==CHAPTER 3 What’s Your Problem?

Whatever problem you’re trying to solve, make sure you’re not?

just attacking the noisy part of the problem that happens to

capture your attention.?

Before spending all your time and resources, it’s

incredibly important to properly define the problem—or, better yet,?

redefine the problem.

★All of us face barriers—physical, financial, temporal—every day. Some

are unquestionably real.?

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But others are plainly artificial—expectations

about how well a given system can function, or how much change is too

much, or what kinds of behaviors are acceptable.

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The next time you encounter such a barrier, imposed by?

people who lack your imagination and drive and?

creativity, think hard about ignoring it.

==CHAPTER 4 Like a Bad Dye Job, the Truth Is in the Roots

Thinking like a Freak means you should work terribly hard to?

identify and attack the root cause of problems.

★persist 持續(xù)，堅(jiān)持，存留

But when you are dealing with root causes, at least you know you are?

fighting the real problem and not just boxing with shadows.

==CHAPTER 5 Think Like a Child

Kids are also relentlessly curious and relatively unbiased.

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Because they know so little, they don’t carry around the

preconceptions that often stop people from seeing things as they are.?

To think like a Freak means to think small, not big.

1.? Small questions are by their nature less often asked and investigated,

and maybe not at all. They are virgin territory for true learning.

2.? Since big problems are usually a dense mass of intertwined small

problems, you can make more progress by tackling★解決 a small piece of

the big problem than by flailing鞭打 away at grand solutions.

3.? Any kind of change is hard, but the chances of triggering change on a

small problem are much greater than on a big one.

4.? Thinking big is, by definition, an exercise in imprecision不精確 or even

speculation投機(jī). When you think small, the stakes may be diminished but

at least you can be relatively sure you know what you’re talking about.