Bigger Problems

Identifying the right problem to address when we are facing a challenge is critical. If you’ve ever spent time and effort to fix something only to find out what you fixed wasn’t the actual problem, you know the feeling of defeat associated with solving the wrong problem. So how do we find the right problem?

One strategy is to make our problem bigger. Keith Sawyer, a creativity researcher, recommends a strategy of expanding your problem by asking the following 8 questions:

These questions make our problem bigger. We have more info to work from. That additional info helps us solidify what we actually need to concentrate on. Go ahead, take your problem and make it bigger.

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