In this task of dissection, I do not stop valuing Catalina and my years of doctoral research as part of that daily training to tirelessly review the parts of a social problem.
Many coaches are dedicated to giving recipes on how to live. Their sexytips They make it seem like life is simple, not complex. They underestimate the audience that, orphaned, clamors for fashion gurus.
You have to look at the labyrinth of a problem carefully to see its intricacies and its possible exits. And here’s the point: executives often bring a labeled problem that is not their real problem. A problem has edges and depending on many issues (emotional, professional, relationship, etc.) one entertains one of those edges instead of looking at the true core of the problem.
If one only solves the distracting edges, one does not finish eradicating the root of the problem and that is where frustration arises. If my lens misfocuses the tree, the photo of the forest will not be sharp or beautiful. For the photographer, focusing is key, even more important than the landscape itself. That is why the photo of a simple green leaf can be majestic if the light and color achieve their goal.
In these times of constant acceleration, flight forward, superficiality and immediacy, dwelling on the problem and its analysis have lost relevance. That is detrimental to any kind of resolution. In the midst of haste and time constraints, we give mediocre solutions to peripheral problems. All wrong.
And I’m talking about dense problems such as the meaning I want to give to my professional career or how to combine my personal life with my work. Problems that lie in the heart of the human being, but that are solved almost in passing, without dwelling on how that modifies many other issues.
So it is useful to ask yourself: “is this problem my core problem? What other edges can it have? What other conflicts can it generate (me) in the future?