保持冷静

李峰

Once there was a scientist. He wanted tostudy how monkeys learn.

He put two peanuts into a tall glass bottle.

The bottle was completely transparent，one could see the two peanuts clearly from out-side.

Then he gave the bottle to a monkey.

The monkey grabed the bottle and shook itmethodlessly for a while. Finally， the peanutsfell out and the monkey got to eat them.

The scientist put another two peanuts intothe bottle. This time， he showed the monkeythat if you put the bottle upside-down the pea-nuts will fallout easily.

But the monkey still shook the bottle meth-odlessly after it grabed it. It didn t learn any-thing the scientist taught it.

Why？

The reason is that all the monkey sawwere just the peanuts. Its brain could nothan-dle anything else such as the scientist s example.

Sometimes， and quite often， when we en-counter complex situations， we are just like thismonkey. We don t calm ourselves down andtry to find a solution for the problem. We mere-ly fight a pointless fight methodlessly with theproblem.

曾經有一位科学家，他想研究猴子的学习能力。

他把两颗花生米放进了一个高高的玻璃瓶里。

玻璃瓶是完全透明的，从外面可以很清楚地看到两颗花生。

然后，他把这个瓶子递给了一只猴子。

猴子拿到瓶子之后，乱摇了好久，终于摇出了花生米，这才吃到。

科学家又往瓶子里装了两颗花生米，这一次，他向猴子示范，只要把瓶子倒过来，花生就掉出来了。

不过，猴子在接过瓶子之后，依旧像之前那样乱摇，完全没有学会科学家教它的方法。

这是为什么呢？

这是因为，猴子的眼里一直只有那两颗花生，它的大脑根本没有余地关心科学家的示范。

很多时候，我们在遇到复杂问题的时候，就像这只猴子一样，不去冷静地思考解决问题的办法，而只是单纯与问题做无意义的抗争。