Problems are one of our biggest concerns. Life is not a simple experience and is hampered by the natural difficulties that arise in everyday life. Even more so when difficulties become problems. Today we will talk specifically about the failed attempts at resolution that we insist on to address these issues.
Problems snug and block development and hinder growth, especially when not resolved. People end up living with the problem and all their ecology revolves around the despotism it exerts.
- The transformation of the difficulty at issue and its perpetuation are the result of unsuccessful attempts at a solution.
- To which we must add the aggravation that these attempts.
- Which in themselves have also become a problem.
- In fact.
- The more you try to resolve.
- The more you get the same result and the more the original problem is established in the system.
Solution resolution attempts are a series of actions and interactions aimed at solving the problem, these actions are the typical mechanisms that the person uses in the face of an obstacle.
In general, humans do not exploit our creativity in the service of attempts at solutions, our conceptual frameworks governed by rational logic (and there are many opportunities in which logic is ineffective) cover a very limited repertoire that does not promote variation in terms qualitative.
However, we are moving in the quantitative field: we tend to do more, although the results do not point in the expected direction and lead to failure. The following examples are examples.
As we see, these ways of acting to solve problems create self-fulfilling prophecies: we talk so much about a topic that we end up building it through our actions.
What are the reasons why we continue to apply the same formula despite its inefficiency?
The answers are in our minds, in the way we process information, so the processes and mechanisms we use are based on:
These components are a way to address problems, analyze them, and apply formulas to solve them.
We all end up applying memorized solutions and reiterating more of the same, while still applying repetitive patterns, this rigidity of mental patterns is our cognitive model, of which we become prisoners if we do not exercise our creativity and push the limits of our mental limits.
The left hemisphere, rational and logical is the one that predominates in the analysis of the situation for a likely solution, while the left, creative and more emotional, is relegated when it is time when it is necessary to activate more.
This process is clearly seen in intelligence issues as well as the nine-point problem, it is a simple and difficult problem to learn, but it is a clear example of failed attempts at a solution.
Nine points are placed (as shown in the following figure) and the instruction is to pass through each of them without lifting the pencil and using only four straight lines.
When we analyze the image, after observing the instructions and looking at the nine points, it is impossible not to see the square, this is due to the law of geststaltic perception of proximity: a succession of points forms a straight line.
As a result, we get stuck in the grid, leading to tests and attempts at solutions to get stuck in the perimeter of the square.
However, to solve this problem it is necessary to go beyond the illusion of this perimeter, because after all it is exactly that: an illusion, the lines that we will draw to solve the proposal must go beyond the limits of the imaginary square.
The square we see is not concrete, it is a metaphor for our own conceptual square, our rigid patterns that do not allow us to leave our information processing model.
To go beyond the scope of our model, we need creativity, if we make a association with the theory of the two hemispheres, the square is our left hemisphere, rational, mathematical calculation, while the law (lines that exceed the perimeter) is more emotional and is what points the way to creativity.
Our brain systematizes not only the contents, but also the processes, specifically the means of information processing, on the other hand, we are so imbued with rational logic that we apply formulas based on it and forget that human problems are mainly governed by emotions.
On this basis and at the height of the expression “man is an animal of habits”, we apply several times the same formula despite obtaining a result contrary to the one we want to obtain. In the meantime, we are questioning the results, not the premises that lead to them.
When looking for the reason for maintaining failed solution attempts, in addition to systematizing mental operations, it is noted that some solution attempts offer momentary relief.
For example, a woman is distressed and naturally seeks the meaning of her sadness. Then he sees the gray and rainy day and considers it the cause of his discomfort. Clearly, it does not transform your condition, but this momentary justification gives you some peace of mind.
Failed solution attempts do not refer exclusively to personal initiatives, a person is involved in a series of unsuccessful personal attempts and, after years of systematizing the same process, has become more vulnerable and dependent on the environment that surrounds them and resorts to the search for answers that bring them closer to improvement.
This means that, among the failed attempts, there are in principle personal attempts, which are those that the same person makes and repeats in favor of a solution, among these attempts are those that I call mantras. It won’t happen to me, it won’t happen to me!?,?I hope it works, I hope!?.
There are also professional attempts asking different people with knowledge of the topic to find a solution.
And finally, there are attempts by people close to you (neighbors, friends, family, etc. ) to give useful advice on useless occasions, that is, advice that motivates us and encourages us to move forward, but that give ineffective answers or, at least, comforts us for what happened.
Many of them motivate us as shepherds: “You can do it, you can do it!” The thing is that in addition to not finding a solution, we are caught between the internal demand that everything work and the external demand of ‘you can do it’And this situation generates so much anxiety that it does not benefit the resolution of the problem.
If we continue in this inertia few things can be solved, let’s see if this metaphor clarifies the issue: we are in the middle of a football match, we feel that we are going to lose the match, we bend our heads and we see the ball. rolling in the distance It’s a negative formula, what should we do?
The recommendation is this: keep the ball on your feet, tame it, for a little and raise your head to know which way to take, if you continue to do so, you can pass it on to more experienced players or Touch towards the finish line?Any option is valid, except to insist on inefficiency.