Identify root causes of problems

Video Notes:

• Inception → One thing leads to another.
• Anecdote
• Demo
• When I first saw this, I was taken back to my classes at school when I learnt Probability.

Script:

Inception ft. Leo DiCap in a nutshell captures the essence of One thing leads to another, before you know it, you’ve lost track and are all mixed up. But how does this possibly help us with solving problems?

Let me tell you how.

But first it’s anecdote time:

We’ve been in a place where we’ve set our mind to one thing and in a twinkling we’ve completely digressed into doing tangential activities. When you look back you’ve guessed it - one thing led to another.

In that moment, the task you’ve moved on to seemed equally important if not more.

Now, to avoid this, we use Logic trees. These are maps you make to track context around the problem. First you work your way down the problem and then back up to find the sol.

Let’s take a look at an example with this Whimsical.