Inertia thinking is manifested in everyone. People's way of thinking and behavior habits are deeply influenced and restricted by social factors. Inertia thinking has become a natural habit of thinking because there is a "model base" in people's brain, which stores all the thinking judgment models of a person from birth, and an extremely important parameter will be used when judging things, that is similarity. When an event happens in front of us, people will match the current things with the existing model base one by one, and extract the one with the greatest similarity as the analysis basis.
Previously formed knowledge, experience and habits will make people form a fixed tendency of cognition, thus affecting later analysis and judgment, forming a "mindset", that is, thinking can never get rid of the shackles of the existing "framework", which is manifested as negative inertia thinking. Like most other forms of mechanical reactions, inertial thinking is also a shortcut for us to cope with the busy modern life.
Once we have made a decision on something, it becomes very attractive for us to stick to it stubbornly, because we really don't need to think about it anymore. We don't have to distinguish the relevant facts from the large amount of information we get every day, nor do we have to rack our brains to weigh the pros and cons, let alone make any difficult decisions.
Inertial thinking refers to people habitually thinking according to previous thinking, as if the inertia of object movement. Because of this inertia, people are prone to "blind spots" when thinking about problems. For example, how high will a piece of paper with 0. 1mm be folded 5 1 time? Is it as high as a bench or a building, or as high as Mount Everest? The answer is more than the farthest distance between the sun and the earth 1 100 million kilometers. The answer is surprising, but what is even more surprising is that some people are puzzled by the correct answer! This is the terrible power of inertial thinking in real life.
The power of inertia is sometimes incredible: the design of the most advanced railway transportation system in the world today actually depends on the hip width of two war horses two thousand years ago. The standard distance between two tracks of American railway is 4.85 feet. Why is this peculiar standard? It turns out that the earliest American railways were designed and built by the British, while the British railways were designed by people who built trams. But the earliest people who built trams were used to build carriages. They habitually moved the wheel width of carriages to trams. According to the survey, the rutting width of the old roads in England was formed by Roman chariots, and the wheel width of Roman chariots was just the butt width of two horses pulling chariots.
Wu Ruoquan, a writer in Taiwan Province Province, has a very intriguing saying: "The poor wear diamonds, and people think it is glass; The rich wear glass, and people think it is a diamond. " It is precisely because of the influence of inertial thinking that we don't realize that things have variation, so there is a tragedy that happened to Mathilde, the hero of Mo Bosang's novel The Necklace. Empiricism is the expression of inertial thinking, and it is the shackle that imprisons innovation. Behavioral psychology tells us that only about 5% of a person's behavior in a day is non-habitual. If we attach importance to military training, engage in logistics support, develop weapons and equipment, and pursue the so-called "empiricism", we will definitely hold meetings, issue papers, and attend working groups; As soon as it is implemented, it will be inspected and appraised, and a site meeting will be held. And the result must be "wearing new shoes and taking the old road, taking an anti-scientific detour"!
Inertia thinking is the "natural enemy" of innovative thinking, but it is not an unbreakable "curse". Newton was the founder of physics. Newton's law has always been regarded as an unchangeable truth in physics, and no one has ever doubted it. However, China scientists Li Zhengdao and Yang Zhenning boldly sublated and put forward the parity non-conservation theorem, thus winning the Nobel Prize in Physics from 65438 to 0956. They dare to challenge authority and say "no" to inertial thinking, so they have achieved success that ordinary people can't reach.
Throughout the history of the development of human science, some adventurers who became monks halfway broke into new scientific fields and brought unexpected breakthroughs. Enders, a real estate agent, discovered a simple way to cultivate polio virus in test tubes, Morse, a painter, invented the telegraph, and Galileo was a doctor when he discovered the principle of pendulum facts. They can "miss the target" because they are less influenced by habitual thinking!
"Asking a question is often more important than solving a problem, because solving a problem may only be a mathematical or experimental skill, while asking new questions and new possibilities and looking at old problems from a new perspective requires creativity and imagination." Einstein's famous saying shows that the essence of innovative thinking is to break through the self, break the routine and resolutely say "no" to inertial thinking.
Inertia thinking is the product of biological evolution, which is of great significance for us to adapt to the environment. Inertia thinking is a psychological mechanism to save psychological resources in order to deal with common problems and affairs efficiently and automatically.
However, for new problems and new things, if we still rely on the inertia thinking of the past, we will often waste psychological resources and even fail to solve the problems. In this case, it is necessary to break through the old framework of inertia thinking and "find another way" between old concepts and new concepts to solve new problems and understand new things. This process is also a process of "innovative thinking".
So how can we break through the barriers of inertial thinking? There are many ways to use:
One plus one.
In the face of new things or problems, there is a way to break through the inertia thinking, that is, to see if adding something to the original solution will be effective. For example, when traveling, the suitcase is always portable at first, and it doesn't matter if there are fewer things, but if there are more things, especially books or drinks, the suitcase will become very heavy, and men with great strength will have to work hard, let alone delicate women. However, if we can put some wheels under the box and change "lifting the box" to "dragging the box", it will be much easier. The big box is easier to drag, and the smaller box can only be dragged around the waist. You might as well recite it directly. What should I do? Add a telescopic rod to the box and the problem will be solved.
Negative one.
Contrary to one plus one, sometimes it is necessary to subtract something from the original plan to solve new problems. For example, Intel's CPU, whether it was Pentium in those days or Core now, is facing the situation that the cost is too high, the price is too high, and the low-end market is eroded by competitors. Later, the marketing department reflected the problem to the technical department. Engineers in the technical department reduced the process difficulty and production cost by reducing the number of secondary caches integrated on the silicon board, making this "simplified" version of cheap processors quickly occupy the low-end market. I believe all of you here must know that this is the Celeron series processor.
change
Learn from other things, change some aspects of the existing methods, and find solutions. For example, if the wheel-rail technology is always used in high-speed trains, the maximum speed will be affected by wheel-rail friction, and it will not exceed 400 km/h. Engineers and technicians are inspired by airplanes to let the trains "fly" on the tracks, leaving only air resistance. In theory, the highest speed can be comparable to that of an airplane. Inspired by the characteristics that magnets repel each other, scientific and technical personnel make the train "float" on the track through electromagnetic action, and solve the problem of making the train "fly" with relatively mature and cheap technology, so the speed of the maglev train in Shanghai can easily reach 450 km/h, and the maglev train is a kind of train driven by magnetic levitation force (that is, magnetic attraction and repulsion). Because of the magnetic force of its orbit, it is suspended in the air and does not need to touch the ground when walking, so its resistance is only the resistance of air. The maximum speed of maglev train can reach more than 500 kilometers per hour, which is faster than the 300-kilometer wheel-rail high-speed rail. The research of magnetic levitation technology originated in Germany. As early as 1922, German engineer Herman Qiangsuo put forward the principle of electromagnetic levitation, and applied for the patent of maglev train in 1934. /kloc-after the 1970s, with the continuous strengthening of the economic strength of the industrialized countries in the world, developed countries such as Germany and Japan began to plan to develop magnetic levitation transportation systems in order to improve their transportation capacity to meet the needs of their own economic development.