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What is linear thinking and non-linear thinking?

Linear thinking: linear thinking is a linear way of thinking, is to stay in the abstraction of things rather than the abstraction of the essence of things, and such abstraction as the starting point of knowledge, one-sided, linear, intuitive, direct way of thinking.

Non-linear thinking: "Non-linear thinking" can be understood as a way of thinking that is different from conventional linear thinking. It is likely that it will not follow the logical thinking, linear thinking way to go, there is some kind of intuitive meaning, is a kind of synthesis system without having to go through a lot of data, information analysis, if its output is not proportional to its input, it is non-linear.