House Demolition effect-do not reject tasks that you think are impossible to complete

House Demolition Effect

Mr. Lu Xun wrote in the "Silent China" article in 1927: "Chinese people always like reconciliation and compromise. For example, if you say this room is too dark, it is said that opening a skylight here is not allowed by everyone. But if you claim to tear down the roof, they will reconcile it and are willing to open the skylight ." This kind of first comes up with a large demand, and then comes up with a small and less demand, which is psychologically referred to as the "house demolition effect ".

This phenomenon seems similar to the "boarding threshold effect", which is also common in real life. An example is as follows: a student in the school leaves home after making a mistake and breaks down the class teacher. After a few days, the student returned safely, instead, the class teacher will not investigate the previous mistakes of the student too much. In fact, leaving home is equivalent to "House Demolition", which is the result that the class teacher cannot accept and does not want to happen again. The previous mistakes made by students are equivalent to "opening a skylight ", although it was unacceptable, it was acceptable to leave home. In fact, this is the house demolition effect, but it seems that students use better than teachers.

 

Psychological experiment

This effect was put forward in an experiment conducted in 1966 by the American social psychology scholar Friedman and forreiser. The experiment was like this: the experimenter asked the assistants to ask people to put a "careful driving" placard in front of the room. In the first residential area, the request was directly raised to people, and the result was rejected by many residents, accepting only 17% of those who were asked. In the second residential area, the residents are requested to sign a petition in favor of safe driving. This is a simple requirement, and almost all those who are asked to follow suit. A few weeks later, I asked them for a vertical card. The result recipients accounted for 55% of those who were asked.

 

Many difficulties are easily magnified in the human psychology. In addition, when a leader is assigned a very difficult task to accomplish, he may have used the "house demolition Effect". His requirements seem very high, but his psychological expectations are not high, such a task is a task with a low risk of responsibility.

Do not habitually say "I can't", do not arbitrarily guess the outcome at the very beginning of the incident, and make full efforts to solve the problem, so there will be more benefits than imagined.