This so-called secret that this group of people firmly believes can be explained by the simplest common sense in psychology, that is, the human brain can only evoke the memories that it wants to evoke.
Suppose a college graduate has two dreams, one is to get a girl, and the other is to find a good job. These two things are what he thinks about day and night. In the end, he didn't get the girl, but he got a good job. Then in a few years, he will definitely only remember how much he wanted to get a good job and he finally got it, and the matter of that good girl will forever be buried in the corner of his memory and will never be recalled, and such a person , become this so-called secret believer, and he will think that his good work is the result of his day and night thinking.
Of course I thought about that thing before, but I also thought about many other things at the same time, but after the event people will only think that they only thought about the one thing that was successful at the time. In fact, it is just a matter of probability, because you think There is always fulfillment in the past. So, not because you always thought about it before, so you got it, but because you got it first, and then you thought you were thinking about it before.
My own example can refute it, I have always been a blind optimist, I have always thought that I have mastered English, I have always thought that my English is good, and then I will continue to learn in reality and remember to make me think I am Examples of good English, such as understanding a lecture given by a foreigner (actually because they speak slowly and using simple words), and half-understanding an English book (it is also because people use simple words, and I ignored all the adverbs and adjectives that I couldn't understand when I watched it), I just thought I had it, which is exactly the same as the method taught in the film, I didn't know that my English was good until the results of the postgraduate entrance examination came out. How bad.
The reason why this film is popular is because the ideas represented by this film are consistent with the Western values of personal struggle, and its theory can arouse certain emotions in Westerners (just like on the Chinese Internet, a small medium The contradiction between Japan and Japan can arouse people's anti-Japanese sentiment), most of the Western cults and pseudoscience are based on this basis, but the Chinese people who engage in cults and pseudoscience are too unskilled compared to their foreign counterparts. That's why we make such a fuss about Chinese people who have never seen anything in the world.
So those of you who say this film is harmless and purely inspiring, take note: I understand you're overwhelmed by the horrors of life, but that's not an excuse for you to believe in something anti-human, and you have to. Do it, because this is the fundamental belief of human beings.
Because of the guidance of the scientific spirit, I am not a materialist. I believe that it is a great consciousness that is free from the material that gives people everything. However, what will this elf in Aladdin's lamp give you, you We can never know, so all we can do is to grasp the present, that is to do what you like to do, don't think about the result, find happiness in the process, if you have a result, don't thank your own consciousness and Your own efforts, and thank God for giving you this luck.
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