We will find that people's absorption of surrounding information is selective. Everyone is particularly good at one or several aspects, but it is impossible for them to become "omnipotent" in all aspects. This is related to the selective intellectual activities of the brain, and it is precisely because of the selection mechanism of intellectual activities that people can explore and research deeper knowledge.
The selection mechanism of advanced intellectual activities
The psychological sensation mechanism is based on choice. In the process of forming cognitive content, the first step is to make necessary and restrictive choices of various information through the senses, and then the mind further restricts the choices made by the senses. On the basis of the above internal selection activities, a specific choice is formed, so that his attention can focus on specific things rather than all activities, and then through volitional activity, he can choose the action that must be completed from many possible actions.
Intelligence extracts the main features of things through human attention and internal willpower, and places these images at the forefront of consciousness through associations of images. In this process, a large number of factors that lead to ambiguous relationships between things will be discarded. Every sound brain can refine and discard unnecessary things, while retaining what is useful for creativity.
Self training of Intelligence
For intelligence, individuals must undergo self training in association and selection under the guidance and assistance of external forces, until they can limit various viewpoints and choices, cultivate unique "intellectual habits", and through this inner activity, form our personal tendencies, namely "nature". That is to say, the formation of "nature" is not innate, but needs to be obtained through postnatal hard work and training.
Just like, there is a fundamental difference between reasoning on our own and understanding and studying others' reasoning. Understanding something on our own is completely different from imposing others' explanations on ourselves. To cultivate the habit of intelligence, it is necessary to have the practice of "doing things oneself", where the teacher explains and the individual experiences, resulting in different intellectual outcomes.
The development of intelligence brings happiness
The development of intellectual activities can also bring joy to people, which is a high-level joy. Because the process of enlightening the mind is accompanied by a more positive understanding of emotions, which can establish a connection between us and the world and calm a deeply wounded heart. These joys are different from the joy brought by play, which is not long-lasting, while the joy brought by intelligence is a kind of freely released joy, the joy of being born human.
