Thinking

In class Andy gave us a few questions to think about, riddles, brain teasers, and actual physical problems. We were giving the problems to figure out but as we were trying to find out the problem we had to look at how and why we were thinking the way we were thinking about solving the problem. There was one problem called the cocaine addicts problem, there were nine dots three by three. You had to make four lines but you could not pick up the pen. So I tried a few times and I thought I figured it out asked Kyle if it was the right answer because he said he had solved it. He told me it was not the right answer and I continued to work and work and no solve the problem. Once everyone was given enough time to solve it we went over it and my answer was the right answer. I was so mad and I could not believe he lied to me, but the real reason I was mad is I listened to him and did not believe in myself that I had the correct answer. So looking back at it and the way I was thinking about the problem was very interesting because everyone was thinking about how to solve it and how they were thinking and I was thinking about how to solve it, how I was thinking, and why I was wrong and how to fix it. My thought process was divided into thirds instead of everyone else’s was divided into halves.