AUTHOR: Sarab DATE: 9:56:00 PM ----- BODY:
address the underlying problem, suffer through the ephemeral pain.

don't look too hard. many profound solutions are also quite simple, intuitive, obvious, and conventional. you may have not paid them enough or appropriate attention.

get as much information about the problem as possible. try to solve it in every way you know how. sleep on it. incubate. see what your sub(un)conscious comes up with. it may churn away at the problem, in the background of your consciousness.

my old professor would talk about it, like "loading a problem", and then letting your unconscious mind work on it

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but i digress.

point is.
problem solving:
1) clearly define the problem
2) acquire as much information as you can about the factors that are, or may be, influencing the problem
problem solving:
1) assess your current situation, including constraints due to budget limitations
2) acquire as much data, knowledge, information, documentation, records of the status quo, or current situation
3) determine your preferences
4) step 3 may be inadequate without enough information on the foregone opportunity costs. (i.e. without know the market place, you may be missing out on something that would be more pleasing for the same price)
5) go after those things which are declared as your preferences
6) evaluate success or failure
7) determine cause(s) of success or failure
8) adjust/adapt to accommodate new information, to increase probability of future successes

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