{"id":34069,"date":"2019-08-07T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=34069"},"modified":"2019-08-04T14:04:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T21:04:44","slug":"bookfreak16-3-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/bookfreak16-3-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Freak #20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In this issue of Book Freak we present tips about how to solve problems, from the book <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/33bOl6Y\">The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking<\/a> by Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Occasionally go back to the basics<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cIn everything you do, refine your skills and knowledge about fundamental concepts and simple cases. Once is never enough. As you revisit fundamentals, you will find new insights. It may appear that returning to basics is a step backward and requires additional time and effort; however, by building on firm foundations you will soon see your true abilities soar higher and faster.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong>Plan to fail<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe next time you face a daunting challenge, think to yourself, \u201cIn order for me to resolve this issue, I will have to fail nine times, but on the tenth attempt, I will be successful.\u201d This attitude frees you and allows you to think creatively without fear of failure, because you understand that learning from failure is a forward step toward success. Take a risk and when you fail, no longer think, \u201cOh, no, what a frustrating waste of time and effort,\u201d but instead extract a new insight from that misstep and correctly think, \u201cGreat: one down, nine to go\u2014I\u2019m making forward progress!\u201d And indeed you are. After your first failure, think, \u201cTerrific, I\u2019m 10% done!\u201d Mistakes, loss, and failure are all flashing lights clearly pointing the way to deeper understanding and creative solutions.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong>Before getting started, make sure you are asking the right question<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cSadly, many people spend their entire lives focusing on the wrong questions. They may pursue money, when they really want happiness. They may pursue the respect of people whose favor is really not worthy of being sought. So before you succumb to the temptation to immediately spring to work on the answer, always stop and first ask, \u201cWhat\u2019s the real question here?\u201d Often the question that seems obvious may not be the question that leads to effective action.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/bookfreak\/\">Book Freak<\/a> is one of four newsletters from Cool Tools Lab (our other three are the <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/subscribe-to-email-list\/\">Cool Tools Newsletter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recomendo.com\/\">Recomendo<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/wimb\/\">What&#8217;s in my bag?<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to solve problems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34071,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34069\/revisions\/34071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}