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Answers to the 5 Q & the impossible incident
These are the answers to the 5 Q's posted on 28th Feb 08 Answer 1: The old lady of course! After helping the old lady into the car, you can give your keys to your friend, and wait with your perfect partner for the bus Answer 2: The fireman is the only man in the room. The rest of the poker players are women. Answer 3: Socks do not come in in left and right, so any black will pair with any other black and any white will pair with any other white. If you have three socks and they are either colored black or white, then you will have at least two socks of the same color, giving you one matching pair. Answer 4: The product of the number of fingers on the left-hands of every person is zero. It only takes one person to have no fingers on their left hand for the product to be zero, because anything multiplied by zero equals zero. Answer 5: They were used by children who made a snowman. The snow has now melted. This is the answer to "An impossible incident" is as follows The six men were carrying the seventh man in a coffin.
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An Impossible Incident
Two cars made their way along the winding country road and came to an abrupt stop at the park's gate. Seven men got out of the two cars and were walking along a footpath when it began to rain. Six of the men began to walk faster to get out of the rain but the seventh man couldn't be bothered. Ironically it was the seventh man who remained dry and the other six got soaked. Since all seven men arrived at their destination together. How was this possible? Think for the non obvious things in this situation - answer in 3 days time
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RELATIONSHIP
The war was taking place and it was fierce fighting between the two armed forces, on one side there were two friends, they have been friends from their childhood days. They were so fond of each other so both took up their career in the army. In an ambush on a particular day, there were many who were killed and firing all over when one of the friend heard his other friend’s cries to help him. So permission was sought from the army chief to help this wounded friend, but the chief lamented and said that “he is wounded gravely and is going to die, theres no point in saving him atleast let you be alive - we are short of soldiers” So he kept quite, but the wounded friend was calling him out for help repeatedly. He could not bear the cries of his friend so he told his chief “ I am going out to reach him he is a friend of mine from my child hood days”. The chief had no other option but to reluctantly let him go. He reached his wounded friend and brought him dead back to the camp. The chief was so furious and shouted at him “ didn’t I tell you he will die, you could have also been killed, leaving me alone here – you have committed a mistake.” For which he replied “ Chief I did the right thing, when I reached him he was alive and his last words were I knew you would come”. Reliability on relationships, be it friends or family should cut across all boundaries – This gives credibility to the individuals concerned. 
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Who is to take the blame??
Ive been training a lot people on what to do and what not, but sometimes I feel whether my advises are for them only and not for myself??? To just check on the predicament of mine I spoke to my daughter about this one day. I feel I have been a good father to my daughter as far as my mind and consious is concerned, so with this perturbed mind I did ask my daughter “ Do you feel I have been good to you?” Straight came the reply NO..... I was shocked to hear this from my daughter whom I have really cared for and spent a great deal of time teaching her the ethical way of living. I did ask her why she felt so? The answer to that was really astonishing to me, she said “Dad you are the only person in the world (HER WORLD) who is telling me to be frank and accept mistakes, the other day my classmates most of them had copied in the test and they got very good marks than me, and you see I am scolded by the teacher for getting less marks if only I had copied like the others my teacher would have praised me like others. You don’t teach me good things ”. This is the real story happening every where not only in the schools. Are we trying to teach our children reality or are we riding them into a pseudo world? So it took me a lot of time to make her understand wat will happen to cheaters and mongers but still im not convinced she has understood me..... Now who are to take the responsibility for this ? The Parents or the Teachers or the Institution. This seem to be the real question because each of them blame the other two....
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Try to use LT logi to answer these.......
Lateral Thinking - Exercise your Brain
1. You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus
a) An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
b) An old friend who once saved your life.
c) The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.
Knowing that there can only be one passenger in your car, whom would you choose?
2. Acting on an anonymous phone call, the police raid a house to arrest a suspected criminal. They don't know what he looks like but they know his name is John and that he is inside the house. The police bust in on a carpenter, a lorry driver, a mechanic and a fireman all playing poker. Without hesitation or communication of any kind, they immediately arrest one of them who was it?
a) Carpenter
b) Lorry driver
c) Mechanic
d) Fireman
3. Cathy has six pairs of black socks and six pairs of white socks in her drawer. In complete darkness, and without looking, how many socks must she take from the drawer in order to be sure to get a pair that match? a) 2 b) 3 c) 5 d) 7
4. Assume there are approximately 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) people on Earth. What would you estimate to be the result, if you multiply together the number of fingers on every person's left-hands? (For the purposes of this exercise, thumbs count as fingers, hence five fingers per hand.) If you cannot estimate the number then try to guess how long the number would be.
a) 1 digit b) 11 digits c) 22 digits
5. Five pieces of coal, a carrot and a scarf are lying on a hill near a remote house. Nobody put them on the lawn but there is a perfectly logical reason why they should be there. What is it?
a) They were thrown by the scavenging crows
b) Children playing with snow
c) The dogs scattered it
Answer all these questions ( do lateral thinking) to arrive at solutions, ill post the answers in 7 days time.
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Cup or Coffee
VERY SIMPLE STORY BUT VERY PROFOUND MESSAGE.
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups:porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones."While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress"
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups." "Now, if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it"
So don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee instead.
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Secret to success
A young man asked Socrates the secret of success.Socrates asked the young man to meet him beside the river the next day morning. The young man met him the next morning, Socrates asked him to walk along with him into the water and both were into the water till the water got up to the neck. Surprisingly Socrates dunked the young man into the water, and kept him down, his struggle to come out was in vain. Out of suffocation the boy was about to turn blue, then socrates pulled the boy out of water. The first thing the boy did was to take in a huge gasp of air, now socrates smiled at him and asked him what he wanted when he was under water, promptly the boy said "AIR" Then Socrates told him that this was the secret of success - and explained when he had wanted success so desprately as air was needed when he was under water, then he can have it, and there lies no other secret than this. A desire to obtain something is the initiation point for all the accomplishments in life.
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Interesting - Lesson to Learn
This man failed in business at the age of 21;
Was defeated in a legislative race at the age of 22;
Failed again in business at the age of 24;
His girlfriend died when he was 26;
Had a nervous breakdown at 27;
Lost a congress election at 34;
Lost a senatorial race at 45;
Failed an effort to become the vice - president at 47;
Lost another senatorial race at 49;
Finally succeeded to become the president of his country at 52.
THIS MAN WAS "ABRAHAM LINCOLN"
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THE RISK TAKER
Risk Taking Once there lived a farmer and someone asked him whether he had planted sugarcane for that season, he said a NO since he was afraid that the rains will fail. So the other person asked him about the other crop - maize, he again said NO since he was afraid of the rats and might loose his harvest. Finally the peson asked him what he had cultivated for the season and his reply was NOTHING and he was SAFE. I remember some one telling me about risks in life – Then I thought If you avoid breathing you avoid inhaling the the germs, avoid water you will never get sick, avoid walking on the streets you will avoid accidents. But is it realistic to do these, the element of taking risk is inherent in all of us but the levels vary between various individuals. BUT MOST OF THE SUCCESSFUL PERSONS HAVE TAKEN RISKS TO A VERY GREAT EXTENT. A PERSON WHO RISKS NOTHING, WILL DO NOTHING, WILL HAVE NOTHING AND IS A NOTHING. DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN BEING SAFE & BEING NOTHING.
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Learn the Process of Lateral Thinking
THE PROCESS OF LATERAL THINKING I
I have already introduced the essentials of lateral Thinking and given you the simple exercises to perform and train the brain.
Now to get into the detail on how to train the brain. In one of my posting (on Transaction Analysis) I had defined the thought process with the illustration of the term BALL. Hence general thought process are directly visualized for the contexual understanding.
The visualisation plays a very important role for the exercise to lateral thinking.
As I had already said that the values and beliefs plays a very imortant role in visualisation, and value system cannot be flexed (will not be flexed) it’s the same with the beliefsystem. So wat can be flexed is the vision itself.
To illustrate, how to flex the visual system let us take the following example which we had already seen, the picture which has to be divided into four equal parts.
When I had this problem given to many of the students or professionals they were only seeing this in the wholesome (i.e) the full picture, not many tried to divide this into smaller components – like 3 different squares put together
Now the perspective being on visualization – It seems to get clearer, as I said the value system dominates (out of Mathematics) these individual squares can be divided into 4 equal parts;
Getting all those small pieces together for a bigger picture might still lead to confusion on how to get the 4 equal parts from this, here again our value system comes into play ( i.e) 12 small pieces divided by 4 which is 3. Hence 3 pieces must go together to make one full component – The question is which of the 3 pieces ? Logic is they will have to be the adjacent ones it can never be 5, 2 & 10. So visualizing the 12 boxes the adjacent can be only 1,2&3 or 5,7&8 or 10,11&12 only the pragmatic visual pattern will lead to a solution.
 THE FIRST LESSON IS TO LOOK INTO THE PROBLEM PRAGMATICALLY - DIVIDE THE PROBLEM INTO SMALLER COMPONENTS
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