ONCE YOU HAVE A PROBLEM STATEMENT IN WORDS, PLAY WITH THE WORDS UNTIL THE STATEMENT IS IN EVERYONE'S HEAD.

WHO SENT THIS PROBLEM? WHAT'S HE TRYING TO DO TO ME?

You can never be sure you have a correct definition, but don't ever stop trying to get one.

WE NEVER HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO CONSIDER WHETHER WE WANT IT, BUT WE ALWAYS HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO REGRET IT.

9. Try to draw a picture of what some sentence or paragraph is saying. 10. Express the words in the form of an equation. 11. Express the equation in the form of words. 12. Try to express in words what some picture is trying to say. 13. Replace YOU with WE. 14. Replace WE with YOU. 15. Replace WE and YOU with BOTH PARTIES. 16. Replace A with THE and TH

IN THE VALLEY OF THE PROBLEM SOLVERS, THE PROBLEM CREATOR IS KING, OR PRESIDENT, OR DEAN.

even if what we're solving isn't the "real" problem, it becomes the real problem to us because we want to solve it—the more heroically the better. In other words, leave us alone!

But if we can swallow our pride for just an instant and view the problem as though it were ours alone, we might actually get something done about "pollution."

TEST YOUR DEFINITION ON A FOREIGNER, SOMEONE BLIND, OR A CHILD, OR MAKE YOURSELF FOREIGN, BLIND, OR CHILDLIKE.