In Santiago, there is an established hotel: the Grand Hotel Corte. With the increase of passenger flow, the elevator designed by the hotel is small and old, and it cannot adapt to the new demand. The owner is ready to remodel a new elevator. He spent a lot of money to bring in the country's best engineers and architects to discuss how to rebuild. Because they all have very rich experience in the industry, after discussion, everyone reached a consensus: from the installation of the elevator to the commissioning, the hotel needs to be closed for at least half a year. Faced with such a situation, the boss frowned, and he asked solemnly: "Is there really no other way?" If it is closed for half a year, the economic loss of the hotel will be too great..."
Architects and engineers say in unison, "It has to be this way, we've been doing this for so long, and empirically there can be no other solution."
Hearing this, the boss's brow wrinkled even tighter. At this time, a cleaner in charge of cleaning just passed by. After listening carefully for a while, he stopped what he was doing. Glancing at the determined expert and worried boss, he snorted and said, "I have a good idea." The engineer looked at him contemptuously: "You don't even have experience in installing elevators, how can you know how to install elevators?"
The boss also casually asked, "May as well come and listen." "If it were me, I would install the elevator directly outside the house." "What an ingenious method!" After the boss listened, his eyes lit up. The engineer and the architect listened, speechless in astonishment, and then both bowed their heads in shame. Soon, a new elevator was installed outside the house. This elevator also became the first outdoor elevator in the history of world architecture. A shift in thinking that revolutionized the entire world of the elevator industry:
The world-famous Bailong elevator; the Eiffel Tower elevator overlooking Paris; the sightseeing elevator that includes all kinds of shopping malls...
All of this comes from the innovative thinking of a cleaner. The famous host Morrow once said: "We are all prisoners of our own experience." In fact, many times, the problem solving is not the amount of knowledge, the level of technology, but whether you have the courage to abandon your own experience. When you think outside the limits of your thinking, you will find that many problems are not difficult.
