A. It is not hard for small films to keep up with fast-changing consumer markets. B. Most consumers in America and Europe trust little brands snore than established ones.
C. Some local firms can meet consumers¡¯ needs better than world-famous brand giants. D. Small firms mainly sell creative or organic products which are more appealing to consumers.
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The future belongs to the flexible mind. This is the argument behind best-selling author Leonard Mlodinow¡¯s new book, Elastic£¨Áé»îµÄ£©, which examines the ever-increasing changes we find ourselves living through, and the ways of thinking best suited to them.
Do we need to develop a flexible mind?
Times we live in demand a flexible style of thinking. In politics, we now have to cope with more scandals in a single year than we used to encounter in a lifetime. Meanwhile, the speed and processing power of computers makes it difficult for us to navigate a landscape in which the number of websites has been doubling every two to three years, and the way we use and access them is subject te frequent ¡°disastrous changes.¡± More importantly, social attitudes are changing just as fast.
Logical thought is an analysis that can be described fey an algorithm£¨ËãÊõ£©of the kind that computers follow. Elastic thought cannot. Logical thought is solved to help us face the everyday challenges of life while elastic thought helps us succeed when circumstances change. Elastic thought is where our new ideas come from. Logical thought can determine how to drive from our home to the grocery store most efficiently,
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but it¡¯s elastic thought that gave us the automobile.
What makes it hard to think ¡°flexibly¡±?
Flexible thinking comes naturally to all humans, bit one way it may be blocked is through another power exercised by our brain, the ability to tune out ¡°crazy¡± ideas. A single information processor depends on an algorithm to solve a problem. The human brain, instead, acts as a set of interacting and competing systems. They use our knowledge and expectations of the world to assess ideas. That approach is well suited to a stable environment. But it can be less productive when circumstances change.
How can we learn to be more flexible in our own thinking?
One of the abilities most important to flexible thinking is the power to relax our mind and let our guard down. If we are constantly alerted, our ideas may have a narrow range, and tend to fee conventional.
One can also cultivate flexible thinking by adjusting one's external conditions. Studies show that sitting in a darkened room, or closing our eyes, can widen our perspective. Low ceilings, narrow corridors, and windowless offices have the opposite effect Being able to think without any kind of time pressure is also important when striving for novel ideas. Just as important, interruptions are deadly. A short phone call, email or even a text message can redirect your attention and thoughts.
As a more general exercise to nurture our mental flexibility we can try to pay special attention to one of our strongly held beliefs, taka it seriously and recall times in the past that we were wrong about something, even though we¡¯d been confident of being right. In fact, more generally, introducing a little disagreement to our intellectual interactions may also be helpful.
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The chart illustrates the proportion of electives selected in a high school. 52% of the students register for scientific courses while 7% enroll in those concerning literature and art. Some tips are given for the selection.
Science and art courses are regarded differently, mainly because of where students¡¯ interests lie. The former emphasizes searching natural laws to help human beings live longer and healthier, while the latter aims to better the thoughts of people, and promote social values. Apparently, given more attention, the former comes out ahead in our developing society. However, if the tendency continued to grow, we would end up in a steel concrete with no room for our spiritual home.
I would enroll in Chinese classical art. For one thing, I am always fascinated by traditional Chinese culture¡ªpaper-cutting, calligraphy, architecture, cuisine, just to name a few. For another, the wisdom delivered by Chinese philosophy will bring benefits to my long-term development and therefore the whole nation.
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