Human imagination is a gift… But it’s easy to turn it into a curse…
We complicate things with our own thinking and then spend a great deal of time and energy fighting those complications (both in our heads and in reality) as if they are the problem…
It’s like you wanna lose weight and the first thing that you do is a self-PhD on the side effects of exercise… Now along with exercising, you spend a great deal of time ‘managing those side effects of exercise’…
If we apply Lincoln’s strategy to problem-solving, the first step should always be – this out the complications, get to the core… and then solve the core problem…
The solutions are mostly simple and straightforward… It’s usually us and our thinking that’s married to the complexity…
Practical ways to simplify
- Get rid of the inflation: we have a tendency to blow up a problem, Take a piece of paper and separate facts from the imagined aspects of the problem, get a handle on the inflating mind
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