May 26, 2010 at 14:26Use your head
What is the main tool for IT work? A computer? I think otherwise. First of all, we work with our heads. How does the brain work? For some reason they don’t tell us about this at school, university and at work, or they tell us very little. To work effectively, you need not only to be able to perfectly use the necessary software, but also to know how to set up your brain to work.
Especially for Habr (for people with a technical mentality) I prepared a short version of an article about the brain, which describes what is good for the brain and what is not. Welcome to cat.
1. The specific goal . As soon as you formulate for yourself a specific goal, task, miracles will immediately begin. Means, opportunities and time will be found for its implementation.
And if, having set the main goal, you will be able to break it down into its components, and calmly, gradually, constantly, step by step you will fulfill them - not a single problem will stand before you.
2. Positive emotions . Emotions are short-term subjective reactions of a person to the world around him (joy, anger, shame, etc.). Feelings - a stable emotional attitude towards other people, phenomena. Feelings are associated with consciousness and can develop and improve.
Emotions are exciting - increasing human activity, and depressing - that is, suppressing life processes. Positive emotions prompt a person to act. They arise with satisfaction. Start looking for simple joys of life - and stimulation will begin in the brain - the release of large doses of endorphins, hormones of pleasure, which means satisfaction, which means positive emotions that excite and enhance your life activity, and allow you to calmly flow through thought processes, give rise to a good mood and positive mood for the world. It is human nature to seek joy - this is not a named instinct for self-preservation.
3. Movement and fresh air. In the fresh air, blood is more actively saturated with oxygen, carries oxygen and nutrition to brain cells faster, oxidation and metabolism are intensified, the energy we need is released, new biochemical compounds are born. The brain makes us move in order to save ourselves and us, of course. Give pleasure to think, create, solve complex problems, have memories.
There is no movement of fresh air, blood acidifies - brains “sour”.
4. Simple food in moderation. Simple food is easier to obtain, cook, and digest. The brain says (if you want to hear it): buddy, 50% of all the energy received by the body is spent on vision, 40% on the digestion and disinfection of food toxins, and only 10% is on movement, the work of the mental and nervous systems, the fight against billions microbes. If you eat all the time, when will we think ?!
It is useful to eat soups - they improve digestion, metabolism, fill the stomach faster, which gives a feeling of satiety with a smaller amount of food.
5. Sleep, rest . The brain, like the entire human body, needs rest. With physical exertion, rest is a mental occupation, with an intellectual one - physical exercises, from moral fatigue - a change of place.
A full rest is a dream. Sleep is the most mysterious state of a person; a person cannot live without sleep, although sleep is called a "small death."
In a dream, consciousness is turned off, but a person continues to think, his thinking changes and obeys other laws. This is due to the fact that in the dream the subconscious mind comes to the fore. The brain analyzes what happened over the past day, restructures it in a new way and gives out the most likely outcome. This result may have been predicted for a long time, but consciousness did not accept it, it was driven out into the subconscious and extracted from there in a dream.
It is assumed that the brain can be given an installation for the night: to make a forecast, decision, exit, conclusion, for a simply pleasant dream. Unnecessary impressions, an obsessive state are washed off by the brain’s night protective wave. People who constantly see prophetic dreams are likely good analysts.
6. Addiction . The brain cannot instantly adapt to sharply changed alien circumstances: new living conditions, new work, study, residence, company, food, new people. Enter any activity gradually, calmly, getting used to it. Every day, making the maximum possible, you will achieve the impossible. The habit of learning and working is developed gradually and constantly. Sudden understanding and insight always presupposes knowledge, which may not always be fully conscious.
Often, parents, teachers, superiors, loved ones (and we ourselves sometimes), not understanding the complexity of addiction, demand from us (and we from others) an instant result. This does not happen. It’s best not to wind up, calm down, good-naturedly tell yourself or others - not all at once, “wait kids, give only a period, there will be a squirrel for you, there will be a whistle”. And slowly start moving, accelerating as you get used to it.
The brain itself creates stereotypes (habits, skills, conditioned reflexes). Stereotypical thinking significantly helps to live - no need to re-solve standard tasks. Every day, performing the same actions, we turn them into a habit, skill, skill, conditioned reflex. Not including the brain, salivate at the sight of a lemon, close the front door, faucet, wash dishes, start from a sharp beep of the car, click the cross when it is necessary to close the program window.
Instinct and a little life experience make us create stereotypes of friends, enemies, lovers from childhood. It helps in the “sea of people” to choose someone, assemble their team and stop there, freeing up time and energy for other life goals. Stereotypes help communicate with strangers, get along with parents, educate their children.
6.Freedom . Although limited by the instinct of self-preservation and social rules, useful primarily to ourselves. Freedom is independence from fears and stereotypes. Of course, we need stereotypes in the form of unconditioned and conditioned reflexes - we will not burn ourselves, sticking our hands in the fire a second time - it hurts! But if circumstances require, to show their contempt for pain and death, burn your right hand, like the Roman "military" Mutsius Stcevola. And do not be afraid to think in your own way and in a new way; defend your way of thinking, your life, your appearance, your loved ones. And do not blame the whole world for misunderstanding and not recognizing you "all that extraordinary." And let others be different from you, have your own way of thinking, a look at life.
7. Creativity- the ability of the brain, using and relying on the old, to create a new, different, different. Creativity is the favorite work of the brain, making us related to God, making us gods. Creativity in the form of science studies, describes, explains the world and man, puts forward ideas, finds ways and means of translating them into life, looks into the future and is ready to change it for the better.
Creativity in the form of art - combining work and emotions reflects reality with artistic images. Art unites people: a writer, sharing his life, feelings, describing other people, shows that we are not alone in our experiences. The artist offers to see how the environment is; we ourselves can be beautiful or ugly. The musician makes his soul respond to the tuning fork with the sounds of his heart.
Art awakens our imagination, enriches our inner world, helps to see the world in a different light. Art creates ideals.
8. Division, sitting, communication, hugs . Life is a constant division of cells, a constant metabolism and the distribution of information. The work of nerve cells in the brain of neurons is “love.” They constantly “hug”, touching dendrites (processes, “hands”) of each other, constantly transmit energy (nerve impulses) information about everything (biochemical compounds). It’s harmful not to share, you can’t demand, it’s confusing. We must be friends with our heads, we must be friends with people.
This is the essence of the brain - it constantly needs to receive information and give it away.
1. Fear . Oppressing, overwhelming vital processes emotion. When we feel fear, the instinct of self-preservation prevails, zones of the brain, groups of nerve cells cannot be included in mental activity. Man loses creative thought.
We constantly worry about food, about loved ones, about pain (illness, betrayal, death), about life (war, tsunami, a fool-boss, revolution, the dollar, meeting with the terminator) - i.e. are under stress. How to deal with this:
Fear is dangerous to mental health and to life. But we need one adaptive form of fear - caution!
2. Strong emotions of any property . Strong emotions sharply inhibit the mental ability of the brain. Great joy and great sorrow can temporarily deprive the ability to think. A prolonged such condition leads to painful helplessness of the brain.
Girls, this is for you. When you are “hysterical” (too emotional), your brain goes offline. This made it possible to say "Women are fools!" But it has already been proven that the female and male brains are equally capable of education, social adaptation, and politics.
Different hormones affect neurology - men often have dyslexia, schizophrenia, autism. And the fair sex suffer from anxiety, depression, eating disorders. Therefore, do not impose this state on your men - this literally makes them fools.
In men, logical thinking, not including the brain regions responsible for emotions, men calmly solve the problem. In women, on the contrary, the catativity of thinking, i.e. they solve the problem through the prism of conflicting emotions. This is their physiology; they cannot do otherwise. Guys, did that bother you too? There is a solution: help them calm down: “smack-smack”, “hold ice cream”, “let me warm the seagulls”, “yes, calm down! I will solve your problem, let's go, take a walk, think, "etc. etc. The main idea: "I love you, but we will solve the problem when you calm down." And you will be surprised how a woman will perfectly cope with everything.
The mechanism of emotions is first understanding (situations, phenomena), then emotions. But do we always correctly understand the situation, the other person, if we are in the three pines, we don’t really understand ourselves. First, it’s worth calmly sorting out, and only then “emotionalizing”.
3. Darkness, loneliness . Such conditions include the instinct of self-preservation. Conventional sources of brain tone are reduced and the “dark forces” of negative emotions walk more freely through an unprotected brain (the enemy lurks in the dark; man is a herd creature, he is dangerous and scared alone).
Loneliness is a severe mental condition associated with negative emotions and discomfort. But loneliness will have a beneficial effect on a person if we perceive it as voluntary solitude. Communication deficiency cannot be a disaster if a person has at least someone with contact, understanding. Perhaps in this world you are only a man, but for someone you are the whole world.
Drop unnecessary stereotypes, give any of your states the correct names that support you, soothe, carry the energy you need.
4. Stereotypes . The brain creates stereotypes, but also “misses” them. The brain struggles with stereotypes for self-preservation "I want to think!" The brain responds to every change in the external and internal environment.
There are people who, having spent some time developing basic life or professional skills (it’s ideal to get all of them in childhood and adolescence), bring them to automatism, can carry them out, allowing the brain to solve more complex or creative tasks at this time (cook - culinary specialist, driver - ace, draftsman - artist, engineer - inventor, layout designer - designer)
Stereotypes destroy our relationships with people: with friends, with colleagues, with children, parents, lovers, when they behave contrary to our stereotypes. Do not be afraid to abandon old ideas about people. Create new stereotypes based on new data (“do not persist in stupidity!”). Let people change, be different. And calmly and firmly, do not let others impose stereotypes about you if you do not need it.
Never be afraid, your treasure is with you, your most reliable friend is your brain!
Take care of your treasure, study it, remember, the brain has reserves - but these are reserves. You can make the brain work in extreme mode, but the adaptive capabilities will be exhausted. This also explains the overly early and intensive development of children and their subsequent problems with adaptation in society.
The article was prepared on the basis of various sources, among which I would especially like to highlight the book of our contemporary, our compatriot, a great woman and a great scientist, academician, creator of the brain institute, Natalya Petrovna Bekhtereva. The book is called "Brain Magic and the Labyrinths of Life."
The article does not pretend to be complete information, but is intended to spur your interest in the brain. I felt the described things (what the brain loves and what not) from my own experience, and when I started reading about the brain, I was convinced that science is on my side :). Spend your time reading about the brain. This time will pay off when you can properly configure your main work tool.
Especially for Habr (for people with a technical mentality) I prepared a short version of an article about the brain, which describes what is good for the brain and what is not. Welcome to cat.
The brain loves
1. The specific goal . As soon as you formulate for yourself a specific goal, task, miracles will immediately begin. Means, opportunities and time will be found for its implementation.
And if, having set the main goal, you will be able to break it down into its components, and calmly, gradually, constantly, step by step you will fulfill them - not a single problem will stand before you.
2. Positive emotions . Emotions are short-term subjective reactions of a person to the world around him (joy, anger, shame, etc.). Feelings - a stable emotional attitude towards other people, phenomena. Feelings are associated with consciousness and can develop and improve.
Emotions are exciting - increasing human activity, and depressing - that is, suppressing life processes. Positive emotions prompt a person to act. They arise with satisfaction. Start looking for simple joys of life - and stimulation will begin in the brain - the release of large doses of endorphins, hormones of pleasure, which means satisfaction, which means positive emotions that excite and enhance your life activity, and allow you to calmly flow through thought processes, give rise to a good mood and positive mood for the world. It is human nature to seek joy - this is not a named instinct for self-preservation.
3. Movement and fresh air. In the fresh air, blood is more actively saturated with oxygen, carries oxygen and nutrition to brain cells faster, oxidation and metabolism are intensified, the energy we need is released, new biochemical compounds are born. The brain makes us move in order to save ourselves and us, of course. Give pleasure to think, create, solve complex problems, have memories.
There is no movement of fresh air, blood acidifies - brains “sour”.
4. Simple food in moderation. Simple food is easier to obtain, cook, and digest. The brain says (if you want to hear it): buddy, 50% of all the energy received by the body is spent on vision, 40% on the digestion and disinfection of food toxins, and only 10% is on movement, the work of the mental and nervous systems, the fight against billions microbes. If you eat all the time, when will we think ?!
It is useful to eat soups - they improve digestion, metabolism, fill the stomach faster, which gives a feeling of satiety with a smaller amount of food.
5. Sleep, rest . The brain, like the entire human body, needs rest. With physical exertion, rest is a mental occupation, with an intellectual one - physical exercises, from moral fatigue - a change of place.
A full rest is a dream. Sleep is the most mysterious state of a person; a person cannot live without sleep, although sleep is called a "small death."
In a dream, consciousness is turned off, but a person continues to think, his thinking changes and obeys other laws. This is due to the fact that in the dream the subconscious mind comes to the fore. The brain analyzes what happened over the past day, restructures it in a new way and gives out the most likely outcome. This result may have been predicted for a long time, but consciousness did not accept it, it was driven out into the subconscious and extracted from there in a dream.
It is assumed that the brain can be given an installation for the night: to make a forecast, decision, exit, conclusion, for a simply pleasant dream. Unnecessary impressions, an obsessive state are washed off by the brain’s night protective wave. People who constantly see prophetic dreams are likely good analysts.
6. Addiction . The brain cannot instantly adapt to sharply changed alien circumstances: new living conditions, new work, study, residence, company, food, new people. Enter any activity gradually, calmly, getting used to it. Every day, making the maximum possible, you will achieve the impossible. The habit of learning and working is developed gradually and constantly. Sudden understanding and insight always presupposes knowledge, which may not always be fully conscious.
Often, parents, teachers, superiors, loved ones (and we ourselves sometimes), not understanding the complexity of addiction, demand from us (and we from others) an instant result. This does not happen. It’s best not to wind up, calm down, good-naturedly tell yourself or others - not all at once, “wait kids, give only a period, there will be a squirrel for you, there will be a whistle”. And slowly start moving, accelerating as you get used to it.
The brain itself creates stereotypes (habits, skills, conditioned reflexes). Stereotypical thinking significantly helps to live - no need to re-solve standard tasks. Every day, performing the same actions, we turn them into a habit, skill, skill, conditioned reflex. Not including the brain, salivate at the sight of a lemon, close the front door, faucet, wash dishes, start from a sharp beep of the car, click the cross when it is necessary to close the program window.
Instinct and a little life experience make us create stereotypes of friends, enemies, lovers from childhood. It helps in the “sea of people” to choose someone, assemble their team and stop there, freeing up time and energy for other life goals. Stereotypes help communicate with strangers, get along with parents, educate their children.
6.Freedom . Although limited by the instinct of self-preservation and social rules, useful primarily to ourselves. Freedom is independence from fears and stereotypes. Of course, we need stereotypes in the form of unconditioned and conditioned reflexes - we will not burn ourselves, sticking our hands in the fire a second time - it hurts! But if circumstances require, to show their contempt for pain and death, burn your right hand, like the Roman "military" Mutsius Stcevola. And do not be afraid to think in your own way and in a new way; defend your way of thinking, your life, your appearance, your loved ones. And do not blame the whole world for misunderstanding and not recognizing you "all that extraordinary." And let others be different from you, have your own way of thinking, a look at life.
7. Creativity- the ability of the brain, using and relying on the old, to create a new, different, different. Creativity is the favorite work of the brain, making us related to God, making us gods. Creativity in the form of science studies, describes, explains the world and man, puts forward ideas, finds ways and means of translating them into life, looks into the future and is ready to change it for the better.
Creativity in the form of art - combining work and emotions reflects reality with artistic images. Art unites people: a writer, sharing his life, feelings, describing other people, shows that we are not alone in our experiences. The artist offers to see how the environment is; we ourselves can be beautiful or ugly. The musician makes his soul respond to the tuning fork with the sounds of his heart.
Art awakens our imagination, enriches our inner world, helps to see the world in a different light. Art creates ideals.
8. Division, sitting, communication, hugs . Life is a constant division of cells, a constant metabolism and the distribution of information. The work of nerve cells in the brain of neurons is “love.” They constantly “hug”, touching dendrites (processes, “hands”) of each other, constantly transmit energy (nerve impulses) information about everything (biochemical compounds). It’s harmful not to share, you can’t demand, it’s confusing. We must be friends with our heads, we must be friends with people.
This is the essence of the brain - it constantly needs to receive information and give it away.
The brain does not like
1. Fear . Oppressing, overwhelming vital processes emotion. When we feel fear, the instinct of self-preservation prevails, zones of the brain, groups of nerve cells cannot be included in mental activity. Man loses creative thought.
We constantly worry about food, about loved ones, about pain (illness, betrayal, death), about life (war, tsunami, a fool-boss, revolution, the dollar, meeting with the terminator) - i.e. are under stress. How to deal with this:
- Pain and death must be despised.
- Difficulties, if not avoided, should be tempered. In overcoming difficulties, you lose something, but you definitely gain something.
- Nurture courage, pride and stamina.
- We must boldly admit to ourselves that problems and troubles are inevitable companions of human life. They are not the first and not the last to be solved.
- Believe in yourself and in your bright future, you are a problem, not you!
Fear is dangerous to mental health and to life. But we need one adaptive form of fear - caution!
2. Strong emotions of any property . Strong emotions sharply inhibit the mental ability of the brain. Great joy and great sorrow can temporarily deprive the ability to think. A prolonged such condition leads to painful helplessness of the brain.
Girls, this is for you. When you are “hysterical” (too emotional), your brain goes offline. This made it possible to say "Women are fools!" But it has already been proven that the female and male brains are equally capable of education, social adaptation, and politics.
Different hormones affect neurology - men often have dyslexia, schizophrenia, autism. And the fair sex suffer from anxiety, depression, eating disorders. Therefore, do not impose this state on your men - this literally makes them fools.
In men, logical thinking, not including the brain regions responsible for emotions, men calmly solve the problem. In women, on the contrary, the catativity of thinking, i.e. they solve the problem through the prism of conflicting emotions. This is their physiology; they cannot do otherwise. Guys, did that bother you too? There is a solution: help them calm down: “smack-smack”, “hold ice cream”, “let me warm the seagulls”, “yes, calm down! I will solve your problem, let's go, take a walk, think, "etc. etc. The main idea: "I love you, but we will solve the problem when you calm down." And you will be surprised how a woman will perfectly cope with everything.
The mechanism of emotions is first understanding (situations, phenomena), then emotions. But do we always correctly understand the situation, the other person, if we are in the three pines, we don’t really understand ourselves. First, it’s worth calmly sorting out, and only then “emotionalizing”.
3. Darkness, loneliness . Such conditions include the instinct of self-preservation. Conventional sources of brain tone are reduced and the “dark forces” of negative emotions walk more freely through an unprotected brain (the enemy lurks in the dark; man is a herd creature, he is dangerous and scared alone).
Loneliness is a severe mental condition associated with negative emotions and discomfort. But loneliness will have a beneficial effect on a person if we perceive it as voluntary solitude. Communication deficiency cannot be a disaster if a person has at least someone with contact, understanding. Perhaps in this world you are only a man, but for someone you are the whole world.
Drop unnecessary stereotypes, give any of your states the correct names that support you, soothe, carry the energy you need.
4. Stereotypes . The brain creates stereotypes, but also “misses” them. The brain struggles with stereotypes for self-preservation "I want to think!" The brain responds to every change in the external and internal environment.
There are people who, having spent some time developing basic life or professional skills (it’s ideal to get all of them in childhood and adolescence), bring them to automatism, can carry them out, allowing the brain to solve more complex or creative tasks at this time (cook - culinary specialist, driver - ace, draftsman - artist, engineer - inventor, layout designer - designer)
Stereotypes destroy our relationships with people: with friends, with colleagues, with children, parents, lovers, when they behave contrary to our stereotypes. Do not be afraid to abandon old ideas about people. Create new stereotypes based on new data (“do not persist in stupidity!”). Let people change, be different. And calmly and firmly, do not let others impose stereotypes about you if you do not need it.
Never be afraid, your treasure is with you, your most reliable friend is your brain!
Take care of your treasure, study it, remember, the brain has reserves - but these are reserves. You can make the brain work in extreme mode, but the adaptive capabilities will be exhausted. This also explains the overly early and intensive development of children and their subsequent problems with adaptation in society.
The article was prepared on the basis of various sources, among which I would especially like to highlight the book of our contemporary, our compatriot, a great woman and a great scientist, academician, creator of the brain institute, Natalya Petrovna Bekhtereva. The book is called "Brain Magic and the Labyrinths of Life."
The article does not pretend to be complete information, but is intended to spur your interest in the brain. I felt the described things (what the brain loves and what not) from my own experience, and when I started reading about the brain, I was convinced that science is on my side :). Spend your time reading about the brain. This time will pay off when you can properly configure your main work tool.