Wealth limits your imagination! There is a saying widely circulated on the Internet that "poverty limits my imagination", but it is not only poverty but also wealth that limits my imagination. I know that poverty has a great influence on people. Poverty is not only an environment and thinking, but also a hereditary physiological disease. I once wrote an article about poverty (About Poverty), discussing the impact of poverty on people! However, wealth can also limit people's imagination. The most prominent example is the story of Emperor Tongzhi eating eggs. The story goes like this:
There are many versions of this story, which are recorded in books by many celebrities and loved by the broad masses of the people. The truth of this story will not be verified for the time being, but the original intention of the story is to talk about the influence of information asymmetry, but it is enough to show that the limitations of imagination are rich. The Tongzhi emperor is obviously rich (although he may not agree) and lives a life of "clothes stretch out his hand, food makes his mouth open", so I want to share it with Weng now.
This is the influence of wealth on people's imagination!
2. Time and space. "Summer insects can't talk about ice, and well frogs can't talk about the sea." Insects that only live in summer can't imagine what ice looks like in winter, and frogs in wells can't imagine what the sea looks like. By the same token, life is in a hurry for a hundred years, and we can't imagine what it will be like after thousands of years. We can't imagine the life of aliens only on earth. Even if some science fiction novels are well written, they are still very different from real aliens. ...
For example, when we read a lot of books, especially those of the ancients, we always have to get rid of the influence of the concept of the times and learn to stand on the standpoint of the ancients and see the world in their way of thinking, because the ancients lived in his time, and their way of thinking and behavior has been nailed in that time and space. They are always influenced by the atmosphere of time and space in which they live. Everything they do is subject to time and space, and of course, so are we. ...
3. stand out. Yes, from a mythical point of view, we are all carnal eyes. All our thoughts and actions, including our imagination, are influenced by our carnal eyes. We have been wearing colored glasses since we were born. The "color" we see is the result of brain processing, and the sound and smell we hear are also a limited part. Dogs have many times better sense of smell and hearing than humans ... and our imagination will be limited.
The restriction of the naked eye fetus on us is not only perception, but also the restriction of our imagination by our life span of one year. With the growth and aging of the body, our imagination will also change. In addition, the influence of life span on people is also reflected in the way of thinking. We always have a complete life plan, and we are always busy spending our lives. Many gods, demons, demons and elves in western myths and legends have long lives, so their plans are often very long, and their struggle should take "Millennium" as the unit, which is unimaginable. Our plan is no more than one hundred years.
4. Round. The limitations of circles on people's imagination are also obvious. Everyone has his own circle, especially in this world where pluralistic discourse is becoming more and more obvious. Although the internet has expanded our social scope on the surface, it has actually restricted our social interaction. We can stay in a circle for a long time instead of expanding our own circle, which will naturally affect our imagination. In this day and age, it is difficult for us to imagine the situation in another person's circle. Because different hobbies, occupations, genders, ages ... will make us form different circles, and different circles will have different influences on us and make us have different temperament, which is unimaginable to people outside the circle. ...
5. IQ. "IQ limits my imagination" is a sentence I often laugh at myself, but in fact IQ does affect people's imagination. If IQ is a collection of ways of thinking, there is no doubt about it!
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