Chapter 103 (1/2)
The next morning, hualanting went out of the mountain gate and walked along the road.
There were not many people on the road. Hua Lanting walked slowly. He recalled his dialogue with Yun Yiqi and Shu Luntai last night.
Last night was the day when Yun Yiqi took a test on his homework once a month. Yun Yiqi said that his routine practice could come to an end, and then instructed him how to make flexible changes to the fixed routine.
Finally, Yun Yiqi said, ”the key is to break the habitual thinking and learn to divergent thinking.”
”There is a story about the bird cage. It says that if you hang a beautiful bird cage in the most eye-catching place in the room, before long, you usually have to make two choices, either throw away the bird cage or buy a Starling parrot or put it in the cage.”
”This is the logic of the birdcage.”
”The reason is very simple. As long as someone comes into the house and sees the bird cage, he will ask you where the bird is and whether the bird has been raised by you. If you answer that you have never raised a bird, others will ask why you want to hang a broken bird cage in the house.”
”If you do it many times, you will not get tired of it. Finally, you have to choose one of the two choices, because it is much simpler and easier than explaining endlessly that you just want to look good.”
”Most of the time, people are subject to strong habits and habitual thinking - for example, bird cages must be used for raising birds, not for other purposes.”
”The advantage of inertial thinking is that it can help us quickly and easily understand and adapt to the surrounding world and things. However, it is better to go too far. If inertial thinking is applied to every corner of life, it will become a kind of stereotyped thinking.”
”Poverty will limit your imagination, and habitual thinking will restrict your innovation and change. The next thing you need to practice is to break through the shackles of routine moves and expand divergent thinking.”
”Luntai, what are you staring at? Give your younger martial brother an example to deepen your understanding.”
Shu Luntai: ”ah, this is, OK.”
”Well, you know, there are people in Xianzhou who are specially responsible for digging people everywhere and looking for disciples or experts for various sects. They are called talent brokers.”
”Recently, a man who is said to have strong strength and contacts found me through his friends, sent me a note and asked me if I had the idea of changing a sect to protect the Dharma.”
”Of course I refused. Some people have come to me before. They usually stop after they fail to attract me with treatment and status, but this person is different. He continued to ask me - do you have a teacher you hate? Tell me, I'll get rid of him.”
”I said no for the time being. He still didn't give up. He asked me if there were any peers with higher cultivation than me who affected my ranking and resource acquisition. He could help me dig them away.”
”Naturally, I said no, but he kept pestering me and asked me if I hated the teacher brother who was out of the way and liked to show off and made me uncomfortable. He boldly told him that he was responsible for poaching him low-key.”
”How did you deal with it later?” Yun Yiqi asked.
”I thought he was a talented person, so I asked him if he could change jobs to work for our sect.” Shu Luntai replied.
Yun Yiqi nodded and said, ”Lanting, Luntai's corn is very good, big, round and fragrant.”
”You see, the core is to dig people, and the habitual thinking is to dig directly and hard, but the divergent thinking of experts is that if they can't dig a party, they will dig his teachers, peers, competitors and enemies, and Luntai can turn around and play a guest broker to dig him.”
”This is a typical case of being flexible and unfettered, constantly changing the angle or focus and force point around the main purpose.”
”Just like you want to change the sword move, from stabbing to lifting to killing your opponent, you can turn your body, arms and fingers, fall to the ground, somersault and change your hands. It's no problem to change the feint on one side to leg attack, head bump and knee top on the other side. You should choose the shortest, convenient and fierce back move according to the situation on site...”
Hua Lanting was thinking of this. The spirit suddenly felt the sound of a horse approaching behind him. He just wanted to sidestep. The horse had slipped and fell down, and the man on the horse rolled his saddle and fell off.
He was startled, stopped and looked back. He heard a hoarse cry in his ear: ”Oh, my mother! My leg is broken and I'm dead!”
Hua Lanting reached out to help.
On the ground, an old man was holding his legs, swinging from side to side and howling, but his eyes were staring at him.
Blackmail! Hua Lanting reacted at once.
The old man rolled on the ground like a gourd quickly, briskly and skillfully turned over, hugged his calf and shouted, ”come and see, guys, the young man bumped into me. The old man doesn't admit it!”
Hua Lanting can't laugh or cry. The old man is just an ordinary person. His acting skills are also fake. He is obviously not dedicated.
The two were entangled, and passers-by came to watch the excitement one after another. The old man insisted that hualanting hit him and had to ask him to compensate. The melon eating people around talked and mostly helped the poor old man.
Seeing that no one listened to the explanation for a long time, Hua Lanting had no choice but to spend money to avoid disaster. He admitted that he hit it and asked the old man how much he wanted. The old man opened his mouth to five hundred spirit stones, and finally settled it at fifty.
When the spirit stone was given, a passer-by said, ”OK, young man, hurry up and ride on malier. I see you didn't deliberately hit people with a horse, so as not to make you more troublesome.”
Hua Lanting's eyes turned when he heard the speech, and he was about to leave. The old man grabbed the reins and shouted in a louder voice than before: ”God, the horse is mine! You can't ride away!”
At this time, the spectators began to fight against injustice again. No one believed the old man's words at all. They said that the young men of others had lost a lot of money. They almost got it. They couldn't ride a horse and hit you. They also lost money.
Hua Lanting is happy in his heart. He thinks that his profession is to touch porcelain, but he is really unprofessional!
He arched his hands around, beat his horse and whip away, leaving the old man to chase after the soil.
Although this horse is not a spirit beast, the horse in Xianzhou is taller and stronger than that in the secular world. Fifty spirit stones can't be bought.
This is a clear proof that habitual thinking does great harm to people!