How to Solve a Problem Before It Happens & When Less is Really More
Ask anyone if they prefer fresh or frozen fish and almost everyone says – Fresh! But it turns out to be not so simple. A lot of fish you think is fresh may have been frozen at some point. This episode begins by unraveling this issue of fresh or frozen fish and which is better.https://www.thespruceeats.com/frozen-fish-better-than-fresh-fish-1300625
How do you solve a problem before it even becomes a problem? The perfect example is changing the oil in your car. You do that to prevent problems from happening later. And it turns out a lot of problems in life can be solved – or prevented - that way if we just change how we look at them. That’s according to Dan Heath author of the bookUpstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen (https://amzn.to/3atB1Os).Listen as he reveals this way of preventing problems that everyone can put into practice.
Our tendency is to add. When the government sees a problem, they add a new law. When there is a problem at work, management adds a new rule. We add. But what if a better solution is to subtract? Take away a law or a rule or remove an obstacle. We tend not to think that way, but we should according to my guest Leidy Klotz. Leidy is a professor of engineering and architecture at the University of Virginia and author of the bookSubtract: The Untapped Science of Less (https://amzn.to/3olHXG5).
If you have a sweet tooth you would like to tame – the solution just might be a pickle! Listen as I explain.http://www.wisegeek.com/why-do-some-pregnant-women-crave-pickles-and-ice-cream.htm
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