In this blog post, I will provide a brief summary about a podcast called “Hidden Brain” byShankar Vedantam. The podcast discusses what psychological techniques people can use when they feel unstuck and they are frustrated. Christine Metzger was working in education administration for 10 years, and one day she got up and realized that she wasn’t the person she would like to be. After quitting her job and selling her belongings she wanted to start a new life in New England, working at a boarding school. She felt unstuck when she found herself without a job as the result of many circumstances she faced, as like being unable to get a work visa and not being hired. According Dave Evans an engineer that used to work for Apple, before you do problem-solving, you have to do problem-finding. He teaches a class at Stanford University called “Designing your Life”, where he speaks about two different kinds of problems we face throughout our life, tame and wicked. A tame problem is one you know how to solve it, and a wicked problem is one where the criteria are changing all the time, even if you come up with a solution, you can’t reuse it over and over again. He also speaks about gravity problem that include things in our lives that we cannot control them. If we cannot do anything about it, it means that it is not a problem, but a circumstance. Dave Evans mentions that solving these different problems require two different ways “wayfinding” and “odyssey planning”. When you can’t know what are you doing, you can’t navigate like a GPS because you don’t have all the information. You have to wayfinding by taking one step at a time. Wayfinding isn’t just about finding out where you need to go, but being comfortable with the idea that you may not have just one destination. That is not one thing that you can do, there are a lot. Odyssey planning is an exercise that explains that there is not just one career or one life plan for any of us. Dave notes that lots of people ask themselves the wrong questions which is, “How do I figure out that one best solution to my life?” and there is not one answer. A diagram about the podcast from class
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