Human beings compete for our lives with our brains, but few of us know that there is a higher system in our bodies that, if harnessed, can do wonders. In 1941, when the German army carried out heavy air raids on the British mainland, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill often visited the anti-aircraft positions by car at night. One night, after inspecting a position, he prepared to leave. While the assistant was about to open the door for him, Churchill went around to the other side of the car, opened another door and sat in. Moments later, a bomb falls from the sky and explodes near the car, nearly tipping Churchill's car over. Churchill could have been killed had he entered the car through the door his assistant had opened. Later, when his wife asked him why he had moved to the other side, Churchill replied: "As I was about to get on the bus, a voice said to me 'stop'. Heaven seemed to tell me to open another door and sit in, so I did." At this point in the story, someone is sure to say, "Zhou Ling, don't you want to talk about science and rationality? Do you believe such things?" Please calm down. Since I quoted this story, I believe it, and I am sure to give a reasonable explanation later. But before I do that, I want to tell you a more well-known story about another famous leader -- President Lincoln. One of Lincoln's friends recommended a cabinet member to him. After meeting him, Lincoln did not appoint him. When the friend asked why, Lincoln said, "I don't like the look of him." The friend said, "How can you judge a book by its cover? That's too harsh. He can't take responsibility for the way he was born." Lincoln replied, "No, a man over 40 is responsible for his face." How's that？ Are you sure you don't want to learn about the emotional side of two famous people who made important decisions based on their feelings? In previous posts, I have emphasized the importance of reason, and put vague sensibility in the category of nature to be overcome, but this time I will defend sensibility. For the sake of understanding, I've described reason as conscious and sensibility as unconscious, and that's exactly what they are. However, the academic circle has different views on the subconscious mind.

For example, Freud thinks that the subconscious mind is a "danger zone", which contains evil, and it will make people obey the original desire to return to the barbaric state. But the psychologist Jung believed that the unconscious mind is intelligent. It contains many things that reason cannot touch, even the collective intelligence of human beings. Who is right and who is wrong? Modern scientific research says that each is half right. The subconscious mind has no thoughts and only cares about things in front of it. It likes immediacy, certainty, simplicity and comfort, which is part of nature. At the same time, it can process information very fast, at least 11 million times per second. The conscious mind, our rational thinking, processes information at only 40 times a second, while the unconscious mind is 275, 000 times faster. It would be like two people going from Beijing to Tianjin at the same time, one taking a leisurely walk and the other taking a rocket (neither planes nor high-speed trains can express the difference). This contrast can lead to "cognitive misalignment" -- where much of the information has already been detected by the unconscious mind but is still unknown to the conscious mind. For example, when you feel a little uncomfortable with someone for the first time and you quickly smile politely, this indicates that your subconscious senses something bad, but this process is so fleeting that the mind doesn't notice it. Instead, it gives a lot of analysis and reasons to accept the person, which often backfires. So Churchill wasn't superstitious, and Lincoln wasn't petulant, but they picked up on the faint signals of the subconscious mind, which is called "feeling it" -- detecting the messages of the subconscious mind. In her 2015 TED talk, Brain Science Uncovers the Secrets of Men's and Women's Thinking, Professor LAN Hong spoke of such an experience. When Hong LAN was a student at the University of California in the 1970s, a young assistant professor was robbed while withdrawing money from an ATM. She was too nervous to remember the face of the robber, so she called the police in vain. But then the assistant professor began to dislike one of his graduate students for no apparent reason. The one who grew fat, had hair to his shoulders, liked to wear ripped pants... Her own explanation was that the grad student liked hamburgers with Onions, smelled, etc. Then the police caught some robbers and asked her to identify them. She identified the culprit at a glance -- a fat man with shoulder-length hair and ripped pants... According to Hong LAN, the assistant professor subconsciously remembered the appearance of the criminal and sent a message that made her dislike the graduate student who looked like the criminal. But this information does not enter the conscious mind, so the rational mind does not know what is going on and has to interpret it in a different way, which in fact is irrelevant. Who knew the emotional part of our subconscious was so powerful? How many of us know that there is such an advanced system hidden in our bodies? It would be a pity not to put it to good use! Especially in the process of learning and growth, if you have it to help, there may be unexpected harvest. Learn by feel

Human beings compete for our lives with our brains, but few of us know that there is a higher system in our bodies that, if harnessed, can do wonders. In 1941, when the German army carried out heavy air raids on the British mainland, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill often visited the anti-aircraft positions by car at night. One night, after inspecting a position, he prepared to leave. While the assistant was about to open the door for him, Churchill went around to the other side of the car, opened another door and sat in. Moments later, a bomb falls from the sky and explodes near the car, nearly tipping Churchill's car over. Churchill could have been killed had he entered the car through the door his assistant had opened. Later, when his wife asked him why he had moved to the other side, Churchill replied: "As I was about to get on the bus, a voice said to me 'stop'. Heaven seemed to tell me to open another door and sit in, so I did." At this point in the story, someone is sure to say, "Zhou Ling, don't you want to talk about science and rationality? Do you believe such things?" Please calm down. Since I quoted this story, I believe it, and I am sure to give a reasonable explanation later. But before I do that, I want to tell you a more well-known story about another famous leader -- President Lincoln. One of Lincoln's friends recommended a cabinet member to him. After meeting him, Lincoln did not appoint him. When the friend asked why, Lincoln said, "I don't like the look of him." The friend said, "How can you judge a book by its cover? That's too harsh. He can't take responsibility for the way he was born." Lincoln replied, "No, a man over 40 is responsible for his face." How's that？ Are you sure you don't want to learn about the emotional side of two famous people who made important decisions based on their feelings? In previous posts, I have emphasized the importance of reason, and put vague sensibility in the category of nature to be overcome, but this time I will defend sensibility. For the sake of understanding, I've described reason as conscious and sensibility as unconscious, and that's exactly what they are. However, the academic circle has different views on the subconscious mind.

For example, Freud thinks that the subconscious mind is a "danger zone", which contains evil, and it will make people obey the original desire to return to the barbaric state. But the psychologist Jung believed that the unconscious mind is intelligent. It contains many things that reason cannot touch, even the collective intelligence of human beings. Who is right and who is wrong? Modern scientific research says that each is half right. The subconscious mind has no thoughts and only cares about things in front of it. It likes immediacy, certainty, simplicity and comfort, which is part of nature. At the same time, it can process information very fast, at least 11 million times per second. The conscious mind, our rational thinking, processes information at only 40 times a second, while the unconscious mind is 275, 000 times faster. It would be like two people going from Beijing to Tianjin at the same time, one taking a leisurely walk and the other taking a rocket (neither planes nor high-speed trains can express the difference). This contrast can lead to "cognitive misalignment" -- where much of the information has already been detected by the unconscious mind but is still unknown to the conscious mind. For example, when you feel a little uncomfortable with someone for the first time and you quickly smile politely, this indicates that your subconscious senses something bad, but this process is so fleeting that the mind doesn't notice it. Instead, it gives a lot of analysis and reasons to accept the person, which often backfires. So Churchill wasn't superstitious, and Lincoln wasn't petulant, but they picked up on the faint signals of the subconscious mind, which is called "feeling it" -- detecting the messages of the subconscious mind. In her 2015 TED talk, Brain Science Uncovers the Secrets of Men's and Women's Thinking, Professor LAN Hong spoke of such an experience. When Hong LAN was a student at the University of California in the 1970s, a young assistant professor was robbed while withdrawing money from an ATM. She was too nervous to remember the face of the robber, so she called the police in vain. But then the assistant professor began to dislike one of his graduate students for no apparent reason. The one who grew fat, had hair to his shoulders, liked to wear ripped pants... Her own explanation was that the grad student liked hamburgers with Onions, smelled, etc. Then the police caught some robbers and asked her to identify them. She identified the culprit at a glance -- a fat man with shoulder-length hair and ripped pants... According to Hong LAN, the assistant professor subconsciously remembered the appearance of the criminal and sent a message that made her dislike the graduate student who looked like the criminal. But this information does not enter the conscious mind, so the rational mind does not know what is going on and has to interpret it in a different way, which in fact is irrelevant. Who knew the emotional part of our subconscious was so powerful? How many of us know that there is such an advanced system hidden in our bodies? It would be a pity not to put it to good use! Especially in the process of learning and growth, if you have it to help, there may be unexpected harvest. Learn by feel