Give it a thought for sure...

[Josip]

Hi,

Something interesting …


One big company was hiring new staff, the question of the written exam is:


You are driving a car. On one big storm night. You are passing a station.


There are three people who are waiting for the bus:


One old lady who is dying.


One doctor who saved your life before.


One person who is someone you have been dreaming to get married to.


You can only take one passenger, which one you will choose?

Please explain your reason.

Think about it before you read the following :






I am not sure whether it is some kind of personality test, since every answer has its reason.


Old lady is going to die, you should save her first, however, old people always end up dying anyway,


you should take the doctor, because the doctor saved my life before, this is the perfect chance to pay him back. At the same time, some people believe that you can always pay the doctor back in the future,


but you may never be able to find the perfect lover once you pass this chance.



Within the two hundred candidates, the one who has been hired did not explain his answer, he only simply stated that:

" Give the car key to the doctor, let the doctor take the old lady to the hospital and I stay to wait for the bus with the lady of my dream!"


Everyone I know think the above answer is the best answer, but there is no one (including myself) can think of this answer first.



Is that because we never want to give up any advantage we held in our hands (the car key)? Sometimes, we would gain more if we were able to give up our stubbornness, limitations, and advantage.

Give it a thought....

Best regards, Josip

[chillin out]

There is a proper name for this kind of stuff but at the moment I can't remember.

It was part of a management course a couple of weeks ago. (not that actual question but something similar).

Chillin

[yinmorrison]

One pretty smart guy/gal eh!
Once you have read it you do still wonder how he thought of that during a test that presumably he had not a lot of time to do.I still would not have come up with that answer even after reading it.

[frankyfridge]

" thought" the guy who gave the anwser i fell has thought outside the comfort zone that we all seem to get ourselves into [outside the box] was the vehicle a sports car or works van [two seeter]?if a sports car then giving the keys to the doctor was a bad idea as he would have asked the girl of your deams to go with him and if it was the works van then nobody would have got into it as theres no room due to equipment and books,manuals,laptops,and all sorts of other stuff laying around in the front of most vans.also the company would have been on the phone asking you why you stopped as big brother can see you on the tracker,he he!

[captincodeye]

But the Doctor woudnt be insured to drive the car so indded he would be breaking the law hehehe

[keepitcool]

Thanks Josip,

I like things like this. It helps me to keep from having tunnel vision and to think not just react.

[taz24]

Hi,

You can only take one passenger, which one you will choose?


Is that because we never want to give up any advantage we held in our hands (the car key)? Sometimes, we would gain more if we were able to give up our stubbornness, limitations, and advantage.

Give it a thought....

Best regards, Josip

No I don't think it has anything to do with giving up the advantage.

The instruction was

YOU CAN ONLY TAKE ONE PASSENGER

So of the 200 candidates 199 acted as instructed.
The one who was offered the job thought latraly
and came up with a solution..

I'd hire him or her.

Cheers
taz