If more than one solution is not sought, it ends in disability → The first alternative is not the only solution. I present a classic writing that concludes with the morality: “Don't complicate your work! Conceive the simplest solution to the PROBLEM. Learn to focus on SOLUTIONS and not on PROBLEMS.” The issue is even more important: if more than one solution is not sought
If more than one solution is not sought, it ends in disability
→ The first alternative is not and is the only solution
I present a classic writing that concludes with the morality:
“Don't complicate your work!
Conceive the simplest solution to the PROBLEM.
Learn to focus on SOLUTIONS and not, on PROBLEMS. “
The issue is even more important: if more than one solution is not sought, it ends in disability.
When we have to solve any problem or make a decision, we are always presented with a first option.
→ If we do not look for another, this first one becomes only .
When we mentally represent the first we think of the number 1. The same number also appears in our imagination when we symbolize the only.
→ Here comes the error: unconsciously, we confuse the first with the only.
The consequences that arise from this are very negative and incapacitating.
If it is the only, in practice:
- no other solution is sought or intuited;
- what is evident and present is not seen.
- there is a stubbornness to listen to advice;
- one insists −with shades of aggression− that it is the only one since there is no other alternative;
- common sense and the ability to discern fail;
- imagination is dimmed, lacking creativity;
- alternatives that worked at another time are not remembered;
- the ability to grasp what is needed is inhibited .
Therefore, before executing the solution, it is necessary to :
✔ banish laziness and find more options;
✔ spend time discovering other choices;
✔ not be carried away by haste;
✔ be certain that there are more alternatives and they must be sought.
When security and confidence are lacking, as happens in ADHD, there is often haste in choosing the first alternative that presents itself, with the negative and incapacitating consequences that arise from not being aware of the confusion with the only .
Jaume Arnau Carbonés
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