Thinking determines the way out, thinking is flexible and there are many ways out. If you are not good at flexible thinking, there will be no new ideas and it will be difficult to find a good way to do things. But with more brains and flexible thinking, we can find flexible ways to solve difficult problems.
Let's look at a short story:
It is said that in France, there was a famous soprano named Maddy Mesple. She has a beautiful private garden in the suburbs. On weekends, Dimpler will go to the garden for an outing with his family and friends, pick flowers and mushrooms, or set up a tent, and we will have a picnic together.
But in normal times, some residents around will also enter the garden to play, making the garden often a mess. In order to prevent outsiders from entering, the housekeeper let people fence around the garden and put up a "private garden, no entry" sign, but it didn't have any effect. People enter as usual, and the garden is constantly trampled and destroyed. In desperation, the housekeeper had to report to dimeple.
How did Dimpler do it? She asked the housekeeper to remove the no-entry sign and those fences to restore the original appearance of the garden as much as possible. Then, she put up big signs at various intersections, which read: If you are bitten by poisonous snakes and beasts in the garden, the nearest hospital is 15 kilometers away, and it takes about half an hour to drive.
Since then, few people have dared to enter Dimmespur's garden. The garden is still the same, but it has changed some thinking, from stopping to warning, and solved the problem of outsiders breaking in. This soprano named Di Mesple can be said to be very clever and powerful.
In fact, a truly powerful person is not only capable and talented, but also good at flexible thinking and will not be bound by inherent thinking. People who are inflexible and too self-disciplined have the following thinking defects.
First, seek the same sex. In other words, I like to find answers from known conditions, but I am not good at finding answers from various assumptions and unknowns.
Second, reproducibility. It's like copying, its thinking is just repeating what you have, not creating, which is not conducive to developing your creativity.
Third, boring. People who are inflexible are not active in thinking, narrow in field and lack of ability, and have a dependence and inertia of waiting for answers. When thinking about problems, they are often too superficial and too disciplined.
Fourth, it is illogical. If you don't talk about logic, you don't talk about science. When looking at problems, we don't pay attention to the concrete analysis of reality and logic, and often rely on some impressions, intuition, some secular concepts and human nature to replace meticulous and rigorous reasoning and judgment. This illogical thinking can only be rough, superficial, one-sided and drifting with the flow.
These defects will lead to a person's outdated concept, negative mentality and lack of vitality. As the French writer Dumas famously said, "The head is the worst prison." In other words, if you are inflexible and too self-disciplined, the biggest harm is to bind people's thinking and produce a negative attitude.
If you can't get out of the misunderstanding of your own thinking, it means that you are bound in the cage of thinking, so you can't look at the problem from a broader perspective and explore it in a more novel way. It is impossible to solve the problem flexibly and successfully.