DIFFERENT MENTALITIES
I was jogging with my architect friend, Jerry, the other morning down at the Y, and he shared another old chestnut with me. It seems that the Stanford Research Institute was making a study of how different people think, how they perceive things differently. They devised a short but succinct test to use in their interviews and proceeded to call in several people from different walks of life. The first to come in was an engineer. The researchers asked him: “Tell us, what does two plus two make?” The engineer didn’t hesitate a moment but simply said, “Well, if you mean in absolute terms — two and two make four.” The researchers made their notes, thanked the engineer and dismissed him. Next, they called in an architect. They asked him the same question and he said, “Well, there are several possibilities: two and two make four, but so do three and one – – or two and one-half and one and one-half…
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