Quote:
Originally Posted by coberst  He had mistaken this ‘solution of my problems’ was some kind of chemical mixing bowl, “which he took to be a large volume of liquid, bubbling and smoking, containing all of their problems, either dissolved or in the form of precipitates, with catalysts constantly dissolving some problems (for the time being) and precipitating out others.”
The authors see this as an accidently developed but marvelous new metaphoric means for viewing problems and their solutions. The normal metaphor for problem solving is usually the puzzle metaphor, ‘problem is puzzle’.
This new problem metaphor, ‘problems in solution’, offers a deliciously new and useful slant on the nature of problems and the nature of solving problems in life.
‘Problems in solution’ metaphor would entail:
• Problems never completely disappear
• Solving one problem may precipitate another
• Since we have little control of what goes into he pot we constantly find new ones and old ones under another guise
• A catalyst for solving one problem my promote another
• A temporary problem solution may be the most we can hope for
• Problems are part of the natural order of things |
And how about this one - mixing disparate ingredients, things that singularly may not be appealing, creates a new, fabulously blended result that would never have been realized otherwise.