In daily life, there are many examples of success through reverse thinking.
The manager of a certain fashion store accidentally burned a hole in a high-end wool skirt, and his worth plummeted. If you use the darning method to remedy the problem, you will just get away with it and deceive customers. The manager had a sudden idea and dug many more small holes around the small hole. He was good at modifying it and named it "Phoenix Tail Skirt". All of a sudden, the sales of "Phoenix Tail Skirts" exploded, and the fashion store became famous. Reverse thinking has brought considerable economic benefits. The birth of heelless socks is similar to the "phoenix tail skirt". Because the heels of socks are easy to break, and a pair of socks is ruined once they are broken, merchants used reverse thinking to successfully trial-produce heelless socks, creating very good business opportunities.
There is a story in ancient my country. A mother had two sons. The eldest son opened a dyeing workshop and the younger son ran an umbrella business. Every day, this old mother looks sad. When it rains, she is afraid that the cloth dyed by her eldest son will not be able to dry; when it is sunny, she is afraid that no one will buy the umbrella made by her younger son. A neighbor enlightened her and asked her to think the other way around: on rainy days, the younger son's umbrella business is booming; on sunny days, the cloth dyed by the older son can be dried quickly. Reverse thinking made this old mother smile and regain her vitality.
On the road to creating inventions, reverse thinking is even more necessary. Reverse thinking can create many unexpected miracles in the world.
The rotating shaft of the dehydrating tank of the washing machine is soft. If you push it gently with your hand, the dehydrating tank will tilt around. However, when the dewatering tank rotates at high speed, it is very stable and the dehydration effect is very good. During the original design, in order to solve the problem of trembling of the retort and the resulting noise, the engineers and technicians thought of many ways. They first made the shaft thicker, which was ineffective, and then added a hardened shaft, which was still ineffective. Finally, they came up with a reverse thinking, abandoned the hard and replaced the hard shaft with a soft shaft, successfully solving the two major problems of vibration and noise. This is a classic example of invention born from reverse thinking.
Traditional icebreakers rely on their own weight to crush ice, so their heads are made of high-hardness materials and are designed to be very heavy and very inconvenient to turn. Icebreakers are very afraid of water drifting sideways. Scientists from the former Soviet Union used reverse thinking to change from pressing the ice downwards to pushing the ice upwards, that is, letting the icebreaker dive underwater and rely on buoyancy to break the ice upwards from under the ice. The new icebreaker is designed to be very smart, which not only saves a lot of raw materials, but also does not require a lot of power, and its own safety is also greatly improved. When encountering thicker ice, the icebreaker moves up and down like a dolphin, and the icebreaking effect is very good. This icebreaker is hailed as "the most promising icebreaker of this century."
The "two-way rotating generator" invented by Chinese inventor Su Weixing was born in 1994. In August of the same year, it won the gold medal of the China High-tech Cup and attracted the attention of the United Nations TIPS organization. In 1996, a large Danish company wanted to buy out its patent for 3 million yuan, which shows the huge value of its invention. Speaking of the invention of the "two-way rotating generator", we should also attribute it to reverse thinking. Looking through domestic and foreign scientific and technological literature, the most common structure of a generator is that each has a stator and a rotor. The stator does not move and the rotor rotates. The stator of the "two-way rotating generator" invented by Su Weixing also rotates, and the power generation efficiency is four times higher than that of ordinary generators. Su Weixing said, let me think in reverse and make the stator "rotate" too. This was the basis of his thinking for invention and his great contribution to the creation of inventive ideas.
Japan is an economically powerful country, but it is also a resource-poor country, so they advocate frugality very much. When copiers were devouring large amounts of paper, they used both the front and back of a piece of white paper, one on top of two, saving half. Scientists from Japan's Ricoh Company were not satisfied with this. Through reverse thinking, they invented a "reprinting machine". After the copied paper passes through it, the images and text on it disappear. Return to a blank sheet of paper. In this way, a piece of white paper can be reused many times, which not only creates wealth and saves resources, but also enables people to establish new values: frugality is important, but innovation is even more valuable.
In the mid-1960s, Iacocca, who was the deputy general manager of a Ford branch at the time, was looking for ways to improve the company's performance. The panacea for that, he decided, would be to launch a new car with a bold design that would arouse widespread public interest. After determining that the person who ultimately determines success or failure is the customer, he begins to draw a strategic blueprint. Here's how Iacocca started with the customer and worked backwards to the steps of designing a new car: The only way a customer could buy a car was to test drive it. In order for potential customers to test the car, the car must be placed in the car dealer's showroom. The way to attract dealers is to carry out large-scale and attractive commercial promotion of new cars, so that dealers themselves are enthusiastic about the new models. To put it more realistically, he had to build the car and send it to the dealer's showroom before the marketing campaign began. To achieve this, he needs 100% support from the company's marketing and production departments. At the same time, he also realized that the manufacturers, manpower, equipment and raw materials required to produce car models had to be determined by the company's senior executives. After Iacocca identified the names of those who needed to be agreed upon to achieve his goals, he reversed the process and moved forward from the beginning. A few months later, Iacocca's new car, the Mustang, rolled off the assembly line and became popular in the 1960s. Its success also propelled Iacocca to become vice president of the entire car and truck group at Ford.
Reverse thinking not only plays an unexpected role in modern life. During the war, there was a Xiaobalu who used reverse thinking to successfully break through various enemy levels and deliver important information to the destination. . The thing is this: During the eight-year Anti-Japanese War, once, the enemy surrounded a village and did not allow anyone in the village to go out. They sent a puppet army to the village's only channel to the outside world - a small bridge. It happened that there was important information in the village that needed to be reported to the leaders of the Eighth Route Army outside the village. How could the information be sent out smoothly and safely when the enemy was so tightly guarded? A boy in the village bravely took on this task. At dusk, under the cover of darkness, the boy quietly came to the reed field next to the bridge and hid. He carefully observed everything that happened on the bridge. , he noticed that the enemy guarding the checkpoint was dozing off. Whenever people from outside the village came, he would always say without raising his head, "Go back, go back, the village is not allowed to enter." After doing this several times, Xiaobalu had an idea in his mind. , so Xiaobalu got out of the reed field, quietly approached and got on the small bridge. Just before the enemy raised his head to speak, he suddenly turned around and walked towards the direction of the village, and deliberately made the footsteps loud. After the enemy heard it, He still said without raising his head, go back, go back, the village was not allowed to enter, but Xiaobalu successfully passed the border and sent the information out safely, making great contributions to the army's victory. Isn't this also the result of the successful use of reverse thinking? ? This shows how important it is to learn and flexibly use reverse thinking!