150 Wisdom Stories to Build Good Habits

Chapter 30 To change thinking, to go beyond, you must first break through (2)
That day, although no one took down the gold coin, everyone knew a kind of super glue. Since then, the supply of glue in that store has been in short supply.

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Doing business requires innovation to succeed in the competition. This is a truth that everyone knows, but how to innovate?The story tells us that "surprise wins". "Surprise" is a very clever innovation, which captures the curiosity-seeking psychology of the public and often achieves excellent results.Innovation is expensive in creating "odd".

Young friends, in our usual study and life, we should always use our brains to create "odd" constantly.In this way, we can make ourselves unique and create a spark of success for our future.

fishing village in the city
A few years ago, some newly built and remodeled restaurants in Beijing had a "foreign style" and used a large amount of imported materials for interior decoration. It seems that otherwise they would not be able to attract customers.However, the "One House" restaurant located in Deshengmen, Beijing, does not follow the fashion, but finds its own way. It uses scallop shells, seaweed, bamboo hats, paper-cuts and other small objects to decorate a high-end restaurant with national cultural atmosphere, which is well received by Chinese and foreign customers. unanimous praise.Artists Liu Haisu and Wu Zuoren also came to watch and taste the dishes, and they were happy to leave ink.

This Shandong-style restaurant, which mainly deals in seafood dishes, is said to have spent a lot of brains on the design of the store.Once, the manager of the restaurant went to Shandong to discuss business. He walked by the seaside at night and saw some snack bars. The "fishing village flavor" was very strong. It made people feel like they had entered the world of sea while resting and watching the sea here.Seeing this, the manager thought to himself: "Unique Living" is a restaurant that mainly deals in seafood dishes. If the restaurant is decorated as "seafood and fun", customers will feel as if they have entered a seaside fishing village when dining, and they will not feel unfamiliar The embarrassment, but the Chinese national cultural style with a strong human touch, that would be great!
It worked.The shape of the door arch of the restaurant is like the prows of two fishing boats breaking through the waves. The glass of the four floor-to-ceiling windows facing the street is pasted with folk paper-cutting, and the curtains are made of Shandong blue calico. There are folk sculptures and other handicrafts on the wall cabinets. , strings of plastic grapes or gourds hang from the ceiling above each dining table.What is even more amazing is that the lampshade of the chandelier is made of the bamboo hats worn by fishermen.Dining here can make people feel the natural atmosphere of the sea.

In May 1985, "One House" was completed. The foreign customers who were attracted were full of praise for the design and decoration of the restaurant, and took pictures to commemorate it.Although the "Solitary Living" restaurant is inferior to some time-honored restaurants in other aspects, they dare to win with uniqueness in restaurant decoration, which undoubtedly increases the competitiveness of the restaurant.The unique decoration style also plays a very good advertising role.

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For some problems, sometimes we can use all kinds of abnormal information and abnormal practices to break through and surpass conventional thinking.Martin Gardner, a famous contemporary American mathematician, said: "Some problems are really difficult to understand with traditional conventional methods, but if you let go of your thinking and break the routine, the problems will be solved."

a simple question
In the knowledge contest of a prestigious university, there was such a thinking question:

There was a snail who lived under a sycamore tree. One morning, as soon as the sun rose, the snail began to climb from the root to the top of the tree.It crawled fast and slow, and sometimes stopped to look around to avoid possible dangers.Until the sun went down, the snail finally climbed to the top of the plane tree and slept on the top of the tree.

In the early morning of the next day, just as the sun was rising, the snail began to climb down from the treetops. It followed the traces left by yesterday's crawling, and slowly climbed towards the roots of the tree.Sometimes it stopped to look around, or to drink a little sap, and on the whole, climbing down was much easier and took less time than climbing up.In this way, when the sun has not yet set, the snail has already climbed to the root of the plane tree, which is where it started yesterday.

Now I would like to ask: on the way of the snail crawling up and down, will there be such a point: the moment when the snail passes this point when it goes up the tree on the first day is exactly the same as the moment when the snail passes this point when it goes down the tree on the second day?

To answer this question, the first thing is to determine the correct way of thinking.If the thinking is correct, the problem will be solved, otherwise it will be at a loss.Here, there are many correct ways of thinking, among which the simpler one is: use the visual image in the mind to overlap the first day and the second day, and imagine the snail going up the tree and the snail going down the tree as two Snails, they start from the root and the top of the tree at the same time, and crawl opposite each other along the same route, and the two snails will definitely meet halfway.Obviously, that point of encounter is the answer to the question.

But when this question was raised, after a brief silence, some contestants began to draw pictures on paper, trying to solve them by drawing, and some contestants set some variables and began to busy with calculations.These "generals" who had passed the college entrance examination seemed to be in a hurry before this question, as if falling into a fog.

What happened to these college students? Could it be that their IQs are not good enough?Obviously not, they are all talented students, so what is the reason?The point is that their ability to innovate is shrinking.

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The innovative skeptical spirit requires people to respect knowledge without being superstitious about authority; to inherit the achievements of predecessors while striving to climb higher peaks of science; to believe in books without being bound by them.By using questioning to innovate knowledge, you will be able to open the door to innovation. Similarly, you will also taste the fruits of the improvement of innovation ability.

mouse threading
Several decorators encountered a problem when helping customers to decorate the house: they had to pass a new wire through a 10-meter-long pipe with a diameter of only 2.5 cm, and the pipe was built in the masonry of the wall and turned 4 times. bend.

This is a difficult problem to solve: to install the wiring, it seems that the wall must be smashed, which is not only expensive, but also the owner of the house is very reluctant.

Everyone thought of many ways, but still couldn't think of a way to let the wires go through without destroying the wall.

Suddenly, an employee had an idea.When everyone heard it, they praised it again and again.According to this idea, the problem was solved quickly.

The protagonists who solve this problem are actually two little white mice!

They went to a store and bought two little white mice, a male and a female, and tied a string to the male and put it at the end of a pipe.

Another staff member put the female mouse on the other end of the tube and made her squeak.When the male rat heard the mother rat's cry, he ran along the pipe to save her.The male rat ran along the pipe, dragging the thread behind him.The wire was tied to the wire, and the male mouse ran across the entire pipe pulling the wire and the wire.

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To achieve new achievements and create new situations, we must break the rules and learn to be flexible.You can't look at things with one vision, but you have to observe from multiple angles and aspects, and seek new ideas from the routine.

When you encounter a problem, you must think hard: Is there any other way besides the routine?Is there another way to solve the problem?Only in this way can we abandon the old thinking frame, smash the thinking pattern, make thinking more flexible, agile and accurate, so as to enhance our innovation ability.

Post-Chapter Test: Where Your Thinking Strengths Prevail

Here is a question about "using momentum" thinking, see if you can solve it?
A businessman who owns 17 camels left a puzzling last word to his three sons: 1/2 of the camels will be given to the eldest son, 1/3 to the second son, and 1/9 to the youngest son, but the distribution shall not be divided camel.Just when the three sons were at a loss, an old man riding a camel came to pass by. After learning the request of the will, the old man easily solved the problem.Do you know how he does it?
Reference answer

The old man "lend" his camels to the three brothers, so there were 18 camels in the camel herd.According to the established ratio, the eldest son will get 9, the second son will get 6, the youngest son will get 2, and the three brothers will share 17.After parting, the old man still led back his camel.The old man had nothing to lose, he just lent the camel to the three brothers.

Everyone has different advantages in the field of thinking, which is why many people are biased in their studies. If you want to discover your own advantages, take the following test quickly!

According to your actual situation, judge the following statement with "yes" or "no".

1. People sometimes ask me to explain what I say or what I write.

2. I am very interested in word games, such as Scrabble and crossword puzzles.

3. I recently wrote something that I think is very good, or that others think is very good.

4. When I drive on the highway, I pay more attention to the words on the huge billboard than to the scenery.

5. I absorb more from listening to the radio or tape recorder than I absorb from watching TV or movies.

6. When I am talking, I often refer to things I have read or heard.

7. I can hear the words in my head before I read them, say them, or write them.

8. I enjoy entertaining myself or others with tongue twisters, limericks, or puns.

9. Books are very important to me.

10. For me, learning Chinese, social studies and history is easier than learning mathematics, physics and chemistry.

11. I like to try little "what if" experiments. (For example, what if I doubled the amount of water when I watered the flowers?)
12. I believe that everything has a rational explanation.

13. I feel more at ease when things are measured, categorized, analyzed, or measured.

14. My favorite subjects are mathematics and science.

15. Sometimes, my way of thinking contains some clear, abstract, wordless, and imageless concepts.

16. I can easily calculate numbers in my head.

17. I think about the rules, cycles, or logical relationships implied in various things.

18. I like to point out the irrationality and contradictions in people's daily words and actions.

19. I am interested in new developments in science.

20. I enjoy playing games that require logical thinking.

21. Every night, my dreams are very vivid.

22. I think geometry is easier to learn than algebra.

23. I prefer to read books with many pictures.

24. When I close my eyes, I often see clear images.

25. I like to scribble.

26. I often take pictures of things around me with a camera or video camera.

27. I can easily imagine how something will look when I see it from above.

28. I enjoy playing jigsaw puzzles, mazes, and other visual guessing games.

29. I am sensitive to color.

30. I am less likely to get lost in unfamiliar places.

scoring method
A “yes” answer to each of the above questions is worth 1 point and a “no” answer is 0 points.

Test Results
Questions 1 to 10 examine the wisdom of writing.

Questions 11 to 20 examine mathematical intelligence.

Questions 21 to 30 examine spatial intelligence.

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