1.5, the endurance of athletes is determined by three important physiological factors: the maximum oxygen uptake, the dichotomy utilization, that is, the proportion of the maximum oxygen uptake that an individual can maintain for a long time, the labor-saving factor of running, and the biomedical and biochemical factors of how much oxygen is consumed during running.
16, knowing that you are dreaming and being able to control the dream state, for different people, not only the frequency of lucid dreams will be very different, but also the ability to control the content of dreams will be different. Even if the plot of this dream is terrible, such as being eaten by a monster, being assassinated or falling off a cliff, you can still keep calm.
17, when your income reaches a certain level, earning more money will only have a slight impact on your happiness.
1 8, our imagination of other people's lives and future lives is different from our actual experience of this life.
19, people's happiness rises steadily with the increase of income. After exceeding a surprisingly low income level, people's happiness will never rise again.
20. It is very unreliable for human beings to recall and summarize past experiences.
Improvement (how to apply it in life)
1, professional technology is based on natural ability. But for any activity, in addition to talent, you need a lot of practice to be the best.
2. The key behavioral characteristic of a person with high IQ, at least a successful person, is ambition or self-motivation.
3. I never think it's great to come up with smart ideas, because ideas are cheap, and only when they are broken and verified can they produce value.
4. Think of ideas as train tracks. When you come up with an idea to explain a phenomenon, it's hard to think of other ideas. The train of thought will go on along a track. First, don't think too much. Second, read some materials that are not necessarily related to the topic, or do something else and forcibly switch yourself to another track.
In order to remember more information, it is necessary to encode the information into huge blocks. Biologically speaking, the main function of the human brain is to encode specific visual space information, which is not suitable for dealing with abstract information. When encoding, the information to be encoded is added, but it is actually more efficient than directly encoding abstract information.
6. The most interesting thing in the world is self-study.
7. Get familiar with the rules as soon as possible, and then slowly break away from the rules, so that learning becomes an implicit process.
8. Whether it is internal motivation, that is, heartfelt love, or external motivation, that is, the temptation to win prizes, it can better maintain people's brain activities and prepare people for emergencies.
9. Motivation plays a very important role. It can keep people's attention and concentration at the best level. By combining extremely generous rewards with extremely strict selection process, we will see amazing continuous attention intensity.
10, there is no danger, courage is just showing off, there is no fear, and action is reckless. Trauma can't be learned without fear.
1 1, driving home along a familiar route, I don't remember all the way home. It is not the cerebral cortex that undertakes most decision-making and executive functions, but the basal ganglia located at the bottom of the forebrain. It will not be disturbed by the panic spread by the amygdala.
12, regardless of the proportion of genetic qualification in the achievements of "genius", the main talent of these people is actually what we all have, that is, the adaptability of human brain and body, and only God can make better use of them than ordinary people.
13, cross-training in intelligence may have a beneficial function, which can neutralize the negative effects brought by overtraining.
14, barefoot runners hit the ground with the middle or front of the sole, and the joints were hardly impacted, while runners with shoes touched the ground with their feet, which was much more serious. Many people think running barefoot is dangerous and painful, but in fact, you can run barefoot on the hardest road in the world without any discomfort and pain, which may be less harmful than some people running with shoes on.
15, my suggestion for longevity is to keep a positive attitude, build a car within my power and make it the best. When encountering setbacks, you must be patient. If you often walk in the rose garden, you won't be stabbed.
16, don't worry that you can't change anything.
17, the environment may help you live over 80 years old, but it is still far from 100. If parents live too long, their health will slowly decline.
18, human nature likes to predict, assuming that terrible events will definitely lead to bad results. For example, when we see seriously ill patients in the hospital, we will think, "They must be depressed. Won't you? " But in fact those people are not depressed.
19, you don't know what's in your heart until you fall into the abyss.
20. We need help to stay optimistic, encouragement to gain self-control and help to take responsibility. You need some self-love, a little narcissism, and strive for yourself, so that you won't be mistreated in your work and interpersonal communication, maintain self-confidence without belittling others, and have a positive self-image without arrogance.
Epiphany (a brain hole written down, a simple expression of the most touching concept)
1, in most fields that need hard work, "mistakes" are inevitable, and people's ability and play will deteriorate with age.
2, some people's ability will tend to a certain aspect, and this tendency will affect your life trajectory.
3, you have a certain opinion of a person, and then wait for him to prove it to you with his actions. It's like there's a play coming on and I'm just sitting there waiting to see it.
4. If a character comes out of your mind, he embodies a certain side of you and is exploring an unused corner of your heart. Writing is to experience a life you have never experienced before.
Being in a daze is a purposeful activity for a writer. I have many contradictions, because I am quite curious about the facts, and an important part of my creation is to tolerate contradictions. When creating, we should always handle the meanings of various levels and colors.
Everyone seems to have a tendency to believe in false things. We sincerely but wrongly believe that what we have never seen really happened before our eyes. As long as there is appropriate information, methods and environmental guidance, few people can avoid this influence.
7. After being brutally and truly "interrogated", many soldiers behaved badly in the memory task and could not recognize who was interrogating themselves.
8. Your life turned out to be a Russian doll, and there are others living in your body. If you can talk to yourself at a certain stage in your life, you won't agree with each other's experiences.
9. Being in this environment, surrounded by people you like, will do strange things. It has become our instinct to dedicate ourselves to our comrades. Even when robots are friends, the novel evolutionary environment gives birth to courage, and team ties and strong friendship enhance the courage of soldiers.
1 0, for others, fear can be overcome, and there may be many different genetic variations at work.
1 1, after the initial shock was calmed down, I really felt an incredible peace. No fear or general stress response will inhibit flexible hippocampus-dependent memory and make habitual memory easier to retrieve. Under fear and pressure, the human brain prefers the autopilot mode.
12, we like the feeling of independence, as if our success is the result of our own efforts, in fact, many times it is not. The main factor of predicting success is the economic and social status of parents.
13, the brain develops through self-organization, and it needs randomness and chance to achieve the complexity it needs. The brain is formed through constant trial and error correction. When the brain is damaged, it can not only remain damaged, but also restore the lost function through reorganization. But reorganization requires great flexibility in order to discover and test new ways to perform old functions.
Concept (unfamiliar and unheard of term)
1, intelligence is the individual's different abilities to understand complex concepts, adapt to the environment efficiently, sum up lessons from experience, engage in all kinds of reasoning, and overcome obstacles with thoughts.
2. The efficiency of solving abstract problems "fluid intelligence" and mental processing speed will decline after the age of 30. Another part of intelligence, called "crystal intelligence", deals with information in the real world, and its peak level can be maintained for many years before it slowly declines.
3, memory official temple technology: imagine a familiar place, usually your own home, take out a line, put all kinds of items on the line, and deal with things that need to be remembered separately. The more abnormal, amazing and even disturbing pictures, the easier it is to remember.
4. Invasive memory: I can't help but recall the physical and emotional pain and relive the previous negative emotions.
5, image memory: looking at something in memory in great detail, as if there is a photo in front of you. Only 5% of children can do it, and it has never appeared in adults.
6. Flow: You are attracted by a difficult task and devote yourself wholeheartedly to it. The task should not be too difficult, otherwise you will be flustered and affect your performance. It can't be too simple. It's not fun to finish it easily.
7. Concentrate on meditation: pay attention inward and pay special attention to breathing.
8. Open meditation: put the most appropriate attention intensity on an object.
9, the overall physical and mental adjustment method: the key point is to admit the internal and external interference, calmly treat these things, Zen practitioners deal with pain in order to be less troubled by pain.
1 0, cutaneous mucosal lipomatosis: genetic defect, which will have various effects on the body. Without fear and amygdala, memory loses the dimension of fear, and it is impossible to learn from fear. Although amygdala plays an important role in directing fear response, it is not indispensable.
1 1, delayed exposure therapy: discuss the memory of the event and relive it under safe and controllable conditions. Or in the opposite way, let the brain prepare for fear in advance. Fear can be relieved by training. Accustom yourself to the fear reaction in repetition.
12, our genetic endowment is a factor, which includes internal drive. With this ability, people can work hard on one thing. This is not only a person's efforts for a certain goal (his persistence), but also his love for his career (his passion).
Our environment is highly related to our genes. Genes are inherited from parents, who create an environment for us and the environment is also influenced by their genes. Our growing environment is also closely related to our genes.
13, reducing the incidence rate: very old people can often keep their physical and mental health to the end of their lives.
14, long-lived escape speed: at a certain moment, life expectancy will increase by more than one year every past year. It means that we are rejuvenated faster than we are aging, and we are ahead of death.
15, Mendel's disease, cystic fibrosis, learning disability of Schleicher-Olson, Pfeiffer syndrome, will make the baby's skull close prematurely, the brain tissue in the skull will grow, and the skull will not expand. You need to cut an opening in the skull.
16, hedonic adaptation: you will not only regain your happiness after losing it, but also drop to the original level of happiness after it is enhanced by beautiful things (such as winning the lottery).
17, fixed point theory: no matter what happens, your happiness will return to a fixed point.
Cases (in books and in my own mind)
Injury: I didn't click at all, not at all. I only remember that I fell to the ground and sat up again. I felt as if I had been hit with a shovel, my head was buzzing and my vision was narrowed. I looked down at my leg, which was still attached, but only a few pieces of skin and bones poked out. I just remember screaming and leaning against a wall behind me. Less than 20 minutes after the explosion, the medical helicopter arrived. During this time, while injecting morphine, I smoked with my comrades and waited for a helicopter. The pain is severe, like someone parked the car in my lap. It's persistent tenderness, and there is no sign of relief.
When someone suffers from severe head injury, doctors can use barbiturates to put him in a coma and stop his brain function, which can prevent the brain from continuing to operate without enough blood supply and further damage itself.
One morning, after a nap, I woke up and felt myself sitting in bed. Then I realized that my body was still lying in bed. I was actually dreaming. I drifted in the bedroom for a while, and then I really woke up. Taking a nap in the morning is a favorable opportunity to enter a lucid dream. The key is to grasp the transition stage between awakening and sleep, which is the so-called "sleep illusion" and fall asleep with some conscious consciousness. Lucid dreams have self-awareness and can control their own actions, but they are not completely beyond dreams. They will encounter resistance from their dreams, such as not being able to change their surroundings at will, but they can decide where to go.
Dreamers don't always create complicated plots, dreams often unfold automatically, and dreamers can only play a passive and sober observer. Dialogue and encounter have no clear theme.