When we are looking for a solution, we can use either fast thinking or slow thinking. These names were suggested by Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate. In quick thinking, he included everything that comes to us spontaneously and instantly: insight, intuition, recognition … Sometimes this is called a sense or quick wits. And slow thinking is discursive, expanded thinking, and more often it is about analysis and thoughtfulness. Not about ingenuity, but about the ability to think.
It is clear that in reality these methods are often used together, alternating and complementing each other, however, someone often focuses on quick intuition prompts and quick wit, while someone — on leisurely and carefully consider.
Uses of FAST THINKING:
Brainstorming: the group throws as many ideas as possible, including the most stupid ones, until suddenly something randomly appears in this stream that turns out to be a solution by itself.
An intuitive way — I just listen to myself, I try to understand my feelings, how I will act in this situation as a result. See also Method of enumeration of options — a record of all possible options and an intuitive choice of the best.
Visual way — I consider my situation, fantasize possible scenarios and thus look for opportunities … Option — after asking a question, I wait for the answers to appear in my mind.
The method of closing the eyes — I will try not to solve the problem at all. A variant of this is to upload the problem to myself and wait for the solution to pop up on its own.
In the TV series House M.D., the doctor was solving a difficult problem with a patient. What did he do? He took and just sat, took the ball and for 15 minutes or half an hour, threw — threw, but no eyes, threw — threw. This creates a background of excitement that physiologically contributes to the process of thinking. Instead of a ball, there may be a woman here, there will be a female la — la — la. A little noise, feminine la-la is good for masculine thinking.
Blond: look at the condition of the problem until the answer pops up in your head. Blond 2 — when, for example, in chess all moves are equivalent, a complete stupor, but time is running out and you have to move somehow. A random move is made — with closed eyes and a dangling hand, any piece is taken and moved somewhere.
“And here’s another consideration”: instead of thinking, that is, analyzing the problem, a person begins to add more and more new considerations to existing information. The expectation that sooner or later “everything will work out” from this and suddenly a solution will appear.
— Colleagues, here are the current fees of the presenters (link). Is everything reasonable? If you have any suggestions, I’m ready to discuss.
— I am writing just in case, it will suddenly come in handy: there are 17 face-to-face Monday Distances this half-year. This is 17 X 3 = 51 hours. An increase in the salary of a Distance teacher by 1 per hour automatically gives 51 for the six months (before the New Year). So? Then you can try on — to whom and by how much you can change the salary.
Evaluation is better than helpless complaining, but weaker than analytical thinking. It can be combined: if thinking does not help, we pause and turn on “Here’s another consideration” — a vision may appear. Gu.e.I MISTAKE: throwing new additional considerations when the process of analytical thinking is underway. New additional considerations also need difficult processing, so instead of facilitating the solution, the work is only added. Raw considerations turn out to be not help, but distracting garbage.
The method of finding a cause for an effect, a stimulus for a reaction
The card method — thinking through only the closest move, because it is not known what will fall out — solving problems as they become available.
Precedent — all similar cases are recalled from stories, movies, books, from life
Exploratory — When learning a new program, I change the position of the adjustments in turn and see what happens
In films, the action figure knows how others think. If other friends, then acts in accordance with their expectations, if enemies, then sets a trap
Reception of the shuttle movement — from the abstract to the concrete and back ….
A set of tricks is available in TRIZ and near-Triz literature.
Ways to think
Analytical thinking — decomposing the problem into parts, and then for each part visual-intuitive or again analytical
You can think by imagining, reasoning and imagining.
“Let’s think, if that’s the case, then…
This is an example of reasoning, and reasoning is part of thinking.
How is it to think? Thinking Steps
To think is to imagine yourself in the conditions in which you have to solve a life problem.
If we expand this to the steps of thinking, then this is a representation of the following images:
- the image of what you want to achieve (goal, dream, necessary future);
- image of the world. In this case, narrowed, since to solve the problem it is enough to have an image of the conditions of the problem;
- an image of oneself, so that one can lead him in this image of the task;
- modus operandi. More precisely, a lot of ways of action, from which you need to choose the best one;
- images of rules known on the basis of one’s own experience or the experience of smart people;
- images of possible consequences, so that one can make a judgment on how to solve this problem, and thereby complete thinking and move on to action.
Method of 5 steps — statement of need, available information, consideration of opportunities, selection of the most promising, disposal
Well, one of the most reliable methods is Ask smart people. There are reference books for this, there are experts, and once it was the Ask your dad method. And what? If dad is around, ask. If there is no dad, imagine that he is next to you, and also ask his opinion. As a rule, you will understand what he says. Maybe it’s really worth it?