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To Solve a Problem Don Allen September 10, 2013 Life gives us problems, relentlessly, one after the other.    All of us are so blessed, though dubiously.    Some are economic, some social, some political, some financial, some family, some of power, and some of just everyday living.    We need to solve these problems, or at least resolve them to some end.   Long ago, and in many talks, I advocated the entire schools’ curriculum, from history to math, from English to cooking, be problems based.   So important is problem solving, those that cannot construct problem solutions are almost totally lost.   More simply, those that cannot solve their problems are at a disadvantage.  There are many problems for the many people.   All have their unique signature and style.   All have their own techniques for solution.   This accounts for the fact that the physics genius may be fully incompetent at everything else.  The problem with problems is just how many there are, and more imp