Okay, right now it's time to do a small exercise I want to show you what kind of blockers we get when we do some strategic thinking. And you'll see how it's an eye opener. So I hope it's an opener for you too. I like that we do this exercise together. So the challenge or or, or, or the task here is, please take a piece of paper close by or, or just a napkin in a pen. It's important that you have a piece of paper and a pen.

And the exercise is about that. So imagine I asked you to draw a cake on the paper, just draw a cake. And then you're allowed to cut the cake four times, four lines, straight lines, they have to be straight. They're just four lines on the cake and you need to cut it. The challenge or the goal is the maximum number of pieces. So how can I how can you cut the cake So that you get the maximum amount of pieces, take two minutes and try it out.

Don't think too much. Just make a cake, throw the cake and cut it in four straight lines. So, most of you probably got a pieces, you just throw the cake. It's a circle, you cut four times, that's a pieces. That's very standard. Some of you the ones who thought a bit out of the box, they got probably 11 pieces by cutting a bit more transversally.

And you can see that in the picture. Great. The more more strategic thinkers, the more out of the box, you probably created the three dimensional cake and you cut it in four pieces, then you get 12 pieces. Excellent. But what if I tell you that this exercise was carried out in a school with kids? Yeah, kids for six years old.

They told him the same draw cake and cut it in four pieces, guess how many pieces they get? They didn't get eight or 11 or 12. They get hundreds of pieces, they get hundreds of pieces. What was the difference here? Well, when they asked them to draw a cake, they draw a castle or at Disneyland, kind of Mickey Mouse for them cakes were fantasies and, and they would see cakes very different than we see cakes. We draw a cake Can you circle for kids not it was whatever.

And that's how they managed to get more pieces. So this small exercise just to show you that we have a lot of assumptions in your heads. The older with the age with the maturity, we start building lots of attempts assumption so a cake is round, and then you're limited, you're very limited. And the challenge for strategic thinking is that you You break away from these assumptions. You the case should never be wrong, why? and so on.

So you just try to decompose. What are your assumptions and how can you break them? That's really one of the challenges that we carry. When we're thinking about strategy thinking.