Paradigm Perceptual Bias

We tend to automatically process new situations in terms of the old and familiar. This tendency restricts our awareness of other possibilities. Try the following exercise:

Convert the figure I X into the number 6.

• Only use the existing figure I X (i.e. you cannot use only a portion of it, nor alter it in any way.)

• Only add one single line to the existing figure I X.

• The solution must contain the figure I X.