Comments on: Einstein’s Secret to Amazing Problem Solving (and 10 Specific Ways You Can Use It)

By: Luciano Passuello

Luciano Passuello — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:12:34 +0000

Persistence and intelligence (knowing the theory and calculating, in this context) are, many times, interchangeable. Sometimes, intelligence trumps persistence. Other times, persistence trumps intelligence.

I would say that knowing when you should stop analyzing and simply get to action is one of the hardest challenges of all. Many people (me included) would often benefit from stop analyzing and theorizing so much and “dumbly getting to action”. (I used to roll my eyes to people that “just got to action”… nowadays, not so much). But I definitely get your point!

Thanks for sharing the story.

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By: Kevin Cullis

Kevin Cullis — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:19:33 +0000

Nice work. Those of us that have been in the QA field state something similar: your more likely to prevent 10 times as many problems if you design quality in first. Or a quote I have in my upcoming book states “If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.” Nikola Tesla, assistant to Thomas Edison

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:04:32 +0000

One of the most useful articles I’ve Stumbled Upon. As an engineering major I’ve been conditioned to look at problems in black and white, things that can be overcome simply through an expansion of one’s toolbox of knowledge. But so often teachers forget to connect the toolbox to the actual problem solving, making students rely on crutches like having analogous problems solved for them before the actual problem can be handled. Or the crutch of just copying someone who’s solved the problem before, like wannabe singers all going on American Idol because it worked for like 5 people.

Thanks for the fresh perspective.

Of course I’ve noticed these methods are less effective for specific problems (like math) because there the problem can’t be much more clearly defined. But for “life issues” the methods work rather well.

By: rhs

rhs — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:11:04 +0000

Good advice.

Not to be a smart-ass, but I believe the first step in problem-solving is the recognition of the existence of a problem. Many don’t and so the 10 steps are never started. Blissful oblivion is not a sustainable state.

By: Hitler

Hitler — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:43:29 +0000

This list is a cancer to the human mind, becuse you can use it as trickery to the unsuspected mass to hopefully gain favorable results while yet leaving the mass with the same problem. This is cancer to the human mind because once these words takes hold, it is often hard to distinguish what is truth and what is deception. leaving this condition untreated will result in a cattle effect.
A cattle effect is the same as a carrot and stick effect, the master bring you to the slaughter house. Now some of you know why people act as they do, because they have word cancer.

By: Osaz

Osaz — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:35:24 +0000

Hi all,
Thanx for a thought provoking exercise. Interesting article and I must also give kudos to the most of the recent blog contributors and critics. My humble opinion is that both iterations and adequate dissection of a problem are important because sometimes a solution to part of the problem hits you & you inject the solution only to discover that the solution does not meet the required goal. So you have to loop back to the specific case of the problem (Iterations). Also I must point out that planning as the foundation of problem solving cannot be overemphasized then iterations can come in later after the foundatn has been set. So Iterations involves solving problems that come up over and over again.

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