A typical example is: mother and wife fall into the water at the same time, who should be saved first?
This is a dilemma. Whichever you answer, you risk offending the other person.
So this embarrassment is inevitable?
Recently, I heard two wonderful answers in two different scenes. Coincidentally, there are similarities and similarities between the two answers, which makes people lament the great wisdom of the respondents.
The book "Study hard" by Teacher Cheng Jia (the head of APP Cheng Jia's storytelling column) is one of them.
Teacher Cheng Jia mentioned in the book a conversation with Ren, a post-80s "public offering elder brother", who was still studying biology in Tsinghua University. When talking about investment style, Teacher Cheng Jia asked a question.
"Do you think your investment style is more like Peter Lynch or Buffett? “
This is a closed question. He may answer Peter Lynch or Buffett, or neither, but other styles. But Ren Songze's answer was beyond Cheng Jia's expectation. He said:
That depends on which era I am in.
By analyzing Ren's answers, we can find that he did not directly answer specific options, but put forward a judgment rule, which can be extended to answer such questions.
The novel "Chief Medical Officer" broadcast by Mr. Chen in the Himalayas fascinated me. The original author Xie Rongpeng has accumulated more than one billion broadcasts in the past four or five years.
This novel tells the story of a young China doctor, Ceng Yi, who had a good medical skill at a young age. When he was ready to give full play to his medical ethics after graduation, he found that opening a small clinic was interfered by his rights, so he embarked on the road of politics and created one political and medical legend after another by virtue of his ability and connections.
The opening words of the novel audio have a proper summary.
Get to the point, in a program, Ceng Yi, the secretary protagonist of the old leader, asked him.
"Comrade Bai Han and Wen Jie have their own ideas on the governance of southern Xinjiang province. Whose idea do you think is more suitable for southern Xinjiang? "
These two are the second-in-command of southern Xinjiang province, a secretary and a governor in the novel, but there is a natural confrontation between them, which is actually a difficult question to answer.
Ceng Yi cleverly used the metaphor of two watches to answer:
The analysis hero uses this metaphor to answer a thorny question: which leader does he agree with? Just like case one, there is no direct choice between the two, but the underlying logic of their own judgment, thus leaving thinking to the questioner.