I’m using here as an example the problem that India faced when they had massive heat waves. Solution in the end was to paint their houses (and maybe streets?) with a light repelling paint. Super cheap and super effective.
1. Identify pain — What’s hurting me? What am I trying to solve? (people dying from heat wave in india)
2. List assumptions — What are my assumptions about the problem/state of the world? (heat kills people / people dying is bad / heat waves will continue to occur / we have no control over heat at the scale of cities/countries)
3. Challenge assumptions — Which assumptions, if removed, change the equation? (first 3 assumptions, if removed, result in deciding to do nothing; final assumption if challenged, opens possibilities)
4. Restate problem, per challenged assumption — What is the new problem definition, if I remove this assumption? (how do we make the city less hot)
5. If no solutions come up either do (3) again, or go a level higher by doing (1) again.Roughly:
1: Find out what fixed looks like. When did it stop working? Has it ever worked?
2: Form theories about why it may not be working (googling is part of forming theories)
3: Pick what you consider to be the most likely problem, or the fastest theory to test.
4: Test the theory (May require googling to figure out a falsifiable way to test)
5: if that was not the problem, consider if your test falsified any more theories or changed the liklihood of other, then move on to the next test
6: Repeat until you're out of testable theories.
7: Come up with more testable theories (if you already tried everything you could think of and google, start asking people online and reading books about the problem.)
8: Keep testing theories.
9: Fix the problem.
10: Celebrate.
* The Thinker's Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving by Morgan Jones.
* The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You by Scott Page.
* The Decision Book: Fifty models for strategic thinking by Krogerus & Tschappeler.
While searching for it online, I also came across https://www.uapb.edu/sites/www/Uploads/Assessment/webinar/se...
Hope those help.
1. Write down the problem.
2. Think very hard.
3. Write down the answer.1. Wake-up in the morning
2. Do exercise
3. Stay fit
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"I need to solve X now" "Why?" "Because it blocks me from finishing project Y" "Why?" "Because without it I won't be able to dy Z" "Why?" "Oh"