So how can we break the stereotype effect?
The best way is to get rid of old thinking habits. However, it is not so easy to get rid of the established way of thinking. You must have courage and determination, because it is very painful to say goodbye to habits. Eagle's life span is very long, up to 70 years. It is the longest-lived bird in the world. However, where do you know that if the eagle wants to live to 70 years old, it must try to bid farewell to the pain of the past at the age of 40, because at the age of 40, the eagle's claws begin to age, and it is no longer able to grasp its prey flexibly; Its beak becomes long and curved, almost touching its chest; Its wings become very heavy, making it difficult to fly. For the eagle, 40 years old is simply a "threshold". Jump bravely or die. But crossing this hurdle is not easy. This is a long and painful regeneration process: it must fly to the top of the mountain and nest on the cliff. Then hit the rock with its beak until it falls off completely, and then wait quietly for the growth of a new beak; Then pull out the nails one by one with the newly grown beak, and then pull out the feathers one by one with the newly grown nails. It takes 150 days to complete the whole process. The eagle can't start flying until it grows new feathers. Through this update, the eagle can live for another 30 years.
If you have the courage to abandon the old habits of thinking to the eagle, you can jump out of the trap of stereotype effect, which is equivalent to being reborn.
Thinking from another angle is also a good way to break the stereotype effect. Sima Guang played hide-and-seek with children in the garden when he was a child. However, one of the children accidentally fell into the big water tank. The children were frightened, some cried, some shouted and some ran away. Only Sima Guang unhurriedly lifted a stone and threw it into the jar. A big hole was smashed in the jar, water came out and the child was saved.
Sima Guang did not take the laborious method of directly pulling people out of the jar to save people, but adopted a simpler and more effective method of releasing water. Break the mindset and get twice the result with half the effort.
In addition, daring to look at problems with new eyes and thinking is also a way to break the mindset and solve problems. More than a decade ago, there were no curved straws in the world, all of them were straight. An American citizen found this inconvenience, made a little improvement and made the current curved straw. After applying for a patent, he won millions of dollars in bonuses.
Therefore, we must break the mindset and consciously overcome the weakness of using old methods to solve problems. Only in this way can we make fewer mistakes, make fewer detours, make more discoveries and inventions, and perhaps bring us many benefits. Why not?
Sometimes, it is not difficult to break the psychological set, as long as you do it. In ancient times, there was a king who took his sons to a huge stone gate and said to them, "Whoever can push this door open will inherit the throne." The princes looked at the huge stone gate, shook their heads and gave up. Only the youngest prince walked over, pushed hard and the door opened.
Many people can't get out of the tragic ending of fate because of their fixed thinking. Countless facts tell us that once we get out of the mindset, we will have the opportunity to see many different landscapes of life and even create miracles of life. Therefore, if we change our position, angle and way of thinking, it is not difficult for us to learn calligraphy from sword dance, learn to make airplanes from birds and associate bats with radio waves ... Only in this way can we open a new world.
Similarly, if we meet someone who looks at you from an old perspective in our life, we should be calm, remember to be shocked and complain that the other person is unreasonable. In this respect, it is an interview with Ma Yinchu by Yang Jianye, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency. Due to the special political environment, "false weather" in news reports during the Cultural Revolution was a popular trend at that time, which left the impression that "journalists like to tell lies" for most people. This stereotype brought great difficulties to Yang Jianye's interview. Ma Lao refused to interview all journalists, and his words were extremely fierce. After the interview was blocked, Yang Jianye did not give up. After carefully analyzing the specific situation in Ma Lao at that time, Yang Jianye not only didn't get angry, but showed sincere understanding. He couldn't wait for an interview with Ma Lao for the time being, but he took an objective attitude towards the Central Committee. First of all, I call on Ma Lao to restore his reputation. After successfully breaking the stereotype, I not only got a satisfactory interview, but also became good friends with Ma Lao.