How to change your mindset

A person's mindset and outlook on life and values are determined by his or her learning as well as the environment in which he or she grew up. The same do a thing, different people do, there will be different results. This is due to the difference in thinking patterns.

The British Library has built a beautiful new building and is ready to move there as a whole. But you know, how heavy are the books, and so many, moving is a very big workload. Some people estimate that it will cost 3.5 million dollars to do this, which is a lot of money.

If you were the curator, how could you move the huge number of books to the new building with as little money as possible? Hire cheaper people? Mobilize all employees and their families? Require the builders of the new building to take on this obligation?

It may be difficult to find a better solution to the "moving books" mindset.

What would the best of the best do? A young man said to the curator: I'll help you move it for 1.5 million dollars.

The young man put a message in the newspaper: "From now on, the British Library will lend books to the public free of charge and unlimited, on condition that they are borrowed from the old library and returned to the new library. ......"

The young man started from The young man from the "move the book" mode of thinking, converted to "return the book" mode of thinking, the result spent less than a fraction of the completion of this seemingly impossible task, he also became a millionaire.

You see, the same thing, thinking mode different people do, the effect will be very different.

Microsoft has a period of time lunch and dinner quality problems have been plagued by management, the company promotes a system of no overtime, so the number of people who eat lunch is generally more than dinner, after all, not everyone has to work overtime in the evening, so the supplier who does lunch is more profitable.

Only sometimes, lunch is done badly ...... what to do? Send someone to talk to him about not cutting corners and keep an eye on him to make it right? Change the chef every so often? Ask them to update the recipes? These methods, Microsoft are useless. Microsoft came up with a system:

1. Select 2 suppliers, one to provide lunch, the other to provide dinner;

2. Every 3 months to do a satisfaction survey, is like lunch or dinner?

3. If more people prefer dinner, switch lunch and dinner providers;

4. If lunch wins for 6 months in a row, switch dinner providers.

Since the system began, suppliers who said they were "already doing a good job" and that "changing flavors would cost a lot more" ......

have quickly been able to offer more food than they did before. p> were soon able to provide much better service than they had been. Employee satisfaction is also much higher.

< p> This is what the top good people come up with. When faced with this problem, the mindset of the average person is to ask the supplier to improve, and if it doesn't work I'll replace you.

And the top good people, their mode of thinking is to introduce competition, let competition instead of manual labor, to monitor the supplier, to provide better service.

Well, with all these examples, how do we become, or at least get close to, the top excellence people?

How can we be like them and solve problems in four different ways?

You need to shift your thinking. A mindset shift is changing the way you understand the world.

If we only want smaller changes, it's fine to focus on our attitudes and behaviors, like emptying the glass.

But if you want to make a substantial change, then you need a "mind shift", maybe even a change of cup.

How? I'll give you two suggestions.

The first suggestion: read more, make more friends, and travel more.

Every book is a set of "thought patterns".

The more books you read, the more you will understand different modes of thinking, and the more you will be able to turn on the switch of your "thinking".

Every person is a set of "thought patterns".

The more people you meet, the more you will understand the limitations of your own "mindset". It is advisable to exercise yourself at every opportunity to chat, eat or socialize with people.

Traveling, too, can be a huge help.

To flip the switch, you need to read a lot, travel a lot, and meet a lot of people.

The second piece of advice: Put yourself in someone else's shoes.

Every argument is a great opportunity to practice "mind shifting".

Try to convince yourself of the other person's point of view. In other words: put yourself in someone else's shoes.

Zhang Weijun is China's first private board coach.

On one occasion, he was invited to moderate an entrepreneurial debate.

These entrepreneurs, who usually have one voice in their own companies, that who can convince who, the more they debated, the more agitated they got, and I think there was almost a fight.

Zhang Weijun called a halt to the debate and said: the next link is, exchange of views, the debate continues. The next part is to exchange views, the debate continues.

After a slight pause, everyone was again on the verge of a war of words, and began to help each other to justify themselves.

This was a profound lesson for the hundreds of entrepreneurs present.

Put yourself in someone else's shoes, and you realize that what you used to defend was your own point of view, or just your own dignity.

Sometimes, what is wrong with your failure to understand the world, may not be the world. What is wrong, is your mode of thinking to understand the world.

Ordinary people change the result, good people change the cause, and the top good people change the model.

I hope we can all become that, in our minds, top excellent person.

A person's mind forms stereotypes, which is a sign of habit.

So how do you shift your mindset?

It is impossible to change the way of thinking overnight, only gradual change, in life, always remind yourself, and people in contact with the time to carefully observe how other people are thinking about the problem, good to note down. Only slowly form a new habit, the way of thinking will also be slowly formed.