{"id":1212,"date":"2012-09-17T01:20:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T06:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2012-09-03T13:32:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T18:32:26","slug":"the-rule-of-three-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2012\/09\/the-rule-of-three-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rule of Three Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Rule of Three Solutions: one solution is a trap, two  solutions is a dilemma, and three solutions helps point to more solutions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.createadaptablelife.com\/2012\/08\/problem-solving-with-the-rule-of-three.html?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=problem-solving-with-the-rule-of-three\">recent post by a friend &#8211; Johanna Rothman<\/a> &#8211; reminded me of this rule. It is part of a general idea of finding at least three thoughts in almost any situation. Some examples include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Find at least three solutions<\/li>\n<li>Find at least three things wrong with a solution<\/li>\n<li>Find three things to discuss about this three things concept<\/li>\n<li>Have three plus one bullets in a list (I made that one up just now \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This all goes back to a thought that if you haven&#8217;t thought of at least three what-evers, you haven&#8217;t thought enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips The Rule of Three Solutions: one solution is a trap, two solutions is a dilemma, and three solutions helps point to more solutions. A recent post by a friend &#8211; Johanna Rothman &#8211; reminded me of this rule. It is part of a general idea of finding at least three thoughts in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-systems-thinking","tag-general-systems-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}