If you encounter an unsolvable problem, try to be a fish in the opposite direction, which may make you feel at home.

When you face an unprecedented problem, think in a fixed direction, flexibly adjust your thinking direction, think from different angles, or even think the whole thing backwards without understanding, then it is possible to do the opposite and achieve the fruits of success.

This story may be good for you. During the reign of Xining in Song Shenzong, the locust plague in Yuezhou continued, and patches of locusts covered the sun like dark clouds. Wherever I went, there were no seedlings and no leaves, which was a chilling sight. Of course, such crops have not been harvested.

At that time, Zhao Bian, a new magistrate in Yuezhou, was faced with the arduous task of political locust plague. There is no shortage of large families in Yuezhou, and all of them have accumulated grain. Most people live a half-starved and half-full life when the green and yellow are not connected. Once the locust plague occurs, there will be a shortage of rations for half a year. In famine years, food is more precious than gold. Who doesn't want to live frugally? For a time, the price of rice in Yuezhou soared.

Faced with this situation, the family members were impatient and came to Zhao Zhao side in succession, begging him to figure out a way. Taking this opportunity, Zhao bian called his family to discuss disaster relief measures.

Everyone is talking about it, but one thing is certain, that is, according to the usual practice, the government issued a notice to stabilize the price of rice in order to save the people from famine. Subordinates are arguing, and a nearby state has issued a notice to suppress rice prices. If we don't act, the price of rice will rise every day, and the people will be silent and even rebel.

Zhao bian listened to everyone's discussion, immersed for a long time, and then said slowly, this time, I want to do the opposite. I didn't send a notice to suppress the price of rice, but I sent a notice to announce that the price of rice can rise freely. Hearing this, the people were dumbfounded. I first suspected that the adults were joking, but later I saw that the adults were serious. I suspect that adults have taken the wrong medicine and are talking nonsense. Zhao Wei drafted the instrument.

Official orders are like mountains, and adults do what they say. However, everyone is worried that this disaster relief will definitely fail, Yuezhou will starve everywhere, and the people of Yuezhou will suffer! At this time, notices were posted in the nearby counties to prohibit raising the price of rice without permission. Anyone who violates the law, once found out, will be exposed by hell. Those who raise the price of rice privately will be rewarded by the government, while Yuezhou will post a notice that the price of rice is not limited, so rice merchants from all directions will come to ask. The price of rice did go up a lot a few days ago, but buyers saw too much rice on the market and waited to stop buying it. However, within a few days, the price of rice began. Rice merchants don't want to sell, but the freight is too expensive, which increases the cost, and the price of rice elsewhere is limited, so they have to bite the bullet and sell at a low price. In this way, although the price of rice in Yuezhou is higher than that in other counties, ordinary people can buy rice if they have money, while the price of rice in other counties has come down, but it is difficult for ordinary people to buy rice after waiting in line for half a day. Therefore, the people of Yuezhou at least starved to death and received a reward from the imperial court.

Subordinates just admire Zhao Bian's strategy and come to ask why. Zhao Bian said: The market is constant. More things are cheap and less things are expensive. We are so uncharacteristically, rice merchants can raise prices at will, and rice merchants flock to us. There are still so many people eating rice. How does the price of rice rise? This is the secret.

Many times, thinking from a single angle is likely to come to a dead end, because the facts may be completely opposite. Sometimes, the problem is really difficult and can't be solved from the front. At this time, if you explore reverse thinking, you will have unexpected results. .

Now there is such a story, and the protagonist also achieved good craftsmanship with the method of reverse thinking.

One day in a street in Paris, three different tailors lived at the same time, but because of the close distance, business competition was fierce, in order to suppress others. In order to attract more customers, tailors made a fuss about the signs at the door. One day, a tailor wrote on the sign in front of the door that the best tailor in Paris attracted many customers. After seeing this situation, another tailor did not show weakness. The next day, he wrote on the door: "The best tailor in France." Signboard, the result also attracted many customers. And the third one is very upset. The signboards erected by the first two tailors attracted most customers. If we can't think of a better way, we will probably become "the worst tailors in business". But what words can surpass "Paris" and "all France"? If we label it "the best tailor in the world", it will undoubtedly make others feel false and make the satire of our peers more severe. What should we do? Knowing the reason why my father was worried, we smiled and said, "It's not easy." . Then he wrote a few words on the signboard. Go out to play together.

On the third day, two other tailors stood in the street waiting to see another joke of their colleagues, but to their surprise, they found that many customers were robbed by the third tailor. What is the reason? The original beauty lies in the signboard. I saw that it said "the best tailor in this street".

In today's fierce competition, people need unconventional ways of thinking to win, but the tailor's son made a fuss about the smallness of the street and finally won, because he may not be the best in the country or the best in the city. But in this particular area of the street, he is the best, which is absolutely competitive.

When you encounter a problem, you might as well try to think in reverse, which may greatly improve your success. Return is also a source of inspiration.