What are your thoughts on "Resolving Puzzles--Mental Model Determines Your Life"
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If someone asks you "What is life?" For what?" How would you answer? Some people would say it is for dreams, some people would say it is to make money and live a good life, and some people would say it is to gain a higher social status. The author Schumacher's answer is very different. He believes that people spend every day solving problems, and we live to solve all kinds of problems, large and small, that we encounter in life.
Whether you are living for your dreams, working hard to make money and live a good life, or struggling to gain a higher social status, you will all experience one thing in common, which is constant failure. It is also the meaning of life to effectively solve various problems that prevent us from achieving our goals.
The problems people encounter are generally divided into two categories. One type of problems is convergence problems, and the other type of problems is divergence problems.
What is a convergence problem? Simply put, it is a question that can find an answer. Even if it seems to have thousands of ways, it will still end up with the same solution.
For example, we buy furniture after renovating the house. Although the decoration styles are different, there are European, Chinese, pastoral, etc. But whether Easterners or Westerners buy furniture, what they end up buying are nothing more than similar finished products such as wardrobes, beds, dressing tables, dining tables, etc.
So what is a divergent problem? In contrast to solutions to convergent problems, divergent problems refer to those for which there is no standard answer.
For example, when it comes to educating children, some parents will be very strict with their children. They believe that filial sons emerge from under the stick. If they do not let their children learn the seventy-two changes now, it will be difficult for their children to cope with the ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties in the future. Some parents feel that they should give their children enough love and freedom, and wait for the flowers to bloom without interfering with their growth rate.
But in fact, some children who are treated harshly by their parents fail to grow according to their own laws of existence. They will only obey and develop a rebellious mentality over time, and the consequences will be even worse.
Other children who are left alone lack self-discipline, and their parents have also lost their authority, which is likely to be a greater disaster for the children.
Which parent’s education method do you think is more preferable? It is not difficult to see that none of them are absolutely correct answers. If we try to formulate a standard answer to solve this kind of problem, we will only make more mistakes in the end. This is a divergent problem. The more we consider, the more problems it will bring. The more.
The most effective tool in solving divergent problems is to raise our awareness to another level. Whether at work or in life, people will have anxiety, pain or troubles. Don't think that you can conquer them with logic. Try to jump to another level to look at these problems. Only then will you find the solution. Possibility of solving this puzzle.
For people, what is good and what is bad depends entirely on our level of consciousness, that is, where our beliefs stop.
Life is a dojo, and life is a process of continuous cultivation. Only by insisting on looking at ourselves, others and external things from a developmental perspective, thinking more and summarizing based on reality, constantly broadening our horizons, and facing the world positively can we achieve the unity of knowledge and action, and finally break through the shackles of ourselves and complete our lives. meaning.
Friday, August 20, 2021