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How many times has this happened to you?

You spend hours and hours trying to solve a problem but you can't seem to get a breakthrough, no matter how much you try and grind you can't solve it.

You're stuck!

So you get up after having a disaster of a time and walk away. You decide to have an absolute blast, go on a bunch of side quests and then you return to the same problem.

You sit down again, look at the problem again and then you go

-Aha!

Suddenly everything makes sense. What seemed to be unsolvable was solved within 5 seconds of divergent thinking. You call yourself stupid for having spent hours on the same problem. You laugh at yourself for being so ridiculous. You shake your own hand and congratulate yourself for solving the problem. Then everyone hugged each other and waved goodbye and all was good.

Except it isn't!

Things were good for a moment when you solved the problem, but life consists of many such problems and of much more difficulty sometimes.

You will face this problem again and the problem is known as:-

A lot of times the good ol' brute force doesn't work.

Well if hustling and grinding doesn't work then what does?

Some divergent thinking!

Also known as

Maybe changing the way you look at things will change how the world unravels itself in front of you. That is how perception works and the way you think about the world determines what you see, because that is what you're looking to find, that is what you seek. Everyone knows about confirmation bias, that people seek information that confirms their pre-existing beliefs even if there is sufficient evidence against those beliefs.

The reason you were able to solve that problem so easily afterwards is that your perception has changed. You don't look at the problem with the same lens even though the problem itself hasn't changed. It is you that has changed, even if it's slight.

A good and simple example of this would be this:

Write six on a piece of paper and rotate it 180 degrees (half-circle) or just rotate your screen if you're that lazy.

6 is not 6 anymore, it's 9.

It's crazy how a slight change in your perception can change things so drastically. Even slight deviations across long periods of time cannot be underestimated.

So folks, if you find yourselves stuck and can't find a way to solve something, then try changing the way you look at it.

Either way, it's a valuable tool to have in your analytical armament.

Remember that there are many ways to the top of the mountain.

"It's not about how hard you look at things, It's the way you look at them"

See Ya!

P.S. - I've gotten really interested in pulp art recently. I think I'm gonna use it more often now:)