Life consists of solving a series of problems.

One way to see how prevalent projections are is to make a list of things that bother you about other people in your life. Then take these same things and think about how they appear in your own life. For example, I’d say, “I hate how my son Elliot bickers with his friend Claudia” since, not surprisingly, “I hate how I bicker with my wife.”

PREMATURE CLOSURE When we’re searching for solutions to our problems, we tend to choose the first decent idea that we come up with.

Make a pact with yourself to not use reasons unless you have to. This is actually an incredibly empowering position to come from. Be confident enough in your actions not to need to explain yourself. Trust yourself and act.

Experience has shown me that one of the main causes of losing sleep over a problem is that we think we are dealing with a question when in fact we are dealing with an answer (a solution) that turns out not to be a good fit to our actual problem. A way around this dilemma is to ask, “What would it do for me if I solved this problem?” The answer to

tells us. Instead of following the normal course of his profession, Irwin followed his curiosity and created a unique path of exploration and wonderment that provided a life force based on self-expression.

2. Define the problem.5 Narrow down which problem you’re going to solve or which question you’re going to answer.

his classic essay “Buddhist Economics,” Schumacher points out that work serves to feed our basic need for association with other people. In fact, work supplies several of our basic human needs:5 1. It gives people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties. 2. It enables people to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining with others in a

Morphological Analysis This is the process of matching up elements from different columns of attribute lists.