The Power of Extraordinary Thinking: How a Unique Mindset Can Change Your Career and Life

Author: Wen De
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: The mind is the eye, what is seen is what is thought. The vision of our "mind's eye" guides our actions. This book teaches people how to transform their "mind's eye" to improve behavior and results. It is extremely valuable. – Dr. J. Stewart Black, Professor at the University of Michigan
Stubborn managers always believe they see the world as it truly is. This book tells us that this is often not the case. If we recognize this and learn to better understand reality, we will find it easier to succeed. – Dr. Rob Austin, Professor at the Harvard Business School
We are often "prisoners" of our daily work, life, and conventional behaviors, locked in existing mental models. This book will open the door to wisdom for you, allowing you to achieve far more than you imagine. – Steve Forbes, Chairman and CEO of Forbes Company, Editor-in-Chief of 《》 magazine
We are all familiar with advice urging people to change their mental models, attitudes, and paradigms. But often, we hear more than we do. What we lack is a book that teaches people "how to do it." Wen De and Crook have filled this gap with an extraordinary book that will bring earth-shaking changes to personal lives, business activities, and society. – Dr. Y.Y. Wong, Founder and Chairman of Singapore Wywy Company
I have always been puzzled by Japan's long-term stagnation and struggled to find a good explanation or solution. This book has given me a breakthrough, teaching me to trace the root cause, examine our inner mental models from time to time, and build new mental models to think from a completely new perspective. – Kenichi Ohmae, a globally renowned master of strategic management and economics
The brain activity process through which we perceive and understand the world is called "mental models" or "thinking patterns." Mental models act like a lens, magnifying, shrinking, filtering, or even distorting external real information, forming our perception of the world. Therefore, what we see is what we think, and mental models determine what we think and imagine. To change your world, you must first improve your mental models. The ability to view the world in extraordinary ways can create major opportunities, which has been proven by famous companies like Southwest Airlines and Federal Express in the United States. But if a successful pattern restricts your ability to recognize a changing world, it will eventually become a "prison" that locks your thoughts. We should avoid being hijacked by outdated mental models and instead continuously improve them. There are two ways to improve mental models: one is "breaking in a horse," which means deepening existing knowledge within a given mental model; the other is "changing horses," which involves adopting or developing new models to understand a broader world. Sometimes, what we need is not just "breaking in a horse" but changing to a new "horse." If we focus only on "breaking in a horse" and seek self-improvement within a given field, we will become increasingly conservative and fail to see opportunities beyond the existing field. This book emphasizes the "changing horses" approach.
Key Points:
● How outdated mental models can hold you back
● When you need to shift your mental models
● How to create a series of new mental models
● How to continuously improve mental models to keep them timeless
Scientific basis for mental models.