{"id":4189,"date":"2024-08-12T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2024-07-27T07:06:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T12:06:08","slug":"the-dont-provide-a-solution-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2024\/08\/the-dont-provide-a-solution-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Don\u2019t-Provide-A-Solution Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sometimes the better solution is to not provide a solution. After all, who decided that this was a problem and I was the person to solve it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Here is your problem, and here is my solution. Use it,&#8221; said a confident problem solver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m a smart guy. I can see things others usually miss. I see problems in the lives of other people. Sometimes I even see the problems in my own life. I pass along solutions. Who wouldn&#8217;t want to solve their problems?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two items here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, who appointed me to be the problem recognizer and solver of the world? Keep my mouth shut, keep my eyes closed, and work on my own life (if I want). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second, sometimes a person&#8217;s problem is a key part of their life. If the problem went away, their life would go away. Do I want to take their life away from them. Then what would happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are many times when the best &#8220;solution&#8221; is not to provide a solution. Can I accept this other person as they are? If not, that is my problem. Oh, another problem. Do I have a solution to that I-can&#8217;t-stop-providing-solutions problem? Where was I? Oh yes: move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes the better solution is to not provide a solution. After all, who decided that this was a problem and I was the person to solve it? &#8220;Here is your problem, and here is my solution. Use it,&#8221; said a confident problem solver. I&#8217;m a smart guy. I can see things others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434,53,320,433,337],"tags":[437,174,321,436,338],"class_list":["post-4189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-problems","category-review","category-self","category-solutions","tag-other","tag-problems","tag-review","tag-self","tag-solutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189","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=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4192,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions\/4192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}