150 Wisdom Stories to Build Good Habits

Chapter 29 To change thinking, to go beyond, you must first break through (1)
Inventory of Bad Habits
When the problem cannot be solved, many people will find a reason and attribute it to some reason;

Love to get into the dead end, get stuck in a dead end and can't get out;

In the study, after a problem is solved, I never think about whether there is a second problem-solving method;

Thinking patterns, not knowing how to adapt, sticking to old experience...

Thinking determines the way out. Only by making good use of thinking and learning to be flexible can a person become a master at solving problems. Otherwise, if he sticks to experience and does not know how to innovate, he will stagnate.Therefore, if young friends want to surpass the current state, they must make breakthroughs, learn to think, and develop the habit of innovation.

Door opening method

One day, a young man came out of the school gate and walked along the street. Suddenly, he saw a garden full of flowers on the side of the road, and an old man was watering the flowers.He asked the old man if he could go in and have a look.The old man nodded and told him where the door was.

The young man came to the door, stretched out his hand and pushed the door, but the door did not open.Then I pushed a little harder, but the door was still not opened.The young man felt a little strange, and tried harder every time, but unfortunately, the door was never pushed open.Is the door locked?He went back to the place where he met the old man just now.

"Old sir, is the door locked from the inside? Why can't I push it?" he asked.

"Push?" The old man who was watering the flowers was taken aback for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Young man, if you want to open a door, not all of them are pushed! Some are pulled!"

The man came to the courtyard door again, held the door handle and gently pulled it, and the door opened.

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Please detour this road.When a problem cannot be solved, many people will find reasons and attribute it to some reason. In fact, many times the problem lies with ourselves.There are always more methods than problems. If you change your thinking and get rid of the old experience in the past, things will turn around.

"This street" conquers "the whole world"

On a street in Paris, three fine tailors lived at the same time.However, because they are so close, the competition for business is fierce.In order to be able to overwhelm others and attract more customers, tailors have made fuss on the signboards at the door.One day, a tailor wrote "the best tailor in Paris" on the sign in front of the door, which attracted many customers.After seeing this situation, another tailor was not to be outdone.The next day, he put up the signboard of "The Best Tailor in France" at the door, which also attracted many customers.

The third tailor was very distressed. The signs hung by the first two tailors attracted most of the customers. If he couldn’t come up with a better solution, he might become the “tailor with the worst business”.But what word can surpass "all Paris" and "all France"?If you hang up the signboard of "the best tailor in the world", it will undoubtedly make others feel false, and you will also be ridiculed by your peers.What should we do?Just as he was frowning, his son came back from school.When he knew why his father was worried, he smiled and said, "It's not easy!" Then he wrote a few words on the signboard and hung it up.

On the third day, two other tailors stood in the street waiting to see another of their fellow tailors joke, but things went beyond their expectations.Because, they found that many customers were "robbed" by the third tailor.What is the reason?It turned out that the magic lies in his signboard, which says "the best tailor in this street" in big characters.

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Faced with a thorny problem, when we cannot solve it along a certain line of thought, we might as well change our way of thinking, follow the opposite direction of the development of things, and think about things in reverse with the thinking mode of reverse exploration, maybe it will be bright and bright. a village.If young people can develop a good habit of reverse thinking, they can not only improve their ability to solve problems, but also stimulate their creativity.

Apprentice
There was a painter who was good at drawing cats. Because of his superb painting skills, the cats in his paintings were so lifelike that many people bought his paintings and hung them at home, and all the mice in the house escaped.Therefore, the painter is known as "Elvis Presley".

However, this painter has a strange personality, and he only brought two apprentices, Sun Chao and Wang Pin, in his life.

One day, the painter called his second apprentice Wang Pin to him and said, "You can become a teacher. You have not only learned all my cat painting skills, but you have surpassed me in many aspects." The second apprentice Wang Pin would not say anything. Leaving the master, but the painter's attitude was firm, Wang Pin had to bid farewell to the master with tears in his eyes.

Seeing this, Sun Chao, the great apprentice, went to the painter impatiently and said, "Master, I want to be a teacher too. Why do you only let my younger brother be a teacher? You must know that I came half a year earlier than him!"

"It is true that you have studied painting for a little longer than him, but I am afraid that you will never become a teacher in your life." The painter said seriously.

"Why?" The big apprentice Sun Chao was extremely puzzled.

"You learned to paint with me, you only know how to imitate, but you don't have any innovations, that is to say, you are painting with your hands. As for your junior brother, you paint with your brain. The cats he draws have surpassed others in many details. I. Although your basic skills are very solid, you are not good at thinking and using your brain. This is the reason why you will never become a teacher, and you will never be able to surpass your younger brother." After hearing this, the great apprentice Sun Chao left unconvinced .

Several years later, the cats painted by the first apprentice Sun Chao were not sold in the market, while the second apprentice Wang Pin became a well-known "cat god".People say that the cats he painted have surpassed his master.

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In the story, there is not much difference in the time when the first apprentice and the second apprentice learned painting, and they came from the same teacher, but the ending of the two is very different.The secret of the second apprentice's success is that he is diligent in thinking.

Teen friends, if you are not diligent in thinking, but just "skimming around" like a big apprentice, learning a little superficial knowledge, your academic performance will definitely not be good.In the process of learning, if you don't ask a few more whys, then the knowledge you have learned and the books you read will not be of much use to you.

You understand other people's thoughts through reading and the teacher's explanation, but if you just accept these thoughts directly instead of using your own brain to think, process, examine and analyze them, it is like eating other people's leftovers, or Reselling second-hand goods does not do you any good.

innovation through thinking
A man named Henry Rand likes photography. He has a beautiful little daughter who likes to let her father take pictures of herself very much. Moreover, every time she wants to see the pictures taken by her father immediately.In fact, it is a very tedious process from pressing the shutter to getting the photo.

Henry Rand told his daughter that all the photos must be taken, and after the negatives are rolled back and removed from the camera, they will be sent to the darkroom for development with special chemicals.Moreover, after the secondary film is completed, it needs to be irradiated with strong light to make it reflect on other photo papers. At the same time, it must be treated with drugs before a single photo can be completed.While explaining to his daughter, he asked himself in his heart: "Isn't it possible to create a 'simultaneous development' camera?"

People with a little common sense in photography all said with one voice after hearing his thoughts: "Where is it possible." And cited more than a dozen reasons: "It's just a whimsical dream."

But he didn't flinch from the blow.Finally, he finally completed the "Polaroid Camera" without fear of difficulty.The functions of this camera are designed according to the wishes of my daughter.

From then on, the Rand Enterprise was born.

After the "Polaroid" camera is officially put into production, how to publicize and sell this new camera?After careful consideration, Rand invited Hola Boots, a well-known sales expert in the United States at that time.When Boots saw "Polaroid", he immediately liked it, and was gladly appointed as the manager in charge of marketing.

Miami Beach is a tourist attraction in the United States, and thousands of tourists come here every year for vacation.Shrewd Boots thinks this is the ideal place to sell.He specially hired some professional female swimmers, let them pretend to fall into the water while swimming in the beach, and then they were rescued by specially arranged lifeguards. The thrilling scene attracted many onlookers.At this time, the "Polaroid" camera immediately showed its talents, and in the blink of an eye, snap photos recording the wonderful scenes at that time were displayed in front of people, which surprised the tourists, and the salesman took the opportunity to sell this camera.

Relying on these ideas, the "Polaroid" camera went from Miami to the whole country and became a hot item in the market.

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The spark of thought comes from life.Innovative moves don't come by themselves; they require an observant eye and a thinking mind.

Teenagers should develop a good habit of thinking diligently, so that the door of their own innovation will be opened by thinking.

surprise can win
One day, a large-scale World Food Expo was held in Chicago, USA, and all major manufacturers in the world sent their products for display.Mr. Hans, the manager of the well-known canned food company in the United States, is no exception. He sent his company's canned food to the exhibition.But to his disappointment, the fair staff assigned him the most remote loft in the venue.

After the start of the exposition, there was an endless stream of visitors, but the attic where Mr. Hans exhibited his products was empty.What to do about this?Hans thought for a long time and finally came up with a brilliant solution.

In the second week after the opening of the fair, a novel phenomenon appeared in the venue.People who come to visit often pick up some small bronze medals from the ground.A line of words is engraved on the bronze medal: "The person who picks up this bronze medal can take it to the Hans Food Company in the attic to exchange for souvenirs."

Thousands of small bronze medals were found in the venue one after another.Before long, Hans's little attic, which no one cared about, was packed to the brim. Fearing that the attic would collapse, the host hurriedly asked a carpenter to try to reinforce it.That is to say, from that day on, Hans' attic became the "scenic spot" of the exposition, and all the visitors rushed to go there first. Even if the bronze medals disappeared, the grand occasion did not diminish until the closing ceremony.

Needless to say, Hans' trick was quite strange, and this unique trick turned him from defeat to victory, and he fought a beautiful turnaround.

In a remote alley in a certain city in France, people were crowded.A man in his 50s, pulls out a bottle of superglue, then pulls out a gold coin.He lightly applied a thin layer of glue to the back of the gold coin and stuck it to the wall.Soon, one after another, people came to try their luck to see who could peel off the 5000 francs worth of gold coins on the wall.

People in the alley came and went, but in the end no one took the gold coin, and the gold coin was firmly stuck to the wall.

It turned out that the man was a grocery store owner, due to the remote location of his store.When the business was sluggish, he came up with a wonderful advertising method: use the glue he sold to stick a gold coin worth 5000 francs on the wall, and whoever peels it off will get the gold coin.

(End of this chapter)