This week, you learned about the barriers to being an effective and informed problem solver.
Describe a time when you encountered one of these barriers in your personal or professional life.
How can recognizing these barriers help you to avoid them in the future?
Confirmation Bias
Mental Set
Functional Fixedness
Unnecessary Constraints
Groupthink
Irrelevant Information
Paradigm Blindness
Remember to answer each part of the question with a minimum of one paragraph of substantive content that is 5-7 sentences with limited grammatical errors. Also, respond to at least one of your peers with a 3-4 sentence response
2. Hi can you write this in your own words please of 150 words and 125 words to My discussion response below
The RENSPONSE
Good morning, professor and class
Growing up, I had a learning disability known as a convergence insufficiency. I won’t go into detail about it but it meant that my left eye had a ahrd time converging and it made the learning process extremely difficult and frustrating and even more so because we did not find out until I was 18, so I wasn’t able to graduate high school until I was 19. This was my barrier because I always felt so stupid, that plus more than likely having ADHD. I had to re-read things several times in order to retain the information. I did not want to go to college after the Marine Corps because I thought I wouldn’t be smart enough and I had a fixed mindset regarding a higher education. “it’s unnecessary, I can do a blue collar job, I don’t need a college degree.” I was obviously wrong because I need one in order to work in PEN Testing.
My wife and the Marine Corps were the two that helped me overcome this barrier because the Marine Corps built confidence in my intellect and my wife greatly helped me with my confidence in that as well and in my ability to complete college with a good GPA and get the job I need to support my family.
Recognizing barriers is like having a topographical map. It’s a detailed overview of where you are and need to go. Knowing what the problem is and addressing it is crucial to solving it.
