The fourth element of effective thinking is water : seeing the flow of ideas, look back and look forward. There is always more. We need to understand that each invention is an incremental improvement of the previous one.
To adopt this, extend your idea, all idea can be extended. You will need to see the world as it is now in order to be able to look forward into the future.
The third element of effective thinking is Air :this is to say that we can create solutions out of thin air. Create a questions to challenge your own assumptions, be your own Socrates. The easiest way to learn about something is to teach them, by doing this you will need to understand the matter deep. Another important things to note is framing the question, this is a important as answering them.
Sometimes answers can lead to questions. What if, this allow us to see the world differently. Always ask yourself a question, what is the real question. This will allow you to fix the root cause and not just solving problem that will lead up to more problems later.
In this life we need to define our definition of success, this can be done by framing the question what success mean to you. Without knowing this, you will always constantly chasing you tail.
In summary we always needs to question the questions.
The second elements of the effective thinking is Fire: you need to ignite the enthusiasm, welcome accidental mistake. And have an iterative process to fix the mistake. You will need to fail fast and learn from it. Fixing mistake through iterative process will need to be second nature.
We are having a family holiday in a Mini convertible, driving to a new town and stopping by to check the direction. There is a guy approaching and said I can see such and such is the owner of the mini, and Hui responded that we are the new owner and probably the data is not updated. There was another lady joining the conversation. Saying that it cost about 100k, and we acknowledge.
Suddenly they start to demolish the shop in front of us, so we had to move the car. And like usual Hui and I was arguing about something. And then I woke up.
The book “The 5 elements of effective thinking” describes what fundamental elements related to effective thinking. It is a thought provoking way to provoke thought. The analogy is the hero in a movie is usually a person who change the most. To be able to reap the most out of the book, you will need the following strategy :
Listen
Do the exercise
Make it second nature
The first element is earth : ground your thinking. What it means is to understand simple things deeply. Focus on solving the simpler problem. Try to declutter and see what is possible.
Finally the book have a small test to find out whether you are having a high risk of procrastination or more resilience towards it. Score yourself from 1 to 10 on the following :
If you sum up the procrastination risk score (item 2, 3 and 6) tog can compare them against your resilience scores (item 1, 4 and 5) you will have some guidance on where you are leaning towards and be able to adjust to combat procrastination.
I was on a cruise ship, and suddenly realized something out in the horizon. The cloud formation change, it looks like sea water was sucked out into the sky. Then the cloud formed, thundering down. Some planes appeared, then fall down to the sea. Many more planes appeared in the sky, all of them being shot down, broken into pieces and fall down from the sky.
A machine gun battle sounds was heard in the distance. Explosion in the sky was seen. Then a guy suddenly appeared in the ship with big machine gun. He started to shoot at us with his huge machine gun. Some of the shell hit me but I didn’t feel anything. Some other guys yelled that it hurt. The guy yelled enjoyed the price. I suddenly realize that you can crack open the shell and there is a message inside. The first one I open had a comic strip inside. The guy was running away, while emptying his machine guns around. I quickly grab a few more shell which now looks more like a cut off coke bottle. I found one with a shiny coke flags that says free coke. I assume this is the prize the guy was talking about. One of my friend in the ship was trying to pinch it off me. I quickly secured it into my pocket. And while thinking on how can I trade the prize, I suddenly woke up.
Further more the “Solving Procrastination puzzle” book suggest the following steps :
The “Solving procrastination puzzle” book also highlight some steps you can use to try to combat procrastination.
I just completed listening to “Solving Procrastination puzzle” audio book. It is quite an interesting one. We as a human being from time to time procrastinate. What the book is trying to explain is why this is happening, and ultimately if we know the why, we can try to solve it and thus getting more things done.
The book started with defining the difference between delay and procrastination. It defined procrastination as needless or voluntary delay. It also talk about how people with lower emotional intelligence will have bigger procrastination. Some people procrastinate to avoid negative emotions related to the task, in this way they will make themselves feel good by procrastinating. This is also called strategic procrastination, we make ourselves feel good by trying and finishing things last minute.