On an autumn night, the ancient Greek philosopher Thales was observing the stars on the grass. He looked up at the stars and unexpectedly saw a deep pit in front of him. He stepped in the air and fell in. Although the water only reached his chest, It was two or three meters above the ground, and I couldn't get up, so I had to shout for help. A passerby picked him up. He said to the man: "It will rain tomorrow!" The man smiled and shook his head and left, telling Thales's prediction as a joke to others. The next day, it did rain. People were amazed at his rich knowledge in meteorology, but some people disagreed. Thales knew what was in the sky, but could not see what was beneath his feet.
Two thousand years later, the great German philosopher Hegel heard this story, thought about it, and said a famous saying: "Only those who lie in the pit forever and never look up to the sky will not Fall into the pit. ”
Looking at the same thing from different angles will lead to different conclusions. People’s way of thinking determines the angle and depth of looking at the problem. Please use "Thinking" as the topic, talk about your own views or think of some essay topics related to thinking. Pay attention to being novel and innovative.
A bald man is sitting in a barber's shop. The hairstylist asked, "How can I help you?" The man explained, "I was going to get a scalp transplant, but it was so painful. What if you could make my hair look like yours, without any of the... Pain, I'll pay you $5,000." "No problem," the hairstylist said. Then he quickly shaved both himself and the other person's heads.
In the thinking process, reasonable imagination and creative thinking are needed. Only in this way can people's cognitive ability be further developed, and the cognitive results are often unexpected. One manifestation of creative thinking is the courage to break conventions and engage in reverse thinking. The hairstylist in this little humor faced the harsh requirements of the bald customer. Instead of making a fuss about the customer according to the routine, he made a fuss about himself and won the customer.
Whimsical
A parent took his junior high school child to fish in a pond. Before fishing, he told his son not to make any noise when fishing, otherwise the fish would be frightened and run deeper into the water, and they would not be able to catch the fish.
One day, my son went to catch fish alone and caught half a plate of fish. Parents quickly asked how they caught it. My son said, didn’t you say that fish would run deeper when there was any noise? So, I first dug a deep pit in the center of the pond, and then threw stones around the pond. When the fish ran into the pit, I just fished.
In the thinking process of analysis and synthesis, if accompanied by reasonable imagination and creative thinking, people's cognitive abilities will be further developed, and the cognitive results may even be astonishing. This example shows that the parents see a few fish, but the children see the fish in the entire pond. As adults grow older, their thinking becomes constrained and they lose the creativity of their thinking, but this is not the case for children, who are less constrained. Students in the 21st century should be imaginative, use creative thinking, and cultivate their own innovative abilities.
One day, the Jewish rich man Hader walked into the loan department of Citibank in New York. Seeing that this gentleman was very impressive and well-dressed, the manager of the loan department did not dare to neglect him and quickly greeted him:
"Does this gentleman need my help with anything?"
"Oh, I want to borrow some money."
"Okay, how much do you want to borrow?"
"1 dollar."
" Just need 1 dollar? "
"Yes, can I borrow just 1 dollar? "
"Of course, a gentleman like you can borrow more as long as you have a guarantee. . "
"Can these be guaranteed? "
The Jew took out a pile of jewelry from the luxurious leather bag and piled it on the desk.
"Here, this is jewelry worth $500,000, is that enough?"
"Of course, of course! But you only need to borrow $1?"
"Yes." The Jew took the 1 dollar and was about to leave the bank.
The branch president who was watching was a little stupid at this time. He could not figure out why the Jew borrowed 1 US dollar against a mortgage of 500,000 US dollars. He hurriedly caught up with the Jew and said: " Sir, please wait a minute. You have jewelry worth $500,000. Why do you only want to borrow $1? If you want to borrow $300,000 or $400,000, we will also consider it. "
"Ah, it's like this: before I came to your bank, I asked several safe deposit boxes and the rent for their safes was very expensive. But the rent here is very cheap, only 6 cents a year."
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In the Auschwitz concentration camp, a Jew said to his son: "Our only wealth now is wisdom. When others say that one plus one equals two, you should think of Greater than two. "The Nazis poisoned hundreds of thousands of people at Auschwitz, but the father and son survived.
Later, they came to the United States and started a copperware business in Houston. One day, the father asked his son how much the price of a pound of copper was. The son answered 35 cents. The father said: "Yes, the whole state of Texas knows that the price of a pound of copper is 35 cents, but as the son of a Jew, it should be said to be 3.5 US dollars. Try making a pound of copper into a doorknob."
Twenty years later, his father died and his son ran the copper shop alone. He made bronze drums, reeds on Swiss clocks, and Olympic medals. He once sold a pound of copper for $3,500. At this time, he was already the chairman of McCall's Company. However, what really made him famous was a pile of garbage in New York State.
The federal government is soliciting bids from the public to clean up the waste thrown away from the renovation of the Statue of Liberty. But months passed and no one accepted the bid. When he heard about it while traveling in France, he immediately flew to New York. After seeing the mountains of copper blocks, screws and wood piled under the Statue of Liberty, he signed immediately without any conditions. Many transportation companies in New York laughed secretly at his foolish move. Because in New York State, there are strict regulations on garbage disposal, and you may be sued by environmental organizations if you fail. Just when some people were about to see this Jewish joke, he began to organize workers to sort the waste. He had scrap copper melted and cast into a small Statue of Liberty; cement blocks and wood were processed into a base; scrap lead and aluminum were made into the key to the New York Plaza. Eventually, he even packaged the ashes swept off the Statue of Liberty and sold them to florists. In less than three months, he turned this pile of scrap into $3.5 million in cash, and the price of copper per pound increased 10,000 times.
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One morning in the early spring of 1875, the Jew Philip Yamer, the owner of Yamer Meat Processing Company, saw such an article in the newspaper News: A plague is suspected in Mexico.
Yarmer’s eyes lit up: If a plague breaks out in Mexico, it will quickly spread to California and Texas, and the livestock industries in California and Texas are the main meat supply bases in North America. Once here If a plague occurs, the country's meat supply will immediately become tense, and meat prices will definitely skyrocket.
He immediately decided to send people to Mexico for on-the-spot investigation. After the news was confirmed, Yamer immediately concentrated a large amount of funds to purchase beef cattle and pigs from California and Texas, and transported them to the east far away from California and Texas for breeding. Within two or three weeks, the plague spread from Mexico to several states in the western part of the Union. The federal government immediately ordered a ban on the shipment of food from these states. The North American market was suddenly short of meat and prices skyrocketed.
Armer promptly sold the beef cattle and pigs stored in the east at high prices. In just three months, he made a net profit of US$9 million (equivalent to US$130 million today).