An acorn tree can be said to be "urgently required" to grow into an oak tree, and a tiger has to push in the likeness of a tiger.
The protagonist, Joe, is gifted at piano and jazz but always lacks opportunities. After experiencing countless rejections, denials, and career choices that were second to none, finally one day, I got a chance to perform on stage that I cherish so much.
Excited, he hopped on his way home, but accidentally fell into the underground well and burped.
Death and disease are perhaps the most reflective of the "meaning of life" events.
Especially after a long period of patient and groping, the light of ideal finally shines into reality.
So the story is ripped open from here to change, and the important question is raised:
If you need to return your life at this moment, do you feel that you have a great time here? Or?
From Pixar's "Inside Out" and "Dream Travel", seeing this warm and thought-provoking new work, I am almost certain that their animation screenwriters have deeply studied psychology, and are getting better and better at it. The skillful integration of points of view into the story, so that a common sense that is often spoken of almost blindly, can be brought back to life.
This Soul, which explores the meaning of existence, is basically based on the humanism that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s and the positive psychology that extended to the 1990s.
Humanistic schools put human dignity, interests and values first, emphasizing human strengths, aspirations, creativity, free will, the realization of potential, and focusing on growth and positive aspects.
Its core ideas are still worth listening to by children and adults alike—
01 The realm of ecstasy
From childhood to adulthood, we have experienced such moments more or less: listening to our favorite music and forgetting ourselves, immersed in the plots of novels and movies, forgetting to sleep and eat, concentrating on painting, doing handicrafts, playing a hearty ball game. We do these things with total concentration, with a high degree of excitement and fulfillment, so engaged that we forget the passage of time.
This extremely wonderful moment in fact, has long been described in Taoism, Zen Buddhism, too, but was given a more clearly defined in modern psychology, He is called: [ heart] stream (Mental Fow), and [Peak Experience] (Peak Experience).
Flow is the state in which a person is completely immersed in an activity, ignoring the existence of other things.
When the spiritual experience reaches the optimal state, the mind is as clear as practice. This phenomenon occurs only when mental energy (i.e., attention) is focused on the actual goal, and action and opportunity are perfectly matched.
Setting a goal to pursue keeps the senses in order, because then one must concentrate fully on the task at hand and leave everything else behind. This phase of struggling to overcome challenges is generally regarded as the happiest time of your life.
Anyone who can control mental energy and focus it on a given purpose is bound to grow and improve. Use this to keep practicing your skills, take on tougher challenges, and make yourself even better. ——"Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" - Mihali Csiksen Mihalai
It's the "land of ecstasy" presented in the movie.
Doing one thing with concentration and immersion can in itself bring great satisfaction and happiness.
The things that immerse and focus often reflect the uniqueness that is inherent in each person, including passion and talent, and that is the "spark" to be filled on the chest badge of each new soul in the film. ".
In All Worlds, we are always lit by something, and everyone will find their own gift.
"Sparks" can help people settle down and give people a sense of high-level pleasure and meaning. New souls come to earth with their own unique skills.
So writers should be born to write books, musicians should compose music, and athletes should chase higher, faster and stronger.
There are so many people who know computers, so Ang Lee should go to film.
This is the first form of happiness that the movie tells us, please be sure to bravely pursue the light of your destiny, wipe it, immerse it, and cultivate it, He will live up to you.
02 Be kind to nature
In addition to talent, the more important aspect of nature is the personality formed under the combined effect of genes and growth environment, which is the character traits described on the badge.
— Three went to Anxiety Academy and five went to Narcissism Academy.
——Will there be too much narcissistic personality? (God Tucao is super funny)
The basic type of personality determines a person's underlying operating system, which is the basic disk of TA's thinking and behavior.
Maslow, the founder of humanistic psychology (the academic god who proposed the pyramid of needs), advocated that people must learn to treat (rather than defy) their own nature.
An acorn tree can be said to be "urgently required" to grow into an oak tree, and a tiger must advance in the likeness of a tiger. People are not ultimately cast or shaped, the role of the environment is ultimately to help them achieve their potential. - Maslow, "The Psychological Arguments and Human Values"
Learn to peace with oneself in nature that is not part of the round Ma Ma Lai Lai, refocusing advantage of them, it can get to play high function, is this psychological genre repeatedly stressed the " acceptance of self, allow yourself completely human ." .
I also saw a similar sentence when I first went to college: A person's nature is the protector of TA .
But without fully realizing the importance of this idea, in the process of education and socialization, we are often asked to "be others" due to the improper guidance of the caregivers and the influence of the environment.
When encountering problems and difficulties, people are often attracted by the temperament that they do not have, and repeatedly substitute themselves into idealized others.
But every time we "become the other" as required, our nature suffers a bit of devaluation, and the loss of nature is far-reaching to the "meaning of life".
When an acorn is asked to become a tiger, when we ignore our inner voice for a long time and habitually meet other people's expectations, the nature's response to us is chaos, confusion, depression, and even more serious - the sparks are dimmed one by one Extinguish, and then it is difficult to feel the meaning of life.
This is why 22 from the first appearance, on the surface, looks like a "world-weary soul" who has no interest in the earth.
And later, we will know that she is just a soul that has been denied, suppressed, hurt, suppressed by nature, and feared .
At this point, I seem to understand why Pixar has arranged a woman for the voice of the soul of 22.
This is the second piece of advice about happiness: every character has its own rationality and healthy spectrum. Face it with sincerity, examine it, and be sure to overcome all obstacles and become your true self.
03 Feel the moment
In the spiritual desert, there are a large number of [obsessive souls] that are enchanted and only repeat "must make a deal".
Here, the film takes the professional group of fund managers as a model, as a representative of a life form squeezed by external forces, on the verge of exhaustion, and disconnected from current life, which is easy to understand.
But there is another point that is more interesting.
The [Self-Forgetful Soul] with the spark of talent can sometimes lead to spiritual impoverishment, and it has the possibility of becoming a [Obstinent Soul].
In other words, the other side of ecstasy is turning a blind eye.
When Joe gets along with 22, he always shows a sense of superiority, more or less, intentionally or unintentionally.
It's that kind of "I know what I'm doing, and you're just hanging around" value judgments.
This kind of inadvertent discrimination and seemingly good "advice" for the other party led to Joe also becoming an iron-clad and hideous image in the nightmare of Lost 22.
When the goal becomes the meaning itself, rather than being used as a method and a tool, it slowly slides down a less healthy spectrum.
Joe wasn't even immune to confusion.
As a mentor to 22 to unravel and help her find the spark, he is also a growing person.
When he was looking for answers from Sister Sax outside the bar, at a loss as to what to do next, he heard the philosophical "You've been in the sea" story.
These two episodes point to the third mental method of feeling happiness - cherishing the moment.
If you can’t find the spark of talent temporarily, it’s not a problem at all, just chew the deliciousness of every bite of pizza, communicate with the people around you, listen and accept without judging the child’s thoughts, feel the wind, feel the sweetness, see the light, and be serious Treat a leaf.
Walk, walk, just walk.
Like what 22 is good at.
In fact, these are the beautiful and lush sparks that belong to her.
You don't need to be in a hurry in life, you might as well be gentle and brave towards it, accept it, feel it, become an oak tree, and become a tiger.
Or, just walk around and it's fine.
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