Too lazy to use the brain, it is the brain to save energy

Unwilling to use their brains, refusing to accept new things, not wanting to innovate... When these problems arise, people will say that this person is too lazy to use their brains and is too conservative. The root cause of many people being too lazy to use their brains is that their bodies are weak and they do not have enough energy to supply their brains. The brain has to be lazy in order to save energy.

The brain is responsible for thinking, and thinking requires energy, and the energy demand is still high. Although the weight of the brain is only 2% of the body weight, the daily operation of the brain needs to consume 25% of the energy of the whole body. If you rack your brains, the energy consumption is even higher.

However, any life has a kind of wisdom, which is to save energy as much as possible when maintaining daily operations. Once an organ or tissue completes its physiological function and loses its existence value, the body will immediately cut off its energy supply, making it shrink as soon as possible, so that the saved energy can be used for other purposes.

For example, the adenoids in the throat generally begin to shrink at the age of one or two; for example, our appendix is ​​not functional at birth, so it shrinks early; for example, after menopause, the uterus and ovaries that complete the reproductive duties of women must be shrink.

The same goes for the brain. When thinking about familiar problems, the information transmission between brain cells follows a familiar old road. The more familiar this road is, the less energy is consumed; and all pioneering innovations are caused by brain cells taking a new road. The energy required will increase. Therefore, once the energy supply of the brain is insufficient, the body will choose to go the old way out of the instinct of energy saving. That is to say, any innovative thinking must have enough energy to guarantee it.

For this, you can look at the famous people who have changed the world, and you will find one thing in common: most of them have extraordinary intelligence, and they must have extraordinary energy at the same time as their intelligence. Many of them only slept four or five hours a day, and the ability to last a lifetime with such a short sleep time is definitely not something that can be achieved by perseverance, it must be achieved by being energetic. If you have a brain power supply that others can't match, innovation will not be a problem.

With the growth of age, people generally have a change: when they are young, they like to be lively and busy; when they get older, they become more like cleanliness, and even feel that "more things are worse than less things". Lively means a lot of information, the brain needs high energy consumption to process complex information, and "one more thing" means that the brain needs to think more. With the aging of the body and insufficient energy output, wanting to be clean and doing less work is the body's natural choice to save energy.