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James Sollisch describes how his children's ability to see things in fresh ways opened his own eyes to the nature of creative thinking.
詹姆斯·索利斯克描述了他是如何因他的孩子們能用新方法看事物而認(rèn)清創(chuàng)造性思維的本質(zhì)的。
Fruitful Questions
獲益匪淺的問(wèn)題
By James Sollish
詹姆斯·索利斯
The other night at the dinner table, my three kids--ages 9, 6 and 4--took time out from their food fight to teach me about paradigm shifts, and limitations of linear thinking and how to refocus parameters.
不久前的一個(gè)晚上在餐桌旁，我的三個(gè)孩子--年齡分別為9歲、6歲和4歲--暫時(shí)停止?fàn)帗屖澄铮v出時(shí)間教我認(rèn)識(shí)什么是范式變換、什么是線性思考的局限以及如何重新看待相關(guān)的各種因素。
Here's how it happened: We were playing our own oral version of the Sesame Street game, “What Doesn't Belong?”, where kids look at three pictures and choose the one that doesn't fit. I said, “OK, what doesn't belong, an orange, a tomato or a strawberry?”
事情是這樣的：當(dāng)時(shí)我們?cè)谕孀约耗翘字粍?dòng)嘴的“哪個(gè)不是同一類(lèi)？”的芝麻街游戲。本來(lái)玩這游戲時(shí)，孩子們要看三張畫(huà)并挑出那張不屬同一類(lèi)的畫(huà)。我說(shuō)：“來(lái)吧，哪個(gè)不是同一類(lèi)，桔子，西紅柿，還是草莓？”
The oldest didn't take more than a second to deliver his smug answer: “Tomato because the other two are fruits.” I agreed that this was the right answer despite the fact that some purists insist a tomato is a fruit. To those of us forced as kids to eat them in salads, tomatoes will always be vegetables. I was about to think up another set of three when my 4-year-old said, “The right answer is strawberry because the other two are round and a strawberry isn't.” How could I argue with that?
老大很快就說(shuō)出了自以為非常得意的答案：“西紅柿，因?yàn)槠渌麅煞N是水果。”我承認(rèn)這是正確答案，盡管有些純粹主義者堅(jiān)決認(rèn)為西紅柿是一種水果。對(duì)我們這些從小就被迫吃拌在色拉里的西紅柿的人來(lái)說(shuō)，西紅柿永遠(yuǎn)是蔬菜。我正準(zhǔn)備再出一道三種東西為一組的題目時(shí)，我4歲的孩子說(shuō)：“正確答案是草莓，因?yàn)榱硗鈨煞N是圓的，草莓卻不圓。”我怎么能駁斥這種論點(diǎn)呢？
Then my 6-year-old said, “It's the orange because the other two are red.” Not to be outdone by his younger siblings, the 9-year-old said, “It could also be the orange because the other two grow on vines.”
接著，我6歲的孩子說(shuō)“不屬同一類(lèi)的是桔子，因?yàn)榱硗鈨煞N是紅色的。”9歲的孩子不想讓弟妹占上風(fēng)，說(shuō)道：“不是同一類(lèi)的也可以是桔子，因?yàn)槠渌麅煞N長(zhǎng)在藤上。”
The middle one took this as a direct challenge. “It could be the strawberry because it's the only one you put on ice cream.”
老二把這看作對(duì)他發(fā)出的挑戰(zhàn)。“可以是草莓，因?yàn)橹挥胁葺畷?huì)放在冰淇淋上。”
