Latest / Just For Today / 173. Solve little problems
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- Cindy Marler: Good morning, everyone. There is so much talk these days about AI and the impact it's gonna have and how does this change careers, especially for those of us with kids, or I have a large teenage population of listeners. And I love you guys, and I love that you're listening, and I love that this generation is ready and eager to become because you already are. And one of the things everybody's looking for, everyone, every business owner, every company is looking for people who can solve problems. People with high problem solving abilities. Well, how do you become a great problem solver? Good news, you just have to solve problems. That's it. One of the things I love about math, and I do love math, is that the hardest math problem is simply hundreds of little math problems within the larger math problem. I love that about math. And I'm always pushing my kids, other students. Get so good at your basic math facts, your basic multiplication, addition, subtraction, and division, so that when the problems get bigger and a problem has 10 math problems within the one problem, you don't have to exert as much energy. Well, it's the same thing with life. When you get better at practicing solving smaller problems, you have the training and the stamina to solve larger problems. So if you had to, let's say, figure out how to clean your home after you had your first baby. How am I going to do that? Well, you solve that problem and you try different things. Maybe you try the bouncy trip, maybe try a mother's helper. Maybe you try doing it at night if you're maybe you get up early in the morning if you're a morning person. That's just a problem to be solved. But when we stop solving the little problems, when the big problems come and a big problem is just a conglomeration of little problems to solve, then we can't solve the big problem. So don't forget to solve all your little problems. Even how am I going to get from here to there in 20 minutes? All of my teenage listeners, when you start driving, you have to learn how to get somewhere in a certain amount of time. And you have to plan for traffic or stops or gas, but practice solving all those little problems. Don't rely on someone else. It's okay to be late. It's okay to, you know, say, my gosh, I had to stop for gas. And even though at a 40, that's not a 40-year-old excuse, it is a 17-year-old excuse because you're learning how to manage when is a good time to squeeze in that seven minutes of gas. Just the other day I was driving down to my dad's house and my dad's so good at time management, you know, military, Navy guy, and I had to get gas and I was already running late and he's such a stickler for time and he's so sweet and so gracious, but I stopped and only filled up halfway. It's true, it's true. There was a lot of pressure. Let's get good at solving little problems. So when the big problems come, we are great problem solvers because everybody is begging for people with problem solving abilities. And it's just a bunch of little problems to solve. Talk to you guys tomorrow.