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The Fix It Mindset
Have you ever wondered how easy it is to talk about a problem? Given any topic and told to talk about the problems in that area, it usually seems easy to talk about what the problems are. We can talk about how hard the economy is, or how much problems our community puts us through everyday. So many areas and just so many problems to talk about.
But when we are told to give a solution to some of these problems, we sometimes simply blank out, stating that it is not our jobs to fix them. Sometimes we even try explaining how to solve these problems, but we quickly flow back into talking about the problems. When we are even able to talk about a solution, we give high level definitions that can never get implemented. Overall, it seems much easier to talk about a problem, than find a way to fix such a problem. And that is what you have to stop doing today. Fixating on the problem so much that we forget how to fix it.
Problems happen and they happen a lot, but if we continue to fixate on the problems, we might never be able to get out of it. We may never see anything as a solution, because once something starts going as if it were a solution, we see the numerous ways it cannot work. The simple solution we started with goes off the rail and the problem still persists.
We should know that it is very important not to appreciate mediocrity, but we have to see when…
