Tuesday, 11 September 2007 12:38 pm
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deckardcanineOh man.
Some of you may recall from January 2006 when I was embarrassed to realize, after 11 months at the company, that I wasn't taking the most convenient stairway in my office building.
It's been longer than 11 months since I moved into my basement suite. For all this time, one of my ceiling lights, when turned on, has gone off and on depending on the impact to the floor above (usually caused by young boys running around). Changing the bulb makes no difference. As a result, I learned not to count on that light. Not a big problem, since I don't feel a need for much light at home.
Only yesterday evening did I think to tap the circular frame around the bulb. As long as I press enough, it will come back on and stay on until the next thud.
Why do these ideas take so long to come to me? I don't dare take another IQ test....
Some of you may recall from January 2006 when I was embarrassed to realize, after 11 months at the company, that I wasn't taking the most convenient stairway in my office building.
It's been longer than 11 months since I moved into my basement suite. For all this time, one of my ceiling lights, when turned on, has gone off and on depending on the impact to the floor above (usually caused by young boys running around). Changing the bulb makes no difference. As a result, I learned not to count on that light. Not a big problem, since I don't feel a need for much light at home.
Only yesterday evening did I think to tap the circular frame around the bulb. As long as I press enough, it will come back on and stay on until the next thud.
Why do these ideas take so long to come to me? I don't dare take another IQ test....
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Sometimes the right ideas don't come to me until others have mentioned them, and then I certainly knew that I wouldn't have thought of it without help...
(living with family helps, in a way...)
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The problem wasn't lack of smarts, it was lack of motivation.
And this is more common than you might think.
For example: I had a friend who lived nearby and had a computer that'd give him an error message every time he started Internet Explorer. He wouldn't be able to bring up any web pages until he went into some options, set some bogus values, hit "Ok", then went back into the same options again and cleared them. Lost productivity: about five minutes for every time he opened a new Internet Explorer window. He, however, had learned to live with it.
I, however, was curious enough about the problem to take the time to Google the error message. Within two minutes, I had found a simple and permanent fix. Next time I visited him, it took another two minutes to apply it. Problem solved. And all it really required was for someone to think, "I really should try to fix that."
Remember those words: "I really should try to fix that." They're likely to come in handy next time you have a light that needs jiggling or a route that isn't as efficient as possible.