Dissolve problems, not just solve them

Written: August 22, 2019 at 5:30 PM
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Solving a problem is fine, but not as powerful as dissolving it (Four Systems Thinking Strategies to Address Problems).

Solving a problem limits the answer to the obvious. By "following the rules", it's easy to get stuck working within a system that has a built in suboptimal outcome. See: Games excel as teaching, not learning mediums.

There's no practice of ingenuity, Constraints Condition Learners to Accept Boundaries. And the real world needs ingenuity.

**Dec. 2019** there's subtlety here: Dissolution Isn’t Always the Best Solution