Super self-control: not being a slave to habit

Chapter 16

Sight, sound, taste, touch and smell sharpen our minds and expand our knowledge of the world.For example, I like to look at the mysterious things in the world around me, find solutions to them, and find the answers to these difficult problems for fun.Get into the habit of looking for something wonderful or scary, because these things may only happen once in a lifetime.

Ninth, change routine habits and change the starting point of life

For example, you can sit in the chair you don’t usually sit in when you receive visitors; you can put down your usual ballpoint pen and write with a fountain pen; you can also change your lunch from sandwiches and soup to spaghetti; Change to a sitz bath; change the TV channel you usually watch; make some new friends; shop at a different store; read a newspaper that you don’t usually read; drive a car with your wife for a week; In the garage, taking the bus to work... because that way new ideas don't seem so overblown and intimidating, you can be more considerate of other people's opinions, and work better as a team.

Tenth, participating in activities that have nothing to do with you can change some habits

A lot of creative people will tell you that their inspiration for doing one thing usually comes from another unrelated thing.So, if you do too few "irrelevant things", it means that the chances of sparking inspiration will be much smaller.Frequent participation in unfamiliar activities can give you new experiences that can make you see things differently.

Self-control expert hot comment
When you are faced with a problem or obstacle, if you are still trapped in your usual thinking habits, then the countermeasures you can think of are often the ones you have used badly.We must consciously change our old thinking habits and stop letting them stop us from thinking.

are you good at extraordinary thinking

Sometimes people's thinking is trapped in a "frame", and when they see a similar problem, they use the old method and cannot think about the problem from other angles. This is habitual thinking, also known as fixed thinking.But in creative activities, unconventional thinking is very important.The theory that "objects fall at the same speed" proposed by Galileo broke through the thinking pattern of "heavy objects fall faster than light ones" that has occupied human thinking for more than 2000 years.So, are you good at unconventional thinking?
This test is a test of extraordinary thinking. There are 16 questions in total. Each question has a certain time limit. Please answer within the specified time. Once the specified time is up, please do the next question immediately.

(1) Xiao Zhang's wife gave birth to a cute baby. The doctor said the baby was normal, but the baby only had one left ear. Why? (time: 30 seconds)
(2) When a middle school was going through the enrollment procedures for new students, two children came to sign up.They look exactly alike, have the same date of birth, and the names of their parents.The teacher asked them: "Are you twins?" They replied in unison: "No!" The teacher was surprised, what is the relationship if they are not twins? (time: 30 seconds)
(3) The mother bought a new pair of socks for her son. Before he opened the socks, the son suddenly said, "Mom, there is a hole in this sock." The mother was taken aback, and replied, "Yes."Why is there a hole in the socks I just bought? (time: 30 seconds)
(4) A horse under a tree by the river was tied by its owner with a 4-meter rope.After a while, the owner came with the feed, and he put the feed 5 meters away from the tree. After a while, the horse finished the drink.The rope did not break, and no one untied it.May I ask, how does the horse eat the feed? (time: 30 seconds)

(5) Do you write with your left hand or your right hand? (time: 30 seconds)
(6) There is a cup full of coffee on the table. Xiao Li accidentally dropped the watch into it when he was unpacking it. Unexpectedly, there was no water on the watch when he took it out. What happened? (time: 30 seconds)
(7) Tom is black and his wife is white, what color will their newborn child's teeth be? (time: 30 seconds)
(8) One night, Pharaoh and his son were reading in the study room, when the electricity suddenly cut off, and the son was busy looking for candles, but at this moment, Pharaoh was still reading with great interest. Does he have "special powers"? (time: 30 seconds)
(9) There are no stars in the sky, let alone the moon.A car with no lights on was speeding down a dark road.Suddenly, with a "crack", the car stopped.The driver jumped out of the car, picked up the black cloth lying on the road, got into the car, and drove away again.How did the car driver find out that there was a piece of black cloth on the road? (time: 30 seconds)
(10) Xiao Li, Xiao Yang, and Xiao Zhang are running on the playground. Xiao Li's speed is 40 kilometers per hour, Xiao Yang's speed is 30 kilometers per hour, and Xiao Zhang's speed is 20 kilometers per hour. Are their speeds different? changing.At one point they meet, after 2 minutes they meet again, why? (time: 30 seconds)
(11) Please use six matches to form 4 triangles. (Time: 3 minutes)

(12) Two people walk side by side, the person behind is the son of the person in front, but the person in front is not the father of the person behind, what is the relationship between these two? (time: 30 seconds)

(13) Not long after the car accident happened, the first police and ambulance personnel arrived at the scene. They found that the driver was not injured.Why? (time: 1 minute)

(14) Pull the light switch once, the light turns on, pull it again, the light turns off, can you pull it twice so that the light does not turn on? (time: 30 seconds)
（15）将24个人排成6列，每5个人为一列。你知道该怎么排吗？（时间：3分钟）

(16) The king's beautiful daughter was about to hire a horse. Two princes came to ask for her marriage. The king summoned them and said to them: "You race horses and run to the oasis in the desert. Whoever wins the horse, I will give my daughter Marry him. But this time it's not a competition of speed, but a competition of slowness, to see whose horse arrives late." The two princes followed the king's words and began to race slowly on their respective horses.The desert is very torturous!Just as the two of them got off their horses in pain to rest, one prince suddenly thought of a good way. After the other prince woke up, it was too late. This clever prince finally won the game.May I ask what good idea did he think of? (Time: 3 minutes)

Test Results and Analysis

Not good at new thinking.If you can't do half of the questions that are limited to 30 seconds, then in daily life, when you face a problem, you usually use the old method to solve it. When the old method is difficult to solve, your thinking will often Walk into a "dead end".

Unconventional thinking ability is average.If you can do half of the questions that are limited to 30 seconds, it means that you already have a certain unconventional thinking ability.You follow the methods you have mastered to deal with common problems in life, and when the existing methods cannot solve them, you can think deeply from other angles.

Excellent unconventional thinking ability.If you can do all the questions with a time limit of 30 seconds, then your unconventional thinking ability is quite good; if you can also do the questions with a time limit of 3 minutes, then your thinking ability is excellent.Even if it is a common phenomenon in life, you always like to think about it from other angles. In your thinking and belief, "being different from others" is eternal.

answer
(1) A normal person of course has only one left ear.

(2) The two children are two of triplets (or more than triplets).

(3) There must always be a hole in the socks so that the feet can go in.

(4) The horse is not tied to a tree, but to other places where it can eat feed.

(5) Looking at this question, most people immediately blurt out: right hand.Then you have been fooled by habitual thinking again, and the answer should be: write with a pen.

(6) The coffee in the cup has not been boiled and is solid.

(7) Newborn babies have no teeth at all.

(8) Pharaoh is blind. He reads in Braille and does not need lights.

(9) People tend to associate the stars and the moon with the night, and it is still daytime when the driver finds the black cloth.

(10) Because Xiao Li stopped first, Xiao Yang ran to Xiao Li and stopped, and Xiao Zhang also stopped at the same place, so they met naturally.

(11) Most people will try to draw 4 triangles on paper. In fact, as long as 6 matches are placed in a three-dimensional pyramid (triangular pyramid), 4 triangles will appear.

(12) They are mother-son relationship.

(13) THIS IS A VEHICLE LOADED WITH BLOOD PRODUCTS.

(14) Cut off the power supply or take off the light bulb so that the light will not turn on even if you pull it twice.

(15) Arrange 24 people in a regular hexagon, with 5 people in each row. In daily life, people generally only think of horizontal and vertical rows. If this conventional method is not broken, this problem will be difficult to solve.

(16) The wise prince's way is: jump on another prince's horse and run wildly.The opponent's horse arrives first, which means that your own horse is slow.

(End of this chapter)