Chapter 5 Break out of the woods with creative thinking

People's creative thinking is the decisive force to change the world. Any kind of development and progress in history is related to this way of thinking full of positive energy. Its power is fierce enough to make everyone dumbfounded. Traditional thinking is replicative thinking, that is, when thinking about problems, it is based on similar problems encountered in the past.For ordinary people, when encountering a new problem, they often compare it with previous experience: How did the knowledge I learned before teach me to solve this problem?Then choose a method based on experience to solve the problem, and solve the problem along the determined direction.Because of the foundation of experience, we firmly believe in the reliability of this method, form a fixed trend, and are unwilling to explore other better methods.This way of thinking often leads to rigid thinking.If you always think according to the usual way of thinking, what you get will always be the original thing.So, think of what others dare not think of, you have already succeeded in half.In other words, only creative thinking can break through the dilemma.

Who is the best at using creative thinking to break out of a situation?That is creative excellence.When they encounter a problem, they often think: How many ways can they analyze and solve this problem?How to reflect on these methods?They will propose multiple ideas and implementation plans to solve a certain problem, and some methods are unique and unique.Nobel laureate Richard Feynman always has a new way of thinking when he encounters a problem.He believes that ignoring how previous thinkers think about problems, but creating new ways of thinking is the mystery of his genius. Creative talents are good at combining original thinking and thinking about problems from multiple perspectives. They are often easy to discover new perspectives that others have not covered.In addition, creative talents also have a special character, that is, they are good at comparing different objects together.Adept at making connections between things that don't seem to be connected, they also discover things that others don't see.At the same time, they also have a strong ability to think about problems from opposing perspectives.Physicist and philosopher David Bohm pointed out: "The reason why geniuses can put forward various opinions is that they can accommodate opposing views, or two mutually incompatible views." Bohr believed: " The entanglement of opposing ideas creates the conditions for an outpouring of new ideas” that can “enliven the intellect and create a new way of thinking”.

The Austrian novelist Franz Kafka, who lived only 41 years old, is the most influential figure in modernist literature.Although this explorer of modern art is short-lived, his immortal soul lives freely and unrestrainedly in his works.There are many reasons for his success, however, his awareness of "everyone lives within a fence" and the wild and unrestrained artistic way of thinking adopted to cross this "fence" cannot be ignored. It is one of the important reasons why he successfully won the "laurel crown placed on the highest place". From adolescence, it is really a valuable vigilance to be vigilant about being imprisoned in this "self-carried fence" and to get out of it in time.Innate unique creative freedom attitude, courage to forge ahead, never self-destructive, self-deprecating, brave to think independently in study and life, good at injecting creativity in daily life, proficient in independent innovation in professional life, it is precisely to be able to A clear sign of coming out of the "fence" of self-imprisonment.

The "fence" that forms the self-imprisonment of creativity usually has its internal reasons, which are caused by perceptual barriers to thinking, barriers to judgment, and inertial barriers to conventional thinking.Perception is a channel for receiving information. The field of perception and perception is narrow, the channel is naturally blocked, and creativity cannot be stimulated.This channel must be kept unobstructed in order to make the information flow abundant and diverse, and make it possible to obtain new information and new knowledge. Judgmental disorders mostly arise from psychological prejudices and conceptual deviations.To restore objectivity to judgment, it is first necessary to correct the mental vision so that it adopts an open attitude and pays attention to the characteristics of things themselves rather than being limited by inherent opinions or concepts.This is especially worthy of attention in today's era of rapid proliferation of new things and rapid increase of new knowledge.

The inertia of conventional thinking can also be called "fixed thinking", which is a state of thinking that everyone has.When it dominates normal life, it seems to have some kind of "habit becomes natural" convenience, so it's hard to say that its effect is not good at all; however, when facing innovative things, if it is still constrained by it, it will form Barriers to creativity.Paying attention to cultivating "questioning ability" and controlling the scope of influence of "fixed thinking" is the key to overcoming the negative effects of "fixed thinking".

It can be seen that in order to get out of the "fence" of self-imprisonment and free creativity, we must first free the state of thinking.On this basis, maintain an open and positive attitude towards daily life, maintain a level-eyed and equal attitude towards people and things in the innovative world, and maintain a mental state in which success or failure is the harvest and the process is the most important in creative activities. In this way, we will hope to form a psychological quality that is very beneficial to the creative career, and make possible various internal negative factors to be overcome in time.