You don’t build your relationship when you settle for proving yourself right.

In the 1960s, Peter Wason, a psychologist, conducted an experiment. It is called a 2–4–6 task. It’s a fascinating riddle where you get to play with numbers. In the riddle, a sequence of three numbers governs its rule. Some sequences pass the rule, and some sequences don’t.

2–4–6 is an example of a sequence that passes.

If you were to play this riddle, what sequence of numbers do you test to pass the rule? Do you test 4–6–8?

In the experiment, 4–6–8 passes the rule. What other sequences of numbers do you test? Do you continue testing any three numbers that increase by two like, 8–10–12, 12–14–16, 14–16–18, 16–18–20, and so on?

This riddle sounds ridiculously easy, isn’t it?

But wait for it…

The correct sequence of numbers is not as easy as most of us think.

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Banchi