Problem Solving

[Oculus Sinister]

What does it mean to you?

[matthew0028]

Solving problems?

[Birdsnest]

Looking at something from as many angles as possible, staying open to solutions, trial and error, research, and asking the right questions.

[ptGatsby]

Start -> (Problem solving) -> Desired outcome

[Ka.avik]

[...] and asking the right questions.
Let me amend that with my own answer: asking all of the questions, and comparing the answers to the problem, then deciding which questions were the right ones, thus deciding to go back and research, perhaps via trial & error, those particular questions.


Solving problems? if all goes well, certainly. One of two things happens when I go problem solving. Either I doggedly keep asking different questions until I get answers that interest me, or I find I get no interesting answers, and drop it where it lay.

Think I'm joking? I have a PVC-pipe roof gable sitting in my yard because I haven't gone back to figure out how to make walls that will hold it up. Not to my satisfaction. So, I have a problem -- I have no run-in shed. But I let it sit there because the answers I've found don't interest me.


interesting ....

[Xander]

Problem Solving with me usually involves looking into the problem itself and it's background first. Analysing the problem back as far as I can looking for inconsistencies which may affect the problem or indeed provide the solution by themselves. Once that is done (usually there's associated research and clarification) then I begin to work forwards usually by identifying the result I wish to achieve and then figuring out how to achieve it. The last problem is always how to get someone else to carry out this perfect plan of course :D

[airjaw]

something that creative, logical people are best at.

[matthew0028]

Solving problems?
if all goes well, certainly. One of two things happens when I go problem solving. Either I doggedly keep asking different questions until I get answers that interest me, or I find I get no interesting answers, and drop it where it lay.

Think I'm joking? I have a PVC-pipe roof gable sitting in my yard because I haven't gone back to figure out how to make walls that will hold it up. Not to my satisfaction. So, I have a problem -- I have no run-in shed. But I let it sit there because the answers I've found don't interest me.


Well, to be fair, the *goal* is still solving problems, even if that doesn't actually occur. Also, non-interesting answers still solve the problem. However, being non-interesting they may not be implemented, solutions though they may be. (Okay, that sentence was a little unweildy:devil:).

*shrug*

:banana:++

[Prozac]

What does it mean to you?



... jack and jill went up the hill

- for all we know, it was the home of the neighborhood mole..

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to fetch a pail .. (it wasnt water, folks, period)

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that is all

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