Process of solving new situations

After coming across many new situations lately, I've saw a pattern and noticed how do the process of solving new situations looks like. And after I've got the final picture in my head as I closed my eyes and rested, I have decided to create a diagram, as a final result of my own thinking and share it.

The diagram

It contains the following steps:
> Meeting with the situation
> Shock/suprise
> Processing the information given from the new experience
> "Why has that happened?"
> "What if" imaginary scenarios
> The moment of the coming (or not) to the conclusion
>> If it failed, retreating back to the processing stage
>> If it succeeded, continuing to the next stage
> Finding solution
> Use of the solution in the following same/similar situation
>> If it failed, retreating back to the processing stage
>> If it succeeded, the lesson is learned

The reaction (shock/suprise) provoked from the unknown and new experience is common, but it doesen't appear much in the later years of experience.

Processing information is important for we need to be met with the new experience from less subjective to more logical prespective.

Questioning the new experience helps us understand its' cause, motive and helps us meet its' background (history).

Imagining how the experience would play if we would do something different in that time it has occured help us manage our feelings about it and prepare us for the future.

After enough giving the thought to the new experience, we must come to the conclusion at some point, to wrap the whole understanding we built of the new experience in order to find the solution.

However, for we cannot imagine real situations and reactions in our heads, because we aren't experienced enough, we are unable to come to the right conclusion in a short period of time. Thus it's better to repeat the process from the info processing stage, because that's where the process of solving really begins, and it may be that we have processed the situation differently than it really was, due to unresolved feelings and subjective perspective that intrudes our logical thinking.

At some point, we do wrap up our understanding nicely, and so we come to the conclusion and the solution, too.

After the discovery of solution, we

29/10/2024

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