There is an interesting question like this: There are four identical bottles. How can you place them so that the distance between any two bottle mouths is equal? Maybe we haven't found the answer for a long time. So, what is the solution? Originally, put three bottles at the vertex of a regular triangle, and put the fourth bottle upside down at the center of the triangle, and the answer came out. Turning the fourth bottle upside down, what an image of reverse thinking!
in daily life, there are many examples of success through reverse thinking.
The manager of a fashion shop accidentally burned a hole in a high-end tweed skirt, and its value plummeted. If darning is used to remedy it, it will only muddle through and deceive customers. On a whim, the manager simply dug many small holes around the small holes and was good at decorating them, so he named them "Phoenix Tail Skirt". All of a sudden, the "phoenix tail skirt" sold well and the fashion store became famous. Reverse thinking has brought considerable economic benefits. The birth of heel-less socks is similar to that of "phoenix tail skirt". Because the heel of socks is easy to break, a pair of socks will be destroyed when it is broken. Merchants use reverse thinking to successfully trial-produce heel-less socks, creating very good business opportunities.
It is said that reverse thinking can make people young. Everyone will go to next year, which will be one year older than this year, so this year is one year younger than next year. For the elderly, such reverse thinking can make people live younger and younger; For young people, they can cherish time and work harder.
In ancient China, there was a story about a mother who had two sons. The eldest son ran a cloth dyeing workshop and the younger son ran an umbrella business. Every day, the old mother is sad, afraid that the cloth dyed by her eldest son can't be dried when it rains; It's sunny and I'm afraid that no one will buy the umbrella made by my youngest son. A neighbor enlightened her and told her to think in reverse: on rainy days, the younger son's umbrella business is booming; On sunny days, the cloth dyed by the eldest son can be dried quickly. Reverse thinking makes the old mother smile and regain her vitality.
On the road of invention, reverse thinking is needed, which can create many unexpected miracles on earth.
The rotating shaft of the dehydration cylinder of the washing machine is soft, and the dehydration cylinder will stagger when it is gently pushed by hand. However, when the dehydration cylinder rotates at high speed, it is very stable and the dehydration effect is very good. In the original design, in order to solve the problem of vibration and noise caused by the dehydration cylinder, engineers and technicians thought many ways, first thickening the shaft, which was ineffective, and then adding a hard shaft, which was still ineffective. Finally, they came to a reverse thinking, abandoned hard and softened, and replaced hard shaft with soft shaft, which successfully solved the two major problems of trembling and noise. This is a typical example of creation and invention born of reverse thinking.
The traditional icebreaker crushes the ice by its own weight, so its head is made of high-hardness materials, and it is very cumbersome to turn, so this icebreaker is very afraid of the flowing water drifting sideways. Scientists in the former Soviet Union used reverse thinking to push the ice up instead of down, that is, let the icebreaker dive into the water and break the ice up from under the ice by buoyancy. The new icebreaker is designed very skillfully, which not only saves a lot of raw materials, but also does not need much power, and its own safety is greatly improved. When encountering a thick ice layer, the icebreaker moves up and down like a dolphin, and the ice breaking effect is very good. This kind of icebreaker is known as "the most promising icebreaker in this century".
The "two-way rotating generator" invented by Chinese inventor Su Weixing was born in 1994, and won the gold medal of China Hi-tech Cup in August of the same year, which attracted the attention of the TIPS organization of the United Nations. In 1996, a large Danish company tried to buy out its patent for 3 million yuan, which shows the great value of its invention.
when it comes to the invention of "two-way rotating generator", it should also be attributed to reverse thinking. Looking through the scientific and technological literature at home and abroad, the generator has a stator and a rotor, and the stator does not move and the rotor rotates. The stator of the "two-way rotating generator" invented by Su Satellite also rotates, and the power generation efficiency is four times higher than that of ordinary generators. Su Weixing said, I'll think backwards and make the stator "rotate" too. This is the thinking basis of his invention, and it is also a great contribution to his invention.
Japan is an economic power, but it is also a resource-poor country, so they advocate thrift very much. When copiers gobble up a lot of paper, they use both sides of a piece of white paper, one for the top and two for the bottom, saving half. Not satisfied with this, Ricoh scientists in Japan invented an "anti-copier" through reverse thinking. After the copied paper passed through it, the pictures and texts on it disappeared. Restore it to a blank sheet of paper. In this way, a blank sheet of paper can be reused many times, which not only creates wealth and saves resources, but also enables people to establish new values: thrift is important, and innovation is more valuable.
the most valuable value of reverse thinking is that it challenges people's understanding and deepens their understanding of things, which leads to the power of "atomic bomb explosion". We should consciously use the reverse thinking method to create more miracles.