The key to algorithm design (or any other problem-solving task) is to proceed by asking yourself a sequence of questions to guide your thought process.

算法设计(或其它问题解决任务)的关键是一系列持续的自我反问，这些反问引导我们思维的前进。

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On Thursday we'll do a more careful analysis and try and understand how I could have accomplished this seemingly magical task of solving an exponential problem so really quickly.

在周四的时候,我们会做进一步的分析,并且尝试理解我为什么,能如此快速的解决这种,看上去超复杂的指数型问题。

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The subjects of the study were asked to solve a particular problem-solving task previously used in other psychology studies researching problem solving.

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Afterwards, all 40 were given a creative problem-solving task (technically a word association task).

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In one study conducted by organizational psychologists Jennifer Mueller, Jack Goncalo, and Dishan Kamdar, 55 employees rated the responses of nearly 300 of their (unidentified) coworkers to a problem-solving task for both creativity (the extent to which their ideas were novel and useful) and as evidence of leadership potential.

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