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God’s Thoughts

The Bible says: Love your neighbor as yourself.

Love others as much as you love yourself, because when you help others, you will ultimately benefit.

This is classic God thinking.

Just like the fable "The Blind Man Takes a Lantern" says:

In the dark night, a blind man who goes out with a lantern has never been knocked down by anyone else.

Because this lamp illuminates the path under others' feet, and also allows others to notice themselves walking forward in the darkness.

Zhou Guoping wrote in "Life Is Not Contested":

"If you are a kind person and you receive kindness and help from others, a natural feeling will arise in your heart. This emotion is called gratitude. ”

Love flows, and giving to others will eventually benefit yourself.

Everyone has a rainy day when there is no umbrella. If you hold an umbrella for others, when the rain falls on you in the future, someone will hold an umbrella for you.

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Sima Guang’s Thoughts

Sima Guang’s smashing of a vat is a story we are all familiar with.

Back then, little Sima Guang had an idea and smashed the vat to save people.

In fact, what he smashed was not just an ordinary water tank, but more importantly, he broke an inertial thinking pattern.

This is the essence of Sima Guang’s thinking.

There is a famous experiment in biology.

The dace is the natural enemy of the minnow. Biologists put the two in the same glass container, separated by a glass plate.

At first, the dace rushed towards the minnow very excitedly, but was blocked by the glass plate time and time again. Finally, the dace gave out.

Even if biologists remove the middle baffle and the minnows get close to the dace, the dace will not attack.

The final result of the experiment was that the weak minnows survived safely because of the specially provided feed, while the originally strong minnows had already rolled up their bellies and floated on the water.

Einstein once said: "Problems at a certain level are difficult to solve by thinking at this level."

Real masters have game-breaking thinking.

03

Thoughts of Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu said: If you know the enemy well, you can fight a hundred battles without danger.

If you want to defeat your opponent, you must first understand your opponent.

We all know that in the Women's Volleyball World Cup that just passed, the Chinese Women's Volleyball Team won 11 consecutive victories and successfully won the championship.

However, few people have truly understood the real reason for the Chinese women's volleyball team's consecutive victories.

CCTV had a behind-the-scenes interview with the Chinese women's volleyball team. We learned a detail from the women's volleyball team member Yuan Xinyue.

No matter how hard our women's volleyball players compete and train, Lang Ping will take the entire team to carefully analyze every team they face.

They will even ask questions on the spot, demanding every opponent's players' habits and batting routes.

The philosopher Gracian said:

“A wise man gets more from his enemies than a fool gets from his friends.”

Competitors are not only a wall in front of you and me, but also a mirror that allows us to reflect on ourselves and grow rapidly.

04

Napoleon's Thoughts

Napoleon said: In my dictionary, there is no such word as "impossible".

The core of his thinking is: under any circumstances, not to be interfered by the outside world and always maintain his own opinions.

I saw someone asking on Zhihu: "How terrible is it for people to have no independent opinions?"

A netizen replied: "Those who have no independent opinions are not life at all. They are just puppets."

I know a colleague who has a high execution ability, but when faced with the problem of independent decision-making, he starts to look forward and backward, worrying about gains and losses.

Then he will constantly ask for the opinions of people around him, and sometimes even harass the supervisors and leaders endlessly.

So much so that after staying in the company for five full years and achieving good performance, he was still an ordinary employee at the lowest level.

Chen Yinke said: People must have "an independent spirit and a free mind."

Because people who have no independent opinions cannot think or act, and it is difficult to achieve anything.

05

Alexander’s Thought

Alexander the Great had a famous saying: If the mountain does not come to me, I will go to it.

This is a kind of domineering, but also a commendable way of thinking: those who achieve great things will never be bound by old habits.

There is a famous battle in Chinese history: the Battle of Hongshui.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Song Xianggong and Chu Chengwang fought.

The Chu army was crossing the Hongshui River. Prince Mu Yi suggested that Song Xianggong attack them halfway across the river.

However, Song Xianggong insisted on the old etiquette of ancient warfare and did not take the initiative to attack the enemy who had not yet formed a formation.

As we all know, Song Xianggong was not only defeated, but also died of a leg injury.

"The Biography of Lu Zhi in the Old Book of Tang Dynasty" said: "Things are cheap and do not stick to the usual rules; the plans are strange and cunning, and they do not favor public opinion."

Understand the changes in things, Only by not sticking to old rules and rigid dogma can you achieve your goals and let your dreams shine.

06

Columbian Thoughts

Columbus was one of the greatest discoverers in the Age of Discovery. When he returned to Spain from the American continent, he was sought after by all the people. At that time, many nobles were disapproving of his success.

At a banquet held by the royal family, someone pointed at a hard-boiled egg and challenged him on the spot:

"Can you make this egg stand up?"

The meeting was very awkward. Everyone thought it was impossible to make the oval egg stand upright, just like they couldn't believe that Columbus would discover the New World.

But Columbus calmly took the egg from the man, and without saying a word, he knocked it on the table, and the egg stood firmly on the table.

The most valuable aspect of Columbus’s thinking is to dare to think and act without breaking or establishing.

If you don’t see the sea, you don’t know its width; if you don’t go into the sea, you don’t know its depth.

As long as you dare to think about anything, there will always be a way; as long as you dare to go anywhere, there will always be a way.

07

Lagonian Thoughts

Lagonia was a kingdom in ancient Greece.

In the fourth century AD, the invincible King Philip II of Macedonia invaded the kingdom and sent a letter to the besieged King of Laconia, threatening:

lf we capture your city, we will burn it to the ground.

If we capture your city, we will burn it to the ground.

Not long after, Philip II received a reply. There was only one word in it:

If. (If)

Only one word, sonorous A powerful expression of the determination and courage of the Laconians.

Small words and great meaning, hit the nail on the head.

Anyone who reaches this thinking mode will be called "Lagonian thinking" by later generations.

Design master Kenya Hara has a saying: "The more expressions we use to describe something, the harder it is for us to be accurate."

The masters compete with each other, and the most powerful is There is no trick to win without a trick.

Using the most concise form to express the richest content is a state, and it is also a kind of wisdom.

08

Occam’s thinking

The logician Occam William once proposed a famous law: Occam’s razor principle.

It advocates abandoning all complicated appearances and getting straight to the essence of the problem.

I have read a biography of the famous American educationist John Dewey.

That year, Dewey was still in elementary school, and there were a lot of mosquitoes in the summer class.

The teacher organized everyone to kill mosquitoes, using mosquito nets, mosquito swatters, and mosquito sprays... After the battle, the number of mosquitoes did not decrease.

Only Dewey brought a sickle and silently cleared away a patch of weeds behind the classroom. Soon after, the mosquitoes miraculously disappeared.

It turns out that through careful observation, he discovered that weeds are the source and hiding place of mosquitoes. Only by clearing away the weeds can mosquitoes be completely eliminated.

Schopenhauer said: "A wise person is one who will not be deceived by superficial phenomena. He even foresees the direction in which things will change."

Only Only by seeing the essence of things and finding the root of the problem can we solve the problem thoroughly and effectively.

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Fermi’s thinking

When Fermi, the father of modern nuclear physics, was teaching at the University of Chicago, he once proposed a way of thinking for dealing with difficult problems:

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When faced with a big goal, you must be good at breaking it down into several sub-level goals. When we start with this, we will quickly reach the sub-level goals.

In this way, you will not be far from your big goal.

Yamada Motoichi, who has won the World Marathon Invitational Championship twice, once said the secret of his victory:

Before every race, I have to take a car to carefully map the race route. Read it once and draw down the more eye-catching signs along the way. For example, the first logo is a bank, the second logo is a big tree, the third logo is a red house, and so on until the end of the race. After the game started, I sprinted towards the first goal at a sprint speed of 100 meters. When I reached the first goal, I rushed towards the second goal at the same speed. The more than 40-kilometer race was broken down into several small goals and I finished it easily.

The essence of things is actually very simple. Only by simplifying the complex can we achieve the results we want faster.

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Rockefeller's Thought

The famous American industrialist Rockefeller once said: "I do not live by luck given by God, but I thrive by planning luck."

From a small town youth from a poor family to one of the world's top tycoons, he summed up his life in two words: initiative.

In "38 Letters to His Son", Rockefeller wrote:

"Experience tells me that bold and proactive people can complete the best deals and attract others. With the support of others, it is difficult for those who are timid and hesitant to reap such benefits.

Confident people hope to succeed, and they will actively design everything in line with their own expectations. Plan to pursue success. ”

Always take the initiative, take advantage of everything, and maximize benefits at the minimum cost. This is the gist of Rockefeller's thinking.

Passive people wait for others to pick everything up.

Those who take the initiative will earn a domineering and prosperous life.