Two days after Thanksgiving 2016, 19-year-old Charlotte Hovelmayr was spending her summer vacation at her Virginia home.
When she went to check on her father, who was fixing the brakes under his truck in the garage, she saw a fire burning under the truck, consuming a tire.
The crane carrying the truck had collapsed and dumped a gas canister, causing a fire that prevented her father from getting out.
Newspapers and publications reported that the teenage girl, 168 cm tall and weighing 55 kg, grabbed the wing of the truck and started lifting it until she was about to free her father. She tried again and her father succeeded in crawling from under the truck.
In the blink of an eye, Charlotte jumped into the burning truck and drove it out of the garage, parked it in the garden and sped off to put out the fire with a hose.
Charlotte's action is one example of "hysterical power" that has been documented in at least sixty other cases in which people of normal physical ability display extraordinary strength in life-or-imminent situations or emergencies.
Although some experts believe that the explosion of hysterical power is the result of a massive shock from the adrenaline released by the adrenal glands in dangerous situations, the way it works in the muscles remains elusive.
But it remains a testament to the amazing performance of our bodies under specific conditions.
Does the same apply to our minds as well? Can we perform superhuman mental feats that match lifting a pickup truck? To answer this question, let's think about what actually happened to Charlotte. It was assumed that the extraordinary activity in her muscles and adrenal glands was starting to work inside her brain, which somehow found a way to tell her muscles and adrenal glands to do their best. So realistically speaking, this unique act of saving her father's life was a powerful example of what a mind can do when it wants to.
The desire of the mind, whether conscious or unconscious, is crucial, for it was in Charlotte's case to stimulate feeling rather than thinking.
The most important factor in transforming an ordinary brain into an extraordinary one usually stems from the level of emotional investment.
Emotional investment is crucial to brain charging, because the techniques you are about to learn require changing your thinking and problem-solving practices deeply ingrained in your brain, including practices you may not even realize you have.
The brain is made up of about 100 billion neurons and up to a quadrillion (1,000 trillion) connections between those neurons.
In order to increase the performance of your brain, you must use a hundred billion neurons and a thousand trillion connections more efficiently;
Increase the number of neurons that focus on a problem, and depress the neurons that limit your performance.
Here is a good example of using your brain efficiently, which would require you to memorize the Fibonacci sequence: (0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233), and by extension excessive memorization by heart .
Instead of using excessive memorization power, try a simple rule: to get the next number in the sequence, add the product of the previous two numbers.
This will allow you to rebuild the chain instantly and infinitely.
Remembering this easy rule requires much less memory, and less memory retrieval time than storing the number sequence itself.
These effective shortcuts are known as heuristics and are quick and economical ways to access information and make decisions in complex situations.
For example, research by German scientist Gerd Gegerenzer revealed that the best way to predict the winners among 128 players at Wimbledon is simply to identify the well-known players.
For predicting winners, this method has proven superior to the complex formulas that the ATP uses to classify players.
In some cases, your brain is already doing amazing things;
But you are simply unaware of it (but with awareness of its existence, you can bend it to your will).
In other cases, it is possible to prompt the brain to perform new mental tasks.
To understand your brain's capabilities, you will need to engage techniques that do one or more of the following: they make the unfamiliar familiar, the unexpected predictable, and the unconscious conscious.
To help you get there, let's explain some simple and painless techniques.
Anyone can use these methods to increase the odds of above-average performance.
Childhood songs accompany us forever.
If you want to allocate random information to memory, cadence and cadence is a familiar method, and it also activates scouts.
Memorizing a list of random words — cake, shoe, tree, door, hive, sticks, sky, gate, vines, and chicken — will usually require a lot of repetition, and after a few days you will likely only remember a few words.
This simple rule might help: Rhyme these words to a melody rooted in your memory, and then relive that memory. You will instantly remember every word, and you will probably never forget it. The rhythm and rhythm method is effective because it requires less memory to store rules than raw information, but it also links unfamiliar information with information already stored or familiar information, so rhythm and rhythm reduce the effort to remember that information. Transforming the unfamiliar into the familiar is useful for overcoming many cognitive challenges other than memorization. When trying to understand a new concept or explain a complex idea, ask: "Which known concept or phenomenon is closest to this new thing?"
As in making the unfamiliar familiar in some cases—including finding simple rules to better understand data—there are many cases where the opposite is true: introducing a new, unfamiliar system that can better encode memories. This is because the brain automatically casts aside the repetitions of everyday life, but clings to unusual events. Common events like rush hour traffic and winter weather rarely cause you problems because you can predict and prepare for them. You know these things happen, however, your brain has evolved to retain memories of unusual events because they help prevent you from getting into trouble.
Your brain is on alert when unexpected things happen, because such incidents can threaten your safety, such as reporting a burglary in a "safe" part of the city, and a sudden rainstorm on a sunny day, because you are not prepared for these things.
So it makes sense for your brain to remove normal memories so they don't interfere with unexpected information that might help you deal with annoying surprises.
You can recall the details surrounding birth, marriage, death, and major news reports for exactly the same reason: they represent major changes from the normal flow of life.
The point in learning or communicating new information is that people remember unexpected information much better than expected information.
The more surprising we make the information, the more it sticks in everyone's mind and the easier it is for them to remember it.
How do you get the most out of your tickets? Most of us remember spending the night with caffeinated study sessions. But this tactic limits efficiency and certainly will not lead to exceptional memory abilities. When you learn new information, neurons are limited; Over a fixed period of time, these cells can only develop a certain number of new connections or synapses to encode new memories. Accordingly, if you study extensively within a short period of time for this test, you will quickly reach a ceiling of new information that your brain can hold, because you have exhausted the ability of your neurons to synthesize proteins necessary for synapse growth or strengthening.
In a 2016 article in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, neuroscientist Paul Smolen and colleagues called the limit of junctions growing through protein synthesis a "learning trial."
Smolin cites data from animal studies that show that the development of the synapses associated with learning does advance when exposure to new stimuli is spaced out over time.
Through learning we obtain the appearance of new synaptic dendrite [see Figure B] and central axon growth with additional experience [see Figure C] by synthesizing new proteins.
Research on the relationship of learning to synapses suggests that studying for an exam outweighs studying more intensely over a short period of time.
The Anki Card Memory System (ANKI) (a spaced-repetition program with flashcards containing information from various fields, anki is a Japanese word for "memory") has been very successful because it spreads the learning period over a long period, allowing neurons that encode memories By restoring the ability to synthesize their own proteins between occasional exposure or learning and the formation of new connections.
The Anki card displays a question on one side and an answer on the other, and each card is presented over days, weeks, months, or even years to create and maintain education according to the user's needs.
The Anki system strengthens the brain in the same way that lifting weights over several weeks or months strengthens muscles: by waiting for momentary fatigue to pass and reducing the ability to synthesize new proteins before continuing to train.
You lose your keys because you put them in a certain place, and then you forget that exact place.
But imagine that you live in a quantum world where things can occupy multiple places at the same time;
You can put your keys in many different locations at once.
You only need to remember one of those places to retrieve the keys.
We cannot occupy many worlds in the universe, but we can to some extent create "many worlds" conditions in our minds by encoding memories in the verbal and visual parts of the brain.
This is done by creating mental images of words in the brain and then associating them with an rhythmic tone, as we mentioned in the first point.
By doing this, you can convert a list of random words into pictures.
Thus, the list of words is present in both the verbal and visual parts of the brain.
This creates many places to "browse" information.
This technique also demonstrates how simple tweaking the familiar versus the unfamiliar allows the brain to perform better in this case in the realm of memory.
Brain cells can gain better performance if memory is improved by restoring new areas of functioning within the brain.
In a 2017 doctoral thesis titled “On the Memory Benefits of Drawing,” Jeffrey Wass of the University of Waterloo demonstrated that people have a superior ability to remember a particular memory when asked to visualize the words presented to them.
Drawing improves memory, not only by harnessing visual neurons to store new information, but also by using neurons in the brain's motor cortex where drawing commands originate.
Smolin notes in Nature Reviews Neuroscience that memories are stored in the parts of the brain where information is received or created in the first place—the sensory or motor cortex—so the more areas of the brain that create and sense information are used, the greater the neural storage capacity available for this information. These findings suggest that if you really want to keep the information you read or listen to rather than just taking written notes, plot the information as well.
Just as creating a sense of innovation through this image approach helps penetrate the defenses of memory, looking at comparative images in every corner of life can enhance creativity itself.
In fact, many cognitive scientists argue that "everyday creativity" is defined simply as the intersection of the novel and the useful, and your definition of novelty is half the battle.
You have unexpected guests in your house, and you want to quickly make a pile of blueberry pancakes, but you don't have a blender, you have scissors and a drill.
Most of us ignore the possibility of attaching scissors to a drill because parts of our brain have "set fixed tasks" for these two tools.
Many people have deeply ingrained expectations about how things are supposed to work, and this often gets in the way of problem-solving;
This “functional stability” blinds us to creative potential.
Silencing the parts of the brain that know what the drill and scissors are supposed to do produces a quick solution to the problem where creativity is freed up.
The greatest developments do not always come from new inventions, per se, but from new combinations of already existing inventions, making the familiar the unfamiliar.
A good start is to list the many uses that deviate from the normal function of this thing.
For example, a brick can be ground to obtain the red pigment for paint, crushed to make a fashionable ornament, or used as a stabilizer for paper.
You can increase the chance of experiencing this major achievement by subconsciously suppressing preconceived notions that are distracting, in order to tune in to information that may be missing.
This is evident in the case of the drawing;
You can greatly improve your ability to draw just by turning off the part of your brain that assigns meaning to what you are looking for.
For example, when you try to draw a face, a part of your brain perceives meaning, specifically the left frontal temporal lobe, which perceives meaning in visual images.
It comes to mind that this is a three-dimensional human face.
An inexperienced photographer may attempt to reconstruct 3D figures when drawing on 2D paper, which usually fails.
You can stop the stubborn left frontal temporal lobe with a few tricks: turn the image upside down until it loses its meaning.
Imagine if she could be like a black panther just a little bit;
His sensory perceptions are always on high alert.
Even without looking in front of him, he can make his way around in the dark by listening through his super senses.
His improved perception fends off danger.
You may not realize this, but you have a superhero inside of you too. Like him, you can feel your way physically, you can sometimes sense that something might be your way, and you know it before you look at it. but how? If you're like most people, you only know when you're walking near a wall or a large object without knowing exactly how you know it. This knowledge without knowing is an example of tacit learning from the countless times you have inadvertently recorded the change in the sound of your step as you near something.
You can test this with a long stick with a hard tip; Close your eyes and tap the stick in front of you, as blind people do (a hard surface is best). Note that you can get an approximate sense of the presence of large objects nearby, as well as their distance just by listening to the click. The crackling made by tapping the ground a few meters from the wall will be hollow, from the slight echoes that immediately follow the crackling of the original contact between the ground and the stick. If you tap the stick a few inches from a wall or a large object, the crackle will appear crisper and have a slightly higher pitch.
Sometimes, you can feel that someone is standing right behind you even if the person hasn't said or done anything to indicate their presence.
How do you feel about the person?
Again, sound is the key.
This is another way to get important information about your environment.
Your practice of this also exemplifies your supernatural powers within you and your amazing ability to know without knowing.
Additionally, we can also hear the sound of the person behind us catching their breath and the rustle of their clothes and subtle sound reflections emanating from them without our (conscious) realizing that we are doing this.
The acoustic shadow is an area where sound waves are blocked by an object and must rotate around the object to reach the ear.
A change in the volume of the echoes can be used to estimate proximity if you know or suspect shadows of sound swirling around you;
You can train yourself to find such shades.
For background noise, place a radio or other sound source ten feet behind you and have your friend sneak up behind you (the rug will mask their footsteps).
Even though you can't see or hear your friend, you should be able to feel his closeness through the sound shadow you draw.
If you pay attention to sound shadows, you'll see two parts to it: a slight decrease in volume, as well as a damping of radio noise echoing off the surfaces behind you.
These two effects become more pronounced as your friend approaches you.
If you are very attentive to your environment and practice detecting these shadows, you will be able to notice a new presence just by tracking the surrounding changes.
All of this falls into the category of implicit learning where the brain learns unconsciously through many exposures to certain cues that we don't pay attention to unless we associate them with certain phenomena.
If we could just read the minds of others like Professor X Charles Xavier of the X-Men, it would be superhuman.
However, we are able to read other people's minds more than we realize.
Intuition tells us that by paying close attention to another person's facial expressions, tone of voice, posture, eye movements, and gestures, we can bring together their unspoken thoughts and feelings.
But recent research shows that turning off the parts of the brain that perform external perception (perception of the outside world) and synthesis to perception (perception of sensations inside the body) is the best way to read people (understand them).
It's hard to fake a wide smile and vibrant eyes;
When you look at a happy person, the muscles in your face make tiny contractions that mimic that person, and the feedback from those muscles to your limbic system (the emotional center of the brain) [1] generates your emotional response.
Sebastian Korb and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin reliably predicted whether study subjects would see fake or genuine smiles just by reading study subjects' facial EMG data.
You can also do this;
When you look at a smile that you know is sincere, pay close attention to your inner feelings.
A happy face creates more pleasing and uplifting feelings than a smirk.
Emotions stem from reactions within our bodies. Your facial muscles don't contract because you feel happy when you look at a real smile. It's just a reflection. The opposite is true as muscle contractions are imitations that happen first, evoking pleasant feelings inside you.
Research on so-called mirror neurons[2] in the motor cortex of primates, along with studies of people observing the behavior of others, indicates that fine muscle contractions associated with subconscious mimicry occur routinely when we watch other people's behavior, including facial expressions, gestures, and walking. And even exploit things.
We have an exceptional ability to accurately evaluate others when presenting characteristics relevant to our survival.
A recent study by Jordan Rainier of the University of Sussex found that men and women are very accurate in determining a person's strength and height compared to themselves and without any visual cues at all.
Study subjects only heard aggressive speech, aggressive singing, or "screaming."
When listening to yelling, men accurately identified the strongest male in 88% of the study experiments.
On the surface, raising your brain from ordinary to extraordinary requires only a few shifts: from storing data to storing rules, from changing the unfamiliar to the familiar, the expected to the unexpected, and from the unconscious to the conscious. As with Charlotte, the key to unleashing the potential of these transformations lies not in the realm of cognition, but in the realm of emotion. Regardless of the motivation, the most important emotion is confidence, confidence that you can boost your brain's performance.
Most people go through life experiences where they learn what they can do, and the consequences of what they can't do.
An adult elephant of great strength remains lightly tied to a wooden pole which he can pull like a twig if he so chooses, but he does not do so because he was taught as a child that he cannot break free.
Likewise, many of us learn early in life what is "impossible" and never question it.
But your brain is full of hidden potential;
And just as with an adult elephant, with certain techniques you can break free from expectations that make the impossible seem possible.
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Margins:
[1] The limbic system: is located in the center of each of the hemispheres, and is visible on the inner surface of them.
Anatomists consider this area in the brain as a self-contained fifth lobe in the brain and its semi-autonomous functional importance. It is responsible for emotional functions in the human body. Therefore, it is viewed as the emotional brain, as it controls us when we are dominated by emotions such as lust, anger, love, frustration, envy and jealousy.
[2] Mirror neuron: The mirror neuron network (a network of neurons in the brain) has a certain property, this property is that the extent of the activity of these cells (electrochemical activity) or the extent of their activation when watching a particular action is the same or similar to the extent of activation The result is already done.
It was called by this name due to the similarity of its function with the work of a mirror, where it transmits the image.
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This report is translated from: Psychology Today and does not necessarily reflect the Medan website.