It can be great to be solutions-oriented, but it\u2019s problematic to start with solutions.<\/p>\n
Just because you have a preference for a hammer, screwdriver, or saw or these are convenient options already in your toolbox, doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re the best tools to solve the problem.<\/p>\n
Your toolbox of go-to solutions may even undermine your ability to solve the problem thanks to a cognitive bias known as the law of the instrument<\/span><\/a>. As Abraham Maslow said, \u201cI suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.\u201d<\/p>\n If you want to solve a problem, start by doing the work to see<\/span><\/a>, understand (building a People Periscope<\/span><\/a> can help with this), and frame the problem. <\/p>\n From there, you can orient yourself to exploring and testing out possible solutions\u2014ones that can truly solve the problem..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It can be great to be solutions-oriented, but it\u2019s problematic to start with solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,3,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-innovation","category-leadership","category-learning","category-problem-solving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}