One is that it can save our lives
December 2nd, 2022

One is that it can save our lives. From time to time, for example, we have an inspiration, an Epiphany about life that is refreshing and exhilarating, but can easily be forgotten if we don't keep track of it. Some time later, the experience pops up again and I'm like, "I thought of that last time!" Once there is such an exclamation, it means that we have wasted this period of life, because although the inspiration is a flash, but behind it is the accumulation of a life experience. We didn't catch it last time. We have to do it again. If we don't catch it again, it will come back again. Therefore, when there is any idea or idea in your head, you must write it down in time, even if it is a key word or two. Then you can finish and polish it and enlarge the cognition, which is equivalent to saving a period of life. The other is that it can improve our ability to perceive detail. In January 2017, I learned about this concept -- the ability to feel subtle changes -- from Li Xiaolai's "A Different World" on Zhihu. He says this ability is especially important everywhere. When I knew about this concept, I didn't start writing about daily Reflection, but I thought it made a lot of sense. But when I practiced Daily Reflection, I realized how true it was. The essence of metacognition is to examine one's own feelings and thoughts, and then find the shortcomings and improve them, so as to correct one's cognitive biases at the lowest cost. And writing "daily reflection" is the process of self-examination. In reflection, we can spend enough time to review the short thinking process at that time, find the shortcomings, optimize it, and find a better understanding Angle. At the same time, we can activate the rational brain, eliminate the fuzzy zone of emotions, change the default choice of instinct, so that we will not fall into emotions when we encounter similar problems next time. Unable to extricate themselves or make better decisions. Long-term practice can greatly improve our cognitive level, emotional level and decision-making ability. Metacognitive ability is the ultimate human ability. Once it is turned on, self-awakening will be initiated. I was fortunate enough to move from chaos to awakening with the help of "daily reflection," which helped me open up metacognition. The third is to follow the principle of "deliberate practice". One of the keys to deliberate practice is to learn with a clear purpose. For example, when practicing the piano, we should not play it again and again without thinking, but we should think about it repeatedly with very clear problems. Only in this way can we make rapid progress. It's the same with our lives. If we just drift through the day without thinking, we grow older at best, but if we live with the essentials, we grow up fast. As mentioned in the previous driving reflection, when we refine the essentials of driving to keep relaxed, we can remind ourselves before the next driving, and then continue to pay attention to this problem throughout the whole process, and eventually develop good driving habits, and people who do not reflect on the attention to these essentials, can only habitually maintain a tense or stiff state, always emergency stop, brake without awareness. This kind of growth is applicable to any situation. As you can imagine, people who don't get the point and people who get the point grow at very different rates. We may all live similar lives, but the former stagnates and the latter keeps changing. Within a few years there will be a huge gap between the two. These three principles are enough to acknowledge the power of daily reflection, but there are at least three other benefits of reflection that can be explored. One is that it can save our lives. From time to time, for example, we have an inspiration, an Epiphany about life that is refreshing and exhilarating, but can easily be forgotten if we don't keep track of it. Some time later, the experience pops up again and I'm like, "I thought of that last time!" Once there is such an exclamation, it means that we have wasted this period of life, because although the inspiration is a flash, but behind it is the accumulation of a life experience. We didn't catch it last time. We have to do it again. If we don't catch it again, it will come back again. Therefore, when there is any idea or idea in your head, you must write it down in time, even if it is a key word or two. Then you can finish and polish it and enlarge the cognition, which is equivalent to saving a period of life. The other is that it can improve our ability to perceive detail. In January 2017, I learned about this concept -- the ability to feel subtle changes -- from Li Xiaolai's "A Different World" on Zhihu. He says this ability is especially important everywhere. When I knew about this concept, I didn't start writing about daily Reflection, but I thought it made a lot of sense. But when I practiced Daily Reflection, I realized how true it was.

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