Among Agatha Christie's many works, the most immersive for readers is personally considered to be "The Wrath of the Weak". In this era of hit worker culture, as a low-level hit worker, you have to endure the temper of your boss when you go to work, and you have to deal with all kinds of messy things after work. Life is difficult, and you can only endure it again and again. After reading "The Wrath of the Weak", I just want to say that I can only endure what I can't stand anymore, and the momentary impulse is the devil.
First, the negotiation skills that want to refuse to return the favor
In Agatha Christie's work, the great detective Poirot has always appeared as a retired police officer. The grandmother himself has never been to work, but he portrays the boredom of retirees into three points.
Poirot is leisurely enjoying his retirement, picking and choosing cases in the newspapers and in the door. When the client of Sir Ruben's death came to the door, Poirot played with the blocks while listening to people tell the story.
It was not too complicated a case, but it attracted Poirot's attention and interest, not because of the case, but because of the person in front of him.
When you want to arouse someone's interest and ask him to help, a very effective way is to intentionally or unintentionally reveal the feeling that the other party cannot help you in the conversation, which can stimulate the other party's competitive spirit.
This trick works well for a conceited person like Poirot. Therefore, when The maid of Madame Reuben came to ask Poirot for help at the request of madame, the maid, one sincerely recounted the incident, and the other expressed great disapproval of Madame's move, believing that Poirot could not help.
Poirot sighed: "Smart girl, please ask someone to do something, and find a way to make the other party refuse, to deal with it very delicately, this requires skill." ”
As a result, the dear detective Poirot became more and more interested, and finally agreed to accept the commission.
Arguably, Agatha Christie, though not a working woman, is well versed in negotiation, and in all her works, life techniques like this one are often more compelling than the process of solving a case.
Second, the tragedy caused by extreme character
With Hercule. In Poirot's words, the character traits of the victims have always been the key to the entire reasoning process. In Sir Reuben's case, Sir Reuben himself is a man worth investigating.
People similar to Sir Ruben's personality, readers may have seen, he may be called Zhang San, or Li Si, but they all have a characteristic, that is, irritability, and no mouth.
He may be the boss, he may be a family member, but his presence, the way he gets along with people, will always make people uncomfortable. In the workplace, when you meet such a boss, you can only think that you are unlucky, or go away. And at home, there is such a family member, others can only suffer in silence, there is no other way.
Sir Ruben was also the boss and family member, and let everyone else suffer enough of his temper. In that great house were the following men: Madame Sir, Sir's brother, Sir's nephew, Madame's maid, housekeeper, secretary, and a number of servants.
Since it is called the anger of the weak, who is the weak?
The jazz lady who comes from an actor background and is not highly educated is a weak person.
The secretary who followed Sir Ruben and endured humiliation for 9 years was the weak.
Nephews whose parents died, lived on jazz, and inherited half of the inheritance were weak.
Due to doubts in the letter of introduction, the maid of the soon-to-be-fired Lady Jazz was a weakling.
The housekeeper who has always kept to himself but still can't help but endure the boss's grumpy temper is the weak.
The younger brother, who is a partner in the company but has no inheritance rights, may also be a weak person.
Freud's psychoanalytic theory once proposed that emotional abuse is also abuse, and although a person is not tortured, the mental oppression of many years is enough to make people collapse day by day.
The character characteristics of the victim were understood, and the personality of the perpetrator was also ready to come out.
Third, the assumption + verification = the conclusion
Political teachers always tell us that things are constantly moving and developing, and we must look at the essence through phenomena, and superficial facts are not facts.
Unlike the detectives who cling to footprints and run around, Poirot is more accustomed to playing with his little gray cells, proposing a hypothesis, and then testing his own idea based on the existing evidence.
For example, in this book, Poirot asks a key question based on the character characteristics of the victim: Who is the most temperamental person in the family?
This question is confusing to the other party, but it is the cornerstone of Poirot's theory.
By verifying everyone's alibi one by one, and implementing hypnosis to restore the situation of the scene, Poirot carefully verified his vision step by step.
This way of "proposing theory + verification + adjusting theory + further verification = conclusion" is a scientific way of seeking truth, which is not only applicable to solving cases, but also applies to all aspects of study and work.
Historically, especially the major discoveries and inventions of the scientific community, have been obtained through the formulation of theories + verification.