"Zhuangzi: Autumn Water" says: "Well frogs cannot speak to the sea, and summer insects cannot speak to ice."

The meaning of this sentence is that you can't talk to the frog at the bottom of the well about the vastness and turbulent waves of the sea, because it has only seen the world at the bottom of the well, and no matter how you describe it, it will not understand the meaning of the sea. You can't describe the coldness of winter with bugs living in summer, because in the cognition of bugs, there is only summer.

Just like human beings, due to cognitive limitations and different environments, everyone's feelings and thoughts are different.

For example, under normal circumstances, depending on the level of education, you will have different views and cognitions about things; some people, no matter how you explain something to him, he will go to the horns and won't listen to anything. ......

Often, the lower a person's cognitive level is, the more limited his cognition of the world is, and the more stubborn he is, he is unwilling to change or listen to other people's suggestions, and he lives in his own narrow world.

So sometimes, whether it's your wealth or your success, it's not enough just to work hard, you also have to have the cognitive ability to think.

The gap between people is often caused by differences in cognitive ability.

Next, I will talk to you about cognitive ability in detail.

What is cognitive ability?

The so-called "cognition" also refers to the ability of the human brain to process, store and extract information about things.

When people with strong cognitive ability look at problems and think about problems, they will not only see the surface, but also see the essence through the phenomenon.

For people with low cognitive ability, no matter how hard you work, it is just an inefficient diligence. If you want to be successful, you must improve your cognitive ability. Only when your cognition reaches a certain level, your Effort is in the right place.

If you want to make more money, you also need to improve your awareness of money, as the saying goes: "You can never make money outside of your awareness."

Cognitive ability can be said to be a person's top ability, because it determines your worldview and methodology, and different worldviews and methodology create different life.

Why do you need cognitive abilities?

What the world looks like to you, and how much you know about the world, depends on your cognitive ability to the world.

Your cognitive ability reflects your pattern, vision, level and so on.

Before the opening of new shipping routes, the world was scattered. In the eyes of people from various states, human beings can only see an isolated state. Later, some people's cognition changed and they began to sail the oceans and explore the world. , only now has the world began to be connected as a whole.

Cognition often determines a person's boundaries and limitations.

If you don't improve your cognitive ability, you will only stop on the road of self-improvement, and you will be caught in a vicious circle.

How to have cognitive ability

1. Do a good job in the reserve of knowledge

The level of your cognition needs to be supported by your knowledge reserve. The more knowledge you have and learned, the higher your awareness is likely to be.

The purpose of storing knowledge is to let you know the whole picture of things better, and then apply the knowledge to practice, output the knowledge you have learned, and finally upgrade your cognition. This way your cognitive abilities will continue to evolve.

2. More independent and in-depth thinking

Laziness and avoidance are human nature. Therefore, many people are not willing to use their brains to think about problems at all, and will just follow the flow.

If you don't know how to think independently and deeply, no matter how hard you try, it will be in vain.

In this world, there are many hard-working people. The sanitation workers on the road are working hard, the people who squeeze the subway to work are working hard, and those who work outdoors are also working hard in the severe cold and heat. In order to survive, who doesn’t work hard?

However , effortless efforts are of no use at all.

Today, you go to the library to read or study, and after taking a photo and sending it to your circle of friends, you start playing with your mobile phone; when you go to school, you stay up late to write homework, but you just copy someone else’s homework.

In the process, you don't think about it at all, and you spend your time doing things that don't make sense.

If you want to truly think independently and deeply, you have to learn to focus and to persevere, because thinking is a step-by-step process, and if you persist in thinking, there will be changes.

At the same time, independent thinking is also a kind of critical thinking, which is the real thinking of oneself, and will not follow what others say.

3. Look at the world from the perspective of change and development

The only constant in this world is change.

Many things are constantly moving forward, and if you stay in place, your cognitive ability will only become more and more limited.

So your cognition cannot be static, which requires you to change your cognition as things change.