Breakthrough Thinking Strategy Combination — Author: Wang Jiao Cheng
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Reverse Causality:
- Refers to the deliberate inversion or distortion of the usual logical order of "cause" and "effect" between things. Instead of asking "What cause led to the result?", it asks "What impossible causes would be forced to appear if we insisted on this result occurring?" or "If the result occurred first, what would the causes look like?". This is a way of thinking that actively disrupts linear logical chains and explores unconventional possibilities.
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Painful Interruption:
- Refers to the immediate forced interruption of the current process once one becomes stuck, repetitive, inefficient, or produces mediocre solutions during thinking or execution. This interruption is seen as "painful" because it means abandoning existing progress, acknowledging the failure of the current path, and enduring the cognitive conflict and discomfort that comes with it. However, it serves as a safety mechanism aimed at preventing the waste of energy on ineffective paths, forcing thought to switch immediately to a new, potentially more challenging but more promising direction.
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Dimensional Strangulation:
- Refers to the identification of the key foundational frameworks (such as physical rules, time constraints, spatial limitations, social norms, industry practices, etc.) that the problem relies on, and then actively, thoroughly dismantling, distorting, or removing these frameworks. This is equivalent to fundamentally undermining the foundations and constraints of the problem's existence, with the aim of seeking solutions that are fundamentally unimaginable within conventional dimensions in a completely different, unbound space.
Core Intent of the Combination of the Three:
- Reverse Causality is responsible for distorting logic: breaking the dependency on the normal order and causal relationships of things.
- Painful Interruption is responsible for forcing a shift: forcibly interrupting and switching to a new path when encountering mental blocks or mediocrity (even if the new path is more difficult).
- Dimensional Strangulation is responsible for destroying the foundation: attacking and dismantling the rules, constraints, and frameworks that the problem itself is based on.
Overall Effect:
This is an extremely radical and disruptive combination of thinking strategies. It requires thinkers to actively create logical chaos, bravely endure the pain of cognitive interruption, and dare to completely destroy the foundational basis of the problem's existence, with the ultimate goal of forcibly opening up breakthrough, unconventional solutions or innovative paths in the midst of extreme constraint destruction and logical subversion. It seeks not optimization, but the possibility of reconstruction amidst ruins and chaos.