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change start character’s problem

change start character’s problem

August 12, 2005

Continuing exploration of problem-solving and justification. Here we take a look at the Change Main Character.

As a Change Start character I try to build up a “platform” to make my way out of the well. But I don’t do this by grabbing pieces of the wall in front of me to stand on. I can’t dig through the wall to get out - that would be focusing on the wall as my problem.

For a Start character, it is what I am NOT doing that is the problem, not what I am doing.

So I’ll have to start gathering whatever is around me to make it out of that well.

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