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121. Solve Problems Before They Happen with Dan Heath

The Greg McKeown Podcast

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The Next Step Is Identifying the Problem

The bigger the problem, the maybe the easier this is to see. In chicago they funded a programme to try to teach young men to just take a few seconds to think carefully about situations before they escalated. It was very successful and reduced the rate of crimes by more than half. And so that's a kind of model that we could apply in a lot of different situations. We use the energy created by recurring problems to fuel curiosity about solutions.

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