"Along the old map, no new world can be found"-this famous saying is said to be the rhetoric of Columbus after traveling the world that year.
"Old Map" is a metaphor for traditional outdated thinking and experience; "New World" is a metaphor for new and unknown things.
Only by putting aside the "old map", subverting stereotypical views and cognitions with innovative thinking, and finding another way, can we find the "new continent"-reaching the glorious shore.
Today, I will choose two such stories for you:
The first one: can weigh an elephant without a scale
gave a big grandson of during the Three Kingdoms period. elephant. People ask: How many catties does this elephant weigh? No one answered.
Cao Cao then posted a notice: Everyone who can weigh an elephant will give a great reward. But the report shows that no one has revealed the list.
This is how people think: by convention, the weight of an item must be weighed out, and the weight cannot be known without a scale. If you want to weigh heavy items, you have to use a big scale. At that time, the largest scale could only weigh a few hundred catties. Obviously, such a scale could not be called an elephant. Without the scale of the elephant, the weight of the elephant is unknown, so no one reveals the list.
Here, what everyone follows in their minds is to use the "old map" of weighing Jinliang. Only by weighing can we know the weight of the elephant, which is equivalent to discovering the "new world". In reality, there is no such large scale, so I don't know the weight of the elephant-it can't reach the "New World".
Just when everyone was afraid to take the list, had nothing to do, and saw that they were ridiculed by Soochow ,Cao Cao's third son, Cao Chong , who is only 5 years old, boldly unveiled the list. He came up with an idea: put the elephant on the boat into the water. Marks must be left on the outside of the ship to record the position reached on the surface of the water. I also used this boat to lay down the elephants and hold the stones. When the weight of the rock makes the water surface reach the mark left on the boat, move the rock down and weigh the weight of the rock separately. The total weight of the rock is the weight of the elephant.
The result is really as it said. Finally, I know the weight of the elephant.
In the matter of weighing elephants, Cao Chong dared to break the traditional concept. In order to reach the "New World"-knowing the weight of elephants, instead of just weighing the "old map", he changed his mind and adopted another scale. The method of equal weight stones, thus reached the purpose of "New World" .
If Cao Chong is still limited to the "old map" called elephants, there was no big name for elephants at that time, so he would definitely not know the "new world" of elephant weight.
Second: The owner of wants to build a building, and the construction team wants to make money, but the owner who can build a building has no money. Seeing that the building could not be built, the construction team gave the land free of charge. The building was built, and the construction team made a lot of money.
After the end of World War II in 1945, the victorious nations led by the United States, Britain and France decided to establish the United Nations in New York, the United States. First, the United Nations Headquarters must be built in New York.
The largest organization in the world wants to build an office building-this information is known by the American Rockefeller Foundation, they want to make this money. However, since the establishment of the United Nations and the end of World War II, several countries are poor and cannot even afford to buy land.
Ordinarily, the owner's house must first take the money to buy the land before starting the construction, and then build it-it is the old rule to take the money before building the house.But the current fact is: if you don't have money to buy land, it means you can't build a building; if you can't build a building, the United Nations will have no place to work; and the construction team can't make money.
Here, the old rule of buying land and then building a building can be compared to the "old map"; and building a headquarters building is equivalent to the "new world." At this time, if you have been along the "old map" of buying land first and then building a building, because you don't have money to buy land, you will definitely not be able to build a new United Nations building-which is equivalent to: no "New World" can be found.
So far, things have fallen into a deadlock.
Just when it was almost desperate, the consortium suddenly made a decision that no one could have imagined: the consortium bought a piece of land in New York and unconditionally donated it to the United Nations. At the same time, it quietly bought all the surrounding land.
After the news spread that the construction team bought land for free to the owners, people laughed and asserted that within 10 years, this construction team, the Rockefeller family consortium, will definitely become a poor group.
But the fact is: After the successful completion of the United Nations building, due to the skyrocketing popularity, the surrounding land prices soared. Rockefeller Consortium spent a small sum of money on land purchases, relying on the increase in the price of surrounding land, made a huge wealth of tens of times, hundreds of times the original land purchase-this has become a business model of "using the new map to take advantage of the big bargain" .
Looking back at the above two events, although they happened thousands of years apart, one thing is the same: Faced with the unsolvable problems at hand, might as well break or abandon the old rules instead of the old maps. , Adjust your thinking from another angle, it is possible to find a solution, discover and board the "New World".
Someone used to say: Read a book of more than 100,000 words in two hours,It is generally considered impossible. However, I participated in the editor-in-chief training camp Liu, and learned how to raise my horizons, change horizontal reading to vertical reading, plus the three-column note-taking method taught in the course, drawing mind maps, and using both hands, eyes and pens. , I didn’t have to finish reading the book in one day, and I wrote a demolition manuscript in less than 7 days.
Along the old map, there must be no New World.
However, as long as you stick to the new map of innovative thinking, break the routine, and make extraordinary efforts, your dream will come true, and you will definitely find a "new continent."
There is no limit to life, the more you live, the more exciting.
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