4 Apr
2006
4 Apr
'06
5:31 a.m.
Tore S Bekkedal wrote:
Another good exercise is incremental refinement of the "problem"
to see how the solution incrementally improves. I had an employer
engage me in such a discussion (long after being hired) and was
amazed at how my answer to question #3 would have been equally
applicable to question #1 -- yet, I hadn't come up with it until
prompted to by the more stringent requirements of the third
question, etc.
(sigh) Makes you think you are "mentally lazy" :-(
--don
In article
<BAY107-F26C23B9B3CF3B590A01123A3CA0 at phx.gbl>,
"dwight elvey" <dkelvey at hotmail.com> writes:
I saw something to the effect that many studies showed that when forced
to produce a running verbal commentary of solving a given puzzle, they
lost almost all solving power.
Forcing a person to keep a commentary of what they're doing moves it
into a completely different part of the brain, and it would go from
"possibly irrelevant" to "completely futile".
But, as stated, what matters is less the solution, and more the approach
the employee takes, as that shows more of the personality. [...] It is how they approach the problem that
I'm most interested in finding out.
But most people don't
"think" with a running verbal commentary for
you.