Talent is scarce because demand has become more demanding

129740-002 Not only for talents, we have the “hard power” needs of technology itself, we also have the “soft power” needs, including communication, collaboration, critical thinking, correct thinking logic, many people’s needs for talents, not the university education can provide, therefore, education is never the end of the school, lifelong learning has become the inevitable for everyone, can not stop learning. This is as true for individuals as it is for groups.

Structural thinking

My classmate, Dr. K, asked me to recommend how to cultivate students’ ability of structural thinking. What is structural thinking? In fact, if you think about it carefully, structural thinking is the same as engineering thinking, that is, deconstructing a complex task, breaking it 129740-002 down into modules that can’t be finer, developing the modules, and then, in test verification, joint debugging, and finally integrating into a machine or system.

A typical example of structural thinking may be the “potato buying story”, as in the story of a man who asked his boss why a new employee could be promoted but he could not, and the boss asked him to find out how much the potatoes cost. He went to look back and told that 2 yuan a catty, and then the boss asked if I buy more can be cheaper? He went to ask again, then came back, and the boss asked him do they provide transportation? … Then, the boss found another colleague B to deal with the matter, B came back to tell the boss that the potato is 2 yuan, the origin is Shandong, Gansu, Jiangsu, the northern potato is relatively large, the product is suitable for making potato chips, and the southern potato is more suitable for making mashed potatoes, 100kG is 1.8 yuan, 1000kG is 1.6 yuan, if we buy more, They can provide 25kG bagging and transport within 3km, if it is far away, you need to pay the freight according to the mileage each time. .

This is the difference in structural thinking, because the difference between these two kinds of thinking is the difference in the cost of communication.

Structural thinking is actually a way to improve efficiency, just like writing a narrative essay in primary school to the three elements of people, places, events, 5W2H is also a typical structural thinking tool.

129740-002 Structural thinking is about changing with the same structure, that is, any similar event, we can use a uniform structure to deal with, any machine development, can use reusable processes, which can reduce uncertainty, improve efficiency, obviously, this is the part of change.

The difference between modern science and ancient science and technology lies in methodology, because ancient science and technology are talented people, or rich people can do, and modern science and technology has established a complete scientific and technological methodology, which is the several steps described by Descartes in the “Methodology”, first of all, do not follow blindly, have judgment, and secondly, for complex problems, Try to decompose into 129740-002 a number of simple small problems to study, that is, simplify the complex, break the whole into pieces, third, solve small problems, easy first and difficult, finally, the integration of each small problem, to see whether the original problem is completely solved.

In fact, all scientific, engineering and technical problems are solved under this methodology, which enables ordinary people to engage in scientific research, and promote the development of science and technology by following the procedures and rigorous methods of norms and standards.

Science lies in exploring the possible and discovering the unknown, engineering lies in converging to an economic path, and technology is the smallest module, unit, that can eventually be reused, knowledge or software to reconstruct a new machine or system.

Manufacturing is to build solutions through metacknowledge-the knowledge of the first principles of knowledge, or the logic of logic, which can not be split into modules, manufacturing is an engineering problem, so that technology research and development, there are many methodologies, the mastery of these methodologies, thinking, is the key, can enable talents to cope with changes and solve problems.