When trying to understand something new, or to solve a problem there is a tendency to jump directly to the end. Either we understand or we don’t. This leaves little room for where the understanding is actually made.
Becoming comfortable in a place where we don’t understand is where we will become better at understanding.
When we don’t understand or we don’t have the solution is when we should be collecting facts, organizing the facts into interpretations, and then evaluating those against our goal of understanding or creating a solution.
- Become comfortable with not knowing.
- Become comfortable with collecting facts and viewing the solution as an incomplete puzzle of facts.
- Become comfortable with what a landscape if not understanding is like and what areas you should focus on finding facts.
- Become comfortable know that whatever understanding you have, there is a bigger picture where you don’t understand.
- Become comfortable viewing understanding as exploration and discovery.
Life is exploration discovery, not answers without effort.