Saturday Odd Bits Roundup: Stretching Your Box
by Miki SaxonAs I said in the old posts I pointed out yesterday, I don’t believe that anyone ever gets out of their box, but boxes are infinitely enlargeable and the only constraints are the ones you put in place.
I thought I’d offer up two visual mind-expanders today. Fun for you and fun for me.
Did you know that research shows that no matter how scrambled the letters if the first and last are in the correct position you can read the words? Try it now.
Could you read it? If not, try again.
How are you at spatial puzzles? Here’s one that’s been around for a long time, but I haven’t met many people who solved it.
Think abut what you just saw. The MAP that stops most of us from figuring it out is based on what we start hearing as toddlers when we get our first crayons—
“Silly, whoever heard of an orange sky?”
“But cows only have 4 legs.”
And from our first coloring book, and as a metaphor throughout life, we hear over an over “color inside the lines;” then all of a sudden we’re being chided for doing exactly that.
Go ahead, expand the lines; push the boundaries; you’ll be surprised at how easily they move.
Image credit: MykReeve on flickr, tamlac00 on YouTube and macias9133 on YouTube
