Thinking about the quality of excellent thinking

Obviously, there are obvious differences in the level of people's thinking in society. And according to my observation, most people's thinking ability is hovering at a relatively junior level, and this situation does not because the person gets a high degree or work years of growth and automatic change, unless the reflection of their thinking ability to form a conscious consciousness.

In fact, staying at the primary level of thinking should be a comfortable thing, because you can accept the authority or the popular view without hesitation, but also can use the existing success cases to solve the problem you are facing, you can through limited information to quickly make judgments or even make predictions. It's like you're on a noisy tour bus, and you can sing in unison with you on this bus, and you can seeds and play cards. However, is the only you can not calm down to enjoy a classic and beautiful works.

In fact, the negative consequences of primary thinking will not be easily perceived, because in fact, most of the problems of life, study and work are not very complicated, as long as a little effort (or under the guidance of others) can be solved. However, as job responsibilities are promoted or other environmental conditions change, possible you will encounter some complex and new problems, and at this point, the experience will be ineffective, so others can not help you, at this time, you will feel that you are alone into a dark channel, There are storms and reefs all around you. The limits of the ability to think in bathrooms are highlighted. At this time, the ability to think is often a constraint on the further development of life is an important bottleneck.

Good thinking ability has some common traits. If you have a few experts around to think about, and then you pay attention to them, perhaps you will find that their thinking more or less embodies the following characteristics: Independent, comprehensive, rigorous, open, flexible, construction. These six I think is the quality of good thinking.

Independent。 Specific refers to insist on independent thinking, not blindly follow, with the habit of critical thinking and skills, when encountering new problems, the first independent attempt to solve the problem rather than seek external help. The importance of independent thinking stems from my personal experience: when I first started working, I always used the habit of doing scientific research in school--first look at the literature to see how other people analyze and then sum up on this basis--it turns out that all the literature I've found is not going to solve the problems I'm working on, and then I have a little frustration. This forced me to conceive a solution to the problem without any reference to the literature, through the thought experiment unceasing hypothesis and the test, finally discovers to the question the understanding to become unprecedented depth, finally really relies on own strength to solve the question clearly, this is I unexpectedly. Since then I have formed a problem to get the first of their own closed doors focusing and then find data-assisted analysis of the habit of validation, and even regret: if in the school of scientific research to understand the importance of independent thinking may really come out some good monitors.

Comprehensive。 Refers to the use of poor thinking, not missing the key factors, the discovery of hidden clues. The importance of thinking comprehensiveness is often overlooked. The fact is that the master of thought must be more diverse than ordinary people to think about the problem, to find more influence factors and the relationship between factors. Not only that, in some occupations and fields, the poor thinking is the basic quality of the profession. For example, an interaction designer must consider all the interaction scenarios that a user might encounter (including some relatively rare and extreme scenarios), and provide a personalized design for these scenarios and ensure the consistency of the experience. A smart stock investor usually analyzes all the macroscopic and microscopic factors that affect a stock's movements, determines the positive or negative effects of each factor on the stock price formation, and concludes with a comprehensive judgment. The mece principle of McKinsey's consulting firm (mutually Exclusive collectively exhaustive, "independent, complete exhaustion") is a world renowned. In contrast to comprehensive thinking, a naïve thinker usually focuses on only one aspect of the thing and ignores the others altogether.

Closely。 Concrete means to use logical thinking, can establish complex logic chain, can avoid common cognitive fallacy and logic trap, cautious cause and effect judgment. The human brain is an incomplete experience system, far from high quality logic thinking machine, so often produce some logic deviation, this in Liu Weipeng "Escape Your Shawshank" series of articles has been very good exposition. Rigorous thinking means that the pursuit of quick decisions is undesirable, and quick decisions tend to arise from the inertia of thought and specious assumptions that have been established by experience, but the experience and ideas that are not always applicable in the new situation. Although rivers and lakes have been popular "the World martial arts, but fast do not break" legend, but for a good thinker, sometimes calm down to slowly examine the material and reasoning process is very necessary.

Open。 Closure is the mortal enemy of wisdom. Good thinkers continue to absorb and accept new knowledge, arguments, and ideas, and even to contain facts and opinions that are contrary to their own ideas, and to constantly introspect and revise themselves. Openness and introspection are easy to say, but only a few can do, because it is about wisdom and mind. Often seen on Weibo some celebrities are criticized for the attitude of reasonable criticism, the performance of celebrities are different, some people die not to admit their mistakes, and even use PR companies to guide public opinion, and others frankly accept, bearing extraordinary. Which is the wise man at a glance. Once a thinker has an open mind and consciousness, he is basically in an invincible position, because no matter what his current level, he always has the opportunity to continuously progress, until the peak.

Elastic。 All things in the world are complex, not either or neither, nor casualgirlfriend, flexible thinking is only to follow the original law, but most people can not reach this realm. Elasticity is to tolerate uncertainty, to tolerate the chaos and ambiguity of stages and not to jump to conclusions, even if the point has been given to open a few points, so that it has a high degree of extensibility and mobility. People's emotional nature is not allowed to be uncertain, do not allow unresolved, so everyone often hesitate to make a hasty decision. And wise thinkers will tolerate these, leaving uncertainty and ambiguity for longer and deeper thinking, leaving richer and more powerful evidence for the future, and wise thinkers even allow two conflicting views to exist simultaneously in the brain, rather than prematurely excluding one of them. Because of this, flexible thinking offers the possibility of solving highly complex problems.

Construction。 Everyone is a natural critic, but not a builder, because construction is more difficult than criticism. But the good thinker not only knows the reasonable question, the timely negation, but also has the consciousness which seeks the better path. Constructive thinking is not only a kind of valuable thinking attitude but also a kind of valuable thinking ability. Because to criticize a thing, you can start at any point and rip open an arbitrary hole, but constructive thinking must focus on both the global and the detail to give a workable solution to the problem.

These six qualities are simple and complex, and no one can easily reach these standards, but only through long-term thinking. And once you arrive even just close, I believe that a new and unimaginable world will open for you.