The modern world and opportunities for creativity

Knee-to-knee work. The modern world gives us an incredible number of opportunities to “do”, limiting us only by time. The quantity and quality of resources, including technical ones, unties everyone’s hands. There is the Internet everywhere, round-the-clock grocery deliveries and more, and what your smartphone can do is unimaginable! And so, having finished one job, I started making changes to one of my old projects.

Much of what we do every day becomes routine, freeing us from the need to think. We lose the habit and become lazy (which is absolutely normal, by the way) to use our brains. It's not even that it is necessary to spend mental resources to solve this or that problem, but rather the opposite - everything has become extremely simple: doubt, say... almost think about what is necessary. If it doesn't work by clicking or voice - it's broken.

Life has laid out cards on the table where my hand is completely empty. I see no solutions other than to say: fold! Only there was a solution. It was extremely obvious to me, but the cards have already been discarded. Horror! To put it in an exaggerated way, the light didn't turn on. Take the switch and flip it again. And... it turned on! This is, of course, an exaggerated example of the situation, but the basis for the solution is approximately the same, and I didn't think of it myself.

I understand that I get real pleasure from using my brain, conducting analysis, looking for ways and options. Having made conclusions for myself, I decided to think a little deeper in the future. Second attempt! And again fate throws me a situation in which I cannot find a standard solution. If there are any, then they fail from time to time. It's the fifth attempt and finally an idea comes that solves the problem at once!

“Persistence and hard work will grind everything down” – it’s true! Don’t give up, don’t “cut off” time after time… It’s worth finding options (several) for solving the problem and eliminating those that didn’t work. Any problem can be solved if you work on it. And it’s better if you do it with your head, and not with a Google query.

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