Chapter 2 different vision

An inventor's son breaks free from his father's involuntary inertia to come up with insights that astound him. McCready, who once designed a human-powered plane and a solar-powered plane to fly across the English Channel, is a very creative person. He once taught his ten-year-old son to play the game of surface tension, that is, the game of making the needle float on the water.Mai Shi had a lot of experience in this physical experiment when he was young, so he taught his son how to put the needle on the water surface, such as using hooks, magnets, etc., and then saw how big the needle could float on the water surface.

The ten-year-old son played with it, and finally said to his father: Why don't we first freeze the water into ice cubes, put various needles on the ice cubes, and wait for the ice cubes to melt, so that we can know that it can float How big is the needle? McCready was amazed by his son's ingenuity, for it was a way he had never thought of in his life.He has always limited his thinking to how to put the needle on the surface of the water, but his son, who knows nothing about physics, looked at this problem with a different eye, and finally got a completely different or even better method.

We can say that Max's son used what the psychologist Di Bono called lateral thinking.Of course, a ten-year-old child does not know what is called horizontal thinking. We should say that he came up with it naturally without being tempted by any established theories and methods, that is, without any prejudice. Answer. The so-called education is actually learning to look at problems from a certain angle.People don't learn and don't know righteousness, but people are bound to be affected by their learning and experience, forming rather fixed and rigid concepts, and observing or thinking about problems with an unconscious inertia.

The great inventions and discoveries in history are all about people who can break this unconscious inertia and look at things with different eyes. As a result, they see what others can't see and think of what others can't think of.Therefore, these great creators are often young (of course not as young as him) and not deeply educated, just like Max's son.