Imagine driving your car in a wild, dark and rainy night. Suddenly you are passing the bus stop and you see three people standing in the rain and waiting:
The first person is an old lady who looks like sheis just dying and she needs help.
The other person is your old friend who once saved you life.
A third person is the perfect partner (woman, man) you have always dreamed of to
meet.
Whom will you choose ?
Please note that there is only one passenger beside the driver in the vehicle, no back seat!
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This is a classic moral-ethical dilemma that has been used for a long time in examining the ability of candidates applying for a job in one of the world's largest corporations:
You can choose the old lady, bearing in mind that she may die at any time,
deciding for that reason you should first save her.You can take old friend of yours, because he once saved you.
Or you can take a perfect partner knowing that you may never again have the chance
to meet him or her again.
The person then employed (there were more than 20,000 applications) had an unexpected quick response. Guess what kind?
"I would give the keys of the car to my old friend and thus a chance to save another life by bringing the old lady to the nearest hospital. I would stay at the station with my dream partner waiting for the bus. We would have the opportunity to get to know each other better. "
Sometimes we simply have to give up the the way of thinking in environment in which we live and work.
When we work for a long time within that area, we often develop
a so-called ''tunnel vision'' - we see only what is closely related to that area, we are thinking within the framework within which we are.
We need to start to utilize so called "Out-of-box thinking", a creative thinking, beyond the usual parameters, we need to find original and innovative solutions.