People who can solve problems quickly have the ability to think in zero seconds.

It is not difficult to find that people with strong thinking ability can always think of solutions to current problems when they encounter problems. For example, there is a story about the image of Cao Chong in ancient times.

Here's the story. Wu sent an elephant to Cao Cao. Cao Cao and his courtiers were curious about elephants and went to watch them. When I saw that the elephant was very big, and its legs were as thick as the pillars of the beam, I wanted to know how heavy the elephant really was.

These courtiers have different opinions on how to call an elephant. Some people say that it is necessary to make a huge scale; Some people say, kill the elephant, cut it into pieces, and so on Although everyone put forward many methods, they were not recognized by Cao Cao. Just when Cao Cao had a headache, his youngest son, Cao Chong, came running and offered a method to calculate the elephant's weight. He used the method of equivalent exchange. First, he drove the elephant to the boat, marked the place where the water reached the hull, and then drove the elephant to the shore. Then, according to the marks made on the hull before, put the stones into the ship; When the water reaches the mark beside the boat, it won't be full of stones. Finally, find someone to weigh and add the stones in the boat in turn, so that the weight of the elephant can be obtained quickly. After listening to his younger son's advice, Cao Cao always praised his younger son Cao Chong for his cleverness.

After listening to this story, you may think that Cao Chong is very talented, so his thinking ability is particularly strong. In fact, in our real life, there are also many people with very agile thinking, which is acquired by training their brains. Xiong Yi, the writer Chiyu, wrote down all the methods to improve his thinking ability in his book Zero-second Thinking. It has benefited many readers who have read this book.

Xiong Yi is a senior management elite of McKinsey. He once worked for McKinsey, a world-famous consulting firm, and participated in many important turning points of McKinsey & Company. For example, he led the company's business strategy, and also participated in the company's design and introduction of new organizations, marketing, new horizons and many other projects. 1990, he also founded his own McKinsey branch in Korea.

During the 14 years at McKinsey, Xiong Yi found that the elites working at McKinsey could give quick solutions to the problems raised by customers. Through these findings, Jiyou Xiong Yi realized that an employee's deep thinking ability will greatly affect the future of a company. So I attach great importance to this piece. Through years of research, Xiong Yi Chiyu summed up a set of methods to improve thinking ability; He believes that anyone can train his brain by thinking in zero seconds, so that his thinking ability can be improved rapidly in a period of time; When I encounter problems at work, I can think of a solution quickly.

After introducing the author, let's take a look at the content of the book Zero Second Thinking. The book mainly talks about: constantly training our brains by taking zero-second thinking notes; Let our brains keep thinking every day, so that our thinking ability can be improved rapidly; Turn vague ideas into problem-solving ability. When our brains are trained to understand and solve problems quickly, it means that our thinking ability has been greatly improved. Xiong Yi called this ability "zero-second thinking". Next, I will share the essence of this book with you in three parts.

Put your thoughts into words and think more clearly.

When it comes to taking notes, many people think of reading when they were young. The teacher always asks us to take notes in class. Most of the notes made during reading are important contents in the textbook to extract or explain. These notes can help us remember the contents of the textbook better and get good grades in the exam. And these notes are either written directly in the textbook or in your own notebook. The notes of zero-second thinking are not recorded in this way, and the way of recording is completely different. How should I take zero-second thinking notes?

In the book Zero-second Thinking, Xiong Yi told us that before taking zero-second thinking notes, we should first prepare an A4 paper, and this paper must be A4 paper, because the notes recorded on A4 paper are convenient for us to sort out later. When you start to write a zero-second thinking note, put this A4 paper horizontally on the desktop, and write down all the ideas that come into your mind on the paper. At this time, you may think, what I think in my mind is particularly messy. What if I write it and others see the joke?

In fact, many people worry about doing something badly for the first time; It is understandable that people will inevitably worry about being laughed at. Many people like to take notes when reading, and when taking notes, they will use notes of various colors to distinguish different contents in the notebook; If you remember your notes very well, you will often be used by your classmates for reference. Because such notes are considered to be for reading, they will be remembered neatly and beautifully when taking notes. Because you used to take notes, the thoughts in your mind were confused, so you knew your own notes; There must be illogical situations, and of course there will be fears of being laughed at.

This kind of worry is unnecessary when we take zero-second thinking notes. Notes of zero-second thinking, after being recorded, need not be shown to anyone; Put it directly in the drawer after writing, and then take it out for reference when necessary. Why not wait for the notes that you spent zero seconds thinking about?

Because the purpose of taking notes through zero-second thinking is to visualize the ideas in our minds. When we encounter something that needs to be solved, we don't know the essence of the problem, and there will be many doubts related to the problem in our minds; Because we are not particularly sure about these ideas, it will confuse our thinking. At this time, we can write down and sort out all the vague problems in our minds, which is convenient for us to sort out our thoughts. Through these questions, we can guide our brains to think deeply and write the answers we want.

Xiong Yi suggested that every time you write a zero-second thinking note, only one question should be written on each piece of paper, and the answer should be written according to this question. You only need to write 4 to 6 lines for each answer, and the time should be controlled within one minute. After writing the next four to six lines, even if you still want to write, stop at once.

Why should it be controlled within one minute?

Because the first thing that appears in our minds is what we think is more important. And what we need to record is exactly what pops up in our mind at the first time. When writing, it is best to write the title of the note with questions; Use questions to guide our brains to think, and then write answers.

In fact, this method of recording zero-second thinking notes can not only find the answers we want to the problems encountered at work; In daily life, you can also use this method to arouse the brain's reflection by writing out the problems in your heart.

For example, you quarreled with your boyfriend; You can write the question directly like this: Why are we fighting? Then write 4 to 6 lines of answers, such as: I just said something that hurt him, and he slammed the door and left, which disappointed me. We should calm down and talk about it. In short, no matter what kind of questions appear in your mind, just write the answers directly.

Keep training your brain to think in zero seconds.

We have learned how to write zero-second thinking notes before. Don't think that mastering the method of writing zero-second thinking notes will improve your thinking ability. Learning to write zero-second thinking notes is only the first step to improve our thinking ability. After learning the method, we should improve our thinking ability to face problems to a reaction speed close to zero seconds. Zero-second thinking means that when encountering problems, you can subconsciously react quickly and provide correct solutions.

If when we encounter a problem, we need to put our thoughts away from our minds for a while, sort them out step by step through notes, and then find a solution to the problem, it can't be called zero-second thinking. Of course, by writing zero-second thinking notes step by step, we can find a solution to the problem; It's much better than those who are confused when they encounter problems, but it's still far from those who have the ability to think quickly. So how can we have the same thinking ability as those elites in the workplace?

When learning a skill, many people know that practice makes perfect. In fact, the ability of zero-second thinking can also be regarded as a skill that we must learn in the workplace. To achieve the perfection of this skill, it can also be obtained through repeated practice.

Chi Yu Xiong Yi told us that after learning the method of zero-second thinking; Set a goal for yourself and write 10 pages of zero-second thinking notes every day. As soon as many people hear that they have to take 10 pages of notes every day, they subconsciously start to resist and convey to their brains that it is difficult to write so many notes. This is my own misunderstanding. As we said before, there is only one question on one page. The answer to each question only needs to be written in 4 to 6 lines, and it must be written in one minute. Then we write 10 pages of zero-second thinking notes every day. We just need to take 10 minutes from our busy schedule and finish it seriously.

Of course, sometimes, when we encounter a problem, we only think of one problem; Sometimes we think a lot of questions. Then, when there are few questions, it is difficult for us to write 10 pages of zero-second thinking notes; Make it impossible for us to finish the task. When we encounter such a situation, we can do this. When a lot of problems appear in our minds, we will write all the problems we think of on a piece of A4 paper. The more questions you write, the better. Take the unwritten questions as our reserves.

The topic we wrote is the topic of Zero-second Thinking. When writing questions, we don't have to be limited to writing only 4 to 6 lines, which is set for us when writing answers; When writing a question, write whatever comes to mind. Problems have accumulated a lot. When we don't think of new problems for the time being, we can find out a few problems we have written before. According to these previously reserved questions, you can still write answers, and you can complete the task of thinking and taking notes on 10 pages for zero seconds.

Some people may say, what if you don't accumulate problems at first?

Don't worry, we can also aim at one thing from different angles; Set different questions as the titles of zero-second thinking notes. According to these questions, just look for answers. Doing so can also complete our tasks quickly and exercise our ability to think deeply.

I often write notes of zero-second thinking for a long time; We sometimes have the same question about the same thing. At this time, don't worry about whether the written zero-second thinking notes will be repeated with the previous notes; You can write as you like. It doesn't matter whether the answer you wrote this time is the same as last time, but you still write according to the first reaction of your brain. Hongyu Xiong has long predicted that when we write zero-second thinking notes, we will be confused by the same thing; But he still suggested that we continue to write; He thinks that the same problem will appear because the answer of our last brain training did not reach our subconscious, so it will lead to the same problem. This time we continue to write it out, which will strengthen the memory of this answer in our brains. Over time, when we encounter the same doubts in the future, our brains can give the correct answers quickly.

Think about your notes in zero seconds and make a plan quickly.

In the workplace, general leaders like people who can find problems and provide solutions at work. People who often exercise their thinking ability by thinking in zero seconds can generally tell how to solve problems quickly when leaders ask questions; However, what leaders want to know more is how this method should be implemented. At this time, the zero-second thinking method can be combined with the previous zero-second thinking notes, and a satisfactory implementation plan can be given to the leader soon.

The application of a knowledge point needs a lot of accumulation. If you seriously complete the task of taking 10 pages of zero-second thinking notes every day; Over time, your thinking ability will not only improve; At the same time, it will also accumulate a lot of A4 paper for zero-second thinking notes. Don't pile these notes in a corner of the house just because they don't need to be shown to others, and let them become a pile of waste paper. You must realize that these notes have been recorded before; It can still be used as our material and can come in handy at critical moments.

Chiyu Xiong Yi, the author of Zero-second Thinking, often takes notes of zero-second thinking himself. He thinks that these notes, which record the sparks of his thoughts, are treasures as long as they are used reasonably. When Xiong Yi Chiyu wants to make a PPT or proposal, he often turns out these notes and uses them as materials. He classified his notes by sales, workplace, life, dreams and so on. You can find the corresponding content quickly every time. In this way, we can also classify the written zero-second thinking notes according to our own habits. Mark the dates on these notes so that you can find them later.

In our work, when we need to make a solution related to a topic, we can directly find out the elements we need from these categories. Because I often write zero-second thinking notes, even if it is classified, there are many piles together. Then you must be under pressure again, and you must think: It will take me a long time to finish reading these notes, right?

We don't have to worry about this problem. Xiong Yi, a pond fish, thinks that we can often read the notes within three months, occasionally read the notes three months ago, and the notes six months ago can be directly thrown away as waste paper. Then, when we make solutions to related topics, we can ignore the previous content and only find one within three months. In the second highlight, we said that when we have the same doubts about the same thing, we can still ignore the previous notes and continue to write. In addition, we often look back at the previous content, many of which will leave an impression, so only the notes left within 3 months are the most useful.

Of course, the zero-second thinking notes within three months are used as auxiliary materials when we plan. When making a new solution, we can't just use the previous notes. First of all, according to the theme of this scheme, preset various problems to be solved, write answers and make a new zero-second thinking note. Then, find the previous notes related to this topic as auxiliary materials and review these auxiliary materials at the same time. The next step is to spread these A4 papers with zero-second thinking notes out in front of you like playing cards. Turn on the computer and make a plan while reading the materials; When you encounter problems, stop and look at your notes for reference, so that you can complete a satisfactory plan soon.

Want to be all-powerful in the workplace? Take a look at the book Zero-second Thinking, which will make your thinking ability a sharp knife for your success.