For example, sometimes several people talk about the current hot news together, but when others ask you what you think, you suddenly find that you don't know how to answer because you don't have any ideas.
For example, when discussing a problem in a meeting, someone asks you with inquiring eyes if you have anything to add. But you thought about it, and finally you just said, no problem, I have nothing to add.
Or, please think about it. If you were a Chinese teacher, how would you explain a text to students? Or, if you are a news commentator, how do you explain a social hot news to the audience?
Some of us may have encountered these situations. In fact, one of the main reasons for this situation is that we have no ideas of our own at all.
If you don't think deeply about anything, even a little personal opinion can't be expressed completely and accurately at once. But it is such an ability that is indispensable in today's workplace.
Many people, once discussing things they are not familiar with, tend to be silent. However, in this fast-paced era, silence will only make you miss the opportunity. Only when you seize the opportunity, find out the key points of any topic and put forward your personal views immediately will others think you are a "thoughtful person".
In order to solve this pain point for most people, Takashi Saito, a master of Japanese enterprise education communication, compiled a book entitled How to Create Your Unique Viewpoint according to the thinking skills used by 17 high-performance people.
In this book, the author puts forward the way of "five-day short-term training" to train everyone to improve their independent thinking ability quickly in a short time. For example, write more book reviews to cultivate the feeling of thinking; Examine living habits and create a "thinking physique"; Read more books and find a basis for your own ideas ... After five days of training, you can put forward your own opinions or original opinions at any time and bid farewell to the embarrassment of "no opinion".
Nowadays, with the rapid development of society, the requirement for contemporary people is to have their own ideas. People stuck in thinking, such as conformity or obedience, can no longer adapt to the requirements of this era. Everyone should master the ability of fast learning, not to say that they must memorize the knowledge in this book, but to spread their thinking and have their own unique views on a thing.
We should keep a clear consciousness and ask ourselves to have and constantly improve the ability to improvise in the face of various situations. And to acquire this ability, you can also learn. How to learn specifically? The author of this book divides the process into five steps, and it only takes five days to learn the ability to express oneself naturally in the face of one thing.
According to the author's suggestion, on the first day of study, we learned to write comments on social networking sites.
For example, you can write book reviews or film reviews, and organize the movies or books you have seen into your own opinions and express them.
The objective comments written after shopping are also counted, and the comments written after eating in restaurants are also counted. After listening to the concert, you can also write your own comments …
You can also comment on hot news. You don't have to hit the nail on the head. It takes some skill. But after thinking for yourself, draw your own conclusions, regardless of right or wrong for the time being. it is quite easy to do so.
Many people stop in the comment area when browsing hot search every day. Sometimes the comment area is even more attractive than the news, and some popular comments are even more liked than the original posts. This is because some viewers are very good at writing good reviews.
If you find it difficult to express your opinion on something, then the author gives us a simple and easy practice method in the book. Is to let us follow the 28 rule.
How to follow it? We first briefly summarize the original facts with 80% of the space, and the remaining 20% is to contact our own life reality and supplement comments. This makes it much easier to start.
At the beginning, we don't need to be amazing. At first, we should keep practicing. Even if your comments are not good, your comments that are not good enough will not cause too much harm to yourself and others. On the contrary, it is more likely to be submerged in the vast amount of information on the Internet soon. So, you just need to practice and don't worry too much about writing well.
When many people watch movies, they will read other people's comments on Douban in advance. When we buy books, we will also refer to the Douban score. If the score is too low, many people may give up buying, and so will movies.
Therefore, good comments can bring reference to others and even change others.
When writing a review, you don't have to write the whole thing, just extract the part that you feel deeply. Only when you have a deep understanding of a certain point of view, a certain sentence and a certain small detail will your comments have a real feeling and leave a deep impression on people. Such comments are meaningful and valuable.
It should be noted that when commenting, you can first indicate your identity background, indicating that it is a small white or a senior big coffee. Comments should be as objective and fair as possible, well-founded, avoid emotional or deliberate slander, and avoid being too abstract and difficult to understand. At the same time, pay attention to more praise and less criticism. Even if you don't like it, you can just pick some comments or change to the next activity.
Exercise your thinking ability from writing comments.
Writing a review seems simple, but it is not easy to make people call it good. What matters is what you think.
When we input something, we must go through a stage of thinking before we output it.
So, what do you think specifically?
In class the next day, the author told us that we should be good at using thinking modes such as comparison, association, metaphor, framework and producer's point of view, or learn from the thinking modes created by great men.
Association and metaphor are ways of thinking that we began to learn when we were still in primary school. As we all know, sometimes we are unfamiliar with new things, and we can understand them quickly through metaphor or association.
Rational use of rhetoric helps us to express clearly.
If you have a picture in front of you and ask you to talk about your feelings about this picture, then you may say that this picture is very good, or this picture is not very good. Do you like it?
Most people, when faced with only one painting, don't feel too much. But if there are two paintings, put them together and you will know the height.
For example, people who also like baseball can use baseball as a metaphor in conversation. For example, someone praises you as the main pitcher, similar to the masses. In this way, the other party can understand.
You can also quote famous examples or famous sayings. It is all right to think dialectically or put forward opposing opinions.
Avoid labeling things when there is no conclusion.
If you make a good premise of "I want to make a comment on this matter" from the beginning, then you will observe things more carefully and attentively. Looking at it with questions will always make you more rewarding.
Keep an empty cup like a child, and develop the habit of overlooking the overall situation like a soldier. If you feel that you can't figure out the train of thought, you can stand in a higher place and look at the whole from God's perspective. I'm sure you will find something else.
In the third day of the course, this time we will learn how to re-examine our living habits and exercise our thinking physique.
We need to learn to let our minds think independently and process information in our own minds when facing a thing, instead of just inputting and then copying the output.
Usually, many of us finish reading a book, and after a while, others ask what is said in the book, and we can hardly say it.
This is the inflow of information without thinking and processing, just swallowed, and the brain did not think deeply, so it soon faded away.
To change this lifestyle. I always remind myself of what I think.
You still have to chew when you eat. How to receive information without digesting it first?
On the fourth day, the author told us to read more books to improve our quality and provide arguments for our topic.
If you want to make your point of view deep and thoughtful, you must have your own cultural literacy. How can I get it? Through reading, this is the best method left by predecessors. Reading can broaden our horizons and give us a broader vision.
In order to exercise our language ability, we can polish the style of words and learn to master more vocabulary by watching TV, listening to radio and reading magazines every day. When your vocabulary is bigger, you can express your thoughts more accurately. Try to relay what you hear to others, and tell others in your own language. If you can speak vividly, you have mastered the essence.
In a few words, you can see whether you have cultural literacy.
There is a more efficient way to deepen your thinking, and that is by reading bestsellers. Best-sellers have their own social attributes, and Weibo and popular TV dramas also have hot searches. Because everyone knows a little, it is more suitable for chatting and can express their ideas from the discussion.
Reading can improve the endurance of our brain, and reading for a long time can also make us think continuously.
On the fifth day, when we have learned all this, we can try to make a decision.
There is an ability called decision, which means that when faced with a thing, you should be able to make judgments and choices immediately. In the past, we always thought that decision makers should have rich metaphorical experience, but in fact, this ability can also be acquired through learning, not just rich experience.
Experienced people can make the right decision at the first reaction because they are already very familiar with that industry field. If you are not familiar with it, you can choose from all kinds of advantages and disadvantages we can think of, plus all kinds of expected situations. In the process of conversation, you can quickly clear your mind and make choices, decisions and decisions quickly.
Of course, all the theories we study are for putting them into action.
When you can think of your life experience from reading, then you can create a great little topic.
Speed reading is also a good exercise. I suggest reading a book within 30 minutes, then breaking it down into three important parts and telling it to others in my own language.
Can you really generate your own ideas immediately through the five-day learning steps divided in the book?
The key still lies in the individual.
Only by applying what I have learned can knowledge be used by me.