start: thinking

OK, I am starting this blog with one of my favourite DeBono puzzles. What you have to do is to divide the shape into four equal size and equal shaped pieces, and fit them into the 'L' shape exactly. They have to be the same volume and the the same shape. OK.
I give this puzzle to my students and many of them cannot achieve it. This is mainly because of the structure of most peoples thinking processes. Through education you are taught to see simple shapes; square, rectangle, triangle, etc. This can be useful and efficient for the brain, but when 'creativity' is brought into play, then the aspects of a streamline brain are detrimental to the puzzle solving aims of the task at hand.
This is also a reason why the process of design is becoming more and more simplistic and less clever, because a great deal of designers are not being challenged to think during their educational process.
Try the puzzle an think more in future postings.

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