Ways to break the habitual thinking

? The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you're doing. The concept of psychology, people engaged in a psychological activity of a state of psychological readiness, but also the formation of a long-term habit of thinking direction. Specifically, it is a kind of thinking conditioned reflex (projection) formed by people in the long-term thinking process, or a fixed way of thinking. Thinking is the characteristic of human nature, is the source of all human activities, but also the source of innovation. With innovative thinking can start innovative activities, with innovative activities can produce innovative results. To have innovative thinking, we must first break the thinking stereotype.

? Stereotypes? is caused by people's previous activities and a special state of mental readiness for the activity. In the conditions of the environment remains unchanged, stereotypes help people to solve problems quickly, and when the situation changes, stereotypes will prevent people from adopting new solutions. Psychological stereotypes is a particular activity of the state of readiness, it can make us engage in certain activities can be quite skillful, and even to achieve automation, can save a lot of time and energy; but at the same time, the existence of psychological stereotypes will also bind our thinking, so that we only use the conventional methods to solve the problem, and do not seek to use other ? Shortcuts? The first step is to make a breakthrough, which will also bring some negative impact on the problem solving.

Breakthrough thinking

Japan's Toshiba Electric Company around 1952 had a backlog of a large number of fans sold, more than 70,000 workers in order to open up sales, and thought hard about a number of ways, still little progress. One day, a junior staff member suggested to Ishizaka, the then president of the company, that he should change the color of the fans. At that time, all electric fans in the world were black, and Toshiba's fans were no exception. This junior staff member suggested changing the black color to a lighter color. This suggestion attracted the attention of Chairman Ishizaka. After studying it, the company adopted the suggestion. The following summer Toshiba launched a batch of light blue electric fans, which were so popular with customers that there was a rush to buy them on the market, and hundreds of thousands of units were sold within a few months. From then on, in Japan, as well as in the world, the fan is no longer a uniform black face.

This example is very instructive. Just change the color, a large backlog of stalled fans, within a few months, hundreds of thousands of units sold. This idea of changing the color, the benefit is so huge. And to come up with it, neither profound scientific and technological knowledge nor rich business experience is required. Why is it that the other tens of thousands of Toshiba employees did not think of it, did not come up with it? Why didn't any of the other tens of thousands of electrical companies in Japan and other countries think of it or come up with it before? This is obviously because electric fans have been black since the beginning of time. Although no one has stipulated that the electric fan must be black, and each other to follow suit, from generation to generation, gradually formed a practice, a tradition, it seems that the electric fan can only be black, not black is not an electric fan. Such practices, routines, traditions, reflected in people's minds, they form a psychological stereotypes, thinking stereotypes. The longer the time, this stereotype of people's innovative thinking, the stronger the binding force, to get rid of it, the more difficult to get rid of it, the more you need to make greater efforts. From the point of view of thinking method, the suggestion made by the junior employee of Toshiba Corporation is valuable in that he has broken through the "black fan" concept, which is the only color that can be painted on a fan. The fan can only be painted black? This stereotype of the boundaries of thinking.

Innovative thinking, we must be vigilant and get rid of the binding role of the stereotypes. Whether it is at the beginning of innovative thinking, or in some other part of it, when our thinking is in a predicament, it is often necessary to check whether it is some kind of thinking stereotypes tied hands and feet.