You Can be Great If You Really Want To

Very often, you will encounter situations in your daily life or career where you have to solve extensive problems with many relatively simple steps.  With some logical preparation, you can make your work flow much more smoothly.

How do you proceed in such a situation?  First, ask yourself what will happen when you take a certain step.  Then you imagine other scenarios.  As time is getting tight, you choose the option that appears the most promising.  In this way, you deal with the ideas point by point, then select and proceed.  In the end, you will have build a structure of thought in which you can move about safely. 

In our working and personal lives, we often have to deal with simultaneous problems.  We need to take care of customer orders and, at the same time, organize and conduct meetings.  After work is finished for the day, errands have to be run and meetings must be held with friends.  Maybe your children need help with their homework,  or need a hand with a class project.  Often, our deadlines are so important that everything breaks down if a meeting takes slightly longer than planned.  Because there are so many things to accomplish, we are constantly forced to redefine the sequences in which we do things.

But what is the best way to proceed?  We have an idea of our goal, and we can only attain it if we break it up into several intermediate goals and assess which of these can be reached and which ones cannot.

At the moment, human thought cannot be reconstructed by computers, for machines are incapable of understanding actions.  This means being able to imagine what can be done under completely different circumstances.  Instead, computer programs repeatedly compare the current status with the goal, and mechanically set themselves intermediate goals.  The human brain, however, is extremely flexible.  It is able to respond to a multitude of stimuli and is therefore not fixed.  It is a little like a skeleton key, which can be fitted into a never-ending number of locks.

At a very young age, children learn to build entire houses from individual building blocks.  Anyone who has watched this knows that small children first act according to the principle of trial and error.  They place one block on top of another and while doing so, they learn which ones remain in place and what can be done better the next time.  The house usually falls down a few times, but eventually they get it right. 

You can also approach other problem solving according to this principle, simply by dividing them into small steps.  For example, let’s say you want to redesign your living room and don’t know how to go about it.

Well, you could divide your plan into many small steps.  Maybe you could start with the question of which furniture or if the curtains will remain and which new areas you would like to clear, and what it is you would like to change completely.  Once the design stage has been completed, the manual labor has to be done.  The final stage comes when the new furniture, wall-paper or drapes  are put in place.

By the way, engineers who designed the first industrial robots faced a similar problem. They had to teach their machines how to screw and weld a car together from many small parts.  This could only be done after the individual sequences of action were thoroughly analyzed and divided into many small units.

Similarly, you can build a formidable memory by learning how to build small pegs of memory patterns.  These pegs then become the foundation of a memory training which other information can be build on top of.  Such memory techniques soon become your brain’s  foundation and once in place, you can indeed remember a huge database of information that you can recall at will.  You can improve your memory and in fact, your learning and concentration will be enhanced.  Once you learn the basic memory structure, you can use it over and over again, in learning new knowledge, in your professional or personal life.

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