This is a terrible way, if you ask me. A giant elephant can easily lift its feet, pull out a stake and walk away. But the elephant didn't do it. Why?
It turned out that this elephant was locked here by the same ring, chain and stake before it became an adult. If the elephant wants to escape, then this restriction is enough to keep the elephant in place. Of course, elephants always want to break free from chains.
Therefore, the locked elephant keeps pulling the chain every day until it makes a wound on its leg, exposing those sensitive and delicate dermal tissues, which hurts when touched. Soon the elephant realized that all these efforts were futile and painful, so he gave up the plan to escape.
Elephants never forget.
When the baby elephant grows up slowly, it will firmly remember the pain it experienced because of chains and stakes. So whenever it is locked on a stake, it will think, "Oh, I can't get free, it will hurt."
This adult elephant has what I call a "mindset". We all have the same problem, but to different degrees. We all have the ability to be excellent people. But maybe at some stage in our life, we worked hard at our study or work, but got a poor score. Or we have tried to communicate with others through writing, but we have achieved very bad results. In the process of our growing up, the feeling of being hurt, the feeling of incompetence, and the wrong information from teachers or friends are always in our subconscious, and whether we admit it or not, they have a far-reaching impact on us.
If you understand this kind of injury and some restrictions we impose on yourself, then you can better break this mindset, become whatever you want to be and accomplish whatever you want.
The best example is the following nine-point connection problem. The rules of this puzzle are simple. You must connect all the points in series with one stroke and four continuous straight lines. Simply put, all lines must be connected.
Many people who want to solve this problem have made a fatal mistake. Quite simply, they don't realize their subconscious self-limitation. The answer is as follows:
As you can see, you are trapped in a box surrounded by dots and don't look outside the box for answers. Admittedly, in order to solve this very important problem, you must go out of the field of the problem itself and seek the answer.
Three business cases about mentality in history:
1, "No one will leave a computer at home!" Ken olsen said this in 1977. He is the chairman, president and founder of American digital equipment company.
2. "The weight of computers in the future may not exceed 1.5 tons." This sentence was mentioned by Popular Mechanics magazine when 1949 predicted that science would advance rapidly without mercy.
3. "This concept is very interesting and well organized. But what if you want to compare? c？ For better grades, this idea must be feasible. " This is what a management professor at Yale University said when evaluating Fred Smith's paper, in which Smith proposed a reliable overnight delivery service. Later, Smith founded FedEx.
Never knew.
There are many examples of thinking patterns, but my point of view is actually very simple. You may never know what works and what doesn't. If you believe in your ideas, go ahead and jump out of those stereotypes.
This concept is also applicable to proposing market solutions. When you are thinking about a problem or seeking a solution, don't rule out any possibility. Sometimes, if you walk out of those traps that we can easily step into, those beautiful ideas will come to you. Think about edward de bono's definition of lateral thinking, which is the opposite of thinking mode to some extent. Come out of the problem and think about some possible situations that have nothing to do with the problem itself. You will be surprised to find that finding a solution is so simple.
When you finish reading this article, please remember the elephant problem and the nine-point connection to break those stereotypes.