What is thinking, how to think, philosophers have thought about it for centuries. You may have seen many articles and books of the same kind. I guess you are like me, when you see books on logic and philosophy, although interested, but most of them are used as hypnosis, and fall asleep in less than 10 hours.
The Art of Practical Thinking is a book that will also put you to sleep, but its cunning author will keep you reading. Richard Weil, who has played the smartest man in the business world, is very generous in his role as a writer. He claims that to learn to think, either you go to a deceased seer, or you have to wait for an unknown number of years for a present bodhisattva to appear, and if neither of these is desirable, he is willing to be the middleman and pass the knowledge on to you. With rigorous thinking, he introduces the 6 tools of thinking, intuition, formal logic, semantics, voluntaristic logic, symbolic logic, and continuum of unity, talks about the 6 basic rules of thinking, and uses case studies to inspire you that thinking is not esoteric and unattainable, and that ordinary people can learn to think. If you are interested in thinking, after reading this book, most of the problems you will have ideas, if long-term use of these tools, the pursuit of a better life is no longer a slogan, but may become a reality. I'll throw in the towel and mention the first rule of thinking today, prioritize your problems.
A buyer spends a lot of time and energy trying to convince a supplier to lower the price of a certain item, reasoning that by lowering the price he will increase sales. However the supplier lowered the price and sales did not go up, what went wrong?
The management of the school, see the staff to do things inefficiently, the first thing to do is to develop a strict attendance and rules and regulations, people punctually sit in the office, but still people floating in the matter.
Reading brings benefits, and many adults give in to their natural tendency to be lazy and give up good reading. By giving up reading, they also lose the greater benefits that come from acquiring knowledge.
We often hear things like, "You're making a stupid mistake!" Or, "Why are you so stupid?" Can you teach someone anything in this way?
How do you do this by prioritizing your questions? The authors give some advice:
As the average human lifespan increases, so does the career. If you only think about 10 or 20 year periods, if you're 30 now and you're 50 in 20 years, what do you do after that? Now 50 year old women are square dancing, 50 year old men are in business, what are you going to do between the ages of 50-80 when you are raising ...... your life? So you have to think about the time of your life and what are the most important things in life. Paul Kochakin said that a man's life should be spent in such a way that when he looks back, he will not regret his wasted years, nor will he be ashamed of his inactivity! If you do not believe in Paul, you find an old man and ask, if you are 30 years younger, what is the thing you most want to do, you will know the answer.
In your list of the most important things to do in your life, there may be these, part of it has to do with marriage, children and friends so some of the relationships; part of it has to do with material benefits such as house, property; part of it perhaps has to do with your social value quest to obtain fulfillment, and so on. Perhaps there are all sorts of conflicts in these lists, what is your first priority aspect? Philosophers, psychologists, logicians all have their answers, and the good thing is that they all converge.
Socrates' ideas influenced the youth of Athens, and the judge who tried him was reluctant to put him to death, and would have been exempted from punishment if Sue had paid a nominal fine; however, Socrates very kindly refused, and he drank poisoned wine. Socrates did not consider his death to be important, rather it was a great blessing for him because he had remained true to his principles throughout his life and had not abandoned them. The so-called ethical virtues are, courage, justice, wisdom and temperance. You can choose yours on the basis of such a realization, in order of priority.
1. Enrichment of Thinking Tools. This book mentions six ways of thinking about problems, of which dealing with problems based on intuitive judgment alone is the simpler way of thinking. There are times when intuition can go wrong. Therefore, in order to make thinking more efficient, we need to add thinking tools to our intuition. This is like an elementary school student who learns addition and subtraction, and then one day, he learns multiplication and division, and the efficiency of his calculations is greatly increased. Each thinking tool is suitable for different scenarios, and using thinking tools separately or in combination can be very helpful for problem solving.
2. Take the emotional impact out of rational analysis.After psychologists discovered IQ in the 20th century, they assumed that it would remain unchanged for the rest of their lives. This was a mistake. Broadly speaking, IQ includes emotional intelligence; a person has an innate ability to adapt to the environment, and the strength of that ability is the level of IQ. You take the emotional impact out of rational analysis and the prioritization of problem handling changes.
Some people may say, I have a hard time controlling my emotions, I tend to get hot-headed when things go wrong, and I can't do it if I'm told to divest myself of emotions. I admit, there is this situation, but brain fever is not the norm, there is always a time when the brain is clear. What is thinking? Thinking is the process of organizing experience into patterns and a means of improving performance. Develop the habit of careful observation, their own experience of serious summary, often thinking about what things can be done first, what things can be done after the effect of doing things and so on, this is the conscious use of the principle of prioritization of the problem.
This method applies to the calm state of deep thinking, does not apply to emergency decision-making.
The scenario of reprimanding someone, mentioned earlier, has a problem with prioritizing problem solving. It's just a matter of perception, and it's found to be detrimental to the purpose of achieving improvement in his behavior, and you can change your own behavioral approach, for example, by letting the other person think about how they can do things better.
3. Choose to make things easier or harder. The approach of the school management mentioned earlier, the first management of this approach, is it desirable? It is not easy to judge. A unit of people floating, it may be a few people bring a bad atmosphere, it may be the whole ecology is not good. If it is the former, most people are afraid of the system and authority, will consciously self-discipline; if it is the latter, the simple control of people's practice is far from enough. If you choose to treat the symptoms before the root cause, after determining the priority of the symptoms, you have to think about what the next step in the management of the next step, can not cause a disconnect phenomenon, the effect of the symptoms of the return. You can also target the crux of the problem, directly after the first difficult, the first break after the establishment.
In work, life, we are often easy to be confused by the immediate benefits, not willing to think deeper and farther things. Inertia and reading, the former is comfortable, the latter burns the brain, especially difficult to chew the book, more or less anti-instinct. The more such books, the more inspiring to us, can make up for the incomplete and incomplete of our thinking.
4. Categorization method to dig the essence.
The concept of categorization applies not only to the understanding of concrete things, such as objects, plants and animals, but also to the understanding of abstract things, such as workflow, organizational structure setup and so on. Experience is the basis for thinking, and thinking is the process of organizing experience into patterns. Perhaps you have the feeling that the length of time you have known an area does not determine the depth of knowledge of things. The person who gets by and muddles through his work is unlikely to be able to summarize his work effectively enough to develop good experience. Understanding a thing with a strong interest and purpose allows you to better discover the characteristics and attributes of the thing. The clearer and more obvious you recognize the characteristics and attributes of a thing, the easier it is to categorize it. For example, when you learn the method of book splitting in the book splitting club, you understand, correlate past experiences and plan future applications, and can better apply the knowledge in the book. When you master the 3w1h way of thinking, you are not only able to apply the knowledge, but also better able to form your own knowledge system. This is a testament to the deeper understanding of things that comes with a deeper understanding of its characteristics.
The buyer's prioritization of problems, mentioned earlier, failed because he didn't categorize the workflow clearly enough to make a more valuable action to take.
The categorization of things applies to the initial stage of understanding things, and also applies to the stage of deeper understanding of things, the things proposed to improve the handling of the program. The former is conceptualization, the latter is the application of theory to practice.
If the ordering of problems were always as simple as the examples I have given, it is likely that many mistakes would not occur. However ranking problems in a sensible way is one of the hardest things in the world to do, and a sad fact of life, but in any case, ranking is better than not ranking, so if you need to think better, prioritizing the most viable problems is definitely the first rule of thought.
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