Why do you always have trouble? Maybe the pattern is too small

Have you noticed that some people seem to have a natural "koi fish physique" and go smoothly wherever they go, while others always fall repeatedly in the same pit? Don't rush to blame luck, perhaps the problem lies in the invisible switch of "pattern". The pattern is like the navigation system in your brain. If the map range is too small, it is easy to enter a dead end.

1. People with a small perspective are prone to falling into a mental dead loop

1. Cognitive filters are too heavy

Habitually viewing the world with black-and-white labels, equating "occasional failure" with "never work", this filter will make the field of view narrower and narrower. It's like wearing sunglasses to look for keys, even though the opportunity is right at your feet, you always complain that the surroundings are too dark.

2. Excessive focus on instant feedback

If you want to post on your social media, you will receive a hundred likes, and if you work out for three days, you will look forward to the vest line. When there is a discrepancy between reality and expectations, it is easy to fall into a vortex of self doubt, but ignore that all qualitative changes require quantitative accumulation.

3. Treating coincidences as patterns

Being ignored by colleagues once leads to the belief that there is no true love in the workplace, and when entrepreneurship is frustrated, one feels that there is no good business in the world. This kind of "generalization" thinking pattern will make people actively block out opposing evidence.

2. Practical Methodology for Expanding the Pattern

1. Establishing Probabilistic Thinking

Using data instead of intuitive judgment to understand that success is the result of the superposition of multiple factors. Instead of worrying about a failed interview, it's better to calculate the pass rate of submitting 100 resumes. Numbers are more reliable than emotions.

2. Design an anti fragility system

like an investment portfolio to diversify life risks, cultivate skills in three different fields, and manage 2-3 social circles. When a certain field encounters fluctuations, other modules can still provide support.

3. Practice the "Time Travel Technique"

When encountering a troublesome situation, ask yourself: Will you still care about this detail in three months? What benefits may this experience bring in three years? Extending the dimension of time will suddenly make it clear that what we are currently struggling with is only the punctuation marks in our long life.

3. The body state determines the thinking pattern

1. The gut microbiota affects decision-making ability

The moments that make you hesitate may be when the gut microbiota is sending signals. Maintaining dietary fiber intake and supplementing fermented foods appropriately can help stabilize your emotional baseline with a healthy microbiota.

2. Reshaping Sleep Quality in the Brain

After staying up late continuously, looking at problems will become more negative because the tired brain will automatically turn on the "power-saving mode" to prioritize processing threat information. Ensuring deep sleep is like fully charging your phone, which naturally broadens your mind.

3. Exercise modification of neural circuits

Aerobic exercise three times a week can stimulate the secretion of BDNF protein, which is the "brain fertilizer" that promotes the growth of the prefrontal cortex, which is the core area responsible for rational decision-making and long-term planning. Standing on the second floor, you will see garbage all over the ground, but climbing up to the twentieth floor, you will find the entire park. The so-called inconvenience is just that the current position restricts the view. Try to turn your life into a wide-angle mode, and the troubles that once kept you up at night will eventually become small scales on the growth axis. Change is never an instant realization, but a 5-minute stretching exercise for the mind every day.