Are you a strategist of all previous dynasties? Such as Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi, Sean and Liu Bowen.
Or politicians of all ages? For example, Cao Cao, Liu Bang, Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Shimin, Liu Che and Kangxi?
Or great scientists like Newton, Einstein and Darwin?
Or did Laozi, Confucius, Sakyamuni and other sages start from the beginning?
Maybe philosophers like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Descartes and Hegel?
For example, there is no order, and different people may have different definitions of wise men.
But a wise man must have a different thinking from ordinary people.
How to have a mind different from ordinary people?
First of all, you should know how to think.
Through the research and induction of these wise men, I will briefly talk about my understanding of the characteristics of thinking.
First, the depth of thinking.
If there is only one dimension of thinking, it is the depth of thinking. Thinking is to solve problems. Different people will have different solutions to the same problem. Some methods are relatively better, essentially because the depth of thinking is different.
To give an old example, more than a decade ago, everyone made a group buying website. Why did the American delegation stay last? The possible reasons are comprehensive. But an important reason is that Wang Xing, the founder of Meituan, is better at thinking and thinks more deeply than other founders at that time.
Fight like two generals with similar forces to the city. Both of them have read Sun Tzu's Art of War, so it must be that the generals who have a deeper understanding of Sun Tzu's Art of War are more likely to win the battle.
The deeper you think, the closer you get to the essence of things.
The closer to the essence, the easier it is to solve the problem fundamentally.
Essence and phenomenon are interdependent.
There is essence under essence until essence is inseparable.
Such people can find a longer chain of causal logic.
Find the main reason.
It can also be called principal contradiction, or continue to think about the principal aspects of contradiction.
This is the thinking depth of the one-dimensional world.
Second, the breadth of thinking.
If thinking is two-dimensional, then the breadth of thinking is also very important.
The breadth of thinking means that thinkers can look at problems from different angles and get diverse views. This different view can help us understand things better.
Just like climbing a rugged mountain, you can only look at the mountain from a certain angle, and you will gradually approach the whole picture of the mountain from many different angles. For this piece, please see the article "Rough Peak Model" I posted in the past. )
Looking at things from different angles is essentially that we need to switch different thinking modes to think about things. So as to get more products under different thinking modes, and gradually improve the level of understanding of things through analysis and synthesis.
This is the thinking expression of the two-dimensional world.
The relationship between them can be understood as that one dimension is a projection of two dimensions, and two dimensions are a projection of three dimensions.
Speaking of three dimensions, let's take a look at the performance of thinking in the three-dimensional world.
Third, the accuracy of thinking
If there is a third dimension of thinking, it is the accuracy of thinking. Thinking is to solve problems. Before practice, it is difficult to know that this is the result of 100% accurate thinking.
So the accuracy of thinking is very important.
How to improve the accuracy of thinking?
Is to constantly question our ideas one after another.
Thinking must be a process of connecting the existing cognition in our brain, which includes our experience, our summary and attribution of experience, what we read from books, from others, or from film and television dramas, and so on.
This information is intertwined and stored in the conscious and subconscious areas of our brain.
How does it match the object we are thinking about now? Are the preconditions the same?
Respect the facts or not?
Do you copy mechanically?
Is there an armchair strategist?
Do you have a different opinion?
Are there any inconsistencies?
Is there any logical fallacy?
How to prove this view?
What supports the opposite view?
Have you entered a cognitive misunderstanding?
Constantly questioning your own thoughts in thinking can improve the accuracy of thinking and make yourself think better.
Those wise people can constantly examine their ideas. The progress of negation of negation.
Do you have this habit of thinking?
So the accuracy of thinking is the third dimension of thinking. Let's talk about the fourth dimension of thinking.
Fourth, thinking speed.
It takes half a second to see through the essence of things, and it takes a lifetime to see through the essence of things, which is doomed to be a completely different fate. -"Godfather"
I believe most people have heard of this classic quotation in the movie The Godfather.
Sometimes you really think deeply enough, or think broadly enough, or think accurately enough, but you think too long and it's not very good. It takes others half a second, but you want a day, three days, a month, a year, ten years, or even a lifetime.
This kind of thinking is relatively discounted.
When the two armies are at war, you need one minute to see the change of the war situation, while other generals need three days to understand it, but the war situation does not allow you to think for three days, and the war situation is fleeting. The only person who loses the battle is a slow thinker.
The engagement between the two armies I mentioned above is the Liaoshen campaign of the civil war.
The ancients called this situation "seeing things late." This is what Cao Cao said about Yuan Shao during the Three Kingdoms period. His reaction is always half a beat slower than others. At the beginning, Yuan Shao had the opportunity to accept the emperor before "holding the emperor to make the princes". However, Yuan Shao has been hesitating and doesn't want to find out about it, so he missed the opportunity.
It was not until Cao Cao sent him a letter in the name of the son of heaven that he reacted.
Therefore, the speed of thinking is also particularly important. And a good way to improve thinking speed is to practice deliberately.
"People are not born to know." Some people think faster than others because their previous thinking habits secretly coincide with the principle of deliberate practice. Make it think faster.
Of course, concentration and concentrated thinking can also improve speed. And focused thinking can also be trained.
Looking at meditation and meditation from this perspective is a good way to practice thinking concentration.
Therefore, people who meditate often react faster than ordinary people. For example, those eminent monks who are enlightened, such as those secular disciples who often meditate. Jobs, kazuo inamori, Ma Yun, Wang Xing and other outstanding people.
Through deliberate practice, you can also improve your thinking speed and form an automatic reaction to step on the brakes without thinking when you see a red light.
One dimension is the projection of two dimensions, two dimensions are the projection of three dimensions, three dimensions are the projection of thinking, and four dimensions are the projection of five dimensions. What is five-dimensional thinking?
By constantly upgrading thinking from the basic dimension, we see thinking in different dimensions. Every rise in a dimension makes thinking more detailed, more attractive and closer to wisdom. This way of improving the dimension itself can also be regarded as the dimension of thinking. So I call the five dimensions of thinking the upgrading of thinking.
Fifth, improve thinking.
Our previous description of thinking can be regarded as an upgrade of thinking.
When you can look at things in a higher dimension, you can look at things at a higher level, and you can integrate what others are used to into your current thinking. Then you have mastered the improvement of thinking.
For example, when the two armies are at war, they are fighting for the basic elements of strength, weapons and morale. Zhuge Liang, on the other hand, can take into account the wind, fire and other factors that others are used to, so that Battle of Red Cliffs can win more with less. This is a typical case of ascending dimension thinking.
When you are still looking at things on the fourth floor, others are looking at things and you on the fifth floor.
The other person stands higher, sees more completely than you, knows different floors and knows your position.
The level of thinking can be imagined.
So the five dimensions of thinking are the rising dimensions of thinking.
When your mind really reaches five dimensions,
We can understand the six, seven and eight dimensions of thinking by ourselves through the upgrading of thinking ... until N- 1 dimension.
So the question is, what is the n dimension of thinking?
I think the nth dimension of thinking is metacognition.
Meta-thinking
Meta-thinking can also be called metacognition. It is cognitive cognition, and it is thinking of thinking.
It is thinking that constantly regulates our thinking process.
In the whole thinking process, when to think about the causal chain, when to use multiple perspectives, when to question and when to improve, this kind of thinking that monitors and adjusts our thinking process is called meta-thinking.
Metathinking can be understood as the second brain of your brain.
Generally speaking, a building has a construction unit and a supervision unit.
Meta-thinking is such a position. Of course, meta-thinking is not only supervision, but also regulation and rational distribution of brain resources.
So the nth dimension is meta-thinking.
When he reached the realm of free use of meta-thinking, he was almost a wise man different from ordinary people.
So now think about it, is there N+ 1 dimension in mind?
Yes, I call the N+ 1 dimension of thinking meta-thinking, which is meta-thinking. That is, the thinking of evaluating thinking.
At this point, there may be a little detour. Like a dream in a dream.
Imagine, maybe decades, hundreds and thousands of years later, meta-thinking has been called a kind of thinking that everyone knows and uses freely. When meta-thinking is so common, it is very meaningful.
How to evaluate the second brain through the third brain in our brain? Yuanyuan thinking is the third brain.
When the second brain becomes more and more common, there will be more and more scenes that need the third brain. Just as the principle of thinking process is gradually recognized and popularized, so is the meaning of meta-thinking.
So the N+ 1 dimension of thinking is meta-thinking.
Of course, meta-thinking is a concept I created according to meta-thinking.
What is the state and feeling that the level of thinking has really risen to the realm of Yuanyuan thinking?
Hey hey. ......
The above is my superficial understanding of thinking. Also welcome people who are interested in thinking and interested in thinking to communicate.
By the way, today is May 4th Youth Day, and I want to give this document to young people.
I hope that the epidemic will disperse as soon as possible and everyone will do more and more meaningful things.