Einstein attributed many of his great scientific discoveries to his imaginary games. He once fantasized that he rode a beam of light to the distant extreme of the universe and returned to the surface of the sun "illogically". This image made him realize that space may be curved. This great imaginary game gave birth to relativity and modern physics.
Similarly, Newton discovered gravity. He thought hard with his right brain and got inspiration from seeing apples fall from trees. The image of an apple falling from a tree, logically explained by language, is the famous "gravity".
We often say "seeking common ground while reserving differences". The function of the left brain is to seek similarity, while the right brain is to seek difference. The left brain thinks about problems as usual and makes decisions that are often similar to those of competitors. And thinking with the right brain, you can think of what others didn't expect and do what others can't.
According to the "zero profit principle", in competitive industries, the final result of competition is zero profit. Therefore, in order to get the maximum profit, we must first seize the opportunity and occupy the market. In the crazy years of the early gold rush in the western United States, young armel came to California with the dream of making a fortune. The harsh natural environment and social order, especially the lack of water, made Yamel suffer greatly.
When I heard people shouting "Whoever gives me a bucket of water, I will give him two gold coins", an idea flashed through the young man's mind. He dug a reservoir to draw water, filtered it with fine sand to make clean drinking water and then sold it. When many people who looked down on armel's "pursuit of petty profits" returned empty-handed, armel had earned 6,000 dollars, which laid the foundation for his future development.
Creative thinking, but also good at "forgetting" people are always used to seeing what others have done before, and it is inevitable to repeat the same mistakes. A Japanese entrepreneur asked a famous Zen master how to run a business. The child served tea, and the Zen master kept pouring tea into the cup, and the water flooded the table.
The entrepreneur was puzzled, and the Zen master explained: You are like this cup, and your mind is full of your own ideas. How can you listen to other people's opinions? Entrepreneurs suddenly realized that the enterprise had a great turn for the better if they consulted modestly. In daily work, we should make more use of the functions of right brain imagination and image thinking.
Some people work like worker bees, busy all day, but accomplish nothing. What is the reason? Actually, if you think about it seriously, the so-called busyness is mostly mechanical tedious work such as answering phones, doing statistics and actuarial subpoenas. These jobs are hard to bear fruit, which is the living state of modern office workers' left brain thinking.
If you want to work creatively, you must use your left brain and your right brain. The right brain is in charge of thinking in images, which is the base camp of imagination, and its role is irreplaceable. Therefore, before a job starts, there is no need to make an extremely perfect plan, and only the left brain can play a role blindly. Although the plan is detailed, it often lacks originality.
Before starting work, instead of trying to make a plan, we should try our best to grasp the overall image of the upcoming work, so that the work will be more efficient. You'd better think about the work you want to do in your mind. At this time, the right brain instead of the left brain is fully activated, and the imagination of the right brain is exerted, regardless of details and focusing on the overall situation, which can often get twice the result with half the effort.