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Jingdu Jun’s General Dictionary has launched 2070 entries
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Recently, with the release of "Hot and Spicy" during the Spring Festival, recent photos of Jia Ling's "plastic surgery" have also gradually Exposed, related topics continue to dominate the hot searches on various platforms.
A few days ago, the video of Jia Ling wearing big waves and evening dress, singing and talking to her old self, amazed countless people. As soon as the
video came out, it exploded across the Internet.
Who would have thought that Jia Ling would one day become a hot search topic because of her appearance and temperament.
Perhaps Jia Ling’s changes were so shocking that the whole country started a craze to follow the trend and lose weight.
Some people said that people in their circle of friends who sell weight loss pills, nutritional products, and open gyms and provide weight loss classes are very "hot", especially friends who open gyms. Generally, there are too many inquiries and inquiries, and they are all led by Jia Ling. The students who came.
Some people even went to the gym and started boxing to lose fat because of the influence of the movie.
Many people swear that Jia Ling can lose 100 kilograms in one year. She only wants to lose 10 kilograms, and it is not too difficult.
But in fact, no matter whether you lose 10 pounds or 100 pounds, it is not easy to use healthy and scientific methods to lose weight and ensure that it does not regain weight in the short term, or even to build a body of muscle.
Someone made a "Jia Ling weight line chart" based on the memo in the movie's Easter egg after the release of "Hot and Spicy".
As can be seen from the picture, although Jia Ling's weight was declining perfectly at the beginning, she still experienced a plateau period for two full months when she was halfway through the weight loss process, and even gained weight at one point.
What really tempers one's will is actually this plateau period. Many people fail to persist in the end because they fail in this period.
After they hit a plateau, they often feel that their potential has reached the end and no matter how hard they try, because they can’t see any obvious results or even regress and rebound, so they simply give up.
This is a bit like a child playing a game. You must ensure that you can win before you are willing to play, otherwise you will stop playing.
But in fact, if you can continue to persist and has passed the plateau period, you will undergo qualitative changes.
In fact, not only weight loss has a plateau, anything that requires long-term persistence has a plateau.
Such as learning.
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There is a concept in economics called " learning curve ", also known as the experience curve, which refers to the curve in which indicators such as learning effect or cost change with learning time or number of times.
This curve is somewhat similar to Jia Ling’s weight line chart.
As can be seen from the figure, the learning curve is divided into three stages: slow start area, accelerated improvement area and plateau area.
The plateau area here is actually similar to the plateau period. When learning
, you will often feel a sense of accomplishment when you enter the accelerated improvement zone, and you will feel a little happy, but you will soon hit the plateau zone. At this stage, you will feel that after reaching a certain level, every step forward is laborious and time-consuming. , and may even regress.
Because what is easy to master has been mastered, only the hard bones are left. If the sense of goal is not strong and there is no system view, it is easy to be complacent, feel good about oneself, and stop moving forward.
However, the slow progress or temporary regression at this time is just an illusion.
Because the neuron cells in the brain are still connected and constantly being consolidated, once they persist to a breakthrough, they will enter the next stage of rapid growth.
For example, when many people are learning English, they insist on "sharpening their ears" every day even if they don't understand. Then one day, they suddenly find that they can understand all the English they didn't understand at once. This is a plateau breakthrough. typical performance.
This is where Jia Ling is great. Her goal is very clear, which is to reduce her weight to a relatively healthy 115 pounds.
did not reach this number, no matter how difficult it was, she would not give up.
In order to complete the transformation, she didn't even leave herself a way out.
has been browsing various official transition videos and transition theaters about her in the past few days. Yesterday, there was even a hot search for a duet between two Jia Lings.
All the before-and-after comparison materials we see now were taken a year apart, but they are all consistent.
shows that she has always had a complete plan, including weight loss progress, movie shooting progress, and various materials, and that every step has been done to achieve today's results.
Whenever she fails to lose weight or gives up, the movie will sit there, and other staff members will have to wait for her, and even have to bear considerable losses.
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Jia Ling’s method is also known in psychology as the “Hawthorne Effect”: When people realize that they are being noticed, they will deliberately change their behavior or language expression .
binds her weight loss goal to many people and things for which she needs to be responsible, making herself the object of others' attention. Any disturbance around her will prompt her to change her behavior.
With outside attention and supervision, those habits that are difficult to develop will often become much easier .
There is a good saying, A person's self-discipline often begins with heteronomy.. This is the truth of
.
Of course, it is impossible to have other laws without your own planning and long-term persistence.
The truly powerful people are long-termists who continue to work hard and wait for a breakthrough to the plateau period.
Luo Zhenyu once explained long-termism in his New Year's Eve speech on "Friends of Time":
pursues long-termism, and the compound interest obtained through time accumulation can allow people to reap miracles.
If a person has long-term certainty, he can resist the uncertainty of the outside world. With long-term and persistent goals, external resources can be integrated by individuals.
In other words, The efforts of ordinary people will accumulate into miracles under the compound interest of long-termism.
In ancient Greek fables, when talking about the "Grain Heap Paradox", there is such a question: Can a coin make a person rich?
The answer is definitely no, but what if we add one more, even one every day?
When we learn something new, we always see significant progress initially. But as the skills improve, we will find more and more problems, and there is even an illusion that the skills have returned to the original point.
But in fact, it’s not that we are not making progress with , it’s just that we have hit a plateau.
When we successfully pass the plateau, success will naturally approach us.
The same is true in life. Halfway through, you will always encounter bottlenecks, but as long as you persist, you will see the light.
Remember, the real masters are down-to-earth long-termists.
*About the author: Fei Bai, the main creator of Intensive Reading, still loves life after recognizing the truth of life. Click on the card below to follow Feibai’s personal account.
