Exploring the Power of Reverse Thinking: Insights from Adam Grant’s Book

-Read Adam. Grant’s “Reverse Thinking”

Have you ever seen a cleaner who cares more about patients than the medical staff?

Why do you think she has this intention?

Since “Reverse Thinking” was published last year, it has been frequently quoted and shared by many master writers. Each example is impressive and can be called a classic.

For example, there is no such thing as “boiling a frog in warm water”. The frog will not be cooked until it is cooked! 🐸Decisive and determined entrepreneurs, when making the best decisions, are actually like cautious scientists who have room for improvement rather than rushing forward; the most classic case in the book is definitely this: if you want to escape smoothly from a rapidly spreading forest fire, let go Using “escape fire🔥” can actually create a glimmer of hope…

Just these examples that are enough to stimulate you to think for two more minutes are worth reading!

“Reverse thinking” reminds us to rethink——“Think again”to break the “cognitive inertia” that may cause disaster without knowing it. No matter when it comes to schoolwork, interpersonal relationships, career majors, etc., many things that you think “should be like this” have actually been re-raised to think about “how to do it”. “Better” value.

In the book, different thinking modes are represented by different professions:

💚Politician – Promote that you are right and win others’ approval 💚Preacher – Defend existing views and adhere to sacred beliefs 💚Prosecutor – Dedicated to finding reasons to prove that the other party is wrong 💚Scientist – Keep a positive and open mind, test hypotheses

Anyone can fall into the trap of the first three thinking patterns. After all, it is much easier to “review others and stick to your own opinion” than to admit the discomfort of being wrong!

Why should we think like a “scientist”?

The ideal characteristics of a scientist should possess the following three items:

1． Confident humility ✨

Rather than proving that you are right, it is more important to find problems, solve them, and gain self-improvement.

2. A healthy dose of skepticism✨

Question current decisions and look beyond known facts

3. Abundant curiosity✨

Reimagine future plans and update knowledge

However, even scientists still need to be careful about beliefs that are like “goggles”, and occasionally try to wear other pairs of glasses to remind themselves to escape and avoid being trapped in the stratosphere (group polarization);

You can try this:

1⃣ Like an astronaut, “macroscopically” values ​​collective benefits (overview effect)

2⃣ Counterfactual thinking-proposing different results & hypotheses for what has happened

3⃣ Strengthen cooperation with dissidents, find commonalities, and learn together

It is important to note that “rethinking” is often “in conflict” with the well-known good characteristic – “perseverance”. The more perseverance you have, the more you will stick to the established pattern. You must also be careful to guard against the dangers of “overconfidence”. So as not to miss the opportunity to rethink.

Each different example in the book can trigger more ideas and rethink many of our long-held “assumptions”. (Are dinosaurs scales and feathers? Is Pluto not a planet?) Every relationship or thing is also worth revisiting regularly. Thinking – in the end, you still have to return to yourself,Find motivation and change.

What I particularly want to share with you is that I really like this sentence in the last chapter of “Reverse Thinking”:

In every profession there are people who become active architects of their own work.

When cancer patients go through painful treatments, Candice. Walker would always accompany them and their families immediately, not only to protect their fragile immune systems, but also to accept their fragile emotions; she did her best to accompany them with humor, bring laughter, and change the paintings and decorations on the walls. environment, trying to stimulate coma patients, and strive to make the “Chemotherapy Center” a “House of Hope.”

It may be hard for you to imagine that Candice is so dedicated to accompanying her patients. Walker is not a medical worker or a social worker. She is the “cleaner” in charge of the cancer center in the hospital.

When people ask her, why do she do more things besides these responsibilities?

Her response touched me very much:

“This is not part of my job, but it is part of ‘me’.”✨

Do you have your own identity?

Do you really like your current job and what you are doing?

In the final chapter, the author uses Candice’s case to remind us that our identity, lifestyle, etc. should be “open systems”; we should not be limited by who we must be and what we should do, question trivial daily life, and open up The ability to rethink.

I was particularly moved by Candice’s story because the author mentioned:

“The students who are most certain about their career plans at age twenty are often the ones who regret it the most when they are thirty. They haven’t rethought enough along the way.”

How terrible!

Looking back on my college days, that was the age when I was confused and doubtful about what to do in the future, and eager to be recognized. I was actually a little envious of those who were very determined in their goals at that time.

My walking style is that of stumbling and turning when I encounter obstacles. I am currently a warehouse manager, but I am not limited to that. I can still be a person who is willing to learn and loves reading and writing. Even if my creativity is obviously lacking, at least I am always doing something. Things you like~

Thank you dear family for your tolerance💟

This book was not easy for me to read, but it was really exciting to learn new ideas ~ I would like to say to Harukata, the editor of Crown Culture Group who shared the good book with me… “Thank you very much! 💗”

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to read this book. This is something I have always wanted to read but had an avoidance mentality. I flipped through it a little before and felt it was a bit beyond my ability. I finally finished it slowly and I will probably read it again several times. This time, there are many places that need to be chewed carefully and remind yourself from time to time – rethink!

Thank you for reading this article. I hope to read this book myself. Even if the theoretical part is difficult to understand, just looking at the interspersed examples can stimulate your brain to move~

Thank you also for challenging yourself to finish this book🥰

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Extended book list:

[Instead of believing that “hard work will lead to success”, it is better to exercise “detection nerve”]

-Those knowing and intentional things you have such a hard time controlling “The Art of Thinking”

[Construct your own thinking logic and understand yourself and the world]

－Read Hao Xulie’s “#Win in Logical Thinking”

2023-11-04 14:56:44

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