– “Why can’t I find a solution?”
– “Have you understood the problem first?”
– “Of course I have.”
– “Let me tell you a story.
Man falls in a pit.
What do you think is his goal?”
– “To get out of it, of course.”
– “Except, he can’t.
The walls of the pit are muddy and wet.
Slippery. Can’t get any handholds.
What do you think is the problem?”
– “He can’t scale up the wall.”
– “And there we see why
most people fail to find solutions.
They fail to understand the problem.”
– “What nonsense?
He needs to scale up the wall and he can’t.”
– “The goal is to get out.
Is it necessary to do it only one way?
The walls are muddy AND wet.
That’s useful information.
He can’t get handholds;
but he can surely remove that mud;
maybe one fistful at a time.
He can try to dig a tunnel diagonally up.
Or maybe he can’t dig a tunnel; for there’s
hard rock just a few inches in the walls.
That’s good news. For that rock must have
crevices to seep water in; that’s why it’s wet.
He can gradually clear a vertical hollow
to expose that rock surface;
use its crevices as handholds to climb up.”
– “Oh. I was thinking from only inside the pit.”
– “Then think from outside the box.
Get a perspective. Get a ‘bird’s view’.
Know facts.
A situation is a problem inside its walls;
but it’s a solution outside those same walls.
Your focus decides which one it’ll be.”
© Counselor Apoorva
Psychologist
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Counselor Apoorva 