Jumping From Loop to Loop

What is the right answer? How do we know we have the answer to a challenge we face? Do we stop and look to see what’s next? Roger von Oech in his 1983 book, A Whack On The Side Of the Head, talks about releasing those mental “locks” that keep us from being innovative; from finding that “next best thing.” One of those locks is “The Right Answer” and Oech asks us to look for that second right answer. I expand on that by asking my clients for their third and even their fourth right answer. The problem is that we are conditioned from an early age to find the one right answer, when in fact there can be many answers to a question or challenging situation.