Recently I came across an awesome riddle, which, according to Einstein, could only be solved by 2 % of the world’s population. Can you solve it and belong to those top 2% ?
Einstein’s riddle
- In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
- In each house lives a person of different nationality
- These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.
Einstein’s riddle is: Who owns the fish?
Necessary clues:
1. The British man lives in a red house.
2. The Swedish man keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Danish man drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The Blends smoker lives next to the one who drinks water.
Competition or progress
In me there is a strong sense of competition, I always want to be the best. And that is why I just had to beat this riddle. I refuse to belong to those 98% that can’t solve the riddle.
I feel there are two types of driving forces behind our actions, competition and progress.
Progress is what everybody wants, but for alot of people this means progress relative to others (competition). I believe that ideally one should try to strive for progress in general, and not progress relative to those around you.
What drives you to succeed ? Is it competition or progress ?
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