movie "Beautiful Mind" tells the legendary story of how schizophrenic economist John Nash overcomes his mental illness, and finally created game theory and embarked on an immortal life. There are a series of interesting scenes in the film. Whether it’s Nash’s college dormitory, his office after becoming a professor, or the garage where Nash worked for the fantasy spy organization, it’s always messy, with information flying all over the sky. , Various numbers are written all over the wall, densely packed. For any ordinary person, discovering patterns from such a chaotic data pile is an impossible task. However, Nash started his research under such conditions and finally gained a worldwide reputation through game theory. The phenomenon of
is very common in our lives. I believe everyone has heard the story of "Professor's Desk": The level of confusion in professor 's desk is proportional to their creativity.
The core meaning of "hunter thinking" is: when you walk into a wood that you are not familiar with and full of uncertainties and crises, you must be like a hunter, distracting your attention in every corner and passing fast Information collection, get a complete map and crisis list to ensure that you move forward in the woods efficiently and safely.
Hunter thinking tells us that not being so disciplined, learning to embrace chaos, and even actively creating chaos, can stimulate creativity. When you don’t work hard to plan for success, you may be closer to success.
What this article is about is to use "hunter thinking" to establish a new understanding of chaos, and to help you find order from chaos, so as to work and think efficiently, and obtain personal freedom:
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The formation of hunter thinking ——What you know is far greater than what you know
From a cognitive perspective, hunter thinking is the necessary process of cognitive formation. Because we can gain cognition by connecting many chaotic and disorderly data, information, and concepts into a single line and summarizing them into a phenomenon. Just as we look at the chaotic clouds in the sky and we can see animals or human faces from inside, it is a process of summarizing laws from chaos and disorder.
has such an experiment: in the medical field, there is a rare disease called "blindness", also known as left hemibrain neglect, because the left hemisphere is responsible for the right vision , So when the patient looks at what is in front of him, he feels that he cannot see with his right eye and can only see what is on the left. The researcher asked a woman with blindness to look at two photos of the house. The left half of the photo is the same, but the right half is different. The first photo is a complete photo of the house, and the other is Half of the house is on fire. The patient thought the two photos were exactly the same after reading it, but when the researchers asked the patient which house he wanted to live in, the patient chose the house that was not on fire. The experiment
proves that cognition, as a result of output, is affected by many factors, some of which you can realize, and some of which you don’t. How does
explain this phenomenon? You see, the patient wisely chose a house that is not on fire, but if you ask him why he didn’t choose another photo, she can’t answer at all, because she thinks the photo she saw is the same, and she also I don't know why I chose a house without a fire. Although
made the right decision, she had no idea how she made such a decision.
This phenomenon has long been discovered in the field of psychology: up to 90% of cognition is unconscious. The so-called unconsciousness of is the cognition that you don't feel at all, which is affecting your decision-making. In other words,
is very confusing: you know much more than you know you know.
The reason why you think you are able to self-knowledge is because the basis for your judgment is the obvious reasons that you think you can follow, but in fact, 90% of the things that affect your cognitive decision-making , Often you don’t know.
Behavioural psychology master Kahneman said: "We are blind to our blindness."
This is why we often look for mobile phones with mobile phones in our hands. Behind the occurrence of such things as riding a donkey and looking for a donkey is We turn a blind eye and deaf ears, and feel that the thinking that controls everything is working, but the 90% of those you can't see, hidden under the iceberg of your consciousness, are the key factors that affect your decision-making.
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Why does the hunter's thinking work?-the embodied perception
The core point of the hunter's thinking is to keep you concerned about the changes in your surroundings, thereby forming a keen perception that can quickly capture what you need through the environment information. Because cognition is not only related to our mind, but also closely related to our time and space environment.
is no longer tenable in modern times. Modern psychology believes that: our cognition is not an assembly line, but more like an island of production. As a result, the recognition of
is not produced by successive processes, but many processes occur simultaneously.
A typical experiment is related to doing math problems: the same person does a difficult math problem, and the score and answering speed will have completely different results, and this result is closely related to the desk lamp used in the room. Next, the speed and accuracy of answering questions are significantly higher than the effect without a lamp. There are many similar experiments like
in psychology. People live in the environment, and the environment affects people's decision-making and thinking through various visible and invisible factors. Psychologists call this phenomenon "Embodied cogniyion" (Embodied cogniyion)
. This concept believes that: cognition = physical experience + mental state + environmental factors
Churchill said, "We shape architecture, and architecture in turn shapes us"
contains the recognition of embodied cognition. How does
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make "Hunter Thinking" work?
We say that hunter thinking is a thinking model that distracts attention to the surrounding environment and seeks certainty from uncertainty.
is more conducive to distraction for people engaged in creative workTo be creative, for innovators, not only should they not be afraid of uncertainty, but they must always welcome them, and even actively increase the uncertainty in order to obtain more valuable innovations.
Here are three practical methods of "Hunter Thinking":
A. Multi-project work method-which pot is opened and which pot
The famous economist Tim Harford in the book "Chaos" It was mentioned that some scientists have studied biology, chemistry, and mathematical physics, and they study the most difficult problems in their fields. Harford discovered that these scientists can often quickly apply new ideas in one field to another, and once they are used, they are magical.
He summarized the working methods of these scientists and named him "multi-project work method": You should have several different projects in progress at the same time, such as several scientific research projects, several writing projects, and even several housework. . Each project has its own archive, and any new ideas are added to it, which project can be done, and those that cannot be done temporarily are kept. A vivid analogy used by
is, which pot is opened and which pot is used. This approach of
has four advantages: different projects of
B. Wandering mathematicians-a team without cohesion, more creative
Under normal thinking, we would think that only a cohesive team can be creative. In fact, true creativity belongs to those teams that can give creators full freedom. Whether it is Google or Apple, although they need to add more cohesive teams as they continue to grow, they have fully retained the good tradition of allowing engineers to toss.
has a very typical example to illustrate this point.
Mathematician Pál Erdős (Pál Erdős) is the person who has published the most mathematics papers in history, up to 1,525. He has at least one paper every six weeks for sixty years, and the quality is very high. However, Erdös has no permanent residence, will not stay for a long time in any academic institution, and will always travel. He collaborated with these people on a paper in one place, and immediately went to another place to collaborate with other people. Eldersh doesn't know what cohesion is. His collaborators are changing all the time, but his creativity is amazing, and he is called "the wandering mathematician".
In fact, in our working environment, there are two types of teams:
Therefore, when creativity is involved in your work, you should add diversity to your team, allocate a wide range of talents, and give them more freedom so that they can play their imaginations freely. The most important thing is to create an open and free collaborative atmosphere. Just like "walking mathematicians", they don’t need the long-term cooperation of a small team. They can discuss math problems immediately when they meet. I don’t care what your personality is. The work is done. I leave gently as I gently The earth does not take away a cloud.
C. The law of free man-do not be swayed by tools, become your own master
We say that hunter thinking is to pay attention to changes in the surrounding environment, because the environment can affect your judgment and decision-making. In fact, the core concept I want to say is: As a person, in this modern world full of mechanization, standardization, and regulation, what choice do you have for your own lifestyle. Do you choose to follow the rules or choose freedom and independence.
In most people's minds, it seems normal to organize work documents and clean up the desks. Some companies even list these as basic office management regulations and require employees to implement them.
, take whatever you use, and then put it on top of the pile-this system is very reasonable, it automatically guarantees the most commonly used The file is placed on top. The seemingly messy placement of items actually already contains information about file priority. The only sorting action you need is to throw away the files that are still at the bottom of each pile after a long time.
, for example, to attend a meeting at a certain time on a certain day, instead of having a plan to arrange it yourself. Studies have found that it is best to make plans only in the medium and long term, such as what goals to accomplish each month, and then flexibly find time to achieve them. If you make a plan for yourself with specific requirements every day on a whim, you may not be able to stick to it. This is because once something unexpected happens that prevents you from completing the plan one day, you don't want to follow one step if you can't keep up.
People who live according to the rules essentially put themselves in a lower position than the external system and are passive. Organizing documents is actually allowing yourself to serve external systems. Whether it is useful or not, maintaining the state of this system is the most important. Doing things according to the schedule is actually letting an external system regulate their behavior.
As a self-conscious person, documents and schedules are both tools for him. He doesn't care how the documents look, and he doesn't want to be restricted by the schedule. The underlying logic of
hunter thinking is to tell us: Behind cleanliness is to follow the rules and mechanize people, while behind the chaos is freedom and independence, which makes people more like people.
summarizes: today introduced you to the "hunter thinking" this subversive thinking model, through the embodied cognitive view, let us understand the impact of the environment on our decision-making, and finally summarized the "multi-project work method", The three tools of "Wandering Mathematician" and "Law of Free Man" allow you to learn to be less compliant, learn to embrace chaos, and even actively create chaos, which can stimulate creativity and achieve a successful life.
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