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Quick Hits are 10-minute conversations designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to hear other people‘s thoughts on a variety of subjects. In February of 2021 I and the members of my mastermind group thought other people might enjoy listening in on some of the lively conversations we were having. But we realized that no one was going spend 90-minutes listening to us going on about anything and sometimes nothing. Instead, we decided to pick one topic and have a short conversation to share. I took the reigns because facilitating those types of conversations sounded like fun. Over the course of a few months it grew from just members of our mastermind group to four (sometimes three if schedules go sideways) people from various parts of the world and from ”short” to exactly 10-minutes. Thus was born ”Quick Hits” hosted by me, Dr Robyn. I hope to get caught up with posting them here on PodBean at some point. As of this writing, I have over 100 ”episodes.” If you‘d like to see the videos of these conversations, they are available on my YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/DrRobynQuickHits If you have a topic you‘d like to hear discussed, I encouraged you to use the contact page of my website: https://drrobynodegaard.com/ to let me know.
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Friday Oct 21, 2022
Friday Oct 21, 2022
I grew up poor and rural and learned from an early age how to fix things around the house. I knew, for example, that if water is going out of the wrong side of the pump, the first thing to do is take a breath and think about why it might be doing that.
Problem solving in the real-world functions in exactly the same way.
We have to ask (1) what is causing the problem and (2) how do we change it?
Many people are quick to let a problem overwhelm them. They panic when something doesn’t go exactly as expected instead of first breaking it down and asking how it came to be that way.
How can we stop ourselves from doing that?
Can anyone learn how to be a problem solver or is it an innate quality that you just can’t teach?
My guests on this edition of Quick Hits had a variety of fascinating thoughts on these and other questions.
Dr. Rhonda Bompensa-Zimmerman, a professor and health and wellness consultant, says that problem solving is about utilizing “that creative mindset that we lose as we become adults, the childlike thinking without putting any barriers on what the solutions could be.”
Jim Tam, the head of the Dallas office of Keystone Partners, says that it’s about “being patient. Don’t be so fast to react without knowing all the facts.”
And Pascal Derrien, the CEO of Migraine Ireland, believes that “we are all problem solvers in our own way…everybody is good at it.”
Do you think problem solving is a learnable skill or something you are innately good at or not?
Connect with the panelists:
Pascal Derrien: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pascalderrien/
Jim Tam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimtam/
Dr. Rhonda Bompensa-Zimmerman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rhonda-bompensa-zimmerman-138aa3b/
Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/
Want a summary of the Quick Hits I post every week, plus the links to the LinkedIn pages of each of the panelist to show up in your in-box every week? Just let me know where to send it: https://drrobynodegaard.com/quick-hits-notifications/
#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on pertinent subjects. If you would like to join a conversation or have a topic you would like to hear discussed, please message me. https://www.DrRobynOdegaard.com
#problemsolving #Creativity
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