Take a look at the following vocabulary and you can say what they mean: "Metaverse", "Absolute Son", "YYDS", "emo", "Inner Scroll", "Lying Flat", "Chicken Baby", "Back Wave", "Bar Spirit", "Versailles Literature".
In the Internet era, many people continue to create some network words such as "power", "blue skinny", "shiitake mushrooms", etc., which are also popular online languages in recent years. These languages have formed new concepts with their unique meanings and contexts of use.
This phenomenon arises as if we in life have recreated a word, or reassigned a completely different meaning to an original word, and these concepts are a way for us to see things in a special way.
Many people often say that a book generally needs to be read at least three times to have a say. This sentence is also very appropriate for the book "How to Become a Smarter Person". When I first read this book, I feel that there are some empty ideas, and after a closer look, I will find that these ideas can be combined with reality.
The fourth chapter of the book talks about "how to create a concept", and let's take a closer look at how to create a new concept.
The philosopher Russell once said, "Awareness of universality is called conception, and universality that we perceive is called conception." "These concepts or general classifications represent patterns of ideas.
These patterns give us the ability to interpret the world, allowing us to better control the difficult problems in life, and our thinking can go beyond the details, can summarize the generality of things, and draw conclusions that can expand understanding. And concepts are the most effective way to achieve this goal.
Creating concepts has the following functions: organizing information, retrieving information; interpreting information, evaluating information; being more creative; and having the ability to predict.
The concept is to find similarities in many scattered elements, gather these elements together according to the similarities, find the relationships in them, and arrange and combine them to form a new thing.
Concepts don't just provide us with a lot of information, and with these powerful thinking tools, we can work with complex materials and make judgments with ease.
In thinking about concepts, we extract general concepts or principles that apply to all situations in the past, present, and future, and extract them from the specific situations rooted in the present, while at the same time freeing ourselves from the clutter and ambiguous possibilities. Finally, concepts give us the ability to predict what to do and what not to do, and create patterns that depict what's going on around us.
In How to Be a Smarter Person, the author mentions a point: "It is not the idea that determines the quality of thinking, but the importance of its connection." ”
Steve Jobs once said, "To create is to connect things." When you ask someone how to accomplish creation, he must feel guilty because he didn't really create anything, he just saw the connection between things. He always seemed to be able to find a connection between things very quickly. ”
Therefore, we must learn the skills of making connections, and only by making special and deep connections can we see more things and find solutions to problems. To see a way to be thought-provoking, the specifics can be found in the following steps: first, to list all the facts; second, to make inferences and make connections; third, to propose hypotheses and create new concepts; and fourth, to test hypotheses.
The above method is verified by the following example. In terms of feelings, many people now label men, including phoenix men, ma bao men, mouth cannon men, sullen men and so on. But if a girl doesn't understand what these terms mean, I'm afraid it will be difficult to identify these men. And this is the blurring of concepts, resulting in the inability to judge and discern the manifestation of things.
Take the word sullen, which was popular more than a decade ago, when many people used "sullen" to describe themselves or their relatives and friends on their QQ signatures. The real sullenness must be pejorative, not positive.
If you look at the first step, you first have to build the structure, and put all the facts into this structure. If the sullen people are grouped together, they will find that they have the following typical characteristics, such as: the word sullen is often used to describe men; secondly, sullen people often appear to be depressed and have nowhere to vent. Many sullen people treat feelings very casually, neither loyal nor single-minded, but also not serious and cautious, basically a completely irresponsible attitude. Therefore, if you encounter such a person in your relationship, if you invest too much, you will only suffer losses.
Looking at this kind of person in detail, they are delicate in their minds, and although some of them are not good at words, some of them are contrived and disgusting when expressing feelings or intentions. The word "riot" in "sullen" is the same as the word "sau" in "literati rioter". In ancient times, the word may have been a neutral word, but the modern word is clearly a derogatory word.
In addition, most of these people are literary and art workers, and they like to do things like dancing and ink. They have too many twists and turns in their stomachs, complex minds, and selfishness.
Sullen men are often still very single because of sullenness until they marry very late, and if the above details are pieced together, it is not difficult to conclude that this kind of man is either scum after all, or he is definitely not a good match.
Conclusions cannot be drawn too hastily, but we must make assumptions and reasoning based on known facts, and if the hypothesis is true, then the conclusion is not problematic, but if the hypothesis is not true, then the conclusion needs to be overturned and restarted. After this, a final test is also required.
Whether a man is a sullen man and whether a sullen man is a good match, we can first assume that the answer is "yes", and then verify.
If a person is worthy of trust, then he must be responsible for his feelings, and he will never easily start a relationship and end a relationship casually. It can be inferred from this that if a person has had multiple relationships but not more than three months, then there must be something wrong with such a person. If this person does not feel that this situation is problematic, but thinks that it is very common, or interprets this as full of personal charm, it can be seen that the person's problem is great, either psychological distortion or character problems.
If a person has a good character, it must be very popular, but if a person is popular, it does not necessarily mean that the person's character is passed. If someone claims to be very popular and can make people widely connected, but it is difficult to establish a deep and intimate and long-term relationship with people, then the person is either lying, exaggerated, or unable to recognize reality.
Furthermore, if a man loves verbal promises, but the girl is not sure that his promise will be fulfilled, then it is a good idea to see that they have a habit of lying. In the actual relationship, you only need to carefully verify the words said by men one by one, but all men who love to lie must have a lot of pony tails exposed.
The above is just an example, whether it is a sullen man or a mother-in-law man, when we label a group, it is to better identify such people. But after labeling, we should also carefully examine.
Taking the sullen man as an example, if the girl F does not know what kind of people the sullen man refers to, nor does she understand what characteristics they have, then when encountering the sullen man, it will be difficult to distinguish their strange behavior.
Girl T does not understand the sullen man, but has heard of what characteristics the sullen man has, when she encounters a similar man, she will analyze the man according to what she sees and hears.
If the girl C is very aware of the virtues of such men, they can foresee what will happen next and whether they need to have a relationship with them before the incident, etc. It is precisely because the C girl sees through the sullen man, so she chooses to stay away from this kind of man.
Some sullen men can really go from appearance to bone, and they often like to stir up trouble. When we really understand what kind of people the concept of the sullen man refers to, we can naturally judge more characteristics of this kind of man through association, such as: pretentiousness, selfishness, small-mindedness, lying... When we associate these characteristics together, it is not difficult to conclude that this kind of man cannot be trusted.