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Flexibility in Thinking
“To raise new questions, new problems, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and makes real advances.
-Albert Einstein
Flexibility in thinking means to think about a problem in more than one way. Often we don’t consider alternative ways of approaching a problem. We are not creative in our ability to think of different ways that a problem may be solved or approached. If you allow for the possibility of approaching and solving a problem in different ways you might use words such as “however,” or “on the other hand,” in deciding what possibilities are available in a problem situation. Don’t be impulsive and stay only with your first idea. Be persistent and think of other possibilities.
Here is a problem for you to think about
Back in 1870, with the opening of the first regular transcontinental railway service, an enterprising young man decided that he could make money shipping milk from New York to California by train. To make it pay, he would have to find a way to ship it without freezing it or refrigerating it. He also couldn’t afford cans, bottles, or containers of any kind. Finally, he came up with a solution. How did he do it?
