Category: problem solving

They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. How many of us eat the same food and do the same day-to-day habits, and complain about not losing weight? How many of us keep dating the same type of people who aren’t good for…

This sounds simple. But it’s one of the hardest skills to build when starting out. Most of us don’t define problems—we describe symptoms. We rant. We spiral. We unload all the frustration onto the page or into a meeting. But we rarely stop to ask: What exactly is the real problem here? I call this…

And how to fix it with one powerful shift in thinking Every week, smart people gather in meetings to solve problems. They brainstorm, whiteboard, implement—and then? The results don’t change. It’s not because the team wasn’t talented. It’s not because the solution was flawed. It’s because they were solving the wrong problem. This is the…

How to stop mental ‘spilling’ and start thinking on purpose. It might be hard to fathom, but the mind is, quite literally, a biological computer. It runs patterns. It operates with variables, if/then statements, logic, and bias. But here’s the twist: Its programming language isn’t code—it’s pictures. That’s why negative commands don’t work. If I…