EP 47 Problem Solving Beyond Optimisation

Basia's Thoughts

We talk about the importance of learning to look for what is positive.
We mention that perhaps as a survival mechanism we have developed certain biases that are helpful when we are young but make thriving more difficult over time. In particular, we mention senescence and the negativity bias.
Then, we ask how one may go about solving problems and see that we often tend to use optimisation for that purpose. Indeed, much of our society uses it calling it rhetoric, public relations, advertisement, etc.
We discuss how optimisation leads us away from what is "true" and ultimately brings about damage through a perverse type of system, if insisted upon. We also talk about how our ontological essence is beyond the finite and can therefore never hope to be captured, represented by, or fully satisfied by any optimised system.
Then, I talk about my favourite alternative problem solving method, which goes through inspiration.
Finally, I share the practice of emotional surfing.
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