Brainstorming is an idiom of China, which originated from Zhuge Liang's book Joining the Army as a Teacher and Teaching a Strategist. The word formation of this idiom is combined; Be a predicate, attribute and adverbial in a sentence. Allusion: Liu Bei, the master of Shu, died. Before he died, he entrusted all military affairs to Prime Minister Zhuge Liang. In order to fulfill his promise to the former teacher, Zhuge Liang tried his best to help the former teacher Liu Chan.
At that time, there was a master book named Yang Qing in the prime minister's home, which was responsible for handling paperwork. When he saw that Zhuge Liang had to ask himself everything, he felt too hard and wanted to persuade him to change his working methods. Yang Qing said to Zhuge Liang: "When dealing with national military and political affairs, the higher and lower levels should have different division of labor, and there is no need to do everything by themselves."
Later, Yang Qing cited some famous examples in history, and advised Zhuge Liang to change his working methods, put aside some trivial matters and distribute the work to subordinates, so that he could save time and energy and concentrate on dealing with national military and political affairs. Zhuge Liang is very grateful to Yong Yang for his advice and concern, but he always feels that he can't bear the entrustment of his late master, that he has a great responsibility, and that he doesn't handle many things himself.
Later, Yang Qing died of illness, and Zhuge Liang was very sad and cried for several days. Zhuge Liang wrote a proclamation entitled "Teachers Learn from the Army" to encourage everyone to express their political opinions on their own initiative. He wrote in the statement: "The Prime Minister's Office invited everyone to participate in the discussion of state affairs in order to gather everyone's wisdom and opinions and let me know how to handle some things better."
Idiom implication
Zhuge Liang always listens to the opinions of his subordinates with an open mind, encourages them to speak freely and dare to express different opinions, so as to get correct opinions in debates and avoid making mistakes. Zhuge Liang actively advocated "brainstorming" with a sincere attitude and an open mind, which brought many useful insights and methods for governing the country.
Zhuge Liang's practice reveals a truth: some people are arrogant and unwilling to ask others and admit that others know more than themselves. This is a very stupid psychology. Successful people succeed because they are diligent and eager to learn, and they are always willing to concentrate the wisdom of the masses and absorb the beneficial opinions of others for things they don't know or know.