answer to the logic question
The answer is 1st Sept. Before asking why is it, let’s try to think think… a lot of my friends (including myself of course) found it is difficult to understand the rationale, even after we read the answer. Let me give you a hint: the first step is to eliminate all dates in June and Dec…
We thoguht logic was a simple tricks, and we all thought we were logical persons after years of education. I always think - how great it would be if I could have a clearer and more organized mind. In most cases, we could solve a problem in our daily life was because we have experience in it, but not because we have a clear mind.
I think a lot of people do like this: go to office in the morning, log on the computer and see what pops in. Do whatever is urgent first and do other things as it comes up (such as an email or a phone call). And finally you are doing pieces by pieces -like doing a lot of things but cannot tell what have been accomplished.
Think about this: if you step backwards a bit, look at all the "urgent" and outstanding issues, spend 5 minutes to think and organize them… it could be one simple and little task after all. And you can spend 15 minutes to complete it instead of spending the whole morning.
But of course, sometimes we purposely make things complicated and spend long time to complate the task and make us look like very busy. We make the things so complicated that we hope other people don’t understand and won’t challenge what we do. (=^_^=)
Well, you may not understand what I mean. I hope I could be more organized and express myself clearer.
Let’s go back to the question itself. If you still don’t get the answer (and if you still want to know why), send me a mail and I will try my best to explain (trust me, explaining is as difficult as understanding).
February 15th, 2006 at 6:53 am
This question suddenly brings the attention of the world of my friends as well! Many guys can answer in less than 5 mins!! But so far, only one girl friend got it right!
I agree we should spend a bit of time to think think (at least 5 mins) why we want to do and why we do not want to do it.