Think from another perspective, the results will be very different

An american essayist Emerson said: “Thinking is the seed of behavior.”

The same thing, think from another perspective, the result will be different.

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The magic of "exchange"

I saw something fun on Facebook.

A friend of mine share a post about a simulation of running restaurant type game. In the beginning, he set the price of the beverage in the store to 5 dollars a cup, and 1 dollar every time you use the toilet, but he was losing money.

So he changed the beverage price to 1 dollar a cup, and then 20 dollars every time to the toilet, turn out more beverages were sold and had a smooth turn to profit.

This reminds me of the story of horse racing.

Pete and the king agreed to horse racing, and rate their horse to three grades, but because the king’s horse in each grade is better than Pete’s horses, Pete was repeatedly defeated.

But with the help of his friend Kenny, Pete uses his worse graded horse to race with the king best horse, his best horse race with king’s medium graded horse, and medium graded horse race with king’s worse graded horse, and finally won the game.

Sometimes, something, you will get the solution if you change the order.

Good at using your strengths to deal with the shortcomings of opponents, so that you can turn the table around.

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Complex problems can be simplified

When we are taking the train, we will choose the shortest route to the destination, because it is the most effortless.

Well, so is everything else.

A large cosmetics company received complaints from customers that some of the soap boxes they bought were empty.

So, to prevent this from happening again, the engineers spent three months inventing an X-ray monitor to monitor every shipment of soap boxes.

Another small company is also experiencing the same problem, but their solution is to buy a powerful industrial fan and blow up every soap box, and the empty box that has no soap in it will be blown away.

Both in terms of economic cost and resource consumption, the second approach is more time-saving.

This is also the philosophy advocated by "the principle of the Ockham's Razor".

This principle is called "the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation is.".

Don't waste more resources to do something, the same thing can be done with fewer resources.

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The spirit of persistent should be used in the right place

When there is no water coming out from the water dispenser, add a pressure pipe to the water dispenser and apply pressure with your hand and the water will come out.

But there is one time, I pressed so much harder, but the water still not coming out.

My friend looked at me and laughed, and then gently remove the lid from the water dispenser, and the water was splashing out.

If I didn’t found out that I have forgotten to remove the lid, no matter how much pressure I applied, the water will not flow out.

Sometimes there is no wrong in persistent, but if used in the wrong place, then the spirit of persistent is useless.

So, at the same time when persisting, don't forget the stop and look at yourself, whether you are still in the right direction.

Otherwise, your efforts may become a dead end, become useless.

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An old monk asked a little monk, "If you are going to die when you move forward or backward, what should you do?" 

The little Monk said without hesitation: "I'll move to the left or right.”

The road is not only forward and backward, sometimes with different perspective, you will be enlightened.

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