It is said that reverse thinking can make people young. Everyone will go to next year, which will be one year older than this year, so this year is one year younger than next year. For the elderly, such reverse thinking can make people live younger and younger; For young people, they can cherish time and work harder.
In ancient China, there was a story about a mother who had two sons. The eldest son ran a cloth dyeing workshop and the younger son ran an umbrella business. Every day, the old mother is sad, afraid that the cloth dyed by her eldest son can't be dried when it rains; It's sunny and I'm afraid that no one will buy the umbrella made by my youngest son. A neighbor enlightened her and told her to think in reverse: on rainy days, the younger son's umbrella business is booming; On sunny days, the cloth dyed by the eldest son can be dried quickly. Reverse thinking makes the old mother smile and regain her vitality.
On the road of invention, reverse thinking is needed, which can create many unexpected miracles on earth.
The rotating shaft of the dehydration cylinder of the washing machine is soft, and the dehydration cylinder will stagger when it is gently pushed by hand. However, when the dehydration cylinder rotates at high speed, it is very stable and the dehydration effect is very good. In the original design, in order to solve the problem of vibration and noise caused by the dehydration cylinder, engineers and technicians thought many ways, first thickening the shaft, which was ineffective, and then adding a hard shaft, which was still ineffective. Finally, they came to a reverse thinking, abandoned hard and softened, and replaced hard shaft with soft shaft, which successfully solved the two major problems of trembling and noise. This is a typical example of creation and invention born of reverse thinking.
The traditional icebreaker crushes the ice by its own weight, so its head is made of high-hardness materials, and it is very cumbersome to turn, so this icebreaker is very afraid of the flowing water drifting sideways. Scientists in the former Soviet Union used reverse thinking to push the ice up instead of down, that is, let the icebreaker dive into the water and break the ice up from under the ice by buoyancy. The new icebreaker is designed very skillfully, which not only saves a lot of raw materials, but also does not need much power, and its own safety is greatly improved. When encountering a thick ice layer, the icebreaker moves up and down like a dolphin, and the ice breaking effect is very good. This kind of icebreaker is known as "the most promising icebreaker in this century".
The "two-way rotating generator" invented by Chinese inventor Su Weixing was born in 1994, and won the gold medal of China Hi-tech Cup in August of the same year, which attracted the attention of the TIPS organization of the United Nations. In 1996, a large Danish company tried to buy out its patent for 3 million yuan, which shows the great value of its invention. When it comes to the invention of "two-way rotating generator", it should also be attributed to reverse thinking. Looking through the scientific and technological literature at home and abroad, the generator has a stator and a rotor, and the stator does not move and the rotor rotates. The stator of the "two-way rotating generator" invented by Su Satellite also rotates, and the power generation efficiency is four times higher than that of ordinary generators. Su Weixing said, I'll think backwards and make the stator "rotate" too. This is the thinking basis of his invention, and it is also a great contribution to his invention.
Japan is an economic power, but it is also a resource-poor country, so they advocate thrift very much. When copiers gobble up a lot of paper, they use both sides of a piece of white paper, one for the top and two for the bottom, saving half. Not satisfied with this, Ricoh scientists in Japan invented an "anti-copier" through reverse thinking. After the copied paper passed through it, the pictures and texts on it disappeared. Restore it to a blank sheet of paper. In this way, a blank sheet of paper can be reused many times, which not only creates wealth and saves resources, but also enables people to establish new values: thrift is important, and innovation is more valuable.
in the mid-196s, Iacocca, who was then the deputy general manager of a Ford branch, was looking for ways to improve the company's performance. He believes that the panacea to achieve this goal lies in launching a new type of car with bold design and wide public interest. After determining that the customer is the one who ultimately decides success or failure, he began to draw a strategic blueprint. The following is how Iacocca starts with the customer and goes back to the steps of designing a new car: the only way for customers to buy a car is to test drive. In order for potential customers to test drive, they must put the car into the showroom of the car dealer. The way to attract dealers is to carry out large-scale and attractive commercial promotion of new cars, so that dealers themselves are enthusiastic about new models. To be practical, he must make a car and send it to the dealer's showroom before the marketing activity begins. In order to achieve this goal, he needs 1% support from the company's marketing and production departments. At the same time, he also realized that the manufacturers, manpower, equipment and raw materials needed to produce car models have to be decided by the company's senior executives. Iacocca determined the list of people who had to ask for permission in order to achieve the goal, and then reversed the whole process and pushed forward from the beginning. A few months later, Iacocca's new car, Mustang, was produced from the assembly line and was all the rage in the 196s. Its success also made Iacocca become the vice president of the whole car and truck group at Ford.
Reverse thinking has not only played an unexpected role in modern life. During the war, there was a Xiaoba Road, which used reverse thinking to successfully break through the enemy's checkpoints and sent important information to its destination. The thing is this: During the eight-year period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, once the enemy surrounded a village and prevented anyone from going out, and sent a puppet army to guard the village's only access to the outside world-a small bridge. It happened that the village had an important information to report to the leaders of the Eighth Route Army outside the village. How can we send the information smoothly and safely under such tight guard? A small eighth road in the village bravely undertook this task. At dusk, under the cover of darkness, the small eighth road quietly came to the reed field next to the small bridge and hid. He carefully observed what happened on the small bridge. He noticed that the enemy who was guarding the checkpoint dozed off. Whenever anyone came from outside the village, he always said without looking up, go back, go back and not let in the village. So many times, Xiao eighth road felt better. Quietly approached and got on the small bridge. Just before the enemy looked up and spoke, he suddenly turned and walked in the direction of the village, and deliberately made the footsteps loud. After the enemy heard it, he still said without looking up, go back, go back, and the village was not allowed to enter. As a result, Xiaoba Road successfully passed the customs and sent out the information safely, which made great contributions to the victory of the troops. Isn't this also the result of successful application of reverse thinking? This shows how important it is to learn and use reverse thinking flexibly!