It’s me.

I am the problem within the problem.

Oh, and you are too.

We want simple or fast solutions to problems, yet when we think we’re just coming to an answer, we’ve only begun to define the true question.

This from Daniel Kahneman: ‘ A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion.  The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action.’  Furthermore, he suggests you ‘are likely to stop when you are no longer sure you should go further – at the near edge of the region of uncertainty.’

The reason for this can be unseen anchors from our past which determine our way of approaching an issue or problem.  Blind to exactly what this is,  we believe we have considered everything and WYSIATI (What You See Is All There Is) blocks attempts to find the better solution.

All Human systems are broken somewhere, some of the time, often in a different way or place to where we’re prepared to look.  We can live in denial of this and patch problems, or, we can do the hard and strenuous, and personally costly thing of going further.

So I am the problem in the problem, but when I am willing see and understand more deeply, what is hidden in the background comes to the fore.

None of us like to be wrong.  It’s thought of as weakness, but to the contrary, it’s the stronger way of hope.