People are used to thinking about problems and seeking solutions along the positive direction of things. In fact, for some problems, especially some special problems, starting from the conclusion and starting from the solution of known conditions, reverse thinking may simplify the problem, make the problem easy to solve, and even find the problem and create an earth-shattering miracle. This is the reverse thinking and its charm.
An interesting question is this: There are four identical bottles. How to 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 on the vertices of a regular triangle and put the fourth bottle upside down in the center of the triangle, and the answer came out. Inverting the fourth bottle, 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 a lot of small holes around them and was good at decorating them, so he named them "phoenix tail skirts". All of a sudden, the "phoenix tail skirt" sold well and the fashion shop became famous. Reverse thinking has brought considerable economic benefits. The birth of heel-less socks is similar to the "phoenix tail skirt". Because the heel of socks is easy to break, a pair of socks will be destroyed if they break. Merchants successfully trial-produced heel-less socks by using reverse thinking, creating very good business opportunities.
It is said that reverse thinking can make people young. Everyone will go next year, and it 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.
There is a story in ancient China, in which a mother gave birth to two sons. The eldest son runs a cloth dyeing workshop and the younger son runs an umbrella business. Every day, the old mother is very sad, afraid that the cloth dyed by her eldest son will not dry when it rains; It's sunny, and I'm afraid no one will buy the umbrella made by my youngest son. A neighbor enlightened her and told her to think backwards: on rainy days, the younger son's umbrella business is booming; On sunny days, the cloth dyed by the eldest son can dry quickly. Reverse thinking makes the old mother smile and regain her vitality.
On the road of invention, we need reverse thinking, which can create many unexpected miracles on earth.
The rotating shaft of the dehydration cylinder of the washing machine is soft. Push it gently with your hand, and the dehydration cylinder will be staggered. But when the dehydration cylinder rotates at high speed, it is very stable and the dehydration effect is very good. In the initial design, in order to solve the vibration and noise problems of the dewatering drum, engineers and technicians thought many ways, first thickening the shaft, but the effect was not good, and then adding a hard shaft, the effect was still not good. Finally, they came up with a reverse thinking, abandoned hard and chose soft, and replaced hard shaft with soft shaft, which successfully solved the two major problems of trembling and noise. This is a typical example of the invention born of reverse thinking.
The traditional icebreaker crushes the ice by its own weight, so its head is made of high-hardness material, which is very heavy when turning, so this icebreaker is very afraid that the water will drift 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 very cleverly designed, 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 thick ice, the icebreaker moves up and down like a dolphin, and the ice breaking effect is very good. This kind of icebreaker is called "the most promising icebreaker of this century".
The "two-way rotating generator" invented by China inventor Su 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. From 65438 to 0996, 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 is also due to reverse thinking. Looking through the scientific and technological literature at home and abroad, the generator 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 Satellite also rotates, and the power generation efficiency is four times higher than that of ordinary generators. Su said: "I think backwards and let the stator' rotate' too. This is the thinking basis of his invention, and it is also a great contribution of 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 will use two sides of a piece of white paper, one for the top and the other for the bottom, which can save half. Not satisfied with this, Ricoh scientists in Japan invented an "anti-copier" through reverse thinking. After the copy paper passed through it, the pictures and texts on it disappeared. Restore it 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: 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, thus generating the power of "atomic bomb explosion". We should consciously use the method of reverse thinking to create more miracles.