Author: Pang Zhimin
First of all, let me summarize what thinking is: ①Thinking comes from the subject's processing of intentional information, and human thinking is the process of processing intention-information content by one's own mind. ②Any thinking is based on reasoning and calculation in association-chain reaction-processing of information content.
So back to the title, before thinking about things, we need to imagine the object, trace its origins, and learn its essence and original definition. For example: chopsticks. In primitive society, everyone used their hands to eat. However, with the changes of the times, in order to adapt to the needs of life, the initial shape of chopsticks was slowly formed. Chopsticks are people’s innovative thinking about “food” in their lives. To achieve this kind of thinking similar to tracing back to the origin, the most basic thing is that we must first have an ocean-like knowledge reserve. This is the first step for us to think innovatively.
Secondly, we need to use the imagination of our brains, and we need to break through the reality and have unconstrained divergent imagination. Innovation means that we should put aside the old and create new ones. For example, we all know that a traditional fan is composed of blades assembled on a turntable, which changes the air pressure through rotation. So can we remove its blades and use an air multiplication technology to change the air pressure, while achieving the same effect as a bladed fan, but quieter and safer?
Another example is toothpaste. Only one side can be squeezed out, so is it possible to get a double-headed toothpaste, which may be easier when squeezing out toothpaste? The reason why our thinking cannot be consistent with the inventor's is largely because We do not let the imagination of our brains fly all the time. Of course, there are also the effects of the confinement of social environment and the thoughts of the times, which make us have rigid thinking. Just like who could have predicted the birth of the airplane? Therefore, breaking the restricted imagination is the second step to innovative thinking.
Finally, the real way to combine the first step with the second step is to combine the first step with the second step through practice in life, to innovate through feedback, and to keep pace with the times.
Dear Pang Zhimin:
I like these examples you gave very much, they are very touching! In addition to letting your imagination run wild, after first constructing the overall picture of things through association in the brain picture and roughly grasping its scale, there is another step to make the connection between the rules have a certain degree of logic and scientificity through analysis, so as to achieve practice. the other side.
