My last daily post was on September 21st, then I took a relaxed trip to France to visit family and to simply chill. Today I’m back home and easing back into things gently.
A simple thought today from Rick Rubin :
If I had an hour to find a solution I’d spend the first 55 minutes defining the problem
I learned something similar in my development as a coach many years ago. If I have a one-hour meeting with someone, I focus on listening to them and seeing what problem they are looking to solve, and yes, sometimes that can take almost all of the hour.
To add to that, people are so used to expert consultants giving them a (not “the”, but “a”) solution quickly that they sometimes talk for a few minutes and then say “What do you think?”. My response to that “What do you think?” is normally a question aimed at getting deeper into understanding their problem.