How to break away from conventional thinking

When everyone is thinking in a fixed direction, but you are thinking in the opposite direction alone, this way of thinking is called reverse thinking. For example, "Sima Guang smashed the cylinder." When someone falls into the water, the conventional thinking mode is to "save people from the water", but Sima Guang used reverse thinking in the face of emergency and danger, decisively smashed the water tank with stones, "let the water leave people" and saved his friend's life.

Different from conventional thinking, reverse thinking is a reverse thinking problem, thinking in a way that most people have never thought of. Thinking and dealing with problems with reverse thinking is actually "winning by surprise" to achieve "winning". Therefore, the result of reverse thinking is often surprising, unexpected and rewarding.

Below, we might as well illustrate the advantages of reverse thinking through some examples.

Example: About inflating tennis balls. Tennis is different from football and basketball. Football and basketball have holes, which can be inflated with inflatable needles. Tennis has no air holes, and the ball will be soft and flat after air leakage. How to inflate a deflated tennis ball? Professionals first analyzed the causes of tennis water leakage. Where does the gas leak? We know that if the air pressure inside the tennis ball is high and the external atmosphere is low, the air will diffuse from high pressure to low pressure, that is, the air will leak from the inside of the tennis ball to the outside. Finally, when the internal and external pressure of tennis reaches, the elasticity is not enough. How to increase the pressure in the ball? Using reverse thinking, professionals consider letting gas diffuse from outside the ball into the ball. How? That is, the soft tennis ball is put into a steel cylinder, and the air is filled into the steel cylinder, so that the pressure of the gas in the steel cylinder is much greater than the pressure inside the tennis ball. At this time, the gas in the high-pressure steel cylinder will "leak" into the tennis ball, and after a certain period of time, the tennis ball will become hard.

The reverse thinking of letting gas leak from the outside to the inside inflates the tennis ball without holes. Obviously, through reverse thinking, the impossible becomes possible.

The first advantage of reverse thinking is that in daily life, problems that are difficult to solve by conventional thinking may be easily solved by reverse thinking.

Two people are traveling together. One of them saw an old woman selling a black iron cat in the street while shopping. Iron cats have beautiful eyes. After careful observation, he found that the iron cat's eyes were made of precious stones. So he said quietly to the old woman, "Can you just sell a pair of pearls?" The old woman disagreed at first, but he was willing to pay the price of the whole iron cat. The old woman took out the cat's eye and sold it to him.

He went back to the hotel and said to his companion with ecstasy, I picked up a big bargain. I bought two gems with very little money. The companion asked the cause and effect, and asked him if the old woman who sold the iron cat was still there. He said that the old woman was waiting for someone to buy her iron cat without eyes.

The companion took the money and went to the old woman. After a while, he brought the iron cat back. He analyzed that this iron cat must be valuable. So I knocked the iron cat with a hammer. After the iron filings fell, I found that the internal substance of the iron cat was actually made of gold.

People who buy iron cats and jade eyes follow normal thinking. The jade eye of the iron cat is very valuable. Just take it. But the companion came to the conclusion through reverse thinking that since the cat's eyes are made of precious stones, its body will definitely not be made of iron. It is this kind of reverse thinking that makes the companion abandon the appearance of the iron cat and discover the gold endoplasm of the cat.

Another example: An article said: An China immigrated to the United States because he wanted to go to court. He said to his lawyer: Shall we invite the judge out sometime or give him some gifts? The lawyer was shocked and said never. If you give a gift to the judge, your lawsuit is bound to fail. The man said how is it possible. The lawyer said: doesn't giving a gift to the judge mean that you are wrong?

A few days later, the lawyer called his client and said that our lawsuit had won. The man said flatly, I knew it long ago. The lawyer asked strangely, how is this possible? I just got out of court. China people said, I gave the judge a gift. The lawyer almost jumped up. No way! China people said: Yes, I did, but I put the other person's name on the mailing list.

Whether this China man's behavior is moral or not is a typical reverse thinking. Since you Americans think that giving gifts to judges is untenable, I will give gifts in the name of the other party and win the lawsuit easily.

The second advantage of reverse thinking is that it will help you find a new way where others have not noticed, make achievements and win the accident.

Example: There is a carriage driver, driving a horse and pulling a flatbed to climb a slope. Helpless, the road is long, the slope is steep and the horse is lazy. The horse pulled the car for a third of the whole slope and was unwilling to go any further. Let its porter hit it and the horse turned around. The porter stopped the carriage and borrowed two horses from his companions for help. According to the conventional way of thinking, one horse doesn't go uphill, and the other two horses help pull, which must be to help pull the cart. But the porter didn't tie the traction rope to the car, but tied the traction rope around his horse's neck. At this time, only heard the porter shout, two borrowed horses pulled the lazy horse by the neck, and the lazy horse loaded with coal quickly went up the slope. You may be confused about what porters do. If you use two borrowed horses to pull your lazy horse, the result will still be that your lazy horse is struggling. The other two horses will not only fail to work hard, but may also pull their own horses.

Porters just use reverse thinking.

Thinking 1: The strength of this horse is similar to that of other horses, and the coal in the car is similar. If other horses can get on, this horse should be able to get on, too. The reason why I can't get up is because the horse is lazy, that is, the attitude problem, not the ability problem.

Idea 2: Use two horses to pull the lazy horse by the neck, forcing the lazy horse to pull the coal car forward as much as possible. Otherwise, the neck may be broken by two other horses. The desire to survive forced the lazy horse to take the initiative to pull the cart uphill.

Idea 3: If the other two horses help pull the cart, they can pull the uphill smoothly. But after letting the horse taste the sweetness of laziness, when it encounters uphill, it will definitely wait for other horses to help it. And tying his neck and letting the other two horses teach him a lesson can make him remember the pain of being lazy, and he will not dare to be lazy when going uphill in the future, thus eradicating the laziness of the horse.

We have to admit that the groom's way of solving the problem of lazy horses with reverse thinking is really superior.

Advantage 3: Reverse thinking will enable you to get the best method and approach among various problem-solving methods.

Example: The Party Committee of an enterprise implements the differential election, and it is stipulated that 2 1 Party Committee members should be selected from 23 candidates. The normal operation method is to distribute votes according to the number of party member deputies and list 23 candidates. After the delegates got the votes, they "elected" 2 1 candidates they agreed to. After the voting, the scrutineers counted the votes, and finally 2 1 candidate with the highest votes was elected. No one is against this common practice. However, this is an inefficient practice. To solve this problem, we can think backwards: when we get the votes, we "choose" two people we don't agree with, and when we sing the votes, each vote will only be sung twice. In the end, whoever "has more votes" will lose. In this way, the time spent by each delegate is only one-tenth of the original time, and the time spent singing each ballot is only one-tenth of the original time, and the election efficiency is improved tenfold. If you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to find that this practice not only improves efficiency, but also helps to improve the sense of pressure and responsibility of candidates and representatives. When choosing 2 1 yes, many people tick from the front to the back. As long as it's not very unpleasant, tick it down in order. The final result is often that the two candidates in the last position are most likely to lose. This practice reduces the pressure on those who lose the election. Who makes the geographical position worse? However, if the representative chooses two people from 23 candidates who he thinks are inappropriate, it will increase the pressure on the candidates. He must pay great attention to his image and improve his shortcomings. For delegates, they must think seriously and express their opinions responsibly.

Advantage 4: Consciously using reverse thinking in life will simplify complex problems, thus doubling efficiency and effectiveness.

Example: The double-pointed embroidery needle invented by dorri, a pupil aged 0/0 in Hubei Province, won the first prize in the 4th National Youth Invention Competition and was awarded the special invention award by the China Invention Association. . Dorri had carefully observed the embroidery process of Hunan embroidery for adults, and saw the embroidery needle sticking down at the bottom of the cloth. You have to turn the needle to stab the top of the cloth, and you have to turn the needle to stab it, which is very troublesome Little Dolly thought, can we embroider without turning the needle? The traditional embroidery needle has a needle tip at one end and a needle nose at the other end. Obviously, the needle nose cannot replace the needle tip, and conversely, the needle tip cannot replace the needle nose. How to improve embroidery needle? Dorri thinks that since the embroidery needle should not be rotated, then the embroidery needle must be symmetrical. Both ends are needle tips. What about the needle nose? After thinking, dorri chose the needle nose in the middle of the needle. The double-pointed embroidery needle invented by dorri has a needle tip below it, which can pierce the embroidered cloth. When the needle is pulled out from below, there is also a needle tip on it, so that embroidery can be continued without rotating the embroidery needle, which reduces the steps of embroidery operation and improves the speed of embroidery. Although the double-pointed embroidery needle is simple, it is very novel and practical.

Dorri Jr. used the method of reverse thinking to change the asymmetric embroidery needle into symmetry, thus invented the double-pointed embroidery needle.

The fifth benefit of reverse thinking is derived from the above: reverse thinking also contributes to human invention and creation.

For example, dealing with infidelity in marriage with reverse thinking will also have a miraculous effect. In marriage, if one party is unfaithful, such as the husband has a lover outside, the wife who takes care of the husband will usually try to save the frequently-dead marriage by crying, quarreling, knocking at the door or threatening death. However, this method is rarely successful. Even if the husband does not divorce because of pressure, the relationship between husband and wife will collapse completely.

The clever wife adopts the way of reverse thinking. Husband has a lover outside, crazy. When the wife learned that, she left home silently, making room for her husband and his lover. When I left, I left a note that said, "Dear, since I married you, I have deeply loved you with my own heart, and I very much hope that you will be happy. Since you like being with her, tell me your love and let you get your own happiness. I'm leaving home for a while, please think about our relationship carefully before making a decision. "

The wife thinks about the problem like this:

First, since the husband has a crush on others, it is useless to cry, make trouble, hang himself or take other drastic measures, and it will completely hurt the feelings of husband and wife for many years and completely break the relationship between husband and wife. And if you choose to leave peacefully, even if you can't save your family and marriage, at least neither side will be deeply hurt.

Second, if the husband's lover is excellent in all aspects, then the husband's lover has his reasons. Crying and making trouble by yourself will only make her husband look down on himself more and more, which is the performance of the weak and proves that she is really not as good as a lover in disguise;

Third, men often like lovers because they can't get the best psychology, because the relationship between the two sides is in a secret and underground state. This sense of distance creates a strong sense of beauty between lovers, so simply let you get close to each other and let you know her more truly and quickly.

After intimate contact with his lover, the husband suddenly found that his lover was not as good as his virtuous wife in many places, and quickly and decisively left his lover and returned to his wife.

The wife used reverse thinking, did not cry or make trouble, left room for her husband, left room for herself, left room for her husband to turn back, and finally saved the family.

Advantage 6 of reverse thinking: Thinking about problems with "reverse thinking" will often help you in the realm of "mountains and heavy waters, no road to doubt, and a bright future."

The active use of reverse thinking in daily life can play an important role in broadening our thinking and inspiring our thinking. When you fall into the dead corner of thinking, you might as well try the reverse thinking method, break the original thinking mode, and do the opposite, maybe you will shine at the moment and be suddenly enlightened.