Innovation by SIT

One of your boastful friends makes a bet with you that he can tell you in no time at all exactly how many leaves there are on a tree at any given moment. Of course you agree to the bet - it seems like the quickest way to earn a free meal in your favorite Italian restaurant. As soon as you’ve made the bet, you figure out the catch: how the hell can you prove him wrong?

I’ll give you a few minutes…

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… Did you come up with something?

Here is the solution -

After your friend tells you the number of leaves (say 5678) you tell him it is wrong. “Prove it,” he will tell you happy about his victory. OK you’ll tell him: “please don’t look for a few seconds and I’ll take a few leaves off the tree
and then you tell me once again the exact number of leaves on the tree. If you can really count them it will be no problem for you”.

OK let’s see what  SIT tools are involved here:

Multiplication:  since you invite your friend to count twice

Division: Since we divide the leaves into two groups (those on the tree and those in our hand).

Subtraction: Since we remove leaves from the tree

This is a good opportunity to remind you - Systematic Inventive Thinking works! and the most important element in putting it to use is … to make the decision to use it for solving a particular mproblem.

So pick up a problem, any problem, use SIT find a great idea…

Than tell us all about it - we would love to hear everything about your success in using SIT.

See you all in my next post,

Roni

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