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Your problems are the key to your biggest insights – Exponential Wisdom Podcast
Wait…what?
Yes, problems create success.
That is the completely opposite way we generally view problems. In most cases, when you talk to people or when you talk to yourself about problems, you see them as what stops you from success.
That is the wrong way to look at it.
I am not saying problems don’t exist. Problems suck, and if problems didn’t make you pause for a second, either you live a charmed life or you are being delusional, neither of which help you move the needle.
The problem isn’t the problem (:-)) the problem is how you look at it.
The solution is mindset.
Mindset change is difficult, and I have problems with it. Old habits die-hard. New ones are tough to come by. Too low expectations lead to no traction and too high expectations lead to excuses. But, when executed, changing your mindset leads to greater access to your self-awareness and potential.
(This blog is a place where I write-through my mindset change, among other things. Writing through it helps.)
Mindset is the key to seeing progress. I’ve noticed that it isn’t about how it happens, but how you take it. When you see problems as roadblocks they become just that.
By seeing problems not as roadblocks, but as markers, it changes the perspective from a binary stop and go to curiosity. Most of our interaction with the world comes from how we see it, instead of how it sees us. We move with our internal clock. So by changing the way we see it changes how we deal with and ultimately work with problems.
If you are able to take problems, break them down, and not just create solutions, but also prove an understanding of particular problems, then you are on the path to mastery. Curiosity often leaves you better than when you were before. Curiosity leads to experimentation. Experimentation leads to knowledge and then knowledge to true change.
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From the desk of Adam Thomas 