Dead ends -- Problem difficulties and solutions

Author: Zhao Jing
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: For extremely rare events, we often remember them vividly, while for everyday common occurrences, it's easy to overlook them. As we often lament, "The unobtainable is precious, and the easily obtainable is also easily discarded," or "Only when something is lost do we realize its value." Our memory and thinking tend to favor unachieved goals, focusing on distinctive, difficult-to-acquire, and idealistic factors, but easily overlooking ordinary and conventional importance. This results in the fact that the most important details are often the easiest to be ignored, and the key aspects are often the easiest to become blind spots, simply because they are commonplace and easily overlooked. For people, dead spots are the power of habit, lessons from experience, and looking at problems through colored glasses based on inherent standards, sometimes easily overlooking substantive matters. But human thinking is limited by its own subjective ingrained tendencies, or constrained by objective shortcomings, and blind spots naturally emerge. A blind spot is not just a single point of a problem, but rather the entire problem itself that leads to its occurrence. The blind spots emphasized in this book are not rare issues that are difficult to perceive with general knowledge, but rather more often the blind spots brought about by our daily thinking habits, behavioral habits, knowledge limitations, strategic deficiencies, and short-sightedness.