Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Thoughts While Listening to Abbey Road in My Cube
I have a tool, a mnemonic device if you will. I put my closed fists together and align my knuckles in a way to create a horizontal line of humps. It’s by using these humps that I can tell you how many days are in a given month…(30-31?) A tool can be limiting in its scope, its use. It can be hindering for a person to generalize one tool as the only source for conceptualizing tasks. If one does that they run the risk for not seeing the forest for the trees. For example, I was asked how many days were in the month of May. So of course I pulled my fists out, put them together and started assigning months to my knuckles when all of a sudden….opps…I know there are 31 days in May, considering it’s my girlfriend’s birthday. It seems that clenched fists almost always get in the way of approaching problems most intelligently and creatively.
In regards to problem solving an old man once told me, “Focus on the process not the problem.”
Focus on the process not the problem.
Focus on the process not the problem.
Focus on the process not the problem.
Focus on the process not the problem.
Focus on the process not the problem.
Focus on the process not the problem.
Focus on the process not the problem.
Focus on the process not the problem.
Focus on the process not the problem.
Focus on the process not the problem.
I have a tool, a mnemonic device if you will. I put my closed fists together and align my knuckles in a way to create a horizontal line of humps. It’s by using these humps that I can tell you how many days are in a given month…(30-31?) A tool can be limiting in its scope, its use. It can be hindering for a person to generalize one tool as the only source for conceptualizing tasks. If one does that they run the risk for not seeing the forest for the trees. For example, I was asked how many days were in the month of May. So of course I pulled my fists out, put them together and started assigning months to my knuckles when all of a sudden….opps…I know there are 31 days in May, considering it’s my girlfriend’s birthday. It seems that clenched fists almost always get in the way of approaching problems most intelligently and creatively.
In regards to problem solving an old man once told me, “Focus on the process not the problem.”
Focus on the process not the problem.
Focus on the process not the problem.
Focus on the process not the problem.
Focus on the process not the problem.
Focus on the process not the problem.
Focus on the process not the problem.
Focus on the process not the problem.
Focus on the process not the problem.
Focus on the process not the problem.
Focus on the process not the problem.
# posted by Nick D @ 11:06 PM 
