#头条创作挑战赛#
01 Introduction
In life or work, there is often such a phenomenon, that is, when we encounter problems, we always put forward ideas that are very ordinary.
What would you do if you received an email with multiple tasks and requests?
In general, you will casually reply to the emails one by one in the order in which they are received.
Without taking the time to put in deep planning thinking, the following problems may arise:
Duplicate work: The same work may be repeated in different responses, wasting time and effort.
Confusion in priorities: Without thinking deeply about the urgency and importance of tasks, it is possible to waste too much time working on low-priority tasks and neglect high-priority tasks.
Bad Decisions: Lack of thoughtfulness and can lead to hasty decisions, resulting in erroneous or incomplete responses that require follow-up corrective and remedial work.
Missing details: By not reading and understanding the content of the email carefully, he may miss important details or requests, leading to follow-up communication and coordination problems.
Therefore, deep thinking is very important to improve efficiency.
02 What is Deep Thinking?
Insufficient deep thinking is not a lack of personal ability or hard work, but that we are not enough to support us to have a vision and think deeply.
It's not hard to think deeply.
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In this process, we have completed a deep thought.
For example,
For example, housing prices have always been a hot topic that we all pay attention to, and for the future development trend of housing prices:
Some people think that house prices are already too high, so they will not rise again;
Others believe that the aging population is so severe that housing prices will not rise again.
This is the answer that already exists, and many people agree with it.
So what is the underlying logic that house prices will not rise?
Why is it that Japan, the country with the most aging population, has not seen a decline in housing prices, but is still in a state of steady growth?
And why is it that Germany's aging population is also serious, and housing prices have not fallen either?
A professor at Peking University summed up such a simple and rough formula through a lot of experience and data-
Housing price growth rate = economic growth rate + inflation rate + urbanization rate
Based on this empirical formula, the result is that China's housing prices are not rising too much, not faster than other countries, and will continue to grow in the future. (The point of view is very profound, not necessarily right, the national situation page is different)
That's deep thinking.
Wang Xing, the founder of Meituan, also said in an interview:
Most people are willing to do anything to use their brains in order to avoid thinking, which is actually a word that everyone is familiar with.
Thinking itself is not difficult, but many people are strategically lazy and tactically diligent in their daily lives, and they use tactical diligence to cover up strategic laziness.
It means not thinking deeply about the strategy that can achieve the goal, but working on the details of execution!
Have you ever had the experience of wasting most of your time at work on meaningless chores that don't produce results in order to avoid deep thinking?
This kind of "busyness" often makes us mistakenly think that we are making progress, and we do not think deeply, and only pursue superficial busyness, which can only be in vain in the end.
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Therefore, learning to think deeply allows us to harvest a high-level life.
Every question on the road of life is worthy of our deep thinking.
It is no exaggeration to say that this ability to think deeply directly determines the height of our lives.
03 How to develop deep thinking skills?
I've seen a comic.
A man stepped on a mountain of ladders, lying on the edge of the wall and sighing.
He didn't lack ladders to climb over the walls, but he hadn't really thought about how to use them.
A man who is only immersed in his head and refuses to think is only covering up strategic laziness with tactical diligence.
So how do we think deeply? It is to cultivate our "100,000 whys".
In fact, thinking should be profound, and it is not particularly difficult to do, you need to figure out and ask more questions, ask a few more whys, instead of finding an answer for yourself, thinking that the logic can be roughly understood, and you will be satisfied.
To ask good questions, we can think about it at the following 6 levels:
First, what is it?
For example, what is the problem that I really want to solve? What is the impact of this problem?
Second, why?
Like, why do I need to fix this? Why does it have such an impact?
Third, when?
For example, when does this problem occur, and how long do we need to solve it?
Fourth, Where?
For example, where do you start with this question? Where can you find the answer?
Fifth, with whom?
For example, who can I turn to, and who does this question affect the most?
Sixth, what should I do?
For example, is there any practical solution, and how to solve it most efficiently?
This is the "5 W 1 H" approach to questioning commonly used in management consulting.
By asking ourselves questions in this way, we can guide ourselves to think and ask one good question after another.
In addition, it is not enough to ask a good question, we have to keep asking questions.
The following figure is the famous fishbone diagram, a tool for exhaustive problems:
This method was originally developed collectively by Toyota, and later adopted by Toyota Motor Corporation in the development of its manufacturing methodology.
To put it simply, you have to keep in mind and strengthen your awareness of the problem at all times, and ask yourself, is this the real and essential reason? Is this the ultimate answer?
Let me give you a review of the case of Toyota Motor at that time, and the former president of Toyota Motor, Nai Ohno, used this method to create the real reason for the shutdown -
Question 1: Why did the machine stop?
Answer 1: Because the machine was overloaded, the fuse blew.
Question 2: Why is the machine overloaded?
Answer 2: Because the lubrication of the bearing is insufficient.
Question 3: Why is the bearing lubricated insufficient?
Answer 3: Because the lubrication pump is out of order.
Question 4: Why does the lubrication pump fail?
Answer 4: Because its axle is worn out.
Question 5: Why does the axle of the lubrication pump wear out?
Answer 5: Because impurities have escaped into it.
After asking "why" five times in a row, the real cause of the problem and the solution were found - adding a filter to the lubrication pump.
If Toyota's employees don't dig into the problem with this spirit of getting to the bottom of the problem, they are likely to just change the fuse and hastily solve the problem.
04 Summary
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If you can't continue to break the circle, you will be trapped by reality, and if you can't grow all the time, you will be eliminated by the times.
From now on, take the initiative to break the circle, constantly reshape, cultivate your ability to think deeply, keep moving forward, and live your life as you want.
Deep thinking is not only a high-quality way to solve problems, but also an indispensable ability in our lives and work.
If the problem we encounter is a combination lock hanging on the safe, and the lockbox happens to lock the harvest we want, deep thinking is the password we unlock.
When you encounter a problem and are overwhelmed, use the 5 W 1 H substitution method shared today to ask yourself again and again.
In this way, not only can problems be solved, but we can also improve our ability to think deeply and avoid detours.