![]() ![]() The people with the least at stake, who are just playing around with the puzzle, tend to catch on to it quickly. That exercise is a simple illustration of the need to keep our minds quietly open and accept creative solutions that occur to us. She was laughing at herself because she got it right and then immediately assumed she was wrong, just as caught up in her own perceived boundaries as those who couldn’t leave the box. She was one of only three people in the room who connected all the dots. So she had been waiting to see how the “smart” people did it “right”. She was giggling because she had thought she was just too dumb to figure out how to solve it within the box. The only way she could see to do it in four lines was to travel beyond the perceived boundaries. In the back of the room, one of his staff members giggled. “You didn’t give us complete instructions!” he shouted at the facilitator of the meeting. The first time I saw it done, a corporate executive had an absolute fit when he saw the solution. Of course, first-timers often get trapped inside the “box” and can’t complete the puzzle, even though the instructions never mention any limitations on where you can take your line. It’s hard for us to settle down into quiet reflection and accept that we DO know what to do, if we grasp the logic of insight and depend on discovery.ĭo you know the puzzle called the “Nine Dot Box” in which you have to connect all the dots using only four lines without lifting your pen from the paper? To connect them all in four lines without leaving the paper, your line has to travel outside the perceived “box” created by the dots. We rush into high gear to figure out or learn the answers to life’s questions, frustrating ourselves thinking, thinking, thinking, and taking on stress when we don’t know what to do.
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