There is a plot to lose weight in the movie "Slimming Men and Women" starring Sammi Cheng and Andy Lau, which can let us know that it is easy to get into shallow thinking when making decisions. In order to lose weight, Sammi Cheng in the movie exercises all day and doesn't eat. One day, her willpower collapsed, she began to eat and drink, and her weight went back.

At that time, in order to meet her future boyfriend, Sammi Cheng had to meet at the appointed time, so her desire to lose weight became stronger and stronger.

In order to make Sammi Cheng lose weight faster, Andy Lau found a weight loss center. After Sammi Cheng left, he really lost weight. The reason for losing weight is very simple. The weight loss center will reduce fat according to Sammi Cheng's weight science. One weight loss program after another finally made Sammi Cheng lose weight.

Then we can think about it. What's the difference between Sammi Cheng going to a weight loss center and losing weight by himself in the movie?

In fact, in our minds, we just think that the weight loss center can give a whole set of programs, but we just don't know where the logic of this program comes from.

The weight loss center covered up the cause of Sammi Cheng's obesity, and then provided him with nutritious meals and exercise with different calories every day according to his weight.

If you want to think deeply, you need to disassemble the goal, think logically and find out the key points of the problem.

The book "Thinking Progress" introduced today gives us a way to improve our thinking, so that we can comprehensively analyze problems and make correct decisions.

Before we analyze the problem, we should first set a small goal for the problem, so as to effectively analyze the cause of the problem.

For example, you want to master English skillfully within one year, but every time you want to learn it, you always lose energy. When you see a thick English textbook, you lose interest and your task will eventually fail.

We have a serious misunderstanding about setting goals, that is, setting goals without knowing the specific details is difficult to achieve. We need to set small goals for the problem and disassemble it.

The first way to set goals is to break down the big goals into small ones one by one, so that the goals can be implemented smoothly.

For example, we should master spoken English well within one year. This task seems grand, but we can divide it into such simple goals as memorizing 10 English words and 5 English short sentences every day.

The second method is to peel onions periodically, which is simply to decompose the target step by step according to the cycle time. Complete small goals in a certain period of time and accumulate into big goals.

Just like we have to take the accounting qualification examination, this qualification examination has a unified examination time. If we don't study hard, we will miss the exam, so we need to set goals in advance.

By analogy, we can master and learn accounting knowledge well. On the contrary, at the beginning, we studied aimlessly, and the effect was predictably inefficient.

When we can't find a way to execute a small goal, we must create a tree diagram. At the beginning of the tree diagram, we assume a big goal, and then we start to build small goals and find small goals that can be executed.

Big goal: I want a quick promotion and salary increase.

We break down big goals into small ones. As can be seen from the example, the implementation is relatively high, and the efficiency assumption is 1, because it is assumed that 1 is a promotion and salary increase that can quickly achieve the big goal.

Because the hypothesis 1 is more in line with our goal of "promotion and salary increase", the small goal in the hypothesis 1 can effectively improve our probability of "promotion and salary increase" by comparing with other hypothetical goals.

Often our current thinking mode is relatively solid, and we will evaluate things according to inertial thinking. In order to avoid our fixed thinking, we can question the existing thinking and find new solutions.

First, vertical thinking is to judge an idea before thinking.

For example, people with procrastination can't finish their work well.

Vertical thinking 1: Work is always put off until the deadline.

Longitudinal thinking 2: I haven't finished my work by the deadline.

Longitudinal thinking 3: slow work efficiency

The second kind. Lateral thinking is to list every point of view from a parallel angle and arrange it logically.

There is something wrong with his working ability.

Lateral thinking 1: poor expression ability.

Lateral thinking 2: doing things is very impetuous.

Lateral thinking 3: Bad relationship with leaders

Third, vertical thinking and horizontal thinking cross each other to produce the greatest effect.

For example:

The company needs to save money.

Lateral thinking 1: Reduce salary expenses, office supplies expenses, new product development and marketing expenses.

Then we need to choose a point of view and think critically.

Viewpoint: Reduce salary expenses.

Vertical thinking 1: fewer employees.

Vertical thinking 2: reducing welfare benefits

Vertical thinking 3: reducing employees' wages

Fourth, concentrate on completing homogeneous tasks and refuse multi-line operations.

If we want to improve our work efficiency, we must concentrate on one thing, and we can't change our original work status just because we suddenly insert something, which is very easy to reduce our work efficiency.

Just like when I used to write a copy, I often met the tasks given to me by the leaders, and then I did the previous work while doing the tasks given by the leaders. As a result, at the appointed time, my original work and the work entrusted to me by the leader were not completed.

Therefore, in the face of multi-threaded work, we can arrange it according to the importance of things.

Fifth, learn from predecessors' achievements and think successfully, instead of creating new methods by yourself. Copying the existing methods is the fastest way to improve our work efficiency.

Once there was a new media world course sharing activity, which swept the whole Internet. As long as you scan the QR code of the course, an allocation code will be automatically generated. As long as someone distributes it through your QR code, you can get most of the rewards. Then take your distribution code to buy friends, and friends are distributing them, and you can get another chance to draw a lottery, just like pyramid schemes, one by one, which later swept the whole circle of friends.

Let's sort out the sales ideas of this course.

First, scanning the QR code can get more benefits from the course.

Second, distribute the QR code to get high extraction.

Third, others can distribute it through your QR code, and you can also get high marks.

Later, some training institutions also imitated such distribution activities and achieved great success, achieving the effect of virus transmission.

Now we receive more and more information, which will lead to a lot of information, but we can't sort out the correct information, which will easily lead to information congestion.

In order to improve our work efficiency, we have to break down the problems into meta-information and sort them out.

For example: why can't I find someone?

Then we can decompose it into meta-information

1, the interpersonal circle is relatively small.

2. There are almost no social channels.

3. I am introverted.

By splitting meta-information, we need to arrange things according to their importance.

We can solve it first.

1, introverted

2. There are few social channels.

3. The interpersonal circle is monotonous.

Solving the key points is to arrange and sort out the key information according to the importance.

In the face of unfamiliar fields or tasks, the easiest way is to set a goal by yourself, then disassemble the problem, then ask hypothetical questions, find out the key to the problem, and finally build a method to achieve the goal.