Posted by If you’re on a quest to make your life better, chances are, you’ll identify more problems with and around you than beach sand in the world. Do you have to solve all of them or die trying? Not necessarily.
Sometimes in life, we may feel stuck. It might even plunge us into depression because we are doing a lot and solving problems in our lives, but no results.
Perhaps, we are just solving “a problem” after another problem and not THE problem we NEED to solve.
For instance, if you were in financial distress and you got out of it, you have solved a problem. Not THE problem. Not the actual one that led you to that crisis in the first place.
James Clear makes this clear in his book, Atomic Habits, where he talks about habitual problems and systems of habits that lead us to our current state. In other words, you may NOT have a financial problem. What you may have is a bad spending habit that leads you into financial distress. In that case, the problem isn’t about more money but rather good habits and discipline.
This shows that defining a problem correctly or identifying “the problem” and not just “a problem” is just as important as finding an ideal solution amongst many alternatives to the same problem.
We need to be prudent to avoid repeating those terrible or regrettable situations. We must find “the problem.”
See you soon,
James.