Don't stop thinking because of understanding

Question is an important tool for helping us to learn. By asking questions, we can understand the unknown world.

Technology is changing our lifestyle, and it is also changing the way we manage enterprises. Those established old methods and practices are undergoing challenges. How can we adapt to the changing world? How can I seize the ubiquitous opportunities?

There is only one way, that is to open up thinking, keep curiosity, let yourself be surrounded by problems, and at the same time be vigilant: don't stop thinking because you understand a thing, and then stop asking questions.

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Time returns to 1976. At that time, Google did not have all the questions we had inquired, and a young man named Van Philips raised a question that could not find the answer with Google: "If they can make a person climb the moon, why not make making it to make a person who cannot make a production. A decent prosthesis? "This idea was continuously enlarged after forming in his mind.

Philips feels that his future is expected to find the real answer to this question, and no one seems to give the answer yet.

At the age of 21 when Philips was, he was a athlete and a handsome and smart college student. He has always lived an intoxicating life. But one day of that summer, his fate changed.

At that time, he was skiing in a lake in Arizona, USA, and the boat that pulled his water skating suddenly became angry, followed by chaos. The driver did not see another motorboat driving, and the motor boat hit Philips.

The next morning, Philips, who was lying in the hospital, woke up slowly. He recalled: "I did what everyone would do -'I don't want to see it, but I still can't help but see'." He lifted the blanket and found "his left foot is gone." The limbs below his knee were cut off by the propeller of another motorboat. The hospital is equipped with "a pink prosthesis fixed on the lead tube" for Phillips. This prosthesis is not much stronger than a piece of wood, but this is the prosthesis at the time.

Philips left the hospital with a description of the instructions, and wrote in the manual: "Slowly get used to your" new friend ', and use it twice a day, it will become stronger and stronger, gradually becoming your best best for you friend."

Philips recalled that when he tried to walk with this prosthetic for the first time, he was tripped by "a pea -sized cobblestone". At that time, he understood that he couldn't adapt to the pseudo limb. He also recalled that he visited his girlfriend's parents during that time. His girlfriend's father once called him aside and said, "Philips, you must learn to accept this fact."

Philips recalled: "I bite my tongue at the time, and I knew he was right. To some extent, I really must admit that I was an amputation person. However, I would not accept fact."

At that moment, Philips showed the characteristics of an innovative questioner: refusing to accept reality.

In fact, in childhood, he already showed similar signs. For example, he once removed all the door handles in the room. At that time, he thought: "If the door handles are separated from the door, what will happen?" The questioner often had many naughty childhood stories. Now, as an adult, he is at a key "why" moment at this time. For example, he thinks: "Why do I barely accept this nasty prosthesis?"

This is a reasonable issue for Philips. Because he clearly realized (anyone thinks about anyone at this time), there are many incredible things in the science and technology world, especially in the space planning project in the United States. Therefore, he naturally wants to know why people have a way to let a person walk on the moon, but can't think of ways to solve the realistic problems on the earth?

Philips did not expect that the U.S. government and large companies were not in a hurry to solve these problems. After that, as he gradually understood the field of physical repair, he slowly knew this, and the more he knew about this field, the more he firmly believed in this. Philips recalled: "For decades, the body repair industry has been stagnating."

No one invests in this industry, because the customer base of this industry, that is, amputated people have no idea about this attractive business market. "And I can take the opportunity to take the lead," Felipus said so a few years later.

Because the industry has long been stopped for a long time, it has left a lot of space, which not only allows people to question those outdated concepts and maintain the status quo, but also allow people to inject many new ideas into this industry into this industry.

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As an innocent questioner, Philips quickly discovered that in the kingdom of answers everywhere, his "why" and "if" issues such as "if" were not popular. In many professional occasions, basic and fundamental problems often make people unpopular and even feel uncomfortable.

For example, this situation will occur in hospitals or doctors' office, business conference rooms, and even classrooms.菲利普斯提出的问题，比如，“为什么市面上没有更好的假肢”以及“这种局面是否可以改变”等都可能会被人们视为对某些专家的挑战，比如对医生、肢体修复工程师和The challenges of other people who know potential answers.

Because in the field of limb repair, these experts can know much more than Philips.

As a foreigner in this field, Philips has great advantages because he can ask questions from the perspective of bystanders. The greatest fun and attractiveness of questions lies in the opinions of the questioners often opposite the opinions of experts, so experts generally rarely ask questions in their own research field. Regarding this phenomenon, American architect Frank Laudie Wright has given an image explanation -experts "stop thinking because of 'understanding'", if you "understand" reason.

However, if you don't ask, you can only rely on the knowledge of "experts". And their knowledge must be limited, it may be outdated, or it may be completely wrong. Philips does not want experts to believe that he can better understand the professional knowledge in the field of limb repair, and he does not "understand" related knowledge very thoroughly, but he is suspicious.

On the road of questioning, as a questioner to meet the challenge, Philips took a key step to turn "why they can't make a better prosthetic limb" into their own problem.

Why am I unhappy? Why is my career in trouble? Why is there no app that can solve people's actual problems? However, just ask "why" is everything? When we face the problem, we only ask "why", without any subsequent questions, thinking, and questioning process, then we just complain and moan.

Wallen Bergel has refined in this book to ask three steps to ask a good question, which allows us to quickly grasp the questioning framework of the question, which will cause new thinking, make good creativity, and solve the current and future problems.

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