Name: ティナ・シーリグ：発散的思考 (Tina Seelig: Divergent Thinking)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:05:32.000Z
Duration: 2 min 49 s
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In kindergarten, this would be a typical question.

Five plus five equals what? What's the answer?

You must go to Stanford. OK, why do we all know this is ten?

We know this is ten because this problem has one right answer.

We all converge on that one right answer - a five plus five equals ten.

But what if I ask the question in a slightly different way,

what if I ask X plus Y or two question marks,

what two numbers add up to ten? How many answers are there to that?

because I'm often in rooms where people were going,

"Well, one plus nine, two plus eight, three plus seven."

And I go, "Whoa, Whoa, whoa, what about negative numbers?

What about fractions? What about decimals?"

The fact is there is infinite number of answers to this question.

Why? Because this requires divergent thinking - we ask

the question that doesn't have one right answer.

Now, think about it. It's the same type of math, right?

And yet when we ask the question one way, we got one answer.

When we ask it in a slightly different way,

This isn't just true in kindergarten. Let's go off to college.

Maybe somebody can tell me recognize this place.

It's in the UK. It's very old. Oxford, yes. Here we are Oxford.

And at Oxford, they do something that is totally brilliant.

In order to get in to one of the colleges,

All Souls College, you have to answer the one word exam.

is yes or no or black or white. The question is one word.

or 'water' or 'bias' or 'innocence' and you were given

three hours to write using that one word as a prompt.

because most people find that kind of scary and intimidating.

What does this type of exam teach the people who read your answer?

It tells them how you think, how you connect and combine ideas,

how you can sort of draw a line through all of your experiences

and your knowledge to create some integrated story.