For any given problem, what’s the best answer you can come up with in 1 minute?
How different is the “1 Minute Answer” to the answer you’d come up with if you had hours, days, or weeks?
I’ve recently been experimenting with this idea.
When I’m faced with a challenging question, I start with a blank piece of paper and try to come up with my best answer in 1 minute.
Forcing myself to get to an answer within 1 minute often gives me a strong direction, hunch, or hypothesis to pursue when I do the more lengthy, methodical problem solving.
Perhaps you’ll find the 1 Minute Answer idea to be a helpful forcing function in your problem solving, too! Let me know if you end up using it, and how you find it!