Turning point: facing the great changes of the future era with a larger pattern

202 1 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Professor David E. Card of the University of California, Berkeley, in recognition of his "contribution to the empirical research of labor economics". Through the study of natural experiments, he shows that raising the minimum wage does not necessarily lead to the reduction of employment opportunities.

However, when his achievement was just published, it was strongly criticized and attacked by peers because it subverted the traditional economic theory. But with the passage of time, more and more economists began to take this conclusion seriously and questioned the theoretical derivation of traditional economics.

Finally, Card's subversive theory was recognized, which greatly changed people's understanding of social phenomena affecting low-wage workers and effectively promoted the legislation of minimum wage.

The above story about cognitive subversion is only a small "turning point" in the process of human history, and there will be such a turning point in both economics and other fields.

For example, "three crises" in the history of mathematics, "two dark clouds" in the history of physics, the influence of evolution on theocracy, education, medical care, housing and other topics closely related to people's livelihood have all changed in cognition, environment and behavior.

So, how to face this turning point? How to improve cognitive ability? How to adapt to the great changes of the times?

Dr. Yang's "turning point" perfectly answered these questions. I believe that sooner or later, mankind will suddenly get earth-shaking changes. You will find that everything you have known and experienced in the past is upside down.

Yang, who is known as a "genius scientist", immigrated to Brazil with his father from Taiwan Province Province at the age of 6. He was admitted to Brasilia Medical College as the first in China at the age of 13, and received a double doctorate in biochemistry and medicine at Cornell Medical College in Rockefeller, new york at the age of 2 1. At the age of 27, he served as the head of the Department of Molecular Immunology and Cell Biology at Rockefeller University.

He is not only a top expert in the medical field, but also devoted himself to exploring the true meaning of life, and published "Whole Life Series" works, including bestsellers such as True Original Medicine, Good Sleep and Abundance.

The turning point starts with people's cognition, and takes global technology, climate, history and science as examples to discuss human collective mistakes and scientific possibilities. Finally, back to the personal level: since the environment is changing, our cognition and habits need to be changed to help us recover our resilience in the face of environmental turmoil.

First, the information we receive every day is subjective.

In today's society, there are so many channels for people to receive information that they can enjoy global information across time and space, and this kind of enjoyment is two-way. Not only can you obtain information, but the information you generate can also be obtained by others at any time.

When more and more people can choose to share information on various platforms, they will also realize that everything they have learned in the past is not fair and neutral, or even necessarily correct.

In the book, the author points out that various green or renewable energy-related policies advocated by European and American countries will only win the good reputation of green economy, but this will not reduce environmental pollution, but also reduce energy conversion efficiency, and the energy and environmental problems faced by mankind will only become more and more serious.

For example, we are familiar with various historical events, such as the Western Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and the Great Geographical Discovery. If we explore them from many angles according to the existing massive data, we will find that the impression we got from the official history in the past is not correct, but at least it is not enough to fully represent the facts.

Therefore, even if the public thinks it is objective and well-founded, as long as you are willing to explore independently and actively, you will find that the so-called "science" actually contains obvious mistakes.

As for the information received every day about public health, global climate, green energy, social welfare and other topics, the degree of subjective speculation is more serious. These seemingly neutral and objective expositions, as long as you pay attention to its context, you will find that they all have their own starting points and motives.

The whole book "Turning Point" constantly reminds readers that the so-called mainstream we can see every day is not representative, but an idea obtained from a certain position. What everyone takes for granted is only based on some assumptions, with a distinct personal subjective color.

Second, if the mastery of a certain information suddenly reaches a critical value, it will instantly affect the whole.

What was originally an illusory concept for most people suddenly became a new normal and a new paradigm. Everyone suddenly knows the truth, or the collective consciousness can accept the truth in an instant: this large-scale and sudden change can also be called paradigm shift or paradigm shift.

1543, Copernicus put forward the Heliocentrism, which revealed the true face of celestial movement and laid the foundation of modern astronomy.

1687, Newton published the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, summed up the law of universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, and built a classical mechanics building.

1909 Einstein put forward the wave-particle duality of light, which opened a new world of quantum theory ...

People's consciousness is often inadvertently reversed and transformed by a few people, as the author said: "That is to say, as long as less than one person in a hundred people reaches this consciousness, he actually does nothing, which may be enough to affect the other 99%."

The author also believes that there will be more and more "paradigm shifts" in various fields of mankind in the next few years. These changes are not only in the material framework, but also in the deeper level of the mind, which has become a new normal in a blink of an eye.

At the end of 2020, Nature, one of the most authoritative scientific magazines in the world, published "the most noteworthy scientific events in 20021year", including COVID-19 vaccine, drugs for Alzheimer's disease, gravitational wave detection, Mars exploration, space telescope, etc., involving biomedicine, space exploration, environmental science and other fields, including the impact of social events such as Britain's withdrawal from the European Union on the development of science and technology.

Now that the year 202 1 is coming to an end, do you think these represent the rapid change and transfer of human "paradigm"? As Professor Yang said, this not only affects everyone's life at the material level, but also changes people's cognition and concept at the spiritual level.

However, some changes are not necessarily reassuring, and changes in the material level will make the human environment and society turbulent to the point where people feel unreliable and insecure. However, it is such a violent turmoil that "will make mankind turn over completely and throw itself into the level of consciousness."

The invention of automobiles and airplanes has changed people's way of traveling, and the appearance of the Internet has changed people's way of socializing. But before that, it was hard to accept, worry, panic and fear, and then we had to jump out of the material level and analyze and think from the perspective of consciousness until the cognitive preference of the group reached a "turning point" and was finally accepted by the whole.

Third, break through the material world, know yourself thoroughly and deal with the turning point in the future.

The geometric shape of the golden ratio mentioned in the book exists in nature, architecture, design and clothing. From ancient Greece to modern society, something closer to this "sacred geometry" is more aesthetic. On the contrary, it seems to interrupt the balanced and harmonious relationship with the source of life.

Similarly, Fibonacci number also reveals the arrangement of plant petals: after modeling and simulating the process of petal formation, French scientists confirmed that plants will grow petals in the form of Fibonacci sequence when the system maintains the lowest energy.

Professor Yang said: "Of course, human development is a good thing, but if this development will violate some basic principles, such as the principle of destroying sacred geometry, then it will only be ourselves who will be hurt in the end."

Then, such a basic principle is the magic weapon for us to survive in the material world. No matter what the theme is, you need to invest in it and verify it. It is found that the past cognition is actually different from your personal experience, and it may even be upside down.

This comprehensive change in cognition is the "turning point" that the author really wants to express, and it is the greatest grace you may have in this life. There is no reason for you not to face yourself and face the truth.

Every presentation of hot news and every occurrence of hot events should be carefully thought out, and don't fall into a material trap for more "correct" or "representative" views.

Since every concept is a certain angle of thinking, we should jump out of the event itself, temporarily put down what we are passionate about in this world, trace back to the source at the level of consciousness, and then get peace and worry-free.

Naturally, when you form such a conscious habit, you don't need external things to push you at all, so you just keep going.

The impact and difficulties brought by the social environment are opportunities to temper and test a person's resilience and adaptability. No matter how turbulent the world is, what we can do is to truly see through the changing life and measure it from a higher and broader level with a larger pattern.

No matter how the external world changes on the material level, we need to have a greater and broader consciousness, start from the concept and cognition, and realize the progress of individual life. This is the "survival guide" that this book really wants to convey to us in the face of great changes in the future.