Winning the Brain Game: Fixing the 7 Fatal Flaws of Thinking by Matthew E. May

Author:Matthew E. May [May, Matthew E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9781259642395
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2016-05-26T22:00:00+00:00

PART TWO

Mediocre

CHAPTER 4

Satisficing

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

—ALBERT EINSTEIN

In Part One we looked at the three most prevalent fatal thinking flaws, and I used a few different thought challenges as the backdrop. They were hard, but we are going to kick it up a notch in Part Two, where we look at the next two thinking flaws—Satisficing and Downgrading—in the context of thinking challenges in which elegant solutions are not as easily achieved, because the challenges themselves are more vexing.

For example, take a look at a more difficult insight problem involving an incorrect Roman numeral equation, like the one I showed you in Chapter 2 (Fixation). In this one, you cannot move or alter in any way either the plus sign or the equals sign. The challenge: Imagine that the numbers are moveable sticks. Leaving the plus and equals signs as they are, what is the least number of sticks you would have to move to correct the equation?*

XI + I = X

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