He wrote this about his experience: I know that during that long and racking march of thirty-six hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers of South Georgia it seemed to me often that we were four,not three. The American poet T.S.Eliot was influenced by Shackletons description.

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You put a child on one side of the mountains and you ask him to draw it, and a four- or five-year-old can do it easily, but then you ask him to draw it as it would appear from the other side and children find this extraordinarily difficult.

你让孩子在模型的一边,要求他把自己看到的三山模型画出来,四五岁的儿童便能够轻易做到,但是,如果你要求儿童画出,从模型另一边看过去的样子,儿童就会觉得非常困难

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You put a child on one side of the mountains and you ask him to draw it, and a four- or five-year-old can do it easily, but then you ask him to draw it as it would appear from the other side and children find this extraordinarily difficult.

你让孩子在模型的一边,要求他把自己看到的三山模型画出来,四五岁的儿童便能够轻易做到,但是,如果你要求儿童画出,从模型另一边看过去的样子,儿童就会觉得非常困难

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选