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Before we get started with today's topic, let's take a look at a diagram:
Now you can only draw 4 straight lines, how do you connect the 9 points on the diagram?
Is it true that no matter how you connect within 9 o'clock, there is always a point that cannot be connected?
In fact, as long as you change your thinking and break through this square frame, you can get the right answer at once.
Therefore, what can really trap a person is not the problems of the outside world, but the mindset in one's own mind.
The existing cognition and past experience are like these 9 black dots, which firmly fix everyone's thinking in a square inch.
Whoever can break through this invisible framework will be able to open up seemingly unsolvable situations.
In the book "Thinking: What You Think Right, What You Think Wrong", author Nikki Hayes states:
The most important difference between people is not intelligence, talent or educational background, but the way of thinking.
In this life, how far you can go and how high you can climb depends on how dare you think and how much you can think.
You're not having a good time, it's because you're thinking the wrong way.
Have you ever fallen into a strange circle of life that you can't solve:
After more than ten years of hard study, I studied Xi day and night, and my exam scores were always high and low;
Work hard, can't wait to live in the company, but it's always not your turn to get a promotion and a raise;
Living frugally, saving money in different ways, but in the end it is still empty-handed;
I have tried my best, but I can't achieve a better life, but I am getting more and more aggrieved day by day.
Why is that?
In the book "Thinking", the author makes it clear that many times, we don't really think.
Just follow preconceived information, fixed thinking templates, and make decisions unconsciously.
For example, when I was studying Xi, I redoubled my efforts to brush the questions as soon as my grades dropped, but I didn't reflect on and summarize the reasons behind them
Or when working, I work overtime day and night when I have too many trivial tasks, but I don't think about and improve the efficiency of doing things.
I think that busyness is hard work, and hard work will have results, but the idea is wrong, no matter how blindly you try, it is just in vain.
Only by finding the right idea first can you make your efforts twice as effective with half the effort.
In the history of cycling, British teams have repeatedly set records.
But before 2003, the team was unremarkable and rarely won prizes in races.
The successive leaders of the team subconsciously thought that the training method was not perfect.
They continue to increase their Xi and improve their training techniques, but with little success.
Only Dave, the performance director, found that what the players lacked was not the level, but the state.
So, he jumped out of the previous frame of thinking and vigorously adjusted the details of the ride instead.
This includes redesigning the saddle, testing different types of gels, and improving the living environment for the team members.
A small change in thinking has greatly improved the state of the players.
In the decade since, the team has won 178 world championships and 66 Olympic and Paralympic gold medals.
There is a word in the book called "mental stereotype":
People are framed by past perceptions and expectations of things, focusing only on specific types of information, and finally making inaccurate judgments.
This means that once you fall into the trap of preconceived ideas, your thinking and perspective will be limited, and you will only be played around by reality.
And when you empty your brain and start from the actual needs, even if you are in an intricate labyrinth, you can quickly find the exit.
Thinking inertia is the biggest enemy in life.
Zhang Lijun, a former Ali expert, shared a story.
In the early days of her business, she recruited an executive, graduated from a top university, worked in a well-known large company, and had an excellent resume.
But since the senior management took office, 80% of the employees in the team have submitted their resignations one after another.
Because this executive is very superstitious about his previous successful experience in large companies.
He didn't consider the actual situation of the startup, and just copied the old way.
For example, there are five or six meetings a day, which are one or two hours at a time, and a lot of complex reports and ...... are formulated
The company has few people and miscellaneous things, coupled with redundant processes and strict systems, employees are becoming more and more unbearable.
In the end, the company's efficiency deteriorated, the staff turnover was serious, and he could only be swept away.
In fact, this executive is not incompetent, but has fallen into the misunderstanding of "inertial thinking".
The book "Thinking" explains: The so-called inertial thinking is based on past experience, Xi and methods to solve new problems encountered.
Once a person finds a path in a certain way, he will involuntarily follow the path in a loop.
Even Warren Buffett is no exception.
After years of investment, he summed up a set of thinking logic, believing that a stable real economy is far better than the virtual economy.
At the beginning of the 21st century, even if IT companies would rise, he was Xi of choosing to ignore and not actively investing.
As a result, he missed out on companies like Amazon, Apple, and failed to expand his business territory further.
It is mentioned in "Think" that making any decision, from what dinner to eat or what career to choose, is quite energy-consuming.
So, in order to save the brain's energy to think, most people will empty their minds and go with inertia.
But no matter what era you live in, the only constant is change itself.
Specialties that once helped you stand out may quickly lose their edge and continue to add value to you;
The industry that used to give you stability and stability may soon encounter a crisis and no longer let you settle for once.
Relying too much on old experience and not iterating on new thinking will eventually make us lose our competitiveness step by step.
More important than effort is to pull out the anchor of thinking.
In the book, the author mentions the "measuring cup experiment" of psychologist Luchins.
Luchins gathered a group of participants and asked them to measure a certain amount of water using three cups of different volumes.
Participants poured water back and forth between the three cups and tossed for a while to complete the problem.
After that, Lu Qinsi went on to ask simpler questions, just pouring water from two cups.
But this group of people still subconsciously picked up three cups.
Aside from the complicated set of operations before, they couldn't think of any other solution.
The first experiences and cognitions are like anchors sinking to the bottom of the sea, fixing them in the depths of consciousness.
In this regard, the author explains: when everyone makes a decision, their thinking is often influenced by the first information.
When you don't distinguish and take everything as you order, you will mistakenly think that you are thinking, and let the anchor drag you down.
If you want to live a sober and rational life, you have to pull out the anchor of your mind and take back control of your brain.
In the book "Thinking", the author gives the following suggestions:
1.Tear down the walls of empiricism.
In psychology, there is a "transfer effect", which refers to the existing knowledge and experience that will have an impact on the successor.
If the antecedent experience promotes the successor, it is called "positive migration", and vice versa, it is called "negative migration".
This shows that experience can be a boost that pushes you or a burden that can be a drag on you.
The world is changing with each passing day, and the experience of the past can become an obstacle to the present.
As the poet Adonis said, "Sometimes it is precisely the ideas that are constantly proving to work that stand in our way." ”
Maintain a zero-return mentality, update your cognition in a timely manner, and the more you are in front of familiar things, the more you must treat yourself as a beginner.
Every time you tear down a wall of empiricism, there is a better path in life.
2.Cast a net of brainstorming.
In the book, the author presents the research done by psychologists Chabris and Simmons:
They showed a basketball game in which thousands of participants were asked to take note of the number of passes made by one of the teams.
*Halfway through the broadcast, a person in a gorilla doll suit suddenly appeared on the screen** and walked back and forth for 9 seconds.
As a result, nearly half of the participants, so focused on the players that they didn't notice the gorilla at all.
In the middle of the matter, everyone is a fan of the authorities, and if they are not careful, they will miss the key points and miss the key points.
So, don't blindly trust your own judgment, try to listen and absorb other information.
Only by actively listening to different opinions and improving your own cognitive system can you make reasonable decisions and avoid accidentally stepping on pitfalls.
3.Push the boundaries of your mindset.
The book points out that people with a single mindset often have only one way to solve problems when they encounter them.
Only by reading more books and Xi more can we open our minds and explore different possibilities and paths.
No matter how busy Yu Minhong is with work, he still has to find time to chat with writers and "force" himself to maintain a certain amount of reading.
Ren Zhengfei also loves to read, and when he comes home, he either reads books or watches the news, and he will bring a few books with him when he walks to **.
Books are a key to anyone's understanding of the wider world.
Each book is a self-contained "mode of thinking".
The more you read, the more different ideas you'll see and the answers to countless puzzles.
When you have enough knowledge and an open mind, you will no longer be imprisoned by the framework of your mind.
There is a saying in "Thinking": "Our thinking path is full of shortcuts, but these shortcuts often lead us astray." ”
Many times, what you think is reliable experience and knowledge is the most dangerous trap in life.
Japanese monk Toshitaka Suzuki said: The secret of success is to always know how to be a beginner.
Don't turn experience into a shackle to your mind and go back and forth in circles all your life.
Don't let yourself be a slave of inertia, and you won't be able to get out of the cycle of predicament for the rest of your life.
Give it a thumbs up, remember to always reflect on whether you think right, whether it's good or not, you know, correct thinking is the most powerful ** in the world.
Author: Insight Xu Chaodu.