What are some examples of innovative thinking?

Celebrity cases of innovative thinking

When Harry was fifteen or sixteen, he worked as a child laborer in a circus and was responsible for selling snacks in the circus. But not many people watch it every time, and even fewer people buy things to eat, especially drinks. One day, an idea came to Harry's mind: give everyone who bought tickets a bag of peanuts to attract the audience.

The boss doesn't agree with this absurd idea. Ha used his meager salary as a guarantee and begged the boss to let him try. Then, another voice came from outside the circus: Come to the circus, buy a ticket and send a pack of delicious peanuts! In Harry's constant shouting, the audience was several times more than usual.

After the audience entered, little Harry began to sell drinks. Most viewers will buy a cup when they feel thirsty after eating peanuts. After a circus, the turnover has increased ten times.

Celebrity cases of innovative thinking II

Huai He Bing Shang Lao Tie Niu

In A.D. 1066, during the period of Song Yingzong, China, the Yellow River flooded, which washed away a pontoon bridge outside Hezhongfu (now Yongji County, Shanxi Province) and washed eight iron oxen weighing 10000 Jin on both sides of the river into the river. After the flood recedes, in order to rebuild the pontoon bridge, it is necessary to salvage these eight iron cows.

This was an extremely difficult thing at that time, and the government posted a list of talents for this purpose. Later, a monk named Huai Bing unveiled the recruitment list. After some investigation and repeated thinking, Huai Bing commanded a group of boatmen to finally get all eight big iron cows ashore. Huai Bing suggested that on the day of salvage, he commanded a group of boatmen to fill two big ships with sediment and lean side by side. At the same time, a connection frame was built between the two ships.

After the boat rowed to the place where the iron cow sank, he let people dive underwater and tied the other end of the rope tied to the wooden frame firmly to the iron cow. Then the boatman tightened the rope on the wooden frame and threw the mud and sand in the boat into the river shovel by shovel. With the continuous decrease of sediment in the ship, the hull floats up bit by bit.

When the buoyancy of the ship exceeds the weight of the hull and the iron cow, the iron cow trapped in the sediment gradually floats up. At this time, through the rowing of the boat, it is easy to pull the iron cow to the river and pull it ashore. This was repeated eight times, and finally all eight big iron cows were salvaged ashore. The conception of Huai Bing's salvage scene uses the predictive imagination and innovative thinking method of image thinking.

Innovative thinking celebrity case 3

A generation of multi-purpose stroller

A manufacturer of children's products happened to see a parent holding a child in one hand and pushing a small tricycle in the other. He guessed that this was because the child was tired of riding a bicycle and wanted to be hugged by an adult. The manufacturer believes that if a multi-purpose stroller is designed, parents will not have to bear this burden.

He first conceived of combining a stroller with a tricycle and adding a push handle behind the tricycle. Later, he thought of adding a connecting device to hang the stroller on the bicycle as a maternal and child car; Then he thought of adding a swinging part to make an easy chair; And if you put a handle in front, you can also let your child ride as a wooden horse.

After the constant combination of these imaginations, he designed a unique multi-purpose stroller. According to the needs of understanding and transforming the objective world, people can make some existing things form new connections and form images of things that have never been seen or heard before through combined imagination. Combinatorial imaginative thinking plays a great role in people's innovative activities in all aspects.