弹性思维的五条规则

Five Rules for an Elastic Mind

The times are changing far faster than they ever were before and that requires new kind of thinking-elastic thinking. Fortunately, there are ways you can develop your elastic thinking. There's a ton of them. Here are five. 

当今时代的变化比以往任何时候都要快得多,这就需要一种新的思维方式——弹性思维。幸运的是,有一些方法可以培养弹性思维。方法有很多,这里列出五种。

Pick an idea that you don't believe in

选择一个不相信的想法

Every day pick an idea that you don't believe in, try to convince yourself that it's true. I don't mean just go through the motions mean sincerely try to imagine how somebody who believes differently than you, but someone who you respect could accept this idea, and try to convince yourself of it. 

每天选择一个不相信的想法,试着说服自己去相信这个想法。不是说装模作样,而是真诚地试着想象有一个和你有不同想法的人。他是你尊重的人,想想他是怎么能够接受这个想法的,然后试着说服自己也去接受。

Dwell on your wrongs

细想错误

When we're wrong we often try to forget it, well this exercise is: dwell on when you were wrong. Remember a time when you were wrong and the wronger you were and the more important it was the better and think about it hard, realize that you're not always right.

当我们犯错时,我们常常试图忘记错误。而这个练习,就是在犯错的时候反复细想犯下的错误。记住犯错的那个时刻,错得越离谱,事情就越好办。你可以好好想想,意识到自己并不总是对的。

One of the barriers to elastic thinking is our tendency to always think that we're correct and to keep moving in the same direction. This exercise will help free you of that.

弹性思维的障碍之一是我们总是倾向认为自己是正确的,并且总是一意孤行。这个练习将帮助我们摆脱这种看法。

Try new food.

尝试新的食物

Food-this is a fun one. Go to a restaurant that you pick at random or to a restaurant that you normally wouldn't go to and try something you normally wouldn't order. Don't order the most popular dish, ask for the least popular dish.

食物是一个有趣的示例。随意挑选一家餐厅,或者去一家通常不会去的餐厅,尝尝通常不会点的东西。不要点最受欢迎的菜,要点最不受欢迎的菜。

Talk to strangers

和陌生人交谈

Research shows that if you stretch yourself in a way as simple as that it helps increase your creativity and imagination. Talk to strangers. Your parents taught you "Don't talk to strangers. Well, number four is: do talk to strangers. In fact, talk to people as different from you as possible, people who believe what's different, just random people and try to understand how they think. And the more you are exposed to the way other people think the broader your own thinking will be.

研究表明,如果你能以一种尽可能简单的方式延伸自己,就会有助于提高创造力和想象力。例如和陌生人交谈。父母教导我们“不要和陌生人说话”。而第四点却是一定要和陌生人交谈。事实上,和尽可能与自己不同的人交谈,思维不同的人。随便找一些人,试着理解他们的想法。接触到越多他人的思维方式,自己的思维就会越开阔。

Go see some art

去看一些艺术品

I don't mean a Rembrandt, I mean art that's different even if you don't like it. Go see a Damien Hirst exhibit because exposing yourself to art that's different from the kind of art you normally see will help you think differently. Research shows that if you do exercises such as these five things you'll broaden you thinking.

我不是说伦勃朗的画,是说那些与众不同的艺术,即使你不喜欢它。去看一场达米安赫斯特的展览,因为让自己置身于不同于你通常看到的那种艺术之中,将有助于你以不同的方式思考。研究表明,这五件事能够拓宽思维。

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