Some problems disappear after the question becomes more precise.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Vague questions produce vague difficulty. Asking why your life is not working generates nothing but weight, whereas asking why you dread Tuesday afternoons produces an answer you can act on. Often the sharpening is the entire solution, because a problem stated precisely turns out to be a smaller and more specific thing than the fog suggested.

When something feels bad and shapeless, keep narrowing the question until it names a time, a person, or a task. Then look at that. What seemed like a general condition frequently resolves into one particular arrangement you can change.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which question have you been asking too vaguely to answer?

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