How can we change to stay the same?

The book I'm reading recently..., thought I'd be done by now after flying to and from Taiwan... anyway, the book talked about something interesting... author was saying that often times in life, we don't really have a well defined problem. Main piece of the work is actually problem definition! Unlike in school..., we are used to dealing with well defined problems to solve... now in the real world can we even properly define the problems?

This is where experience and wisdom come in I guess. Experienced leaders will usually face the problem... and then just do whatever it takes to solve that problem. As he become more aware of the details, then he may decide to use different tactics. They don't really think and analyse all the options that he can do and then make a decision by picking what he thinks is the best... whether it's fire fighter or army commander. Experienced leaders will always instinctively know what to do in any given situation. (The instinct is developed thru experience of course) Only the less experience would actually take the time to think of what to do... and weighing all the different options! ;)

Of course as they face whatever 'problems' head on, they will be able to get to know the problem more. As more information is gather, the problem will become more clearly defined... If we don't clearly figure out what's the problem, what hope do we have trying to solve it?

So in school, the emphasis is more on solution. But we really need practice more on defining the problems in the first place! Once that is accomplished, finding the solution should be a easy part! Of course wife often times would like me to identify problems even before problems surface! That is clearly not possible. My problem is that I often don't see the problem when it sometimes is staring at me in the face! ;)

Of course life shouldn't be all about fighting fires or fixing problems. We can also act justly, love mercy and humbly follow God whenever there's no troubles whatsoever too! ;) I meant besides being so spiritual, I think our life goals also perhaps need to change as our lives become more clearly defined. I used to wanted to be a scientist as a kid..., then a race car driver..., then a car designer..., but I finally had to settle for an aerospace engineer.

I think Kate Winslet's character in Revolutionary Road simply all of a sudden become too rigid... and naturally when stuffs happen that caused her life goal to shatter, she was unable to cope with it. Anyway, the only thing that shouldn't change in our lives should be the love we have for God and for one another. As for all those other things in life... they're all subject to change at any given moment!

Did I get this right God? ;)
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