As the saying goes, "Two heads are better than one", what does it really mean?

"Three heads are better than one Zhuge Liang" is a popular saying, which means that although Zhuge Liang is resourceful, the wisdom of three ordinary people is combined, and the role played by collective wisdom is completely equal to Zhuge Liang's strength alone. The original intention of this sentence is that even if a person has the ability, his wisdom and strength are limited after all. Never underestimate the power of the masses at any time. Everyone contributes a little wisdom, and many a mickle makes a mickle. A group of ordinary people can do amazing things. Just like chopsticks, they are easily broken. When a chopstick is combined, it will increase its strength and toughness indefinitely. It is not easy to break it.

Faced with a problem, even if a person has a deep talent, when considering the problem, he usually thinks in one direction. There are always unexpected places and there is always a lack of comprehensiveness.

When several people face a problem at the same time, because everyone's thinking is different, it is helpful to think from different angles, and the result will be much richer and more comprehensive.

Therefore, since ancient times, people who want to do great things like to set up a think tank and recruit talents from all over the world to serve them. For example, there are many talents under Liu Bei's account in the Three Kingdoms. In addition to Zhuge Liang, there are Pang Tong, Fazheng, Xu Shu and others. Together with Zhuge Liang, they formed Liu Bei's think tank.

In fact, the story of "three heads are better than one" comes from a story in the Three Kingdoms period.

Zhuge Liang is not only a famous counselor, but also a skillful craftsman in the period of the Three Kingdoms. One day, at the invitation of Sun Quan of Soochow, he came to Jianye (now Nanjing), the capital of Soochow, to build a tall stupa for Sun Quan. Zhuge Liang is a wise man, and immediately thought of using the name of building a stupa to find out the real national strength of Soochow and provide some valuable clues for cleaning up Soochow in the future.

Zhuge Liang designed a stupa more than 20 feet high with his own skill, and a copper gourd 5 feet high at the top of the tower. The weight of copper gourd has reached more than 4,000 kilograms. It seems difficult to cast this gourd with the present strength of Soochow.

But Zhuge Liang couldn't laugh at the lack of talented people in Soochow, so Sun Quan ordered people to post notices next to the gate of the city wall to recruit talents. If anyone can solve this problem, there will be many rewards.

A month later, nothing happened. Sun Quan was sweating, but Zhuge Liang gloated and waited to see Wu Dong make a fool of himself.

There are three ugly and illiterate cobblers at the main entrance of Jianye City. They are called "ugly cobblers" by the locals. When they heard that Zhuge Liang was so insolent and made things difficult for the people of Wu Dong, they decided to fight back against Zhuge Liang and save face for the people of Wu Dong.

First, three cobblers cut down a tree that was more than ten meters high and two meters thick. Through carving and splicing, the tree is made into a gourd model. Then take the wooden gourd as the embryo, cover the surface with many pieces of buffalo hide, and sew it into a cowhide gourd with one stitch and one thread. Then draw a vertical cut with the same height on the cowhide gourd, take out the wooden gourd, sew the cowhide, and make the mold of copper gourd.

Finally, the cowhide mold is buried in the sand and copper water is poured into the mold. Finally, it was made into the copper gourd required by Zhuge Liang, with good size and weight. Zhuge Liang, who was proud of his talent, was very surprised when he saw the bright copper gourd. He praised Wu Dong as a land of hidden dragons and crouching tigers, and dared not stay long, so he got up and left.

Wu Dongren was very happy. They talked about it one after another. At some point, they invented the saying that "three ugly cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang".

Later, due to homophonic relationship, this proverb gradually became a fixed sentence pattern.