I've been tooling with a sentence in my head this morning, but I haven't been able to come up with the right wording.
Right now, it's: Solving a problem never feels as proportionally good as the bad feeling of experiencing it.
I'll take a crack at it later, but it looks like I'm ending this week on a higher note—though other problems still exist and require a lot more work to figure out. There is still next week.
Anil
the pain of having a problem is worse than the high of fixing one
friday
september, 15 2006
Bernie
The good feeling of solving a problem has direct, but exponential, proportion to the bad feeling experiencing the problem?
Or, maybe, flip that. i was never good at math.
friday
september, 15 2006
Jonathan
The fundamental flaw in your sentence structure might be that the sentence is untrue; the joy experienced when I solve a problem nearly always erases all my frustration (and then some) of having the problem in the first place. Of course, the only example I can think of to illustrate this is platformer videogames. When I finally figure out how to activate a switch to open a door to lower a bridge to turn off the flame turret, etc, etc, I'm delighted to a degree much higher than I had been if I had never experienced the struggle of HOW to make the sequence of events occur.
friday
september, 15 2006
Derek Powazek
Solving a problem for someone else before they experience it, is why I love design.
saturday
september, 16 2006
Andre Torrez
jonathan, let's put it this way: getting hit in the throat with a shovel is probably still going to bother you after you've healed. Maybe not any physical pain, but it sure would have been nice not to get hit in the throat in the first place.
saturday
september, 16 2006