Volumen sijalice A Story Break

There's a story about Thomas Edison that has made quite an impression on me.

There was a mathematician who had the job of figuring out the volume of the lightbulb. Since
it was an unusual shape, neither a sphere nor a cylinder, this wasn't an easy proposition. This
man was very intelligent and well-educated, and he went about his task very conscientiously.
According to the story, he consulted all his textbooks, he tried different formulas, he consulted
all of his professors, and he consulted his professors' professors.
The mathematician was hard at work when Thomas Edison came in from a walk and said,
'You know, it's beautiful out there.' And the mathematician was thinking, Well, great; you're
out taking a walk while I'm sitting here breaking my pencils working on this.

Edison continued, 'You know, I noticed this lovely pine tree. Did you ever notice that pine
cones grow upside down?' Edison went to pour himself a glass of water, but instead of using a
glass, he walked to the mathematician's desk, picked up the lightbulb, turned it upside down,
and poured the water into it. He then handed it back to the mathematician and said, 'Here,
measure the volume of the water.'
With any problem, I always advise people to turn it upside down. Look around you; get
inspiration from nature; go for a walk; go outside. Don't just look at the task at hand.

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Springboard mentality --- Mentalitet odskone daske

Springboard Mentality

Of course, it's easy to think, 'I have an open mind. I'm ready to listen.' Unfortunately, we all
have a bit of built-in arrogance. We've made it this far in life by trusting our instincts and
imposing our own particular set of perceptions on the world around us. It's hard to let go of
this.
Each time I conduct an interview, I try not to walk in with predetermined answers. I've always
got some hypotheses that I'm curious about, but I never walk in with a particular result that
I've already decided upon: 'The answer is Y' or 'These people are Z.' I go in with a
springboard mentality: 'You show me what's cool here and where the energy is.' And when I
do pinpoint the energy, that mindset allows me to turn on a dime and pursue it, often springing
off in directions that I could never have predicted or imagined.