When a creature can distinguish itself in the mirror, it can be considered that the creature has self-awareness. This is a key dividing line and a landmark indicator of the level of biological thinking.

The thinking level is strictly speaking, the ability of organisms to process external information. From low to high, the thinking level of organisms is divided into several layers. At present, human beings have classified themselves at the highest level, and there may be higher levels, but they currently only exist in human imagination and legends.

The self-benefit nature at the material level is easy to understand, and it is nothing more than the self-benefit nature of human beings. The so-called human nature is inherently evil, which essentially refers to this self-benefit nature.

When a human grows up and has the ability to make decisions, all his behaviors are actually determined by self-interest. His various behaviors can be analyzed from this perspective and the final reason is found.

For example, when we describe a person who is particularly prone to impulsiveness and has a bad temper, and often does something without passing through the brain, it is actually the biological self-benefiting nature that plays a role, but the ways and methods of its function are more interesting.

We know that when a person is in intense emotions such as nervousness, anxiety, irritability, excitement, excitement, anger, sadness, etc., there is actually strong psychological pressure in the human body.

And we know that the most powerful law in the universe is the third law of thermodynamics. According to the principle of entropy increase, everything high tends to fall, and everything compressed tends to release.

This is also effective for humans. It is precisely because of psychological pressure that there is a saying that the human body itself has the need to release psychological pressure. This is instinctive and is determined by the human biochemical reaction system. It is formed by natural selection during the process of human growth from macromolecular groups to humans over a long period of more than 4 billion years.

So we can see that some people will get road rage while driving. A gentle person suddenly becomes irritable and aggressive. This is because the pressure he gathers at this time has exceeded the limit of his tolerance. There will definitely be no good things when the pressure is higher than the limit of tolerance. If it is a boiler, it will explode and turn the person next to him or something into steaming people, or steaming something else.

The response mode of human psychological pressure is similar to that of boilers. When the pressure in a certain aspect exceeds the tolerance limit of a certain aspect, the self-benefit nature of the human body will be released. If someone is next to him at this time, he may be unlucky and will become the target of release, commonly known as the punching bag.

We often use whether a person is mature to evaluate whether a person is reliable. Maturity is a landmark indicator with the highest probability of use. When a person is given this title, we can usually imagine that this person will not easily experience sudden psychological self-promotional behavior. Well, in layman's terms, this person will not lose his temper casually.

As for maturity, you can tell from the literal understanding that this is not an innate talent attribute, but an acquired behavior. That is to say, a person gradually acquires mature attributes during the process of growing up and gradually increases his talent.

How should we understand this behavior from an academic perspective?

Let’s start from scratch and sort out the life of a person’s life is the life of decision-making, and a person’s life is composed of a decision-making chain; and decision-making is the various behaviors of human beings, which are ultimately determined by human self-benefit nature.

We know that decision-making itself is a comprehensive judgment and a comprehensive processing method for external information. Everyone, every mature person, has his own decision-making and judgment system.

Maturity is actually an adjective that aims at the decision-making system.

A person's life is actually a life of continuous adjustment of the individual's decision-making system, and this decision-making system will ultimately determine the person's life, because all human choices require this decision-making system to be processed and output the results.

Mature, childish, naive, idealistic, perfectionist, cowardly, brave, realistic, snobbish, material, indifference, passion, fraternity, profound, optimistic, etc., all these adjectives are actually adjectives aimed at the decision-making system.

We know that everyone has different opinions on the same thing, everyone’s final decisions are different, and the consequences they bear are also different.

It is these differences that lead to the differences in life. When the length of time is extended to ten or twenty years, people can easily find that what affects different people's situations is nothing but decision-making. Different decisions create different life experiences.

This situation is most obvious in classmates. Elementary school students may not be able to see clearly, but if you take college students as samples, you can clearly observe this phenomenon.

College students, the starting point of everyone entering society is very similar. But when ten years, twenty years or thirty years pass, the living conditions of these 30 college students in the same class will be very different.

The same class is all people with no background at home. Some may now be the bosses of listed companies with a family income of over 100 million yuan, while others may still be receiving several thousand yuan in salary and worrying about ten yuan in tofu every day.

If you observe this case, you can clearly feel that the ultimate driving force behind such a huge difference in life between the two people lies in the difference in the decision-making system of the two people.

In fact, if we carefully compare this successful person with his college classmates, we often find that this person is generally not the one with the highest IQ and the one with the best learning. He will even be unknown in college and will be completely a member of the Mass A and have no excellence.

This situation is not an isolated case, nor is it an isolated case. As long as we are interested and talk to older people, we will find countless similar cases around us, all of which tell the same facts.

Choice is higher than struggle!

This is not an interjection, nor an adjective. This is a law. Even if it is combined with opportunities and origin, this law still plays a powerful role.

As the same neighbor, a neighbor sold his house and went abroad to work hard for decades, and finally returned to China with millions of euros. It turned out that the house he sold to his neighbor is now ten times the result of his decades of struggle.

What can this mean?

Choice is higher than struggle is a universal law. As a creature, human beings have natural self-benefitness. So for a human individual and a mature human individual, his biggest goal in his life is to shape the best decision-making system for him.
Chapter completed!