I’ve written before about ‘The 1-minute Answer’.
Which is, for any given problem, when we give ourselves the constraint of 1 minute to come up with an answer, it usually provides a strong direction or hypothesis to pursue for deeper problem solving. In the past few weeks, I’ve found myself spread across a half a dozen projects—leaving little time for focused attention on any of them.
In this busy period, I’ve been using The 1-Minute Answer as a forcing function to clarify my early thinking on each of these projects. This exercise often helps me realise the problem is simpler than I first thought, or it helps identify my knowledge gaps.
Although I’ve written about the 1-Minute Answer before, I find it helpful to revisit, remind, and reflect back on these tools and techniques because many take years to master.
It’s the dedicated, sustained, and repeated practise that adds up over time.