Stay with this one. You’re going to learn something really cool.
You know the old joke, “How do you eat an elephant?”
Answer: “One bite at a time.”
Relevance: The best way to solve a big problem is to break the big problem up into a lot of little problems and tackle them one at a time.
Well, not really…because the human brain isn’t linear. We don’t go from A to B to C. We go from A to X to V to C to M to Q and back to A again.
In other words, human thought is randomized…and we spend our entire lives trying to think sequentially with our randomized brains. Therefore, attempting to solve problems one at time is pointless. Visualize all the parts of the problem. The one for which a solution is ready to come forward will light up and attract your attention. That’s the part of the problem you are ready to solve.
Proof: Human beings evolved from a category of prey animal, you know, as in we were preyed upon by other creatures. We weren’t big enough to fight off the predators, or fast enough to outrun them. We only had two tools at our disposal. Two eyes frontally located on our faces with good peripheral vision and a pair of ears located rather far back and low on our skulls, which provided excellent bi-aural hearing that not incidentally enabled us to locate the…