It's the same as reading a book. After learning it, some people can quickly internalize it and practice it, while others have indigestion and turn around and forget it.

In the same way, facing problems and analyzing and thinking, some people can go deep into the essence in a three-dimensional and comprehensive way, while others can only float on the surface and be at a loss.

The same is true of writing and speaking. Some people can achieve a clear structure and go deep at different levels, while others can only say what they think and have no rules.

what exactly causes these great differences between people?

In fact, whether a person can achieve something depends largely on whether he has systematic thinking.

In this issue, Tang Ge will talk to you: systematic thinking, the overall situation that an expert must have, can effectively improve your thinking ability and put you ahead of most people.

one? What is systematic thinking?

Many of us are familiar with the word system, such as computer operating system, human digestive system, respiratory system and so on.

At the same time, a team and an enterprise can be regarded as a system.

what is systematic thinking?

systematic thinking, in a nutshell, is a set of processes or normative systems for a person to think, analyze, solve problems, do things and achieve goals.

it is the methodology of holistic thinking for each of us.

In football or basketball games, we will see a phenomenon:

Some teams, with many dazzling star players, seem to be winning, but the final result is to lose to an unremarkable team with tacit cooperation.

In fact, the competition between teams can be understood as the survival of the fittest between systems.

second, why should we cultivate systematic thinking?

I believe many people have heard of the butterfly effect. It is said that a small butterfly in the tropical rain forest of South America can make a tornado happen in Texas two weeks later, causing a series of chain reactions.

With the quickening pace of modern people's life and work, many people are always used to thinking in a shallow way and thinking in a single dimension. They often see only trees but not forests, and often feel helpless about some complex problems.

Most people's problems are often manifested in:

1. One-sided, only seeing the part and not paying attention to the whole.

2 short-sighted, focusing only on the present, regardless of the future.

3 in the shallow layer, only the phenomenon is seen, but the essence is not deeply understood.

In fact, some problems in the real world are not multiple-choice questions that are either A or B. They are often complex, nonlinear and with great uncertainty.

Many factors are interrelated and influenced by each other.

so, sometimes, we will say, take one hair and move the whole body.

In the information age, a huge amount of information is generated every day. How to effectively collect, sort out and analyze this information, we need to establish an efficient system, otherwise we will fall into an infinite ocean of information and cannot extricate ourselves.

Systematic thinking can let us see things, do things comprehensively, holistically, multidimensional and effectively, and let you bid farewell to a hectic state.

systematic thinking is everywhere. Work has a system of work, learning has a system of learning, writing has a system of writing, and speech has a system of speech.

In a word, whether a sentence has systematic thinking or not determines the great difference between people.

the core points of the three-system thinking

1. Elements of the system, key nodes

A system consists of multiple elements, which can be physical or virtual.

It's like a team. Every member is an element, but some people are excellent and can greatly affect the performance of the team. We can call them key nodes.

when we think and analyze problems, we need to find out what are the key factors that determine the success or failure of things.

2 structure and correlation of the system

① correlation

As mentioned above, the system is like a team, and it is not only the excellent individuals (key nodes) but also the mutual cooperation and connection among team members that determine the actual level of a team.

systematic thinking focuses on the relationship between things, and establishes a set of methods and theoretical systems from multiple dimensions.

therefore, when thinking about problems, we need to recognize the relationship and influence between things.

which ones are positive correlation and gain? What are the negative correlations and negative effects?

② Importance of structure

A system may be composed of several important modules, and a module may look backward in some places, but on the whole, the integrated system may play an efficient role.

I believe the story of horse racing in Tian Ji is familiar to everyone. Although every horse of the opponent is excellent and has an advantage locally, in the end, Tian Ji defeated his opponent through Sun Bin's strategy.

This also gives us an enlightenment:

The whole is not necessarily equal to the simple addition of parts

When we think about a problem, we should not dwell too much on a detail, but pay attention to cultivating the overall situation and systematically overlooking the overall goal.

Just like a team competition, everyone's personal ability may be outstanding, surpassing competitors, but the overall strength is not good. This is the meaning of structure and association.

4. How to cultivate systematic thinking? How to establish systematic thinking effectively?

1 ? Three-dimensional thinking, focusing on the overall situation

break through linear thinking, analyze and think through mind map, divergent thinking, tree diagram and other tools, and deduce and expand possible situations.

① think horizontally and expand the breadth.

② think vertically and expand the depth.

③ Look at the problem from the perspective of time and development.

④ spatially, it is overall and comprehensive.

⑤ pay attention to change, and every key node may be the breakthrough point of the problem.

2 dig deep into the essence, disassemble the elements

analyze deeply, ask yourself more questions when you encounter problems, and dig deep into the underlying logic.

① Determine the problems and goals

We need to think about which are real problems and which are superficial "fake" problems according to the goals.

Look through the appearance, find the root of the problem, and analyze which factors are certain and which are uncertain.

② learn to split and simplify complex problems.

according to MECE law, disassemble complex problems into easy-to-solve problems, and disassemble the steps of doing things.

decompose, find key nodes, simplify and ignore unimportant links.

Why do many people read a lot of books, enroll in many classes and learn a lot of knowledge, but they still don't have a good problem-solving ability?

because many of the dry goods you see are either fragmented, unsystematic or too systematic, it is easy to digest a whole piece of food at once.

you need to break it down into small steps and modules that suit you according to your own conditions. Internalize these fragments into your own knowledge system and establish a set of standards that suit you.

For example, new media writing can be simply broken down into

① selecting a topic,

② conceiving, writing an outline

③ finding materials,

④ starting writing,

⑤ modifying

...

and so on

. Then, according to these steps, we can fill in the flesh and choose different methods and writing skills.

Of course, the above is my own writing framework system, and you can also combine it into a writing system that suits you.

hierarchical, top-down, step by step. When splitting, we should pay attention to using pyramid thinking and decompose layer by layer until it is simple enough.

③ Classify and group, and distinguish between priorities and priorities

After dismantling, you should learn to think about which are the core issues and which are the secondary issues. What needs to be solved first, otherwise it will not be developed later.

the 28 law tells us that we should focus our core resources and energy on the most important core elements, so as to achieve high efficiency and get twice the result with half the effort.

For example, if you know the importance of writing topic, title, beginning and ending, you will spend more time in these parts.

3 ? Summarize and build a structural framework

① Make good use of other people's classic frameworks

such as golden thinking circle, 5W2H, pyramid thinking, PDCA working method, SWOT analysis, SMART principle and so on.

By using excellent models and standing on the shoulders of predecessors, we can get started quickly instead of making wheels repeatedly.

a system is a methodology to solve a certain kind of problems. At the same time, these frameworks should also pay attention to updating and iteration to keep pace with the times.

② Pay attention to integrity, relevance and development.

Pay attention to the relevance of things,

Pay attention to the dynamic changes of things,

Dig deeply, not the surface of things.

③ Structuring, modeling and building your own framework

Elements are the foundation and structure is the overall framework, which determines the external performance.

integrate some excellent frameworks of predecessors, summarize the specific structure and process, and model the scenes of life and work. For example,

(1) Framework system of thinking

Where to start thinking? How to analyze? What angles can we start from?

what are the important nodes? Which ones are secondary?

what is the structure and flow of this thing?

(2) the process of action

what to do first, then what to do? What's the first step? What's the second step? What to do in the third step ...

(3) The standard of doing things

What to do in case of any situation? How to solve some problems? What can be done and what is absolutely forbidden?

You need a code of conduct for systematic thinking, so as not to be led by all kinds of accidents.

4 feedback mechanism, iteration and self-improvement

The system is not static, and we need to optimize and adjust it repeatedly according to the changes of the external environment and the feedback from practice.

Make a daily review and summary, and record your experience and reflection in words by writing a work diary, and update it iteratively.

written at the end

Systematic thinking can enable us to look at the problem as a whole, deeply and comprehensively, grasp the essence, solve the problem clearly and efficiently, instead of knocking a hammer everywhere and knocking a wooden stick in the west.

For each of us, the most important thing is to establish our own system as early as possible, adapt to the ever-changing external environment, constantly optimize and update, and navigate the goals, so as to make every day in your life valuable and accelerate your self-growth, which is also an effective weapon to keep you ahead of most people.