The Way To Solve Problems Is To Not Solve Them
The always-on culture that instant communication has provided us is destructive to original thinking and diminishes our capacity to solve problems.
A counterintuitive way to solve a problem is to set aside time when one is not dealing with the problem at all, but doing something completely different.
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