How You Can Solve Your Life’s Problems
Look at the problem not the solution
Albert Einstein once said, “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
This simple idea sums up the daily problems we all experience in our lives. We spend all our time putting out fires rather than preventing them.
We spend all our time thinking about how to solve the problem rather than thinking about the problem itself.
Solving The Problem
You must know the problem before you can work on the solution. Problems are rarely one single thing.
Your car is suddenly stalled on the side of the road — what’s the problem?
It could be any one of a thousand things. You might be out of gas, dead battery, or some hidden mechanical malfunction.
If I were a mechanic in a situation like this, I’d know the most common reasons for my car to stall based on my past experience.
I would start by eliminating what it’s not — then start concentrating on what it is.
Other than being out of gas or a dead battery the automobile novice would probably have little chance of ever solving this problem.