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Think It Through using Outcome Thinking®

I must admit at first I said, “well of course it is June”  Then I thought that was too easy so I kept stretching to find the answer.  The funny thing was the answer was already given to us- Johnny is the third child.

I am amazed at how many things we are given in our laps but we don’t make the connection.  For example, I just bought a new product called the WebAround.  It is a screen that can sit behind your chair while you talk on the webcam and it blocks out all the mess behind you.  I am not sure, but it looks like it was invented by a Mom.

Here is the part I love:  what she designed her product out of is a pop up nylon piece that slips on your chair and then quickly folds up to be stored.  That “pop up nylon” material is what is widely used in kids play tubes, basket ball games or kids pop up tents.  I am sure she looked at her child’s toy one day dropped that in her working memory at the same time she was thinking about how to speak on her web cam and not have the messy kitchen be seen and the two came together as a solution.

What a great concept!

Here is your riddle for tomorrow:

How can a woman living in New Jersey, legally marry three men, without ever getting a divorced, becoming widowed, or becoming legally separated?

Think It Through using Outcome Thinking®

What word when you change one letter goes from being a natural path to a man-made?  Valley.  Drop the V and you have alley.

Sometimes the tweaks we need to make on things are so minor but we have trouble seeing them.  When presenting your ideas to others make sure you make transitions that align with the audience and move them from one idea to the next. The better you are at making these insightful connections the more people will see out your knowledge. 

These little riddles are designed to help you continue making those stretches and rewiring your brain.  So it is not about whether you got the right answer; it is about how you attempted to solve the answer.  Watch for your own brain patterns.  You should start to see your working memory expand as you do these on a daily basis.  As your working memory expands so will the possible answers that flood your brain as you work through the riddles.

Here is your next riddle:

Johnny’s mother had three children.  The first child was named April. The second child was named Mary. What was the third child’s name?

Think It Through using Outcome Thinking®

Well many of you got the answer right to yesterdays riddle.  When you thought about it UND popped up.

So what caused many of you to get the right answer? It actually has to do with how your brain operates. 

Your brain can retrieve information easier when it looks at something and says, “no that is the wrong answer” then when it has to stare at a blank space and fill it in.  Because yesterday’s riddle was partially filled in I bet many of you put pen to paper to fill in the letters before and after.  Then all your brain had to do was look at what you put in and say “no that is wrong, the correct answer is…”

When you are working on a particular problem use your brain as an asset by just writing in an answer even if you know it is way off base.  Your brain will quickly retrieve the right answer when it rejects the answer you put in.  But if you don’t put anything on paper, your brain will literally “blank” out on you.

Here is your riddle for tomorrow:

I am a path situated between high natural masses.  Remove my first letter and you have a path situated between man-made masses. What am I?