Chapter 1136: Professor (16)

Bruce curled his lips and said, "Yeah, an 'ordinary person' who can immediately think of the modus operandi upon seeing a murder case and solved two serial killers in three days."

As soon as these words were spoken, Bruce's expression stiffened. He discovered that the way he spoke now was becoming more and more like Shiler.

Shiler spread his hands and smiled, saying, "Can't an ordinary person have some specialties? However, you hit the key point; this is the biggest optimization of this version update."

"Not just that group of serial killers, you and I are the same. Because of some naturally superior conditions, we have a gap with ordinary people."

"Serial killers have weak emotions, cannot empathize, and cannot experience the joys, sorrows, and delights of ordinary people. You possess high intelligence and are very rich, destined to drift further and further away from the society of ordinary people. And I, born with mental illness, also have no way to understand this world in a normal way."

"We have all detached from the lives of ordinary people and can only speculate on how they live through imagination. Even if you give up your identity as a billionaire and go deep into the bottom layer, due to the differences in intelligence and brain structure, it is very difficult for you to look at the world from the perspective of an ordinary person."

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

"Thus, you start to constantly doubt, are they really stupid, or are they unwilling to think hard?" Shiler looked into Bruce's eyes, but there was no cold smile in his eyes that had always been there, which meant he wasn't mocking anyone.

But Shiler's words were still hitting the nail on the head. Bruce looked at Shiler silently; he admitted that he had indeed thought about this question.

When facing the situation where ordinary people were puzzled by certain problems, Bruce really felt very confused because, in his view, this was not a difficult problem at all, and it didn't even count as a problem. As long as one thought about it a little, one could get the answer.

Then, why couldn't they think of the answer? Did their brains really try their best? Did their indifference toward a certain matter mean they couldn't think of the answer, or were they too lazy to think?

"I guess the answer you reached should be both." Shiler said the answer in Bruce's heart. He continued, "Some people can't think of it, some people are too lazy to think, and some people are because they can't think of it, so they pretend they are too lazy to think."

"But there is no doubt that their performance like this has built your impression of ordinary people—anyway, it's chaotic, confused, and a mess."

"To them, the whole world is full of mysteries everywhere. They can't get the answers they want, they can't do the things they want to do, they don't know where they come from, and they don't know where they are going, just like lost ghosts wandering on the vast land."

Bruce discovered that Shiler's eyes had changed a lot. In the past, when he looked into Shiler's eyes, he always felt that he saw an endless abyss. Shiler's eyes were always very deep, as if they contained countless secrets that couldn't be excavated, like a dam without end in an ocean of storms and waves.

And now, Shiler's eyes had become very clear. The words he wanted to say and the emotions he wanted to express could be seen to the bottom at a glance, like pebbles beside a garden pond.

"But in fact, it's not like that." Shiler turned around and gave an answer that surprised Bruce. In fact, Bruce had just agreed with Shiler's last sentence. In his view, the lives of ordinary people were indeed like that—confused, ignorant, and only looking at what was in front of them.

Shiler sat back behind the desk, and the light spilled in along the floor-to-ceiling window beside the desk. He looked at Bruce with focused expression and said:

"You went to the slums, saw scavengers struggling desperately on the line of food and clothing, saw dock workers working hard just to make a living. Their lives, compared to your billionaire life, are simply miserable to the extreme, and their intelligence and memory are even less comparable to yours."

"Thus, you feel that in their lives, there is only this suffering, as if walking in hell. It's simply too pitiful. You feel they must be boring, stupid, and devoid of creativity."

Shiler shook his head gently and said, "The world of ordinary people is far richer and more colorful than you imagine. Every person rushing on the road, although they have their own fatigue, also has their own hope. Although they often feel pain, they can always find happiness. They have their own boredom, but they also have their own humor."

"They each have their own characteristics, each have their own specialties. In many aspects, they appear very mediocre, but occasionally there will be a flash of inspiration. They don't have the opportunity to embark on the path of art, but they can always use their abundant emotions to create amazing works of art."

"They don't know much, but they are easily satisfied. They often feel frustrated and sad, but the method of solving it is simply to fall asleep."

"Scavengers might be happy because they pass by a video store and hear a song they like. Dock workers might be happy because they tied a beautiful knot today."

"Bruce..." When Shiler called Bruce's name, Bruce saw another person on his face. That was once his nightmare, perhaps his friend, the one who always wanted him to smile.

"You feel that ordinary people laugh because, besides laughing, they have no other way to deal with the suffering in life. But this point of view is simply too serious and arrogant. Is there a possibility that they are just simply happy?"

Shiler pursed his lips, gave Bruce a big smile, and said, "You pity them because their material life is not superior enough, and they also pity you because you rarely feel happy from the bottom of your heart."

Shiler tilted his body, leaned on the armrest on one side, and looked at Bruce, asking, "What do you think of laziness?"

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

"Indeed, we don't like laziness. Therefore, a long time ago, that is, when my mind palace was just established, I didn't have the personality trait of Sloth."

"From the root, Sloth is actually a manifestation of the spirit being out of control. For ordinary people, the time they can fully concentrate is limited. When the time of concentration reaches the limit, they will instinctively start to lose focus."

"However, the vast majority of people cannot reach the limit time of concentration. Before that, there will be something interfering with them, making them lose focus in advance and dispersing their attention. This kind of thing is called laziness."

"If a person is very tired and goes to rest, this is not called laziness; this is called self-protection. And if a person is not tired, both spirit and body are very healthy, but just doesn't want to do a thing, it might be rejection and avoidance."

"If a person is neither tired nor wants to do a thing, but in the process of doing things, finds that they are always unable to concentrate, unable to go all out, and there is always something blocking them from putting in the greatest effort, this kind of thing is called laziness."

"Fundamentally, it is because ordinary people cannot accurately control their thinking, cannot make the thinking parts that generate motivation work at maximum efficiency, while the parts that generate obstacles do not work at all."

"But we can do it." Shiler tapped the desktop gently with his hand and looked at Bruce. Bruce walked over and sat down opposite him. He also wanted to know how this personality of Shiler was generated.

"Whether one can shield one's own lazy thinking is the key to a person's execution. Some people clearly don't have low intelligence, and the plans they formulate have no problems, but they always give up halfway and can't get a thing done. It's because they can't shield the lazy thinking in their brains."

"And conversely, existences like you and me, perhaps because of natural super-high intelligence, perhaps because of natural mental illness, laziness does not exist for us."

"As long as our physiological and psychological conditions have not reached the limit, and we want to do something, we will definitely be able to execute all parts accurately and consistently."

"Our thinking is like a precise machine. We let which part rotate, and that part will rotate. There will absolutely not be any part that we can't feel or don't know where it comes from suddenly rotating to hinder our actions."

"Therefore, in my thinking, there was originally no part of laziness. And when the personality shattered and countless trait fragments were generated, naturally, I didn't bring this fragment."

"Then when did you appear?" Bruce asked.

"After I accepted professional psychological treatment." Shiler replied. He continued to explain to Bruce, "Before this, I didn't know what other people's situations were like. I thought the whole world was the same as me."

"Therefore, when situations appeared where some people gave up halfway but felt regret after giving up, I would feel very confused. I didn't understand, since they wanted to do it, why didn't they do it? Why did they give up after doing it? And why did they regret it after giving up?"

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

"The parts that generate motivation will make people generate various positive emotions in the process of completing a thing, such as the excitement and expectation before starting to do things, the calmness and composure during the process of doing things, and the sense of achievement after the work is completed."

"When generating these emotions, our brain needs to make corresponding responses—cooling down when the excitement level is too high, adding fire when calm thinking leads to low emotions, and affirming ourselves when a sense of achievement appears, endowing it with higher value."

"And the part of laziness will make people generate various negative emotions in the process of not being able to complete a thing, such as hesitation before starting to do things, annoyance during the process of doing things, regret and sadness after giving up halfway, and denial of self."

"When generating these negative emotions, the brain also needs to make corresponding responses, such as urging when hesitating too much, stabilizing the state of mind when annoyed, comforting oneself when regretting, and trying to balance when denying oneself."

"If a person only has the parts that generate motivation and can only generate positive emotions, then their brain has been balancing the emotions of positive work, which is very likely to lead to overcorrection."

"For example, if the brain is always suppressing excitement and expectation, exercising this part of the ability to be particularly strong, it is very likely that when excitement and expectation are not so high, it will erase all positive emotions, making people always in a state of depression and disappointment."

"In a state of rational thinking and low emotion, raising emotions too high leads to irritable and even violent behavior."

"When a sense of achievement appears, excessive self-affirmation leads to becoming arrogant and narcissistic, unable to listen to other people's opinions."

Shiler looked at Bruce with a smile and said with emphasis, "Such a person is very scary, right, 'Bruce'?"