I'm sure you've been wondering, how can you be a more resourceful person? Well, there are a few things you can do to help you increase your ability to be resourceful, but it may not be what you're expecting. Well, resourcefulness can't really be taught sorry to tell you that there isn't a step by step process to make someone resourceful. It's a complex combination of problem solving and creativity. But learning how others have been resourceful, practicing problem solving and creativity, along with a few other techniques can create the mindset that allows for greater resourcefulness. So again, to be a more resourceful person, you should take the opportunity to solve various problems in the future and study other successful people.

You will be exposed to their creative solutions and the thinking that went along with it. So try to solve interesting problems and puzzles and study Other successful people. And since we now know that resourcefulness equals creativity plus problem solving, what should we do today in this particular lesson? Well, let's practice. And as we practice creatively solving problems, try to incorporate these ideas. There's six of them.

Number one, keep an open mind as best as possible as we go throughout these problems. Ask questions. Now, of course, you can't ask me questions. No matter how loud you are, I'm not going to be able to hear you collaborate. If you're working in a group, you want to be able to work well with others. So openly work well with group members use something called positive skepticism.

Skepticism is doubt. However, positive skepticism is questioning. Well, can there be another way? It's keeping this question about whether something is really true? not bend the rules, you know, it's a way of thinking outside of the box. And of course, don't give up, keep going, keep pursuing keep persisting, that way, you'll eventually find success.

All right now get a piece of paper and a pen. And we're going to do a little exercise that I think you're going to find interesting. We're in a desert survival situation. And I'm going to give you that situation, which is actually based on over 2000 real cases in which men and women either lived or died, depending on the decisions they made. And you're going to make some of those decisions now. So here's the scenario, you have been in a plane and your plane has crashed.

It's crashed in the desert, and you only have a few items that help you survive, you have exactly 15 items. And the idea is to list these 15 items in the order of importance, so that they'll help you survive. Now we don't have time to really complete this activity. But we do have time to look at these 15 items and consider their usefulness in such a situation. Here are the 15 items. Now going from the top left all the way down to the bottom right, let me just make sure you know what they are.

Number one, a flashlight to a hand gun. Three, a raincoat, clear plastic raincoat for a heavy jacket to keep you warm. Five one liter of water. Six sunglasses, seven a knife. Eight, a cosmetic mirror. Nine, a parachute 10 bandages or gauze.

11 A book on edible animals. This means this book will let you know what animals are safe to use. Eat 12 a map of the area 13 a compass, 14, salt, and 15 a bottle of whiskey. Which items do you think are the most important and the least important? And why? Go ahead, push pause, take about five minutes and think about it.

Write down your list, make notes, and we'll come back and I'll give you the answers. Now, as you're making this list, I want you to keep in mind the six things that help you solve problems. Number one, keep an open mind to ask questions if you have people around you. Three, collaborate if you have people around you now for use positive skepticism question whether something is real or not. Question the real use of something by bending the rules. And six don't give up but we don't have a lot of time today.

Right? Right push pause, make your list and then come back. Alright, let's go over some of the answers. Now would you believe that two of these items are actually dangerous and they can probably kill you in this situation? which items might those be? Well, they are the salt in the whiskey, salt here will dehydrate you and take the water out of your body leading to a quicker death and whiskey.

Although it is a liquid and although it might make you feel better one it takes the water out of your body and it will give you the false sense of being warm. Alcohol really doesn't warm your body it just makes you think you're warmer you can actually drop your body temperature and you know it gets cold in the desert at night. Next four items will not help you or hurt you which ones are these? The gauze it's not going to matter if you got cut or not. Because if you don't get out of the situation soon While you're just probably gonna die, the book on edible animals won't matter just about any animals edible, the map won't help or hurt you because you really shouldn't be walking in the desert. And people tend to make circles in the desert, they just end up where they started.

And the same goes for the compass, it's not really going to help you get out of a situation, at least not in this one. So which ones are most important? All these other ones will help you but can you guess which is the most important of them all, you're probably going to be surprised. It is none other than the cosmetic mirror. Statistically, those people who had a cosmetic mirror of some sort had a 80% chance of being rescued within about 48 hours. You can use this mirror to signal to those around you or two planes passing by.

Surprising right at least I was surprised when I first heard this. And if you're curious the real order here it is, with number one being most important and 15 being least important just to satisfy your curiosity. We don't have time to go into the reasons. But can you see how positive skepticism in bending the rules can open up new possibilities for these objects? So to recap on how to be a resourceful person, remember these things, you want to solve puzzles and problems. You want to practice doing this, you know, help you develop the mind that will become more resourceful.

Also, it's really important to study how other people have been successful from their resourcefulness. Go ahead and read about the successful people. Then, things to remember, when trying to be resourceful keep an open mind. Ask questions, collaborate with team members, use positive skepticism. bend the rules when possible and don't give up. And finally, we went over our desert survival example.

I hope you found that valuable and interesting. If you keep these things in mind, you'll be well on your way to being a more resourceful person in the future. And let's get ready to answer the mystery question. You might be surprised at this tricky answer.