Hello HIVE, 👋
Been a minute since I last shared with y'all guys.
Back in the year 2018, I came across a book that greatly disrupted my thinking and perspective, written by author Khan Kay: The Spaghetti Startup: A Tale of Startup Survival or How to Achieve Radical Growth with Systems & Design Thinking. It is more suited to those in the world of tech, startups, and entrepreneurship, but it has some insights which anyone can employ in their life, irrespective of the background, and make life rather more meaningful and less of a maze.
According to the author Khan Kay:
"We all suffer from spaghetti thinking. We don't need better solutions, we need better thinking about problems..."
Spaghetti thinking, according to Khan Kay is our default thinking which at most times if not all is tangled, confusing, and always chaotic, something we are rarely if ever conscious of.
What he suggests is Lasagna thinking, a form of thinking which is more strategic, tactical and operational.
For me, the insights I will be sharing were at one time the sole source of light when I was deep and lost in the abyss of darkness that darkness was my new reality. Phew! Glad am past the days, but the insights have never ceased significance in my life.
Put merely, choices do actually have consequences, but I think that some of us or even us ourselves at one time or another find it hard to believe we may be the course of our perils, instead of introspecting on the source we find it rather easier to project on those who have no power over us, we blame being unlucky and having them, haters. Khan Kay summarizes it the best with the quote;
"...today's problems emerge from yesterday's solutions."
Whenever facing adversities if we are not conscious of our actions, many of us try to force the situations to work by using a myriad of workaround which actually work in the short-term but as with the Physics, action and reaction forces, there will be push back from trying to force situations which lead to more despair and unnecessary pain. Experience works as the best teacher in such situations, but I have also come to realize some people never seem to learn, they have no time to introspect on the problem, but rather they are off to trying some new form of a workaround, forming a never ending loop of recurring problems.
This goes to emphasize many opting for quick fixes which lead to things actually getting better but for a short-time before hell breaks loose once again, and one is back to agonizing pain and despair. Being conscious of this means one is always conscious while making decisions and choices, especially for recurring problems, which require rather more patience and sacrifice to curb a problem.
This is rather self-explanatory, serving to make one take a minute and just think of the consequences of taking the said easy way out. Many times, y'all can agree with me on this, those short cuts always lead back to the starting point, making the path longer than necessary.
Once again many rather continue living with short-term solutions rather than facing up to the disease and going through the pain and sacrifice that comes in finding a cure. Our brains being wired to always avoid stressful and painful situations at all cost does not help, but rather for one to escape this one has to make a conscious choice to face up to the task despite the pain.
Khan Kay, best summarizes this in the quote:
"Patience is better, but its fruits are sweet."
So it is always worth remembering that despite moving forward doesn't mean we actually moving in the right direction, taking a minute never hurt anyone, I think fast is overrated, slow has always worked best for me, especially with having Introverted Thinking as a tertially function, my brain needs all the time it can get to fully process all the information and options.
Rather than choosing one for the other, why not find a way that both options can complement each other towards solving the bigger challenge, I believe this is something many never even consider, I know this cause I have been there. Two is better than one, and it is always best to have a different perspective leading up to a single main point which is a much better solution to whatever the challenge.
Khan Kay uses the elephant metaphorically emphasizing the point that there is no need to divide up energies and try to multi-solve many problems at once, what that will create eventually is a huge MESS, which would have been avoided rather easily with the choice of focusing on a thing at a time and then moving to the next on the full satisfaction of the first.
Y'all have an amazing time, learn something new. ✌
