Examples and methods of thinking outside the box

Examples of mindsets:

Asimov. He has been smart since he was a child, and when he was young, he took the "IQ test" many times, and the score was always around 160, which belonged to the list of "extremely talented", and he has always been proud of it. Once, he met an auto mechanic, an old acquaintance of his.

The repairman said to Asimov: "Hi, doctor! I'm going to test your intelligence and come up with a reflection question to see if you can get it right.

Asimov nodded in agreement. The repairman began to think about it: A man who was both deaf and dumb, wanting to buy a few nails, came to the hardware store and made this gesture to the salesman: two fingers of his left hand stood on the counter, and his right hand made a fist to make a striking gesture.

When the salesman saw this, he first brought him a hammer; Deaf.

The man shook his head and pointed to the two fingers that were standing. So the salesman understood that what the deaf and dumb wanted to buy was nails. The deaf man had just walked out of the store after buying nails, and then a blind man came in. This blind man wants to buy a pair of scissors, and I ask: what will the blind man do?

Asimov replied casually: "Blind people will definitely be like this." As he spoke, he stretched out his index and middle fingers and made the shape of scissors.

The auto mechanic laughed when he heard this: "Haha, you answered wrong!" If a blind man wants to buy scissors, he just needs to say 'I buy scissors', why should he make gestures? ”

Asimov, who has an IQ of 160, has to admit that he is indeed a "fool" at this time. But the car mechanic was unforgiving, and said in a tone of instruction: "Before I tested you, I expected that you would definitely answer incorrectly, because you have been educated too much to be very smart."

> mindset features.

One is the mindset.

That is, the thinking procedures and patterns embodied through various thinking contents are not only related to specific contents, but they are not specific contents, but the general routes, methods, procedures, and patterns that are gradually stereotyped by many specific thinking activities.

The second is strong inertia or stubbornness, which not only gradually becomes a habit of thinking, but even penetrates deep into the subconscious.

Become an involuntary, instinct-like reaction. In particular, it is difficult to change a mindset, and it is first necessary to have a clear understanding and consciously carry it out; Second, have courage and determination.

The biggest enemy of thinking is habitual thinking.

Worldview, living environment, and knowledge background all affect people's attitudes and ways of thinking about things and things.

However, the most important influencing factor is past experience. There are many experiences in life, and they influence people's thinking all the time.

"Mindset" means "fixed way of thinking", and when expressing this meaning, it is appropriate to use "fixed formula". And there are many examples of mindsets and mindsets. Below I have compiled examples of thinking outside the box for you, I hope it can help you.

Examples of thinking outside the boxGalileo's Leaning Tower Experiment.

At that time, almost everyone believed in Aristotle's empiricism that heavy objects landed first, and Galileo was not superstitious about celebrities and people's life experience, so he found two large and small balls to experiment on the Leaning Tower of Pisa and verified his correctness.

A success story of thinking outside the boxColumbus and eggs.

Newton and Apple.

A longitudinal cut of an apple will not cause anything, but a five-pointed star will appear when a crosswise cut is also a story: a kindergarten teacher asked the children, "What is the snow melting?"

If it's an adult, you might say, "Water." And the children said:

It's spring. ”

An example of breaking the moldSlap job seekers.

First of all, let's know, what is cognition?

All kinds of information in life are presented to us by the brain, and cognition is the process of processing external information by the human brain. It includes sensations, perceptions, memories, thinking, imagination, and language, among others. When we can understand the process of human cognition, we can gain a broader mindset and mind.

Perceptual perception is the reflection of the whole of objective things acting on the sense organs in the human brain, and what is reflected is a relatively complete thing. From the beginning of perception, our processing (screening and distortion) of the objective world has begun. The process of our cognition of people or things is a process of synthesizing information, and synthesizing information is the process of brain supplementation.

Thinking is the process by which the human brain generalizes and indirectly responds to objective things with the help of language. Thinking is based on perception and transcends the boundaries of perception, and thinking explores and discovers the internal essential connection and regularity of things, which is the highest stage of the cognitive process. With the help of existing knowledge and experience, thinking speculates on unknown things under known conditions, so it also has the characteristics of generalization and indirectness.

And it is precisely because of these two characteristics of thinking that we often form a mindset.

The so-called mindset refers to the relatively stable and stereotyped thinking formed in repeated use in accordance with the accumulated experience and experience of thinking activities and the existing thinking rules.

Cognitive structure is the frame of reference we use to perceive and process external information and reasoning activities, and our brain's cognitive processes, on the one hand, provide opportunities for our quick decision-making, and on the other hand, as a relatively fixed framework, also hinder our understanding of facts. The objectivity we claim is the objectivity after subjective filtering, that is, the truth after screening based on our own perception, memory, and intuition.

A new perception of cognition:

1. Erroneous, rigid cognition or cognitive bias is caused by the brain's operating mode. Our learned experiences allow us to form an automated cognitive framework, and cognitive processes let us know that this framework is not right in all contexts;

2. Respect differences, allow different points of view, and everyone sees the world differently;

3. We can build our own world. We can construct a dark, cold, and static world for ourselves, or we can build a sunny, warm, and flexible world for ourselves. The real world has nothing to do with us, we live in a world of our own construction.

In real life, a white paper with a black dot is displayed in front of us, and it is often the black dot instead of the white paper that attracts our attention, which may be our instinct or habit. But whether it is instinct or habit, it ultimately reflects a mindset that has been formed over a long period of time.

This mindset makes us look at things and focus only on the brightest situations and ignore the whole; Let us deal with problems and only focus on the local and not look at the overall situation, which is like a leopard in the tube, only a glimpse; It is also like watching the scenery in the forest, only the trees are seen, but the forest is not seen.

A person's mindset is usually based on his life experience and habits, and human beings have such shortcomings, relying on experience to deal with problems. A billionaire's company went bankrupt overnight and owed millions in debt; In order to pay off his debts, he used the remaining money to wholesale some snacks and open a shop, believing that as long as he ran a small shop in the same way he used to manage the company, there would be an endless stream of customers. So he went wholesale and came back with a whole bunch of snacks, and he thought excitedly:

I'm sure I'll make some money! A few days passed, and due to various factors, fewer and fewer people bought snacks, and finally the door was cold, and the snacks in the store also deteriorated and moldy because they were difficult to preserve.

It is good to have experience, but if you are stuck with experience, it is easy to draw a prison; Habits can make people follow their feelings without thinking, but they are more likely to make people follow the rules and rest on their laurels. A smart person, a successful person just dares to break the mindset, be different, stand out from the crowd, and see the white paper when everyone sees the black dots.

Breaking the mindset requires courage and wisdom. The granddaughter of a famous painter is also a young painter, and the wind she paints is colorful, and the trees and grass she paints are also colorful as if they have been dyed by the wind; The famous painter thinks that his granddaughter's paintings are abnormal "monsters", but the "monsters" in his eyes won the first prize in the International Children's Painting Competition.

Breaking the mindset requires vision and courage. Know about Galileo's Leaning Tower experiment? At the time, almost everyone believed in Aristotle's empiricism that heavy objects landed first; But Galileo was not superstitious about celebrities and people's life experience, he found two large and small balls to experiment in the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and finally proved himself right.

If we do not break this mindset, we will inevitably be biased in our view of problems, and we will inevitably make big mistakes in doing things. Therefore, when we look at problems and do things, we must break the stereotype of thinking.

Four ways to break the mold.

1.Look at the problem from the perspective of Duoji Qingkai.

We often get stuck in a mindset and only see one side of the problem without taking into account the multiple perspectives of the problem. If we can look at the problem from multiple perspectives, we will be able to discover the essence of the problem and better solutions.

For example, when we encounter a problem at work, we may think from our own perspective, but ignore the perspective of the team or the customer. If we can think in these terms, we will be better able to solve problems.

2.Push your comfort zone.

When we get used to a certain way of thinking or approach, we develop a mindset that is difficult to let go of. In order to think outside the box, we need to try to solve problems with new ways of thinking or approaching.

This process requires us to push our comfort zone and try new ideas and solutions. Only in this way can we become more open-minded and flexible.

3.Learn new knowledge and skills.

Learning new knowledge and skills is another way to think outside the box. When we learn new knowledge and skills, we are exposed to new ways of thinking and frameworks, so that we are able to leave the old mindset.

In addition, learning new knowledge and skills is also able to continuously improve our cognitive level to better understand and solve problems.

4.Creative thinking.

Creative thinking is the superlative form of thinking that breaks the mold. In creative thinking, we not only need to leave the old frame of mind, but also need to create new ones and ideas.

For example, when we design products, we can think creatively to design amazing products. In this way, we can break the old mindset and create more value.