Rule 10: Define your problem precisely to make it manageable - Deepstash

Rule 10: Define your problem precisely to make it manageable

We avoid looking deeply into a problem in hope that it’ll go away by itself, but this only causes the doubts and uncertainties to build up into a catastrophic failure. 

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