We all are very familiar with the question, WHERE TO START? Every day we encounter this question numerous times. Each time we have to start doing something new, we encounter the question, WHERE TO START?
Many people apply different techniques for starting to solve an unknown problem. There are as many solutions to WHERE TO START as much as the population of human beings on earth. But I like a simplified and effective solution. I use a solution borrowed from three sources-
1) Police department.
2) The knowledge of how our brain works.
3) Pierce Brosnon's dialogue in a James Bond movie, "First comes first".
Let's go in to the deep-
1) POLICE DEPARTMENT-
Police department or the law and enforcement officers encounter unknown problems regularly. Generally their work involves hunting down criminals. Criminals usually try to hide their crime and the evidences which relates them to the crime. Therefore crime investigating officers have to evolve a technique which helps them in finding the unknown in the uncertain environment.
What the investigating officers do is, they assume a theory or assume a possible culprit, and then try to find the evidences which prove or disprove the theory.
If the theory is proven right by the evidence then case solved but if disproved then the information gathered during this exercise gives further clues about the possible suspect our if not, the investigators simply think about another possible suspect as per the first theory or may change the theory because of the new clues and information gathered.
In short what the investigators do is decide a goal, start going towards goal by collecting unknown information, with the new information they correct their path and the goal itself if needed. And then moving this way, they finally achieve their goal, i.e. finding the culprit and the evidences proving him or her the culprit. Job done.
2) HOW OUR BRAIN WORKS-
As per the book PSYCHOCYBERNETICS by Maxwell Maltz, our brain works like a servo mechanism. For those who don't have any engineering background- servo mechanism is a conditional switch which operates when a pre-specified condition is met. For example thermostat in an electric iron or an electric geyser or electric oven is a servo mechanism. The temperature which is higher than the room temperature is first set in to the thermostat and then the heating starts. The temperature of the iron, water or air in the oven starts rising because of the heating. When the temperature exceeds the set level the thermostat cuts the electricity to the heating element, thereby preventing further increase in the temperature. But when the temperature drops below the set temperature, the thermostat switches the electricity on. Again the temperature starts rising, again as is exceeds the set temperature the thermostat cuts the electricity to the thermostat. This way the thermostat maintains the set temperature.
For a servo mechanism to work, there has to be a set point, i.e. GOAL. When a we set a goal, feed the necessary data and let the servo mechanism work then we can easily achieve our goal.
Now, the question is how to feed the data?
In the above example of thermostat, the data is the temperature, the temperature sensor senses the temperature and feeds the temperature reading to the servo mechanism. If we don't start heating then the servo mechanism does not work.
If you want to go to north and you are not moving then a servo mechanism can't tell you the direction. If you start moving then only the servo mechanism can tell you whether your direction is right and if not, then what correction is needed.
How to use this mechanism?
Set a goal and start moving for the goal. For example of you want to earn a particular amount of money in a particular time then first you have to start earning money in whatever way possible to you (I only advise legal ways). Then only you will understand if it is enough or you need to change the source or if there is anything else.
3) Pierce Brosnon's dialogue in a James Bond movie, "FIRST COMES FIRST".
Many times starting to solve a problem is as easy as FIRST COMES FIRST. For example, are facing a common problem of less savings. So you decide to save more and spend less. Now you encounter the question WHERE TO START? Just go for the FIRST COMES FIRST. From now on what is the first thing you are going to spend money on? Just think about how to lower it, our if it is necessary to spend at all? Then one by one go on to face the bigger expenses where you can save more with less efforts. Apply the 80-20 rule, that is 80% results are obtained by 20% of your efforts.
So starting out to solve a problem is as easy as 1 2 3.. You just have to start, and you will find a way. If you make a start then half the battle is already won. Because there is no problem which is unsolvable.
Further the solutions to the problems can be found at any place or situation in the universe, irrespective of the relevance. One just need to have an open mind to see it.
So what's the first problem you are going to face now? You know where to start..๐
See you soon...
Till then have a nice day...
Sumit
The POWER is when,
You use ODDS,
To get EVEN.
Many people apply different techniques for starting to solve an unknown problem. There are as many solutions to WHERE TO START as much as the population of human beings on earth. But I like a simplified and effective solution. I use a solution borrowed from three sources-
1) Police department.
2) The knowledge of how our brain works.
3) Pierce Brosnon's dialogue in a James Bond movie, "First comes first".
Let's go in to the deep-
1) POLICE DEPARTMENT-
Police department or the law and enforcement officers encounter unknown problems regularly. Generally their work involves hunting down criminals. Criminals usually try to hide their crime and the evidences which relates them to the crime. Therefore crime investigating officers have to evolve a technique which helps them in finding the unknown in the uncertain environment.
What the investigating officers do is, they assume a theory or assume a possible culprit, and then try to find the evidences which prove or disprove the theory.
If the theory is proven right by the evidence then case solved but if disproved then the information gathered during this exercise gives further clues about the possible suspect our if not, the investigators simply think about another possible suspect as per the first theory or may change the theory because of the new clues and information gathered.
In short what the investigators do is decide a goal, start going towards goal by collecting unknown information, with the new information they correct their path and the goal itself if needed. And then moving this way, they finally achieve their goal, i.e. finding the culprit and the evidences proving him or her the culprit. Job done.
2) HOW OUR BRAIN WORKS-
As per the book PSYCHOCYBERNETICS by Maxwell Maltz, our brain works like a servo mechanism. For those who don't have any engineering background- servo mechanism is a conditional switch which operates when a pre-specified condition is met. For example thermostat in an electric iron or an electric geyser or electric oven is a servo mechanism. The temperature which is higher than the room temperature is first set in to the thermostat and then the heating starts. The temperature of the iron, water or air in the oven starts rising because of the heating. When the temperature exceeds the set level the thermostat cuts the electricity to the heating element, thereby preventing further increase in the temperature. But when the temperature drops below the set temperature, the thermostat switches the electricity on. Again the temperature starts rising, again as is exceeds the set temperature the thermostat cuts the electricity to the thermostat. This way the thermostat maintains the set temperature.
For a servo mechanism to work, there has to be a set point, i.e. GOAL. When a we set a goal, feed the necessary data and let the servo mechanism work then we can easily achieve our goal.
Now, the question is how to feed the data?
In the above example of thermostat, the data is the temperature, the temperature sensor senses the temperature and feeds the temperature reading to the servo mechanism. If we don't start heating then the servo mechanism does not work.
If you want to go to north and you are not moving then a servo mechanism can't tell you the direction. If you start moving then only the servo mechanism can tell you whether your direction is right and if not, then what correction is needed.
How to use this mechanism?
Set a goal and start moving for the goal. For example of you want to earn a particular amount of money in a particular time then first you have to start earning money in whatever way possible to you (I only advise legal ways). Then only you will understand if it is enough or you need to change the source or if there is anything else.
3) Pierce Brosnon's dialogue in a James Bond movie, "FIRST COMES FIRST".
Many times starting to solve a problem is as easy as FIRST COMES FIRST. For example, are facing a common problem of less savings. So you decide to save more and spend less. Now you encounter the question WHERE TO START? Just go for the FIRST COMES FIRST. From now on what is the first thing you are going to spend money on? Just think about how to lower it, our if it is necessary to spend at all? Then one by one go on to face the bigger expenses where you can save more with less efforts. Apply the 80-20 rule, that is 80% results are obtained by 20% of your efforts.
So starting out to solve a problem is as easy as 1 2 3.. You just have to start, and you will find a way. If you make a start then half the battle is already won. Because there is no problem which is unsolvable.
Further the solutions to the problems can be found at any place or situation in the universe, irrespective of the relevance. One just need to have an open mind to see it.
So what's the first problem you are going to face now? You know where to start..๐
See you soon...
Till then have a nice day...
Sumit
The POWER is when,
You use ODDS,
To get EVEN.
