Unlock the brain.

I particularly like a quote by Albert Einstein."The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them".We encounter many problems in our lives that seem to arise from various different causes, but in reality, we are often just repeating the same mistakes in different ways. We continue to do the same thing but expect different results. In order to change this, we must first change our way of thinking and step out of the problem to solve it. Breaking the old pattern is the first step in unlocking our brains. The first barrier in our brains is inherent bias. A person's understanding of something can be divided into four levels: not knowing that you don't know, knowing that you don't know, knowing that you know, and not knowing that you know. Most of us are in the first level, not knowing that we don't know. When you encounter a question you don't know the answer to on an exam, you know you don't know the answer because you didn't study well enough. But what about the state of not knowing that you don't know? This is a situation where the question doesn't even exist for you. You didn't take the exam, so you don't know what you should answer, and you don't even know what the question is asking, just like when you open a search engine but don't know what to search for. This state is called the Dunning-Kruger effect in psychology. It refers to the fact that people with a lack of ability usually cannot recognize their shortcomings and tend to overestimate their abilities. What's even more frightening is that we can all fall into this trap. The Dunning-Kruger effect can cause us to close our minds, and we only see what we want to see. We automatically block out anything we're not interested in, don't understand, or don't agree with, making it difficult for us to absorb any new knowledge. To change this, we can recall which stage we grew the fastest. It was when we were children. Although we didn't know anything, we knew we didn't know anything, and we were curious about everything around us. We wanted to touch and taste everything. We didn't talk much, but we always kept asking "why," and we grew quickly. This state is called "beginner's mind" in Zen practice, which means we should keep a beginner's mind like a child, curious about everything. Our initial thoughts and plans for something may change after a few months because the only constant in this world is change. We will inevitably adjust based on changes in the environment, so we must maintain our beginner's mind, always be curious, continue to learn, and constantly adjust in a changing environment. This is the only way to stay on track. Many successful companies, such as Amazon, Apple, and Tencent in China, have deviated from their original plans, but their beginner's mind has never changed.It's all about constantly learning and evolving like a beginner in the market, so you can cross the market cycles time and time again and achieve the success of today. Therefore, we say that the first step to opening the mind is to return to the original intention. Returning to the original intention means admitting that we are ignorant, admitting that we know nothing, keeping curious about everything, and returning to the state of a child. Only in this way can we truly change and have the possibility to change. In fact, it's like what Socrates said, "The only thing I know is that I know nothing," which is our first seal.