-OK Go's "Everything Will Pass"
"Success" is the hottest topic in today's society, and women, children, old people and young people are all talking about it. Success is the most mysterious result. When asked about the reasons for success, the winners seem to be either eloquent or speechless. "Success" is also a kind of eager existence. Into the bookstore, successful books will always rank first in sales.
Everyone has the possibility of success, but it is by no means simply copying other people's successful samples. Whether success books or biographies of celebrities are popular for the same reason, that is, the process of success is written and programmed. They turned their creative experience into a recipe-like process, as if telling readers: "As long as you follow my steps step by step, even Xiaobai can succeed." So when we hear someone say that "a good idea is not an idea, but a discovery", our adrenaline surges and our sympathetic nerves are excited, and the whole person is encouraged, and we firmly believe that the next person to accomplish the 100 million small goal is ourselves.
Unfortunately, however, this is not the case. Sometimes, people's desire for success exceeds their judgment of reality. Regardless of the ups and downs of the stock market, Buffett's books always sell well, but not every reader has become a "stock god." Therefore, "success" is not a simple and repeatable process, "success" is an unrepeatable sample, and everyone's key to "success" is unique and unique.
If "success" is an unrepeatable sample, are these samples meaningless and useless? Of course not. The process of successful people creating ideas and implementing plans contains valuable wealth. Don't look at what the winners say, look at what they do.
For many successful people, the most difficult question is the reason for success, because the fact is that many successful people don't know it themselves. Therefore, a writer like Lu You said: "The article is natural, and it is rare." Damian Kulash, the talented lead singer of OK Go, said, "What we are doing is trying to find some places that may contain rich ideas." But the core of the problem is, how to find those places?
For most ordinary people, dancing on a moving surface and a zero-gravity plane, cutting toast with a laser, or performing stunts in the vast desert all belong to the category of "creativity", but these are just a "sandbox" for members of OK Go. The porter thought that the emperor used a gold pole. The limitations of our cognition reduce our requirements for creativity and hinder our ability to expand our thinking.
Some people call other people's advanced cognition "talent". Think that talent makes them stand on a different starting line from talented people. But in fact, "talent" is only a conditioned reflex after conscious training. Damian Kulash said in his speech that he has been keen on the game of perspective and difference since high school, and this enthusiasm has even become a subconscious behavior and a part of body movements. Even when he is romantically dating his beautiful wife, he wants to add a "fig tree ponytail" to his wife from the perspective, so that he can find the "inspiration line" in the "sandbox" full of confusion. Newton also learned a lot of physical knowledge and formed a unique physical thinking. Inspired by the fall of an apple, he discovered "gravity". If you and I are both untrained people, we may only get the result of being hit on the head by an apple.
Conscious training day after day has formed a way of thinking and logic. When we reach a certain amount of training, we naturally become experts in a certain field. This "qualitative" progress must have happened unconsciously and played a huge role in an instant. ?
When I decided to study abroad, my English listening ability was poor, which made it impossible for me to get an offer from my favorite institution. In order to force myself, I spend three hours listening to English materials carefully every day, word by word, sentence by sentence, slowly, constantly and quickly. High-intensity training lasted for several months. Even when I got good grades in IELTS listening, I still didn't realize that my training was effective. Until I landed at a foreign airport with heavy luggage, waiting for security check and chatting with airport staff, I suddenly understood everything they said, even joking. By the time I realized all this, I had boarded the next plane. Now, many people say that I have a gift for learning languages. Even though I am learning a new language, I can communicate with local native speakers quickly. However, three years ago, I was also an English scum who was driven to the brink of collapse by English listening.
In fact, each of us has talent, but talent needs conscious training to maintain. When we were young, many people could draw beautiful pictures. It seems to be every child's specialty to use bright colors, strange graphics and super copying ability. However, few people really stick to it and become painters or designers. The reason is that many people regard painting as their specialty and hobby, and do not practice painting persistently, so their painting ability and artistic talent decline with age. If you want to keep a talent, you have to work hard for a long time. This kind of effort should go deep into life, change your thinking and form a natural conditioned reflex.
Damian Kulash said in his speech that the creative process is actually the opposite of surprise. Indeed, when it comes to "training", the general impression is boring and hard. However, "not easy" does not mean "unhappy", the core of which is consciousness. Conscious and spontaneous training often does not feel tired, but also can find small happiness in life and cultivate self-confidence.
Wife is a person who likes to look for "face" everywhere in life. On the railway tracks in London, on the bus to Bratislava, on the subway in Lisbon, on the socket at home, when cutting green peppers, he can always find interesting cartoon-like "faces". At first, these were all accidental discoveries. Gradually, he began to pay attention to every detail of his life. He has established his own thinking in images, and he can find cartoon faces by subtly changing his perspective. This training process is not only boring, but also interesting, because he took the initiative.
You may think this kind of training is useless, but not everything in life is useful. In addition, through long-term training, he has strong image analysis ability and is a humorous person in life. And when he found a small detail that no one found, that kind of confidence was also positive.
Conscious training is like a silent spring rain, which is the source of confidence and happiness. It can make progress not boring and turn success into instinct. Don't believe the winner's saying that "the sandbox is full of good ideas", because they already know where the sandbox is through training, but we have to find our own sandbox through training.