Alan N. McClain
I find inspiration to write in discovering a way to solve a problem that stands in the way of our faster progress. When I find a way around that problem, for me, it is time to share that good news with the world!
This is the basic process of what is now called original, "critical thinking," when applied to obstacles that hold us back or stand in our way. I will look for every imaginable way to get around that obstacle, and if I can't see it right away, then I will come back again and again, from a fresh point of view. "If there is a way, I will find it" -- my own motto.
I will "leave no stone unturned" in looking for a way to solve a tough problem, and the answer is often in a combination of methods that work well together. This is called "throwing everything you have at it."
In my work as a management systems analyst, the business managers would give me the tough problems, which were, for me, good projects!
Other writers are inspired by many feelings and perceptions from what they have seen and experienced. Some are historians: The greatest novel ever written was for many years considered to be Tolstoy's "War and Peace," about Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the Russian response. The motion picture is an all-time classic, and it has been deemed the greatest motion picture ever.
This is the basic process of what is now called original, "critical thinking," when applied to obstacles that hold us back or stand in our way. I will look for every imaginable way to get around that obstacle, and if I can't see it right away, then I will come back again and again, from a fresh point of view. "If there is a way, I will find it" -- my own motto.
I will "leave no stone unturned" in looking for a way to solve a tough problem, and the answer is often in a combination of methods that work well together. This is called "throwing everything you have at it."
In my work as a management systems analyst, the business managers would give me the tough problems, which were, for me, good projects!
Other writers are inspired by many feelings and perceptions from what they have seen and experienced. Some are historians: The greatest novel ever written was for many years considered to be Tolstoy's "War and Peace," about Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the Russian response. The motion picture is an all-time classic, and it has been deemed the greatest motion picture ever.
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