What is going on guys, welcome back to the applicants hired master class. In this section, we're going to go over what the lateral thinking method is. Now I already have it laid out for you. But the lateral thinking method is an abstract concept that you're thinking inside the box. And a lot of people for the longest time have been taught to think in a sequential order. So that means if you start at step one, you have to go to step two, if you go to step two, you go to Step three.

In a perfect world, yes, that would work. But obviously, that's not going to work now given in the sense that you have to think for yourself, and the lateral thinking method is for you to think outside the box. So if we look at this picture here, and we're going to do a little bit of drawing, so bear with me. If we look at this picture here, we can see that this person is stuck in order to get to his goal. This person is saying Duck right here, right there is a box this, this metaphorical box that he cannot get to where it is a, b, c, technically, this is C, but you cannot get to see because you're in a box. But if we were to think outside of it, move out, and then come here.

Now you can find a way whether this is a rope or whether this is a ladder, or whether he decides to just get a whole bunch of trash and just stack it up on top and try to do that. That is a lateral thinking method. And the lateral thinking method means that if you ever feel like you're stuck in a box, you most likely are. So you either have to address the problem head on. Very, very, very, very rarely Will you do that, or you have to find a way to change the underlying, quote unquote premise of what the question is being asked. So when you get into the interview room, if you have a very difficult question that you're uncertain about, you have 100 options you can think of, but not a lot.

So let me go ahead and give you an idea. So we're going to go ahead and change a new idea. Go new, don't save. So what we're going to think about is this line and this line to success. And we're going to go ahead and put success here. So just understand that this is kind of a gate, right?

This is kind of a gate and it's protected by a password. What you need to understand what the lateral thinking method is, if you are in a box, right? This is my medical forte metaphorical box. Put it Lot of stick figure man, right here, I can do a million thousand things here, go ahead and put some zeros. I can put 1000 things in this box. And it will never get me to point success because I'm hitting a wall.

But if I can think of the gate, this, this idea that there's a gate and the password and change the premise, I can finally pass through and get to success because there's only going to be few passwords that are going to allow me to get through this gate. Few passwords Think about that. And I'm gonna go ahead and lay a couple of scenarios at this point. There have been some questions that some of my clients will ask me that they don't know how to answer. And I'm gonna give you the two ones that that were very astonishing, or they just really stood out. The first question was One of my clients was in an interview room, and they brought him in.

They they had his resume in hand. And they asked him, Well, you seem very qualified. But tell me about one of your weaknesses and how you deal with them. And he answered it, literally. So he thought inside the box, and we're gonna go ahead and change things up here. Put this here, we're gonna think literal.

So if you think literally answer them literally and say, What are your weaknesses? His response, that he gets too caught up in detail, and sometimes he he gets very anxious because he doesn't know what to do. And he did. He answered the question, that is my weakness. I get too caught up on the details, and I don't know what to do. So he was in a position where were they asked them a question that could have been open ended or closed.

Ended and he decided to go close. So think about this for yourself for a minute. He said, I just felt like I really screwed up that question after after the interview room, he didn't get the job opportunity. And he asked me, How do I answer that question? And I want to give you another way to think about that question that was asked, What is one of your weaknesses? And how do you deal with them?

And I told him, this is how you're going to answer that because you don't you don't answer it literally. You answer it abstractly. And it's, I don't know everything. But the beauty about it is that I'm perfectly aware of what my strengths and weaknesses are. The fact that I aim to improve myself every day, get my weaknesses to the best of my abilities, but really focus on my strengths. So if you look at my resume, these are my strengths.

This is what I'm good at. am I going to admit that there are some things I don't know there's so much I don't know. But I won't be aware and ask for help. That I'm going to ask you that I don't understand something. And I could have explained maybe two or three times. But once I get it, I understand it, I comprehend it, I can master it, and then help mentor somebody.

So that what I learned matters. That was a much better answer than actually answering literally, that answer was the password to success. So that is kind of the idea that I want you to think in the lateral thinking method. Think not literally think abstractly. If you feel like you're stuck in a box, how can you get out of it? How can you pass that gate and the thousand ways that you're stuck in here to get through here?

Another situation was, I had one of my clients who asked me, you know, I'm getting all these job opportunities to change my career path. I've been stuck in the same career. Same industry same, essentially building for the past 20 years and I want to make a change. Now, I do want to make a change in the sense that it's, I'm still in the education field, I'm just in a different subject. And I need to know, you know, how when they're asking me, why should we hire you, in the sense that you know how to do the fundamental skill, but not in this area, and she made an acronym called rope. So I want to go ahead and discuss a little bit about rope ROP, II, and what she said is whenever you teach somebody, anybody you need routine.

Oh, spell that wrong. You need routine organization. procedure, an expectation that is a fundamental, acronym fundamental skill, fundamental mindset that whenever you teach somebody, when you educate somebody, you need a routine. You need an organization you need order in whatever it is that you want to deliver. You need to have it in a routine basis, you need a procedure, that that is going to make it easier through an organized routine. And you want to really have that expectation because when the expectation comes encouragement, and that is the rope acronym.

She says, it doesn't matter what I teach, so long as I have a routine organization procedure expectation, and then I can deliver encouragement, because she said it's not the fact that my students are giving me a hard time they are having a hard Time and I need to be able to be aware about that. So that is a lateral thinking method unraveled. Now I'm going to give you a little bit of scenarios where there may be certain questions that you may not have a lot of confidence in. Or maybe it's just one of those things where you're like, you know, the these five most difficult questions that employers ask, How do I think outside the box? You do have to think for yourself, you do have to think of how can I answer this better. So that wraps it up for the lateral thinking method.

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