I love a movie called The Wind-Riding Boy, in which the protagonist is William Kamwamba, who uses his knowledge to help his family through it.
After I watched the film, a big question came to my mind, how did William succeed? Obviously, he and his family think differently, and he has a deep thinking ability that many people lack.
His father continued the traditional approach of praying for rain and making meaningless movements in the fields, which was shallow thinking.
William, on the other hand, used energy knowledge to create windmills, and generated energy to pump water from the wellhead to irrigate farmland, which was the ability to think deeply.
Shallow thinking not only can not solve the problem, but wastes their precious time. Only through deep thinking and a clear understanding of the essence of the whole thing can we effectively solve the current thorny problems.
It is no exaggeration to say that most people stay in shallow thinking, if you can't grasp the core point of the problem, your boss will criticize you, and your lover will ignore you.
There is a famous sentence in the movie "The Godfather": "People who spend half a second to see through the essence of things, and people who spend a lifetime unable to see the essence of things, are doomed to be completely different fates." ”
Today, Growing Companion Books combines the essence of the MIT Deep Thinking Method, and tells you what the essence of things in "The Godfather" is.
There are 9 reasons why a person cannot think deeply in the MIT Deep Thinking Method.
Use performance as a cause
Content with ordinary explanations
Dependency framework
Range adaptation
Thinking stops at key words
Obsessed with preliminary assumptions
Forget the original intention of thinking
Biased process
Loss of independent thinking
Once something goes wrong, many people will be satisfied with ordinary explanations and will not allow themselves to think further. For example, many people are reluctant to act, saying that they are too lazy and do not have that talent.
It's not that you don't have talent, it's that you're afraid to take the risk of failure, and you haven't started yet, and you've been intimidated by the fear of failure.
There is also that at work, many people's thinking stops at keywords, and they all want to make their work data look better, and I know that this may be an unwritten rule in the workplace.
In fact, this is unfavorable to both sides, to say an ancient emperor's example is clear, if the emperor only wants to listen to good words, there will only be traitors around him, and in the long run, it will not be far from the demise of the country.
When everyone is trying to pursue beautiful keywords, can you continue to think of new keywords from these appearances?
This is the talent that many companies crave, who can help the company create new possibilities and observe problems that others can't think of.
However, there are very few talents like this, even if he has thought deeply and thought of new keywords, he will still consider that others are doing superficial work, and it is necessary for him to contradict everyone?
In such a situation, many people want to avoid the minefield, and everyone is busy with beautiful work data reports, and stop thinking deeply.
You may say that it is impossible, I work and work overtime for more than ten hours a day, and every day I think about work and my hair is about to fall out, is this not deep thinking?
But unfortunately, many people may not even enter the door of deep thinking, and more people may rely on the previous successful experience thinking framework (or the framework of other people's success), do not consider the new changes in the development of things, and when they encounter problems, they go to consult others and never think independently.
Maureen Seakhai has written a book, Deep Thinking, subtitled "Closer to the Essence of the Problem."
So what is the essence of this?
In the "MIT Deep Thinking Method", a formula is proposed, essence = model * dynamic mechanism, the model has 5 elements: input source, output point, competitive relationship, partnership, influencer.
The model is the structure that produces a certain phenomenon, and when considering things, adding time is the dynamic mechanism, and looking at things should be viewed from a dynamic and long-term perspective.
We look at the above example of work, everyone pursues the beautiful appearance in the model, does not further explore the essence of the work, and never thinks about the present from a long-term perspective, then everything you pay is a bamboo basket to hit the water.
William, the archetypal character in "The Boy Who Rides the Wind", grasps the essence of the problem, and only the water in the bottom of the well is pumped up and used to irrigate the crops. He needed a windmill and manufacturing materials as well as scientific knowledge in his head.
William's father only thought superficially, and did not think about the problem from a different perspective.
And William, step by step, approaches the essence of things, and does the right thing at the key node, and it will definitely open up new possibilities.
William did not look at the problem from a static point of view, he thought about the problem from a long-term perspective, he knew that the bicycle was the only valuable object in the house, and only by dismantling the bicycle could the windmill be made, and only in this way could the whole village be freed from famine.
The father, on the other hand, looks at the problem from a static point of view and is reluctant to invest in the only valuable object in the family, because the father wants to keep the last property. Under the persuasion of his mother, the father finally agreed to William's idea.
People who think at a shallow level are only good at changing the phenomenon of problems, which will only intensify greater contradictions.
For example, many people are struggling with why they are good to a woman, money and feelings are paid, and why women are still far away from him. This is typical of the idea that just with money you can solve the problem.
I think most girls still long deep down to have someone who understands her warmth and coldness, even if the person doesn't have money at first.
May there be one heart, and the white head will not be separated.
So in addition to using money, is it not necessary to care more about rather than simple movies, shopping, and so on.
Only through deep thinking can you grasp the essence of the problem, save money and easily solve the troubles in life.
Improving the ability to think deeply is not something that can be done overnight, it is an ability that a person needs to cultivate for a lifetime.
Growth Companion Books provides three directions for everyone to use according to their own situation.
1. Explore the contradictions inherent in things
Find the fulcrum, that is, the original driving force, in order to bring the greatest gain with the least effort. —— MIT Deep Thinking
Everything has an inherent contradiction, like a stone thrown into the water, the surface of the water ripples, this stone is the fulcrum of the whole thing.
If you can only see the ripples on the surface of the water, and you can't see the role of the stone, it is easy to fall into shallow thinking.
Like William, constantly thinking about the nature of the problem, exploring what is the inner contradiction?
In his father's view, the contradiction was that it did not rain, and in William's view, the water of the well could not be used effectively, after all, it was easier to find a way to use the water of the well than to let it rain.
Then, like peeling an onion, peeling off the complicated superficial phenomena and hitting the essence of the problem, the internal contradictions will be exposed, and you will find that this is the essence of the matter, and you only need to solve this internal contradiction, and you will succeed.
Break the casserole and ask to the end.
Think about everything more, and if you think about it a little, think further about whether it is the result of this reason.
2. There are 5 elements in the matter to think about comprehensively
For example, in William's solution to the problem of water shortage, he found the essence of the problem, but in the whole model, he still needed the help of his family.
The input point is the knowledge in his mind and the material for making the windmill, the output point is to pump the water from the well, on the surface it seems that the father and he are in competition, the cooperative relationship is his sister, and I think the influencer is his mother, and it is her words that move the father.
So, William can't do without his sister and mother and father, and without any one, this can't make up a model, because the model is the cooperation of the whole element, and there will be a causal relationship between them, so that the whole system can produce the result you want.
This requires you to do the following 3 points when thinking about problems.
(1) Consider one level upwards
The essence of something is the model plus the dynamic mechanism, which is equivalent to forming a system surface, and your thinking is not three-dimensional.
William, on the other hand, considered the level of using wind energy, and this kind of thinking is three-dimensional, not limiting himself to a narrow level.
Some elderly people exhort young people to look at problems in a hierarchical manner, which is what it means.
(2) Focus on causation, not correlation
William had a logically rigorous set of knowledge of energy use, while his father did ineffective behavior, one of causation and the other of correlation.
Just like in life, we often think that people who look good think that their character is good. They are not causal, but related, and ordinary-looking people also have good character.
Mistake causation for correlation and you get caught up in chaos, and you don't know what role everyone plays in the whole thing? What is the relationship between them?
Mistakeing correlations for causation can lead to mistakes in your decisions.
(3) Think from multiple angles
Sometimes you think about a problem and can't get caught up in an angle, and we may often see some people drilling the horns.
For example, the most common is that a young boy has lost love, he may be unable to extricate himself, feel that life has lost its meaning, which is typical of falling into the tip of the horn.
How to understand it? Because in the whole model of love, he originally had this logic: I enter the love for my girlfriend and desire to output a sweet sense of happiness, so the girlfriend becomes the key to the whole model, and without a girlfriend I lose happiness.
But we should think of it this way, he ignores the competitive relationships, partnerships, and influencers in the model.
In this case, friends and parents will advise him to "have no herbs at the end of the world", and when he encounters things, he thinks about the problem from different angles and takes 5 elements into account.
3. Take a long-term view
The reason for not thinking about the problem in the long run is because there is no element of time added.
This is the misunderstanding that many people have fallen into, thinking that they have thought very well now, but in fact, this is a big mistake.
Buffett once said that the biggest danger is that you don't know what you're doing.
Many people's thinking is that I will do what I do to make money at present, which is of course the best idea, as long as I make money.
Running for money seems to be no problem, but after I got to know Charlie Munger and Buffett, I found that they don't really care about money, they care more about looking at things from the perspective of the future, and they will look at it from a long perspective of making money.
For example, Buffett has never invested in technology stocks, only doing his own very good "sweet zone", and he will not do what he is not good at.
This is to think about the problem from a long-term perspective, so The Growth Companion Book Company still hopes that fans and friends will not be blinded by the short-term interests in front of them, but learn to look at the problem from multiple perspectives.
If you want to improve your deep thinking ability, the key lies in your personal reading.
Whether it is the level or three-dimensionality of your thinking, or thinking about problems from multiple angles, you need to read a lot of books in order to enter deep thinking.
So if you want to improve your deep thinking ability, if some people talk to you about some small tricks, it must be false, and deep thinking is not fast, just like William if he has not read the energy book, he will not be able to stand at that level.
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