Tuesday, July 19, 2011

A beautiful mind!

After picking up William at the airport, Aditya spoke to him like he was meeting an old buddy.  He grabbed William with his talk most of the time he was in the car.

He also invented a "CD Clock" on the fly as he was speaking.  The clock, was a CD and a clock at the same time.  That is, it could play music, as well as show time.

William joined him right away and the two continued to discuss the CD clock up until the time we dropped off William at the hotel where he was going to stay.  When parting, William promised to come back the next day and talk more about both, Aditya's topic-- the CD clock, and a brand new topic that William was going to propose.

The next day, when William went into the playroom,  Aditya pounced on the CD clock topic!  The two friends had a blast discussing the CD clock.  Really... it did not seem at all as if there was something unusual about this topic.  The enthusiasm with which William joined him in the discussion, and even offered to diagram it on the white board,  they seemed like two engineers hashing out the design for the world's most advanced clock!

About 7 minutes later, we observed that Aditya was a lot more relaxed, as he had been allowed, even encouraged, to talk about the CD clock, for as long as he wanted.

At this time, William asked Aditya, "If you were to sell this fantastic CD clock how much would you charge?"

"Zero dollars" came the reply!

A little later, A had changed his mind and set the price of this CD clock to $50000.

Sensing that he was still quite relaxed and open (as opposed to rigid and controlling)  William asked him: "And what would you do with the $50000 that you get from selling this clock?"

"I would give it to people who have no money" replied Aditya, with a smile as beautiful as the innocent and kind soul he is.

And by the way, yes, William was working on the goal of inspiring A to ask/answer questions of a personal  (as opposed to "factual" e.g. how tall is this lamp?) nature.

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