From the course: Critical Thinking
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Common pitfalls when solving problems
From the course: Critical Thinking
Common pitfalls when solving problems
- During your critical thinking processes, there are several pitfalls you might fall into, but you can avoid them. The most common pitfall is jumping to answers too quickly. You think you know what the problem is and you rush off to solve it. Some of the tools you can use to avoid that pitfall are first, defining your problem well, having that clear problem statement. Why is your stakeholder asking you to solve this problem? And then you can ask and answer focusing questions, evaluate prior efforts, look at the problem through new lenses, and understand causality. By looking at all of those, it will prevent you from jumping ahead to answers before you've really understood what the problem is. The second pitfall is being unwilling to expand the problem space. Why would I want to make the problem any worse than it is? Here's the problem, I can solve this. But that might be a symptom. You need to think through what's…
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