{"id":7876,"date":"2014-06-16T12:13:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T09:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.putonthewholearmorofgod.love\/play-with-common-sense\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T16:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T14:33:22","slug":"play-with-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.putonthewholearmorofgod.love\/de\/play-with-common-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Play with Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:77px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-theme-palette-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-d2de242ae13d1c51475b10dd606cc85d\"><strong>The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n<cite>Albert Einstein<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<style>.kb-row-layout-id3340_231f56-98 > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(.kb-row-layout-id3340_231f56-98 > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}.kb-row-layout-id3340_231f56-98 > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}.kb-row-layout-id3340_231f56-98 > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kb-row-layout-id3340_231f56-98 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kb-row-layout-id3340_231f56-98 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style><div class=\"kb-row-layout-wrap kb-row-layout-id3340_231f56-98 alignnone wp-block-kadence-rowlayout\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-1-columns kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-mobile-layout-row kt-row-valign-top\">\n<style>.kadence-column3340_34bc8b-3e > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column3340_34bc8b-3e > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column3340_34bc8b-3e > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column3340_34bc8b-3e > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column3340_34bc8b-3e > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column3340_34bc8b-3e > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column3340_34bc8b-3e{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column3340_34bc8b-3e > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column3340_34bc8b-3e > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column3340_34bc8b-3e\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<p>Last weekend, a daily newspaper featured an entrance exam question for Hong Kong elementary school students. The children had only twenty seconds to answer.<br><br>I couldn&#8217;t solve it within that time. I was too impatient to see the trick in the task and looked for the answer without bothering my head with the problem any longer. When I realized what it was about, the task seemed ingenious.<br><br>In the discussion following the article, people shared the logic they tried to use to solve the task. According to the article, the task was a math problem, and some said it didn&#8217;t measure mathematical skill but something entirely different.<br><br>However, it is said that mathematics is a universal language. The simplest linguistic tasks are those where you have to fill in the blank in a sentence (equation).<br><br>Someone asked indignantly if children should be prepared for the math olympiad from the first grade. Another laughed at the sight of university students struggling with the task: What children solve in seconds takes high school students several minutes, university students over half an hour, and professors a whole lifetime.<br><br>&#8222;We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them,&#8220; Albert Einstein would say. So what is the real problem when we look at the task? We look at the parking lot from a bird&#8217;s-eye view.<br><br>To solve the problem, we need to mentally go to the parking lot and see it from the driver&#8217;s perspective. And we realize there is no problem at all.<br><br>In the movie Thrive, it is said that if the story doesn&#8217;t make sense, follow the money (43:10). It is a more precise definition of the idea that we should examine the methods in use.<br><br>To solve problems, we should have the ability to see things from another person&#8217;s perspective, not just from a bird&#8217;s-eye view. 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