{"id":297,"date":"2019-01-11T17:30:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T00:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2019-01-17T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T17:24:07","slug":"problem-solving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Problem Solving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">[To follow <strong><em>The Ewellogy<\/em><\/strong>, please click on <strong><em>Leave a Comment<\/em><\/strong> above, fill in your name and email, and check the box: <strong><em>Notify me of new posts by email<\/em><\/strong>. If your comment is, &#8220;Notify me,&#8221; it won&#8217;t post publicly. If you don&#8217;t start to receive the blog by email right away, please write to me at bob@ewell.com, and I will see that you get on the list.] <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s trivial, but I just solved a geometry problem! The problem wasn\u2019t trivial, it was medium difficult, but my solving it or not solving it is certainly trivial. I do <g class=\"gr_ gr_13 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"13\" data-gr-id=\"13\">math<\/g> for fun, and to keep my brain sharp, I subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/brilliant.org\/daily-problems\/\">Brilliant<\/a>&nbsp;and try to solve one problem each day. This particular problem has been hanging around since before Christmas, and I just solved it. I had been all around it, but I hadn\u2019t put the pieces together just right until today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are the lessons?&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><em>Persistence<\/em><\/strong> is certainly one. I persist until I succeed (sometimes!). We are called to persistence in prayer; see, for example, Luke 18.1. We ought also to persist in tasks that need to be done. Nehemiah persisted through difficulties and finished the wall.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong><em>Flexibility <\/em><\/strong>is another lesson. When one approach doesn\u2019t work, try another. Old-time Navigator Leroy Eims wrote a book called \u201cNo Magic Formula,\u201d in which he observed that every Old Testament battle was different. They only marched around the walls to defeat one city &#8211; Jericho. Gideon took 300 men and used surprise. Joshua in defeating Ai took a lot of men and used a ruse. Flexibility. Churches are sometimes guilty of running the same program year after year because it worked once.&nbsp;<\/li><li>That leads us to <strong><em>creativity<\/em><\/strong>. God gave us the gift of creativity. Adam\u2019s\u2019 first task was to name the animals.&nbsp;Joseph was creative in how he reconciled to his brothers while giving them a chance to redeem themselves. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Persistence, flexibility, and creativity: not a bad set of lessons from a geometry problem!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s trivial, but I just solved a geometry problem! The problem wasn\u2019t trivial, it was medium difficult, but my solving it or not solving it is certainly trivial. I do math for fun, and to keep my brain sharp, I subscribe to Brilliant&nbsp;and try to solve one problem each day. 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