Does it feel impossible?
Actually, it's very simple. Everyone can do it.
All you have to do is throw the ball up, and gravity will make it fall back by itself.
Why is it so simple, even common sense, that you can't answer correctly?
Because of this topic, there is a lot of information that puzzles you, such as the magician throwing the ball at the wall. It will allow your brain to conceive a familiar picture based on experience.
Therefore, in order to find the answer, you must question the hypothesis of the brain and adjust the thinking frame. This pluralistic, open and unconventional thinking ability is called-
Corresponding to "elastic thinking" is "analytical thinking".
Human beings have and only have two kinds of thinking, namely elastic thinking and analytical thinking.
The logical thinking we usually use is analytical thinking. This is easy to understand.
So what is flexible thinking?
It has two key steps:
Relevance is to connect seemingly different information. At this time, new ideas will appear.
Reconstructing and reorganizing these new ideas has become a brand-new thinking framework for understanding the status quo.
Simply put, flexible thinking is what we usually say-
Inspiration often happens in an unconscious state, so it is difficult for people to observe it consciously, and it is difficult to study it and explain it.
Then how can we have "flexible thinking"?
There are several practical "daily methods" for your reference:
By doing so, you can look at the problem in front of you from another angle, and maybe you can get some inspiration.
If you regard it as a kind of thinking training and persist in it for a long time, your thinking framework will be completely changed and will not be easily imprisoned by inherent thinking.
In daily communication, we often speak without thinking, and language comes from superficial thinking.
However, when you do nothing for a few minutes, only thinking about why the other person said this and how you should respond, your reaction mode is completely different.
In this process, the brain will automatically establish various connections, and your communication will be deeper. This is flexible thinking.
When you can't think of a problem, running, swimming, or taking a bath can give your brain a rest and be in a state of flexible thinking.
In the past, we paid more attention to analytical thinking because human society has been trying to build a stable and unchanging order. Today, change has become the norm, and flexible thinking has become more important.