HOW TO EMBRANCE PROBLEMS

I know it’s a weird topic where one can easily be insensitive, dismissive or invalidate your experiences and emotions, but hey am just laying out my sober thoughts so hear me out. we mostly regard problems as bad. But the truth is without problems we can never grow. Problems act as the propeller to success. The more problems we solve the more our brain is capable of completing similar tasks faster which frees up our minds to tackle other problems.

So, no matter what we can do we can never avoid problems. So why not embrace them instead of shunning them away every time you stumble upon one. For us to do this we have to realize the effect problems have on us. Let’s take a simple example of mathematics. We start with basics (additions, subtractions); later as you advance you start tackling harder questions which make you integrate all the basics to arrive at a definite answer. As you continue to advance the problems get harder, but what happens is your level of thinking changes every time you solve harder problems. when we relate this to life, our problem-solving skills keep on improving which leads to achieving our goals faster.

So, in retrospect the more you advance in your problem-solving skills the more you advance in stages to becoming a better you. This when considered helps you reflect how problems just want to help you. Every adversity is there to help you realise that you can become better even when you don’t know it yet or don’t feel it yet.

But pause I know it just sounds superficial to just say embrace your problems, I don’t mean loving them emotionally cause, to be honest, they suck feelings wise, to be stuck with something which causes you discomfort and the ramifications of that too were life at the moment feels like it’s been disturbed. But to try and take a moment to realise you’re in the present, to think that okay this sucks but so what, what can I do about it now! If there’s nothing you can do about it at the current moment then that’s okay too you don’t have to have all the answers, we in this life to discover those answers because they are out there and within us too. In his book The Art of Creative Thinking, Rod Judkins explains that

it's not about what happens in your life that matters but how you respond. The creative response is to transform bad things into good, and problems into opportunities. The freedom you give yourself to make mistakes is the best environment for creativity.

And answers end up being found in the most unexpected ways. How we’ve solved certain problems in the past can lead to giving you directions in the present. Back to the math problem, I remember how hard it was to do addition when as a kid I would have to be shouted at cause adding 1 and 2 somehow made me get 12. Learning, being shouted at, and overcoming these simple problems as a kid have had ever-lasting impacts on my day-to-day life.

So next time a problem is presented to you, smile and don’t miss the chance to become a better you.