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  • In kindergarten, this would be a typical question.

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

  • Ten. You guys are so great.

  • 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.

  • This requires convergent thinking.

  • 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?

  • Infinite.

  • And I'm so delighted you say 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?

  • The same principles.

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

  • When we ask it in a slightly different way,

  • we got an infinite number of answers.

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

  • Maybe somebody can tell me recognize this place.

  • Anyone know what school this is?

  • 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.

  • Now, this doesn't mean that the answer

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

  • It will be a word like 'integrity',

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

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

  • Now, first of all, how many of you would

  • like to take that type of exam? Great.

  • I actually love that,

  • because most people find that kind of scary and intimidating.

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

  • What does it tell them?

  • 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.

  • It's about seeing how creative you are.

In kindergarten, this would be a typical question.

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蒂娜-塞利格:《分歧思維》。 (Tina Seelig: Divergent Thinking)

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