Taught to Seek SolutionsWe are taught through our school systems, our workplaces and our families to discover, find, create, stumble upon solutions.
Always solutions.Yet what does the word solution really mean?
SolutionThe method or process for solving a problem.
The answer to a problem.
AnswerA solution or a result of solving a problem.
SolveTo find a solution to a problem.
Solution = AnswerNow I ask…
Are solutions finite?
Are solutions final?
Are solutions/answers only temporary at best?
Are there only single solutions or answers to problems?
Class what is the answer to 1 + 1?
In the minds of the teachers who ask this question there is only one answer, one correct answer.
What is the capital of Georgia?
When was “X” fought, born, discovered, published…….?
To these questions SINGLE ANSWERS/SOLUTIONS are implied.
Life Questions, Questions in REAL life
Problems outside of school, in the home, at work, in life
None of these have single solutions/answers most of the time.
Today’s correct answer may be wrong tomorrow.
Today’s solutions, generally will create tomorrow’s problems.
Maybe you can discover, create, produce, find, stumble upon, agree upon a solution/answer that appears to be a CORRECT ANSWER/SOLUTION at a specific time. Yet soon after you or someone else will discover, create, produce, find, stumble upon, agree upon another solution/answer that appears to be more CORRECT at that moment.
None of the definitions for answer, solution, solve include the word CORRECT.
CORRECTNESS is implied, demanded, expected, infurred.
Productive
Efficient
Effective
Successful
Improved
Innovative
Creative
New
Original
Unique
Novel
Weird
Strange
Unusal
Doable
Better
Workable
Answer
Solution
Result
Solutions
Ideas
Answers
Resolutions
Possibilities
Probabilities
Designs
Creations
Sketches
Thoughts
Concepts
Guesses
Estimations
Innovations
Creations
Thinking
Rethinking
Studying
Analyzing
Synthesizing
Understanding
Belief
Philosophy
Assumption
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Theory
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When something is first invented it is THE SOLUTION
Then over time we keep improving, innovation, recreating, creating anew, changing, adjusting modifying, advancing
1968 solution
not equal to
2009 solution
are they both solutions, answers,
are either truly the correct answer/solution
or simply chosen solutions/answers/resolutions
Meditative an answer/solution
Intuitive one possible answer / one from many ideas
Negotiative our idea/answer
Directive ‘THE’ ANSWER
Today’s great medicines may become useless or poisons in the future
Today’s beautiful cars, designs, buildings
Maybe seen as dated or ugly tomorrow or in the future