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Chapter 74 Integrated Synergy: "1+12" Principle 3
第三卷Chapter 6 统合综效：“1+1>2”原则3
Turn negative resistance into positive support
If you don't try to reduce the resistance, but just increase the thrust, it's like putting force on a spring, which will cause a rebound one day.

-- "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"

There are often such scenes in life: some objects fall into the fire, which may not be a good thing for the fire, because those objects will extinguish part of the flame.However, fire will never succumb to external environmental pressure. Even if there is only a small spark left, they will burn again and turn their disadvantages into advantages. With the help of things covering the flames, they will burn more and more vigorously.

The principle of synergy also contains a similar principle. If you encounter excessive resistance when dealing with a problem, instead of blindly increasing the thrust, it is better to turn resistance into power, just like fire can continue to burn with the help of substances falling into the flame.When the flame is too weak, it is suppressed by what falls upon it, but if it is strong, it possesses and devours what is thrown upon it.Therefore, whether resistance can be turned into motivation largely depends on whether one's own ability is strong enough, or whether one can seize the opportunity to reverse the situation.

In the 17th century, Procter & Gamble of the United States launched a new product - white soap, but because there were many soap factories at that time and the competition was fierce, Procter & Gamble was in trouble.To make matters worse, at a workshop in Cincinnati, a careless employee forgot to turn off the soap-stock mixing mixer before his lunch break, so that too much air was mixed in the ingredients, and the resulting soaps were all puffed up and colored. From pure white to milky white.This means that those expensive chemical raw materials are all scrapped, and the loss is very large.This mistake is tantamount to worsening the situation, making the cleaning company's situation more difficult.

The person in charge of the company was very anxious. At this time, he suddenly remembered such a scene: In Cincinnati, many residents often accidentally dropped soap into the water when they were washing and bathing in the Ohio River, and it was difficult to find.A common scene by the river is that the washerwoman is sweating profusely looking for the soap that slipped in the river, or the half-washed people leave because they lost the soap.Thinking of this, he began to laugh, and dropped the puffy bar of soap into the water.As expected, the soap really floated up!He immediately ordered his subordinates: "Continue to produce, tell retailers, we have launched a new product - floating soap!"

The "floating soap" became an instant grocery store hit when it hit the market.

This story tells us: there has never been any absolute thing in the world, and there is no absolute bad card.Therefore, when you accidentally get a bad card and are at a disadvantage, you must be good at "using the bad to make the bad", look for opportunities to turn around from the disadvantage, and use divergent thinking to find a way out for yourself to solve the problem.Doing so can not only increase the motivation of things to move forward, but also minimize the original resistance.

When we encounter difficulties, we can't always keep them in our eyes and regard them as insurmountable mountains.No matter how powerful things are, there are flaws. A seemingly bad ending does not mean that the ending must be bad.As long as you haven't reached the end, you can't admit defeat in advance.Sometimes, by thinking backwards from the opposite side of things, you can turn shortcomings into advantages, turn decay into magic, and turn defeat into victory with ease.

(End of this chapter)