In this post I’d like to discuss an intersting “Mental Block” we all suffer from.
Let’s begin with a simple puzzle:
One of the king’s servants presents him with a bottle and says, “I have in this bottle a magic substance that can dissolve any other substance”. How did the king know immediately that his servant was lying?
The answer is very simple:
If it can dissolve anything, how come it doesn’t dissolve the bottle?!
This is a simple puzzle, and yet many of us need to think a while before we come up with the answer. Why is that?
Continue reading ‘Spot your blind spot’
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This is not a ‘check-out-this-cool-link’ post. It’s not a ‘I-need-to-pitch-a-sale-so-I’m-faking-a-
blog’ either. Not even a ‘I’m here I’m here’, post. It’s a simple ‘I-think-I-have-a-genuine-
insight-to-share-and-would-appreciate-your-thoughts’ post. The good old kind. Its probably my insight only because I was too lazy to look it up, or because I just didn’t share it with anyone to hear them say: Duh!
So for all it’s worth here it is. Enjoy!
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They say that knowing the problem is half way to meeting the solution. I think, who ever said that was either grossly mistaken or had never met with a real problem :). Nevertheless, I must agree that ‘Knowing’ the problem, can be, instrumental for its resolution. But Knowing the problem can’t be a problem. Can it? Knowing is easy. The problem is a noisy pesky fellow, difficult to miss. So all we need is someone with a hefty creativity-out of the box-weapon, to blast it clear. We meet with experts, offering to help us find a creative solution to a problem, your problem, any problem. And as great as they are (and many times, they are!), they too often miss-shoot. Continue reading ‘Aiming at ghosts’
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