First Blog

6/29/2025 1.      Introduction. Consider the question. Are there limits to human knowledge, and by association the art of problem-solving? Specifically, are there fundamental aspects of the universe that are truly unknowable, as in the impossibility of problems to be solved? Age old problems such as, “What is truth?” and “What is the origin of the universe?” are still mysteries. Will they be solved? Can they be solved? Do humans have what it takes to solve them? That is the situation at hand. As is the problem with these impossible-type problems, we are prone to offer half answers and partially solve perceptually incompletely understood problems. An important take-away is that knowledge and problem-solving are very dynamic in breadth and technique, respectively. Naturally, it is necessary to include some discussion about Artificial Intelligence, and whether it’s ready to take over. 2.      Resistance. We may refer to the fortress of human kn...

 A. As you age, your face more and more reveals the mind behind it.   B. The Effort Paradox means that the more effortless your performance seems, the more effort must be made beforehand.   C. Your personal “To be or not to be” is not about kingship (as for Hamlet). It is about your morality and whether you will continue striving for more or surrender to less. P.S. Sorry, a few days late. 

I.                                       I.                 Introduction.                Concerning our general behavior, it’s high about time we all had some understanding of how we operate on ourselves, and it is just as important how we are operated on by others. This is the wheelhouse of behavioral sciences. It is a vast subject. It touches our lives constantly. It’s influence is pervasive and can be so subtle we never notice it. Behavioral sciences profoundly affect our ability and success at problem-solving, from the elementary level to highly complex wicked problems. This is discussed in Section IV. We begin with the basics of behavioral sciences, Section II, and then through the lens of multiple categories and examples, Section III. II.     ...

  What are the factors that make you a good problem solver? We give a comprehensive list of about 20 items below. This is not to say you must have them all. However, every leader, problem-solver, scholar, office manager, mechanic, physician, coach, and more has more than a few of these. 1.      General intelligence. The IQ test is only a small part of this. 2.      Emotional intelligence 3.      Tolerance for ambiguity 4.      Pattern recognition 5.      Systems thinking 6.      Curiosity 7.      Family values and habits 8.      Reading by parents and independently 9.      Observational ability 10.  Excellent memory 11.  Broad knowledge 12.  Conceptual comprehension 13.  Inven...

A.     Learning is like climbing a mountain. When you get to the top, you wonder why it seemed so hard to get there. B.     “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” --- Albert Einstein*. C.     If you’re smart enough, you can fail your way to success. * Compare with…   No man ever steps in the same river twice”  --- ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus.