Week 1 Reading-Chapter 1:What Do You See?

Chapter 1: It's All Invented

This chapter is all about how you perceive everything. As living things, we automatically put rules for survival on every situation we encounter. Even though we are made that way so we can function safely, it hinders our ability to think outside of the box. We live so structured that sometimes we forget to just go with the flow. Without realizing it, we assume extra rules are in place. To prove this point, the authors use the example of the famous 3X3 dot puzzle with the ONLY instructions being "join all nine dots with 4 lines, without taking pen from paper." Most people struggle with this because we ASSUME we can't draw outside of the box. The short video below shows how most people try to keep the lines inside the box and then how to solve the puzzle.