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Do you describe problems or solve them?

3:37Marco Montemagno · podcast RSS

Montemagno distinguishes the ability to explain a problem from the ability to solve it. Starting with a personal shoulder experience, he then describes a water heater whose fault he could explain in detail but which a plumber fixes with a simple action. Understanding a problem remains necessary, but it is not the same as finding a solution: when skills are missing, he suggests acknowledging this and involving someone who can act. The health anecdote is a personal testimony, rather than evidence of a treatment’s effectiveness.

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Montemagno distinguishes the ability to explain a problem from the ability to solve it. Starting with a personal shoulder experience, he then describes a water heater whose fault he could explain in detail but which a plumber fixes with a simple action. Understanding a problem remains necessary, but it is not the same as finding a solution: when skills are missing, he suggests acknowledging this and involving someone who can act. The health anecdote is a personal testimony, rather than evidence of a treatment’s effectiveness.

Key points

  • Describing a problem well and being able to solve it are different abilities.
  • Recognising one’s limits makes it possible to seek the right expertise, as in the plumber anecdote.
  • The closing question asks who contributes concrete solutions in one’s working environment.
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