This morning I was thinking about the nature of problems, so, of course, I googled: “nature of problems”. What I found was this great blog post by Frank Chimero. It resonated with my own thoughts. (I am always amazed by what you can find just by looking.)
The post highlights four common mistakes we often make when considering problems:
- We forget that there are two kinds of problems.
- Aspects of problems are a little bit concrete and a little bit squishy, and we mistake one for the other.
- We think there are solutions when there are none.
- We forget that our responses to problems create more problems.
Essentially all of what he says rings true with my own experience. I might add another mistake that I see:
- We tend to confuse symptoms with problems, and thus waste time addressing symptoms instead of underlying problems.
My take away from this is that we tend to not spend enough time understanding and articulating problems in our rush to reach solutions. Finding a better way to talk about problems, is a problem worth solving.
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