Thinking+Flexibly

Thinking Flexibly //Can you consider alternate ideas? Can you deal with more than// //one solution simultaneously? Is YOUR way of solving something// //the ONLY way? "If you never change your mind, why have one?"// //- De Bono// The inability to think flexibly causes a lot of issues. It brings stubbornness and the doesn't allow for new possibilities of doing things. There are tons of ways to be able to solve one thing. If you are unable to think flexibly then you will never be able to learn new ways of solving things or give other ideas a chance. During my rock candy experiment with Rob and Emily, we encountered a lot of issues in which we needed to think flexibly in order to solve our problems. Our first problem was that our solutions were not filled with enough sugar, or so we thought. So we came up with our first solution to pour more sugar into each solution. This caused the solution to go over the top because the sugar caused the solution level to rise. After getting it to the top of the jar we tried to dissolve the sugar once again. A few days went by and our rock candy still had not formed. Our thinking had lead us to believe that we had to keep filling it with sugar, but a new idea came to us through Mrs. Knowles. We had too much water. The solution now was to boil our solutions until the water levels had lowered and we were left with a thicker, more sugary solution. This change in thinking, and thinking flexibly lead us to a quicker and easier way to solve our problems as we had run out sugar and run out of large jars. [| http://www.infoplease.com/images/cig/science-fair-projects/09fig01.png]