8/15/2023 0 Comments 9 dots 4 lines![]() ![]() As Steve Jobs knew, thought is the way to a solution. I read this recently: “You can be very close to a solution while not getting any closer to it.” I get it. Hard work alone won’t solve this problem, or most others. You can work your ass off doing the wrong thing over and over, harder and harder and you’re still not going to get anywhere. What might happen if you push past the boundaries? If you saw no limits?Īnd then there’s the fallacy of hard work. You may see boundaries that aren’t really there–they’re just your perception of limits. Yes, “mountains & rivers know the secret: pay no attention to boundaries.” Are they really there? Or are they self-imposed? One of my favorite Storypeople prints says Are there rules? What is allowable and what’s not ? Has the problem been defined any other way besides the obvious? And if it has, immediately test those definitions, because they may not be correct. Look beyond the definition of the problem. We can apply that kind of thinking to our own problem-solving–problems of any kind. So what do we learn from people like Jobs, Kennedy and the nine-dot puzzle? It’s not just a puzzle, you know. Steve Jobs dreamed things that never were and then put teams together and managed them til those impossible things were accomplished. They go beyond nine-dot puzzles and envision things that never were. True visionaries don’t see the limits that we mortals see. And there are actually more solutions than these. That’s right, thinking out of the box–drawing out of the box–is the way to solve this problem. Most people think they have to stay in the box made by the nine dots. ![]() ![]() There’s more than one way to solve this problem, and don’t peek till you have tried it. How about trying to do it with 3 straight lines? Then, using 4 straight lines, connect all nine dots without lifting your pen off the paper. Do you know it?ĭraw this with pen and paper. What an amazing mind.”Īnd then, in the car, he drew this puzzle and talked about how Steve would have solved it. He was the Aristotle of our generation–no, he was the DaVinci of our generation. But as we walked out of the film, he said, “I get it now. My husband had no such connection to Steve and found it hard to understand. And so it won’t surprise you to know that I cried at the end for the great loss we’ve experienced. If you’ve read my other posts about Steve Jobs, you know he was someone I admired and in a strange way his influence was entwined with my time here in Silicon Valley. Handsome, charming, direct and oh-so-bright and visionary. The interview was conducted in 1995, the year before Jobs returned to Apple. Actually, we saw it in Palo Alto, where Steve lived, just down the road a piece from where we live. We were lucky enough to see Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, before its short, limited run ended. ![]()
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