Teach Me Something in Five Minutes?
If you had to teach someone something in 5 minutes, what would it be? More specifically, imagine that you are in an interview and they allowed you to bring in some materials such as paper, scissors, what-have-you. It should probably be fun and interactive to keep them interested in you as an applicant. Some things I’ve come up with are origami, tie-dye, knot tying, knitting…
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I would teach someone some basic phrases of a foreign language and hand them a summary sheet as well. I still remember how to count to ten in Spanish from when a visitor from Spain came into my kindergarten class.
Or teach them the basics of CPR if you are recently certified. Or similarly, how to calm a victim in shock (wrap them in a blanket, comfort them, etc), which requires no training unlike real CPR.
I would shy away from crafts because those require items to complete, and can be complex enough to be forgotten within a few days of practice (such as knitting). I also feel that knowledge that requires no items is handier than knowledge that requires items, which is why I would focus on sharing knowledge that requires no tools.
how to fold an origomi hopping frog
The basics of how to get around in vi.
How to count in binary and what “ten” means.
Store your tins of beans upsidedown in the cupboard,that way when you flip the lid,the pressure of the tomato juice and gravity will push the beans out without violent shaking.
I have to second Dynamicduo’s answer: CPR!!!!!
Good one guys:)
How to do a pratfall, a double-take, a spit-take, and compute pi to the 157th decimal place.
I’d teach a bit of sign language – probably the alphabet, which I learned in elementary school and has come in handy many times throughout my life. I’ve always wanted to learn more – just never knew what I’d do with it if I did…
A funny joke. I know one that requires a piece of paper and a pencil/pen to draw with.
@jeruba what does ten mean?
It means the base number, the number your counting system is based on. It means the first column is full (think abacus).
In our usual counting system, “this many” (picture the fingers of two hands) is the base of the system. (No coincidence there.) If we were creatures with one finger on each hand, our usual counting system would probably be binary. In that case, “this many” (picture two fingers) is the base of the system. So in binary, 1 + 1 = 10.
In hexadecimal, the base of the system is what we call “sixteen,” so they use letters of the alphabet because we don’t have single digits for the values between 9 and 10:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 10.
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