[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Problem-solving]] - People: [[Stephen Dubner]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fypkPgeQxBQ --- ## Summary - Big problems are hard. It's hard to know where to begin. It's harder to know how to make things better. - Think smaller. Identify the problems you can actually solve. - [[Create momentum from making many small improvements]]. - [[Sometimes we shy away from obvious ideas we think they're not sophisticated enough]]. - [[The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?]] - [[Dream big. Think small. Act now.]] ## Notes - "We can all benefit from thinking more like children". Think small. - Big problems are really hard. There's an intermingling of people, organizations, things intertwined with many [[Accidents of history]]. - Attacking big problems is really hard, and you spend a lot of resources. - [[Create momentum from making many small improvements]]. - [[Sometimes we shy away from obvious ideas we think they're not sophisticated enough]]. - [[The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?]] - [[Remove sophistication and ornamentation and to be simply simple]]. - [[Dream big. Think small. Act now.]] - [[Failing to effectively solve a big problem creates yet another problem]]. - [[What are the little big things you can do today to make things better for you and for someone else?]] ## Original ![[Think small to solve big problems-1.jpg]]