20 Moves: Life Lessons from the Rubik's Cube
Discover how the Rubik's Cube 'God's Number' applies to life. Learn 5 powerful lessons on problem-solving, persistence, and logic.
20 Moves
A few ideas using the Rubik's Cube
Rubik's Cube
Overview
The Rubik's Cube
Invented in 1974 by Ernő Rubik
Took him over a month to solve his own creation
~43 quintillion possible scrambles
CORE IDEA
Any scramble.
20 moves.
Any scrambled cube can be solved in 20 moves or less.
This limit is known as
God's Number.
LESSON 1
Start Without
Seeing the End
You don't solve everything at once
Start small
Recognize patterns
LESSON 2
Thinking Alone
Does Nothing
Looking is not solving
No move = no change
Even wrong moves give information
LESSON 3
Many Solutions, Same Goal
Millions of possible solution paths
Fast methods vs. simple methods
Same final result either way
LESSON 4
Progress Can Look<br>Like Failure
You may need to break pieces to fix others
It can look worse before it gets better
LESSON 5
Closer Than
You Think
Looks completely mixed up
A solution still exists
Not visible ≠ not real
Looks like chaos.
Built on logic.
Start.
Adjust.
Continue.
20 MOVES
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