Watching friends around you step into Gao Fushuai from a fat diaosi and become a goddess from a China paper, as a fat man, you are in a hurry. You go to the gym to get a card, buy a whole set of sportswear, and get ready to step into the gym and do some meaningful actions. I've only been doing it for a few minutes and I'm tired. You sit on the ground in front of the mirror, take out your mobile phone and make friends-this process will take you more than half an hour!

Day after day, you feel that you can't do this. You start to imitate the online "1 month weight loss coup" at will, and do it accordingly, and don't forget to send a circle of friends to show your efforts, show them selectively through the circle of friends, and wait for 32 praises with full expectation.

But the question is: after you have done all the above, will you get the result you want? Or have you seriously considered the result?

Yes, this is the crux of the problem-we are not talking about "the attitude of diligence" but "the result of diligence".

(2) Show "diligence" or try to do things well?

Probably few people will reject the saying "Success comes from hard work". Like most people with dreams, you get up early to run and record the mileage with software, but you don't exercise in the right posture at all. You think you run a lot and exercise hard.

Inadvertently, two months passed, and then the first quarter was gone. It was not until you took stock of the harvest that you found the following facts awkwardly:

Although you are a little thin, you don't have your dream vest line and abdominal muscles; Even the beautiful picture that you have been looking forward to "after losing weight successfully, confidently and boldly confessing to the goddess" has not appeared, and the reason must be understood by everyone. In the end, you only touched yourself!

All this is far from your ambition when you set your goals, which oppresses your nerves so much that you will look angry: it's unfair that I invested so much time without getting the expected return!

Therefore, the thin man never questioned whether "diligence is useful", but whether the behavior of "performing diligence" is valuable. This seemingly diligent behavior is essentially the protective color of a person's "lazy thinking".

To sum it up in a widely spread sentence: this is basically using tactical diligence to cover up strategic laziness-on the surface, you are diligent, but in fact you deliberately avoid the really difficult but more valuable part-and this kind of "lazy thinking" behavior will eventually lead you to become the "low-quality fitness diligent" mentioned at the beginning of the article.

For fitness, how to change this phenomenon of "low quality diligence"?

The first level of change is the change that occurs within the system, while the system itself remains unchanged. For example, people who have nightmares can do many things in their dreams-run, hide, fight, shout and so on. But no matter how they change these behaviors, they can't stop the nightmare.

Second-order change and variation occur outside the system, and the premise of controlling the whole system changes, which makes the system transition to a completely different state, that is, variation, just like quantum transition. Like waking up from a dream.

Third-order change is often the key to solving problems.

Give a chestnut

Question 1: How to grow pectoral muscles?

Case 1: The big boy does 10kg bench press, and as soon as he lies down, he does 30. When he is tired, he can't lie down, but he will come back after a while. 15 minutes later, he hasn't finished practicing.

Obviously, the big boy wants to grow his chest muscles. His idea is: grow your chest muscles-definitely practice chest-bench press, just use bench press-chest muscles are bigger, of course, train more-keep practicing every day and work harder than those big guys.

This way of thinking naturally leads to diligent training, which is a first-order change.

Question 2: How to lose weight?

Case 2: Fat girls walk fast on the treadmill for an hour, or jog for 40 minutes, chatting with the people next to them while running, and then do sit-ups for half an hour after chatting, for two hours before and after, without oxygen.

The fat girl wants to be thin, and her thinking path is: I want to be thin-stretch my legs-run to lose weight-the more I run, the more fat I consume-doing more sit-ups should be able to thin belly-go on a diet, so that fat consumption will be faster.

Similarly, this is also a first-order change.

So how do you find the second-order change?

A principle of second-order variation: the scope of application of second-order variation is aimed at the solution of the problem in first-order variation; Because from the perspective of second-order variation, these solutions are the key to the problem.

In both cases, hard work is used to solve problems (not strong enough, not thin enough), hard exercise is their solution, and hard work needs to make second-order changes.

Four steps of change:

1, clearly define the problem with specific words.

2. Explore the solutions that have been tried so far.

3. Have a clear definition of the specific changes you want to achieve.

4. Form and implement a plan that can produce this change.

Deduce according to the above four steps.

Question 1: How to grow pectoral muscles?

The first step is to make the question clear in specific words: How did the pectoral muscles grow? Under what circumstances does it grow? Under what circumstances does it not increase?

The second step, the solution that has been used all the time-diligent exercise, is exactly the problem, and we must resolutely abandon it.

The third step is to have a clear definition of the specific changes I want to achieve: I want to increase the dimension and density of chest muscles.

The fourth step, to realize "I want to increase the dimension and density of pectoral muscles", we must know "how did pectoral muscles grow?" Under what circumstances does it grow? Under what circumstances does it not increase? 」。

Then there are two embodiments: 1, and a fitness instructor is invited to teach. 2. Self-study fitness theory.

These two schemes can be said to be second-order changes.

The solution to long chest muscles and lose weight is not to exercise diligently, but to learn fitness theory, whether he teaches or teaches himself.

Personally, I chose the second plan.

The above example illustrates why diligence is ineffective and explains the usage of "second-order change".

3. The correct posture of diligence

Interestingly, diligence is indeed the first solution that most people think of when they encounter problems.

Persistence can succeed, do more and talk less, and execution is greater than everything. This is the correct normal state, but there must be preconditions.

According to the theory of second-order variation, I personally make a suitable category division of diligence: when solving problems, diligence is only effective under the guidance of second-order variation.

It coincides with the conclusion of cognitive psychologist Stannow Vichy:

Smart people will only perform well if they are told what to do.

Today's diligence has become very cheap. It costs nothing to prove diligence in a circle of friends. It's not easy to work overtime. Work hard, work hard, plan, chicken soup. The circle of friends is full of diligence, but the correct posture of diligence is rare.

Don't just fight in the circle of friends.