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Chapter 59

Chapter 6, Section 10 How do blind people buy scissors?

No matter how high your IQ is, if you don't think from multiple perspectives, you will become a fool! ? ?

Asimov was smart since he was a child. He took part in the "IQ test" many times when he was young, and his score was always around 160, which belonged to the "extremely gifted". ?
Once, he met a car mechanic, an old friend of his. ?
The repairman said to Asimov: "Hey, Doctor! Let me put out a thinking question to test your intelligence and see if you can answer it."?
Asimov nodded in agreement.The repairman began to talk about thinking questions:?
"There was a deaf-mute who wanted to buy some nails. He came to the hardware store and made this gesture to the salesperson: stand with two fingers on his left hand on the counter, and make a fist with his right hand as if knocking. The salesperson saw this , first brought him a hammer. The deaf-mute shook his head and pointed to the two fingers that were upright. Then the salesperson understood that what the deaf-mute wanted to buy were nails. The deaf-mute bought nails and just walked out store, and then a blind man came in. The blind man wanted to buy a pair of scissors, may I ask: What will the blind man do?"?
Asimov thought, isn't this simple?Then he replied casually: "Blind people will definitely do this—" He stretched out his index and middle fingers, making the shape of scissors. ?
When the car mechanic heard this, he laughed happily: "Haha, you idiot, you got the wrong answer! A blind person who wants to buy scissors only needs to say 'I'll buy scissors', and he doesn't need to make gestures!"?
Asimov, who had a high IQ, had to admit that he was indeed a "stupid".But the car mechanic was unreasonable, and said in a lecturing tone: "Before I asked you, I knew that you would give the wrong answer, because you have received too much education, and you cannot be very smart. "?
Mind walk?

Asimov was an American of Russian descent. He wrote 400 books in his lifetime, and he can be regarded as a well-known popular science writer in the world.This is a story he told about himself in the article "What is intelligence?"This story has also been quoted by psychologists. ?
The reason why Asimov stretched out his index and middle fingers to make the shape of scissors was because he was influenced by the gesture of the deaf-mute man in front of him buying nails, which is actually a mindset.Mindset refers to the state of preparation for a specific activity, which can make us quite proficient in engaging in a certain activity, and even achieve automation, but it also makes us only use conventional methods to solve problems without seeking to pass. Other "shortcuts" breakthrough, which will bring some difficulties to solve the problem. ?
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