The Biggest Problem in the World
Our Problem with Problems and Why Truth Matters
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Ronald Balzan
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Our biggest problem is one we don't know we have.
We all have problems we struggle to solve. Sometimes they’re personal, like being overweight; sometimes they’re bigger, like income inequality.
Yet many of them are solvable, having been solved before, so to solve them is a choice.
Only by solving problems do we progress, and to progress is to live.
When we choose not to solve them, we choose not to progress. Suffering unnecessarily, we choose a lower quality of life and sometimes a shorter life instead.
Sometimes we try to solve them — or we think we do. We invest money, time, energy and emotion.
Despite our educations, intelligence, experience, and expertise, however, many solvable problems go unsolved, regardless of the stakes; our investments, wasted.
It’s a choice we don’t know we’re making.
It is our problem with problems, and it is solvable, too.
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