An eccentric philosophy professor gave a one question final exam after an entire semester dealing with a broad array of topics.

The class was already seated and ready to go when the professor picked up his chair, plopped it on his desk and wrote on the board: "Using everything we have learned this semester, prove that this chair does not exist."

Fingers flew, erasers erased, notebooks were filled in furious fashion. Some students wrote over 30 pages in one hour attempting to refute the existence of the chair. One member of the class however, was up and finished in less than a
minute.

Weeks later when the grades were posted, the rest of the group wondered how he could have gotten an A when he had barely written anything at all.

They found his answer consisted of two words: "What chair?"

Q: What did the student do that the others had not?

Q: Why is it often a good idea to look at the simplest approach to any problem?

Q: Often the simplest answer to a problem comes not from the intellect, but from stopping thoughts, and allowing the answer to 'appear' from within. This is how many great scientific discoveries have been made, e.g. Isaac Newton's Law of Gravity, Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Madame Curie's discovery of radioactivity. Can you try this approach to solving problems to see if it works for you?

O, Master!
Thou art the real goal of human life.
We are yet but slaves of wishes
Putting bar to our advancement,
Thou art the only God and power
To bring us up to that stage.