Reframe the Problem: Rethink Conditions, Deconstruct the Proposition and Resources

Stanford has a classic experiment: the five-dollar experiment
Different startup teams were given the same assignment: use five dollars to earn as much money as possible in two hours, and then each team had to give a three-minute presentation in class.
The average person's thinking might be to use those five dollars to buy something and sell it.

The second-place team realized that the five dollars seemed like a resource, but was actually a limitation. So they deconstructed the problem entirely, reframing the question as: how can you earn the most money in two hours with nothing at all? They went to a popular restaurant and sold scalper seats, eventually making several hundred dollars.

The first-place team not only knew how to redefine the problem, but also how to redefine resources. They realized that in this problem, the most valuable thing was actually the three minutes of presentation time in the Stanford classroom. So they went to companies looking to recruit Stanford students and sold that three-minute showcase opportunity to a major corporation for $25,000. There was no doubt about who took first place.

Any problem in life can be treated as an applied math question: read the problem, think about how to recombine the conditions, deconstruct the命题, and deconstruct the resources. When you can flip every problem over and turn it into a blank sheet of paper, nothing will ever limit you again. Nothing belongs to me, but everything is at my disposal.