It's just easier said than done. How to take the first step to practice the "exposure method"? Let's look at two short stories first.
My family's Dabao is rather conservative, and he usually doesn't dare to try new things. Once I have the slightest desire for new things, I will encourage him, but I have failed many times. For example, when I went to the restaurant and asked him to help the waiter with the paper towels, he didn't dare. On the one hand, he is shy, on the other hand, he is afraid of being rejected. In our opinion, such a simple thing will be a great challenge.
One more thing-learning to ride a bike, although I am afraid, but my inner desire to learn is very strong, so I dare to decide to try. As a result, he learned to ride a bike in two hours, and he didn't cry out in pain when he fell down during the study, so he continued to learn. Now, cycling has become his happiest sport every day.
From these two things, we can see that challenges vary from time to time and from person to person. In my opinion, it is much easier to take a paper towel than to learn to ride a bike, but the child would rather accept a bigger challenge because it can stimulate his nerves more.
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The challenge itself is nothing but an imaginary mountain in our abstract thinking. Crossing this mountain is like playing a strange game. You know that you will eventually meet a big BOSS waiting for you, but you won't give up the game because of it. The game stimulates your challenge potential and allows you to accumulate experience between constant failure and success. Whether or not to clear customs is another matter, but the action of starting customs clearance is the key, because the pleasure of victory will make you happy just by thinking about it.
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From a macro point of view, we already know that we will encounter many challenges on the road of life, but we are still strong and alive. Then, the specific challenges we encounter in life can be explained as microscopic phenomena. In fact, when we choose to continue living, we have already acquiesced in these challenges. Then, why not take the challenge as an ordinary event in life, start with what you are best at, resolve it one by one, and finally overcome it?
Later, I tried many ways about my Dabao's fear of asking the waiter for paper towels. Once I finally got up the courage to get the paper towel alone, so I struck the iron while it was hot and solemnly praised his behavior. Since then, although Dabao occasionally dared not take it, he succeeded more and more times, which is no longer a challenge for him. Therefore, the key is to seize the first opportunity to try and succeed.
My Dabao has another weakness of being afraid of blood, but the more he is afraid of coming. A few days ago, I did an experiment with my children. I put a glass bottle full of water in the refrigerator and froze it. The result is too long to remember. When I remembered, the bottle had been broken by ice. This was originally a good opportunity to learn physics knowledge, but my son was cut by a broken bottle and became an opportunity to overcome the challenge.
At that time, my son subconsciously put his finger in his mouth when he saw blood (dare not look at blood). Later, the blood flowed more and more, and he panicked. I also panicked when I saw blood gushing from my fingers. Fortunately, the health station is opposite my home, so I hurried to ask for help. During the whole process of hemostasis and disinfection, Dabao was very calm. I was surprised, too. His fingers were bleeding faintly, and he cried for disinfection and band-aid, but he couldn't move. This time, I was so calm. After getting dressed, I praised him for his bravery. He smiled and ran out to play.
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From another perspective, the challenge is just a prominent phenomenon sublimated from an ordinary event for us. While we are making progress, it will eventually become an ordinary event. Enjoy the challenge, even if the final result is not successful, you will be stronger than before.
I told myself that in the future challenges, I can try bravely like a child learning to ride a bicycle, and then I can do it easily; Send this passage to a friend, hoping to give you more confidence to accept the challenge when you meet it.