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Let me tell you a short story that impressed Shu Chanjun.

In a small aboriginal tribe in Australia, an American professor of cultural psychology asked the 5-year-old girl next to him to point out the north. She pointed it out accurately at once.

Later, when the professor gave speeches in Harvard, Princeton, London, Beijing and other places, he also did this quiz with the audience. The outstanding scholars and high flyers in the audience thought for a while, then pointed to all directions, but they couldn't find the north at all.

Why is this happening? The answer will surprise you: maybe it's the language.

The language of that small Australian tribe does not have "left" or "right", but uses "east", "south", "west" and "north" without distinction. For example, they will say, "The boy standing south of Mary is my brother", which is obviously different from the expression habits of China or British culture.

This story shows that the language we don't usually pay special attention to may actually affect our thinking. In other words, what you say is likely to become what you are.

Li Xiaolai, the sharer of this issue, has a similar feeling. So he summed up 10 simple sentence patterns, and made us smart through the function of language.

I often say in composition class: "The language we use limits our thinking."

For example, in the stock market, people often lose a lot of wealth because of improper words when thinking-when the stock price held by investors falls, the word "book loss" should be used instead of "loss" or "actual loss" when describing the shrinking market value.

But some people have not been trained in thinking and use the words "loss" or "actual loss". Therefore, some investors can't bear the psychological pressure (in fact, they scare themselves) and sell stocks, and the "book loss" really becomes the "actual loss".

On the other hand, in other cases, some people miss the opportunity to reduce losses because they mistake "actual losses" for "book losses".

Since language may restrict our thinking, we have a way to make language "restrict" us from going in a good direction. Here are ten particularly simple sentence patterns that can make us smart-really smart, not just "looking smart".

1. Really?

When you encounter any previously unknown concepts, theories, phenomena, interpretations, etc. You can ask them, whether you ask others or yourself, or you can ask Google, the greatest god on the Internet, and ask them more than once: Really? This step is indispensable. Without it, it is equivalent to lack of mind.

In fact, seeking truth should have become a basic habit long ago.

It's not the same thing, is it?

Marriage and love are not the same thing, right? Reading and going to school are not the same thing, are they? History and history books are not the same thing, right? This sentence pattern is only used to identify the differences between concepts, whether huge or subtle, but there are always differences between important concepts. If it is the same thing, there is really no need to have several names.

Of course, life is really strange. The same thing often has two names, such as fruit and fried dough sticks. ...

3. What else?

Anything else to consider? What else have you not considered? What are the other reasons? What is the conclusion? What other facts are there? What else is there? Ask a few more times and you will never lose. Not only several times, but also again and again, every few days and years.

This sentence pattern will make a person involuntarily "think more comprehensively".

4. Not necessarily?

Uncertainty is the essence and truth of this world. The only constant in this world is that change is always there, and the only certainty is that uncertainty is always there.

This sentence pattern is particularly important when dealing with causal logic. When someone comes to the conclusion that A happened because of B, we might as well take this sentence pattern as the starting point: "Not necessarily"? Then keep thinking. What else could it be? This is a combined variant of the third sentence pattern and the fourth sentence pattern.

5. Unless ...

This is a sentence pattern that is much more difficult to use than it looks.

Need to use the third sentence pattern, "What else?" ; Not only that, but also one by one, and finally find the most important factors that may not have been considered at first ... Every time this sentence pattern can be used correctly, it means that the brain has completed a series of difficult actions.

6. Can't compare?

Definition, classification, comparison and causality are the basic logical framework for repeated and combined use in daily life.

"x and y can't be compared, can they?" Is used to deal with the core of comparison: the two sides to be compared should belong to the same category and have the same attributes. Apples and oranges are both fruits (the same category) and can be eaten (the same attribute). We can compare which one tastes better. Apples and socks can't be put together and there's no way to compare them. ...

7. Essentially ...

Seeing through appearances and essence is the most important thinking skill. If you use this sentence pattern correctly, you will involuntarily force yourself to think more (further thinking).

"well, it seems so ... but in fact?" Or "well, that's a superficial understanding, so what's the essence?"

8. The most important thing is ...

This sentence pattern is so important that you can even temper your values by using it repeatedly.

In the analysis of causality, we should find the most important reason among many reasons; In the application of concepts, we should find the most wrong mistakes; Comparatively speaking, we should know what is the most important standard; When analyzing phenomena, we should see the most essential content (the variation of the seventh sentence pattern) ...

9. It's not that simple, is it?

Some things are really simple, but more often, people like to oversimplify.

The second sentence pattern (is it not the same thing? It is useful because people tend to oversimplify or even confuse important concepts (being lazy or trying to save trouble), and even fall into the trap unconsciously. If everything goes too well, ask yourself, "It's not that simple, is it?" There may often be unexpected gains.

10. What's so complicated?

Some things are really not that complicated. Complicating simple things is an important way for many people to "brush their sense of existence" because it will be smart.

It's interesting to say, many complicated things can actually become very simple after in-depth study. The premise here is that simplicity is really meaningful after in-depth study.

Before in-depth study, the ninth sentence pattern is more applicable; After in-depth research, if there is no application of the tenth sentence pattern, it is likely that the research is not deep enough.

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To sum up, these ten sentence patterns deserve to be used repeatedly in life, and finally they can be used casually. Brain power, like physical strength, can gain more strength through a lot of "exercise"

Really?

Not the same thing, is it?

What else is there?

Not necessarily?

only if ...

Can't compare?

in essence ...

most important of all ...

It's not that simple, is it?

What's so complicated?