In order to study the secret of success, scientists use various scientific examination methods to analyze the differences between the brains of successful people and the brains of ordinary people.
One of the most famous experimental methods is to use the fMRI examination we have mentioned before to scan the brains of two types of groups to compare the functional activity of the two types of brains.
Researchers soon concluded that the brains of successful people are very good at eliminating interference, which is the most important factor in their success.
Take classmate Xie for example. Her concentration was called terrifying by her boss teachers, which means that the teachers all know that her concentration is the secret to her success.
How is the level of human concentration related to the human brain?
The researchers then conducted fMRI examination experiments to investigate, and the results showed that the level of concentration may be related to one of the brain structures: called the reticular activating system.
The location of this structure in the brain extends from the upper end of the spinal cord to the diencephalon. Its internal structure is composed of a mixture of nerve cells and nerve fibers in the ventral center of the brainstem.
Because it is shaped like a net, it is called a mesh system.
The reason why there is a specific word called activation is because when medical scientists first discovered it, they thought it acted like a switch, controlling the opening and closing of a person's sleep and wakefulness.
Research continues to deepen, and the reticular activating system not only activates people to wake up from sleep, but is also related to the regulation of people's emotions, memory, concentration, learning, etc.
In this regard, the reticular activating system can be imagined as a super regulator, regulating the coordination of functions in various parts of the brain.
Coordination is positively related to efficiency, so the reticular activating system can be said to be a major factor in the human brain that affects whether a person becomes a top student or a poor student.
What affects the level of human reticular activating system?
Researchers have studied and studied, and found that it has returned to the original point, which is what humans have been most concerned about since the beginning: interest.
Talking about the secret between interest and the brain is a topic that has been talked about for a long time. Interest is only related to the reticular activating system of the brain. There are many connections between interest and various structures and functions of the brain. Too many research results can confirm this.
It’s just that I didn’t expect that interest is always the first driving force for people. This is something that education has said many times, and it is the same as whether you can succeed in work and life.
Having said this, some people may find it strange. I am obviously interested in this industry, but why can't I improve my concentration or the efficiency of my brain?
Interest as understood by ordinary people and interest as experimented by experimenters are two different things.
Do you think you are interested in it? Is your brain really interested in it? It doesn’t matter if you say so. It is too common for the human body to deceive itself.
For example, you may have a fever so bad that you feel like you don't have a high fever, but when the temperature is measured, it's almost 40 degrees Celsius, which scares the doctor.
In clinical scientific research, judgments are made using quantitative indicators rather than based on your own feelings.
When people write articles to tell you that your interests are the most important, they are not lying to you. The biggest deception of these articles is that they cannot tell you how to judge where your interests lie.
After hearing this, you will understand that the biggest secret of successful people is actually knowing where their interests lie, so they can keep their brains in contact with their points of interest to improve brain efficiency.