Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

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You can then ask,
“What else is the problem?”
You should beware
of any problem for which there is only one definition. The worst
thing you can do is to solve the wrong problem. The more different
ways that you can state a problem, the more amenable it becomes to
a solution.
Whatever difficulties, obstacles, challenges, or factors that are
hindering you or holding you back in any way, define them clearly in
writing. As they say in medicine,
“Accurate diagnosis is half the cure.”
Sometimes, when you begin to define a problem, you will find
that it is actually a “cluster problem.” That is, it is a single large
problem surrounded by several smaller problems. Most problems
you deal with will be composed of several smaller problems. Often
in a difficult situation, there is one large problem that must be
solved before any of the smaller problems can be solved.
The best approach to this type of situation is for you to deter-
mine the main problem and then define the individual parts of the
problem separately.You identify the core problem that must first be
solved and then deal with the smaller problems in order. Some-
times solving one part of the problem leads to the resolution of the
entire situation.
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