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It's Not About the Shark opens the door to the groundbreaking science of solutions by turning problems—and how we solve them—upside down. When we have a problem, most of us zero in, take it apart, and focus until we have it solved. David Niven shows us that focusing on the problem is exactly the wrong way to find an answer. Putting problems at the center of our thoughts shuts down our creative abilities, depletes stamina, and feeds insecurities. It's Not About the Shark shows us how to transform our daily lives, our work lives, and our family lives with a simple, but rock-solid principle: If you start by thinking about your problems, you'll never make it to a solution. If you start by thinking about a solution, you'll never worry about your problems again.
Through real-life examples and psychology research, David Niven shows us why:
*Focusing on the problem first makes us 17 times less likely to find an answer
*Being afraid of a problem is natural: we're biologically primed to be afraid
*Finding a problem creates power – which keeps you from finding a solution
*Working harder actually hides answers
*Absolute confidence makes you less likely to find the answer
*Looking away from a problem helps to see a solution
*Listening only to yourself is one of the best ways to find an answer
Combining hard facts, good sense, and a strong dose of encouragement, David Niven provides fresh and positive ways to think about problem solving.
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书还不错。但是是给有一定英语基础的人看的。建议阅读
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This book distills a wide range of published research on motivation, decision-making and creativity into a tactical manual for lateral thinkers. Numerous examples show how people facing difficult problems, both professional and personal, discover innovative and powerful solutions once they move their focus beyond the obvious barrier to progress, whatever problem that may be. The stories provide the reader with motivation and encouragement to test the author's techniques on their own turf; to reinvent yourself as a solutions expert rather than a problem solver. The basic thesis is that problems are an easy and seductive place to focus effort. We are taught to focus on problems from an early age, to "work harder if at first you don't succeed," to "never give up." Yet that very focus limits our ability to see a bigger picture that likely contains an entirely different and more powerful way of viewing the situation, which most people never consider.
Traditional problem solving is linear, probabilistic, and bounded by conventional wisdom or culture. Author David Niven's approach more closely aligns with Edward de Bono's concept of Lateral Thinking, that is, "solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic." (Wikipedia)
Key concepts portrayed in this book:
- Problems focus effort and limit options.
- Step away from the problem. No amount of effort can solve a problem that you put at the center of your life.
- Study what is right about the situation, not what's wrong; focus on what is unique, not the common or mundane or obvious.
- Working harder rarely works.
- Think for yourself. Group think is "the bus to Abilene." (nobody wants to go but we go there anyway thinking everyone else wants to go)
- Watch out for the "first answer bias." The first ideas are rarely the best you can come up with.
- Burn the first draft. First drafts contain the problem and fail to truly explore and innovate solutions.
- You can solve anything if you just stop focusing on the problem.
These points are just the tip of the iceberg. Niven's stories and examples bring them to life and help embed them in the reader's memory and, hopefully for this reader, behavior.
The book has a very good index, a list of references to articles in professional journals from which the author derived the scientific basis of the book, and a list of chapter footnotes citing magazine and news articles relevant to the examples. There is not a good summary chapter that organizes the many ideas presented. My detailed notes fill that gap for me personally, but I am sure that readers could benefit from a comprehensive summary of the material. Even so, this book is worth reading for anyone who considers himself or herself a problem solver. It expands one's horizon about what is possible and how to get there.
What phenomenal insights Niven gives which lead to really practical application across the board: Professionally, spiritually, etc
I'm 3/4 of the way through and its been a fun read
This excellent book deserves much wider readership than it is apparently getting (based on its sales rank). It's a short book and easy to read, but it is filled with stories about how attacking problems head on, focusing on problems, thinking about problems etc. is ultimately self-defeating. It gets its rather strange name from a story about how the movie Jaws started out being about the shark. But there were so many mechanical problems with the shark that Spielberg ended up making a great movie where for the most part you didn't see the shark. This classic movie ended up being "not about the shark". It's a great story and the rest of them contained in the book are similar. Highly recommended.
Focusing on solutions rather than problems has already opened up my mind and eyes to possiblities I didn't see before. Providing throughtful story examples, Niven gives meaningful evidence of how focusing on problems builds up walls blocking creativity, mindfullness and progress. I will reread this one again and again when I find myself being pulled down by the shark (problem). Highly recommend!
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