Chapter 1144 Professor (Part Sixteen) (Patreon)

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Bruce pursed his lips and said, "Yes, seeing a murder case, I can immediately think of the modus operandi, and deal with two serial killers in three days like an 'ordinary person'."

As soon as he said this, Bruce's expression stiffened a bit. He realized that the way he was speaking was becoming more and more like Schiller.

Schiller, however, spread his hands and smiled, saying, "Can't ordinary people have some special talents? But you've touched on the key point, and this is the biggest optimization in this version update."

"It's not just those serial killers, you and I are the same. Due to certain innate superior conditions, we have a gap with ordinary people."

"Serial killers have thin emotions, unable to empathize, and cannot feel the joy, anger, sorrow and happiness of ordinary people. You have high intelligence and are very wealthy, so you are destined to drift further and further away from the society of ordinary people. And I, I was born with mental illness, and I can't recognize this world in a normal way either."

"We have all deviated from the lives of ordinary people, and can only imagine how they live. Even if you give up your identity as a rich man and immerse yourself in the lower class, due to the differences in intelligence and brain structure, you will still find it very difficult to completely see the world from the perspective of an ordinary person."

"In your eyes, how can someone not learn calculus? How can someone not be able to memorize three books overnight? How can someone not understand the mechanical structure inside a machine? But many ordinary people just can't do it."

"So you start to constantly doubt, are they really stupid, or are they just unwilling to think?" Schiller looked into Bruce's eyes, but the usual cold and indifferent smile was gone from his eye contact, indicating that he was not mocking anyone.

However, Schiller's words were still incisive. Bruce silently looked at Schiller, acknowledging that he had indeed pondered this problem.

When faced with situations where ordinary people are completely at a loss about certain issues, Bruce really feels puzzled, because in his eyes, this is not a difficult problem at all, not even a problem, as long as you think about it a little, you can get the answer.

So why can't they come up with the answer? Have their brains really tried their best? When they show indifference to something, is it because they can't think of the answer, or are they just too lazy to think?

"I guess the answer you've come to is a combination of the two," Schiller said, voicing Bruce's inner thoughts. He continued, "Some people can't think of the answer, some are too lazy to think, and some pretend to be lazy because they can't think of the answer."

"But there is no doubt that their behavior has constructed your impression of ordinary people, which is just a mess, confusion, and chaos."

"For them, the whole world is full of mysteries, those who want to get the answer can't get it, those who want to do something can't do it, they don't know where they come from, and they don't know where they are going, just wandering like lost souls on the vast land."

Bruce found that Schiller's eye contact had become very different. In the past, when he looked into Schiller's eyes, he always felt that he saw an endless abyss, Schiller's eye contact was always very profound, as if it contained countless secrets that could not be fully explored, like a boundless sea of raging winds and waves.

But now, Schiller's eye contact has become very clear, the things he wants to say, the emotions he wants to express, can be seen at a glance, like pebbles by a garden pond.

"But it's not actually like that," Schiller turned around and gave Bruce a somewhat surprising answer. In fact, Bruce had already agreed with Schiller's last sentence, in his view, the lives of ordinary people are indeed like that, confused, ignorant, only seeing the present.

Schiller sat back down at the desk, and the light from the floor-to-ceiling window next to the desk shone on him. He looked at Bruce intently and said:

"You went to the slums, saw the scavengers struggling to survive on the edge of starvation, saw the pier workers working hard just to make ends meet. Compared to your billionaire's life, their lives are simply miserable to the extreme, and their intelligence and memory are incomparable to yours."

"So you feel that their lives are only filled with suffering, as if they are walking in hell, and they are so pitiful. You think they must be dull, stupid, and devoid of creativity."

Schiller shook his head lightly and said, "The world of ordinary people is far more colorful than you imagine. Every person struggling on the road, although they have their own fatigue, also have their own hopes. Although they often feel pain, they can also find happiness. Each has their own boredom, but also their own humor."

"They each have their own characteristics and talents. In many ways they seem very ordinary, but occasionally a flash of brilliance will appear. They don't have the opportunity to take the path of art, but they can still create works of art that amaze people with their abundant emotions."

"They don't know much, but they are easily satisfied. They often feel frustrated and sad, but their way of dealing with it is simply to sleep it off."

"The scavenger may be happy because he heard a song he likes while passing by a music store, and the pier worker may be happy because he tied a beautiful knot today."

"Bruce..." When Schiller called out Bruce's name, Bruce saw another person on his face, someone who had once been his nightmare, or perhaps his friend, the one who always wanted to make him smile.

"You think ordinary people laugh because, apart from laughing, they have no other way to deal with the hardships of life. But this view is really too serious and arrogant. Is it possible that they are just innocently happy?"

Schiller pursed his lips and gave Bruce a big smile, saying, "You pity them because their material life is not prosperous enough, and they also pity you, because you rarely feel genuine happiness."

Schiller leaned to the side, resting on the armrest, and looked at Bruce, asking, "What do you think of laziness?"

"I don't like laziness," Bruce replied.

"Indeed, we all don't like laziness. So a long time ago, when my Temple of Thought was just established, I didn't have the personality trait of laziness."

"At the root of it, laziness is actually a manifestation of the loss of mental control. For ordinary people, the time they can fully concentrate their attention is limited. When their focus time reaches the limit, they will instinctively start to lose focus."

"But the majority of people cannot reach the limit of their attention span, and before that, there is something that interferes with them, causing them to lose focus prematurely and distracting their attention. This thing is called laziness."

"If a person is very tired and goes to rest, that's not laziness, that's self-protection. But if a person is not tired, both physically and mentally very healthy, but just doesn't want to do something, it may be aversion and avoidance."

"If a person is not tired and wants to do something, but during the process of doing it, finds that they are always unable to concentrate their attention, unable to give it their all, there is always something blocking them from putting in their maximum effort, that is what is called laziness."

"At the root of it, it is because ordinary people cannot precisely control their own thinking, cannot make the thought components that generate motivation work at maximum efficiency, while the components that create obstacles do not work at all."

"But we can do it." Schiller lightly tapped the desktop with his hand, looking at Bruce. Bruce came over and sat down across from him, as he was also very curious to know how Schiller's personality developed.

"The ability to block one's own lazy thoughts is the key to execution. Some people, even though their intelligence is not low and the plans they make have no problems, always end up abandoning them halfway and unable to accomplish anything, simply because they cannot block the lazy thoughts in their minds."

"In contrast, beings like you and I, perhaps due to our innately super-high intelligence, or perhaps due to innate mental illness, laziness does not exist for us."

"As long as our physical and mental condition has not reached the limit, and we want to do something, we can definitely execute all the parts precisely and consistently."

"Our thinking is like a precise machine, we make whichever component turn, and that component will turn, there will absolutely not be some component we don't feel or don't know where it comes from that suddenly starts turning to obstruct our actions."

"So in my mind, there was never a laziness component to begin with, and when my personality fragmented and produced countless trait fragments, naturally this fragment was not carried over either."

"When did you appear then?" Bruce asked.

"After I received professional psychological treatment," Schiller replied, and then explained to Bruce, "Before that, I didn't know what the situation was like for other people, I thought the whole world was like me."

"Therefore, in situations where some people abandon things halfway, but then feel regretful after giving up, I would feel very puzzled. I didn't understand, if they wanted to do it, why didn't they just do it? And if they did it, why did they give up? And after giving up, why did they regret it?"

"I didn't understand what was blocking them, and then a doctor told me, it was actually laziness." Schiller stared into Bruce's eyes and said, "He also told me, not having laziness is not entirely a good thing."

"The component that generates motivation will make a person experience all kinds of positive emotions in the process of completing a task, such as excitement and anticipation before starting, calmness and composure during the process, and a sense of achievement afterwards."

"When these emotions arise, our brain needs to respond accordingly, such as cooling down when the excitement is too high, adding fuel when the calm thinking leads to emotional depression, and affirming ourselves with higher value when a sense of achievement appears."

"But the laziness component will make a person experience all kinds of negative emotions in the process of not completing a task, such as hesitation before starting, boredom during the process, regret and sadness after abandoning it halfway, and self-denial."

"When these negative emotions arise, the brain also needs to respond accordingly, such as urging when there is too much hesitation, stabilizing the mood when there is boredom, self-comforting when there is regret, and trying to balance when there is self-denial."

"If a person only has the component that generates motivation, can only produce positive emotions, then their brain is always balancing the emotional work of the positive side, and there is a high possibility of overcompensation."

"For example, if the brain is always suppressing excitement and anticipation, training this part of the ability particularly strongly, it is very likely that when the excitement and anticipation are not as high, it will erase all positive emotions, leaving the person always in a state of depression and disappointment."

"In a state of rational thinking and low emotion, if the emotions are raised too high, it can lead to irritability and even violence."

"When a sense of achievement appears, if there is excessive self-affirmation, it can lead to arrogance, narcissism, and an inability to listen to others' opinions."

Schiller smiled at Bruce and emphasized, "Such a person is very terrible, isn't that right, 'Bruce'?"

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