Gauss is a great German mathematician. When he was a child, he was a clever boy and loved to think.

When I was in primary school, once a teacher tried to cure naughty students in his class. He worked out a math problem and asked the students to increase ... from 1+2+3 to 100. He thinks this question is enough for these students to calculate for half a day, and he may also get half a day's leisure. Who knows, to his surprise, only after a while. Little gauss raised his hand and said that he was finished. The teacher looked at the answer, 5050, exactly right. The teacher was surprised. Ask little Gauss how to work it out.

Gauss said that he didn't add it from beginning to end, but first added 1 and 100 to get1kloc-0/,then added 2 and 99 to get1kloc-0/,and finally added 50 and 5 1. The clever Gauss was praised by the teacher.

2. Open your head one millimeter.

There is a company that produces toothpaste in America. Excellent products, exquisite packaging, deeply loved by consumers, annual turnover is booming. Records show that the annual business growth rate in the first ten years was 10 ~ 20%, which delighted the board of directors. However, when the performance entered the eleventh, twelfth and twelfth years, it stagnated and maintained the same number every month. Dissatisfied with the performance of these three years, the board of directors held a national meeting of senior managers to discuss countermeasures.

During the meeting, a young manager stood up, raised a piece of paper in his hand and said to the board department, "I have a suggestion." If you want to use my advice, you must pay me another 50 thousand yuan! " "

The headmaster was very angry and said, "I will give you a salary every month and a red envelope reward." Now I ask you to have a meeting to discuss, and you want another 50 thousand. Is it too much? "

"Mr. President, please don't get me wrong. If my suggestion doesn't work, you can throw it away without paying a dime. " The young manager explained.

"good!" After receiving the paper, the president read it and immediately signed a check for 50 thousand yuan to the young manager.

There is only one sentence written on that piece of paper: enlarge the opening of the existing toothpaste1mm.

The president immediately ordered the replacement of new packaging.

Imagine how many times more toothpaste each consumer consumes every morning when using 1mm toothpaste? This decision increased the company's turnover by 32% in the first 14 year.

3. The other side of the map

One morning, a poor priest, in order to distract his crying son, tore a colorful map of the world into many tiny pieces and threw it on the ground, promising, "Little John, if you can put these pieces together, I will give you 25 cents."

The priest thought it would take John half a morning, but little John finished it in less than ten minutes.

Priest: "Son, how do you spell so fast?"

Little John replied easily, "On the other side of the map is a picture of a person. I put this photo together and turned it over. " . I think that if this' person' is correct, then this' world' is also correct. "

The priest smiled and gave his son a quarter.

4. Disney sidewalk design

1April, 992, after three years of preparation, Disneyland Paris finally opened to tourists. The perfect path design of Disneyland has become a highlight. However, this perfect design was inspired by an ordinary local vineyard. There are thousands of vineyards like Paris, but it was discovered by chief designer Gropes.

It turns out that the path design used to be the biggest problem that troubled Gropes. When the whole project is about to be completed, there is still no perfect solution to this problem. Once again, he drove past a grape producing area in France and saw many gardeners selling grapes on the roadside, but few people were interested. He happened to find a vineyard in front of a valley full of customers. Gropes walked in. It turned out to be an unattended vineyard. Customers can pick a basket of grapes at will, as long as they pay the owner's old woman 5 francs. The owner's free choice method has won the favor of many customers. The old lady came up with this idea because she is too old to do manual work of picking grapes. )

Gropes was deeply inspired when he saw it, so he planted grass seeds in Disneyland. After the whole park was covered with grass, he let the tourists move freely. Since Disney opened for half a year, many paths have been trampled on the grass, which looks elegant and natural. Later, Gropes had people lay sidewalks according to these trodden paths. As a result, the road design of Disneyland was rated as the best design in the world.

Simplifying the problem is the best solution. The more elusive the problem, the more we should try to deal with it simply.