Always Look for Bigger Problems To Solve

by Chris Fillebrown

You should challenge your system of solution-strategies by always looking for bigger problems to solve.

To some extent, this will happen naturally as you work with different techniques. You wrap your head around solution-strategies because of your intellectual appetite for solving problems. This article is intended to stimulate your natural desire to solve problems, and to challenge you to do more of it.

Always look for bigger problems to solve!

Keep an eye out for opportunities to apply new techniques as you learn them. Solving bigger problems promotes mental hygiene, and a healthy career.

So what do I mean by bigger problems?

A bigger problem is a problem that is more complex than you have solved before. Maintain the perspective that the problem you are solving today is preparing you for the problem you will solve tomorrow, preparing you for a bigger problem. The solution of more complex problems has a more significant impact on the real world. Solving bigger problems makes you more valuable in the marketplace. If you have made the choice to learn more solution-strategies, you will naturally seek out more challenging problems to solve.

We live in a world of problems that requires skilled problem solvers. Most problems will go unsolved. The extent to which unsolved problems affect the human condition, leaving them unsolved leads to negative, sometimes tragic consequences. The complexity of the world increases with the growth in population. Mathematically speaking, if we do not increase our capacity to solve problems, conditions will worsen.

Whether you solve business problems, social problems, or math problems for school, Frame of Reference advocates that you expand your mind to fit bigger problems, that you alter your perspective to look for bigger problems. You owe it to yourself.

You owe it to all of us.