A Digest of structured thinking

First, what is structured thinking?

1. Structured thinking can lead us to understand the nature of things from the whole.

2. The universe in which we exist, the world we live in, or we are a structure in itself, and any complete thing will have a structure of his own.

3. Our Organization is also structured, such as the team, business model, you find that ultimately these can be abstracted into a structure, complex is just a lot of structure overlay.

4. It is the most efficient way to think and solve problems within a structural context.

Man is a purposeful animal, so all our thoughts and thoughts ultimately point to a result. And this result can be split, generally this result can be split into three to seven points, divided argument can be split.

After the split, one thing will form a comprehensive logical system.

Structured thinking is a way of thinking about things according to this kind of splitting.

Image metaphor, like discovering or as a child we write argumentative text using "total-minute-total" way of writing.

The thinking principle of structured thinking includes these aspects:

1. Conclusion (or target)

2. Classification

3. Sorting

4.MECE principles (i.e., sorting results are independent and not duplicated and omitted)

1. Conclusion

In fact, you have to figure out what you're going to do to solve a problem.

For example, my goal today is to write an article about structured thinking, and the problem that product managers often have to solve is to implement a function.

Find our goal (conclusion) and start splitting it.

How do I split the points?

What is needed at this time may not be structured thinking, but divergent thinking, which revolves around the goal of brainstorm.

For example, in writing this article, my mind revolves around the structural thinking of a number of key words: What is structured thinking? What is the use of structured thinking? What is the difference between structured thinking and other thinking? How can we develop structured thinking? ......

When you pull these key nodes out, it's time to start classifying them.

2. Classification

Classification is a seemingly simple, but difficult process.

Because, under different standards, we have different classification of things, such as in my home, my parents and I can be classified according to generational, also can be classified according to sex.

How do we find the classification criteria?

On this issue, we still need to return to the "problem" we want to solve, for example, I write this article today to tell you the importance of structured thinking, then "structured thinking and other thinking what is the difference?" "It's not important for the point I'm going to discuss, and dividing it into" unimportant "parts is the sort we do.

It's important to categorize your goals around them.

3. Sorting

Remove the unimportant argument. I'm leaving now. "What is structured thinking?" What is the use of structured thinking? "," How can we develop structured thinking? "These three arguments.

On the surface, the relationship between these three arguments is parallel, but based on the human cognitive process is "what this is-what does it do for me-how do I get (master) This", so there is a progressive logical relationship between these three points, so I have to sort these arguments to be logical.

4.MECE principle

The mece principle follows an independent, completely exhausted approach to each other.

It is easier to understand, but it is very difficult to actually practice it.

Because the application of structured thinking is more inclined to our definition of things, it is very difficult to define the matter itself. We can't really define a thing in a perfect way.

A Digest of structured thinking