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F. Why problems are not really problems?
One of the key theories for you to know is that the brain doesn’t work in two ways. If you are feeling that the current problem is your life’s biggest problem and that solving this will sort your life, then you are living a fantasy.
That’s because
your brain had many times in the past thought solving a certain problem will sort your life, and in the future too it will continue to make you delusional about the problem.
Not that reading this post will make any changes in the brain, but then you will become more aware and know that your problem is dominating your life. The problems are our switches. So the higher priority the problem gets in your life, people will also manipulate you based on them. These are trigger switches.
By simple
Write–>Analyze–>Find Cause–> Plan Recovery–> Take a 30-day action,
you remove your control and trigger switches from people’s hands.
There are no problems, only signs of anomalies.
Case Study Hannibal Was Rome’s Problem and Scipio Solved the Problem by Baby Steps
When Romans were engaged with Carthegians during their century-long Punic wars from 300 BCE, around 220 BCE, Carthegian defense was entrusted to Hannibal. Hannibal is considered one of the most intelligent military strategists that have ever lived on the planet.
Carthegian’s small army was no match for the Romans. But he developed a strategy of surprise. He would take his army through the Alps mountain which no one could even imagine. So there was no patrolling by Romans to his path of movement. He would divide the army and attack the Roman legions from all corners. He would pretend to surrender and then suddenly attack the Roman legions.
Hannibal’s forces butchered almost 50,000 Roman soldiers in a day. He became such a nightmare that there was a proverb “Hannibal is on the door.” Rome avoided all the battles with Hannibal, and wherever his forces went, Romans backed off. Romans thought that Hannibal was the biggest threat to the Roman empire. Once Hannibal lives his life out, Rome will again become a power. There was no point in going to war against Hannibal and getting butchered.
However, it is then a young Roman general Scipio was given a small force to petrol Hannibal’s movement. If Romans would know his movement, they could avoid any battles with Hannibal. However, instead of remaining as police, Scipio started capturing small but remote villages that were providing supplies to Hannibal’s forces. Wherever Hannibal went, Scipio took his small force in the other direction, rather than chasing Hannibal, and would capture a very small area.
Now Hannibal started going from one place to another where Scipio’s small force had won land. When Hannibal would reach there, Scipio would leave with his small force to another part, vacating the land, rather than a Roman way of ruling. Rather than sitting over Hannibal’s problem, Scipio took baby steps that caused huge resource lost for Hannibal in logistics. Finally, the Romans defeated Hannibal in 205 BCE thanks to Scipio’s method of detaching life from problems and taking baby steps.
You also need to start thinking like Scipio, rather than the Romans. You may have limited resources to attack the problem, but that doesn’t matter, because you can still take the baby steps. Over a period of time, these small steps will become compounding and will start giving you definitive results in life.