Even if we have the first answer, we can still continue to seek newer and better answers. If we can't find a better answer, we can still go back to the original answer. If we want a fresh and delicious apple, of course, we won't pick the apple the first time, but we must choose the best one carefully. For example, whether it is the Olympic Games or the evaluation of school scholarships, there must be many competitors. Generally speaking, the more competitors there are, the greater the chance of selecting the best candidate.
In order to invent the electric light, Edison produced more than 3000 ideas related to electric light. Every one seems reasonable, but only two can prove his theory and make it a patent. Edison once said that in order to solve a technical problem, he was willing to try various methods. In order to make a new diesel engine, Kettering has been trying various methods until six years later. Van Gogh, a famous painter, also said, "I keep painting until a painting is different and looks different."
In order to record a 7.5-second speech, Pacific Telecom recorded it 25 times before it succeeded. In order to make the recording feel warm and authoritative, the staff repeatedly tried to figure out and even studied every syllable. The recorder is a professional speaker and an employee of the American Federal Radio and Television Network. Because this recording information is very important, and there are 2 million people listening to it every day, * * * tried 25 times to choose the best recording.
A study has confirmed that innovative ideas are often produced by many ideas. In the later stage of brainstorming, the better the idea, the more creative it is. Initial ideas can inspire, promote and provide inspiration for later ideas. When we have no idea, we are forced to think about new ideas.
We need to think about every aspect of novelty and take advantage of every opportunity that may lead to an alliance to make the fairest comments on them. Because 999 out of 1000 will become useless. The reason may be that they have no value in themselves, or that we don't know how to explore their value. However, although we are skeptical, we'd better try to consider every novelty. Maybe the1000th idea may change the whole world.
Sherlock Holmes, the master detective, always investigates cases with an open mind. Even when the cause of death seems obvious in some murders, he will still observe many possible causes of death.
A pearl picker drove the boat to the mussel bed, then took off his clothes, put on a diving suit and helmet, and dived underwater with a mussel bag on his back. After he collected the clams effectively, he swam to the surface, returned to the shore and opened every clam. Obviously, he would never find a clam to float up, open it to find pearls, and then repeat these actions without pearls.
As we all know, it is foolish to pick up a clam and float it once. But this is how most of us look for ideas. Once we find a "clam of thought" through imagination, we will immediately put on a coat of criticism, criticize this "clam of thought", and then look for another "clam of thought" from scratch. But in brainstorming, we should try our best to find all the "mussels of thought". We hope to collect all the "mussels of thought" together and then make the most effective evaluation.
We can learn the so-called diversity of quantities from the following examples. "Try to name at least 25 kinds of birds you know." For example, most people may start with swallows, cuckoos and canaries. When they finish writing about these birds, they will force themselves to write about another kind of bird, such as turkey, and then they will write about chickens, ducks and geese, and then they will write about eagles, such as eagles and owls. Once we start with a series of similar birds such as chickens and ducks, we will be trapped in this ideological chain. If we force ourselves to work hard for "increment", then we may break through, move towards a new idea and produce more ideas.
The importance of "quantity" can be said to be the central point of innovation, which has always been valued by psychologists to measure innovation ability. Many measurement innovations mostly take the ability to generate many different ideas as the central index of measurement. When we face a problem, we should try our best to associate various ideas to solve the problem. The number and diversity of ideas we list are often the key to determining the level of innovation ability.
One of the reasons that prevent us from getting many ideas is that we just want good and stable ideas. And many good ideas are produced after considering some inappropriate ideas. These inappropriate ideas are often the basis of good ideas. Under the same conditions, if a person can produce many ideas in a unit time, he has a greater chance of getting good ideas than others.
The fundamental way to get innovative ideas is to generate many ideas first. Even bad or outrageous ideas can make us more innovative and diverse, and finally we can choose the best ideas. Churchill said, "No idea is too grotesque to be considered." Cultivating thinking, delaying judgment, brainstorming and dividing methods all help us get a lot of ideas.