A short YouTube talk (single speaker) using an anecdote about a car and successive cranes falling into water to illustrate how repetitive problem-solving approaches fail. The speaker advocates turning to nature for inspiration to disrupt habitual thinking, generate fresh ideas, and increase the chance of progress.
When I present on this topic, sometimes I show this example where there's like this car that falls into the water. And this really happened in Europe. And, you know, it's sort of like I say, okay, well, you know, what do they were the problem solver is going to do next? And they bring in a crane, and the crane's pulling the, the car out, and it looks like everything's going well. And then the crane falls in. And then I asked the audience, I say, okay, what do you think is going to, what are they going to do next? What are the problem solvers going to do? And everybody being bring in a bigger crane and. And so that's what they do. They bring in a bigger crane and then what happens? That crane falls in too. So it's like we approach problems with the same thinking, expecting different outcomes. And to me, turning to nature for inspiration is a way to think differently. It's a way to disrupt our mindset, to disrupt the way that we sort of think about problems, to bring in fresh energy, fresh ideas, and it just increases the probability that we can take steps moving forward.
