I share your frustration with people who miss obvious solutions because they don’t try to figure out how things could be improved.
Obvious or not so obvious. Me,I will spend inordinate amounts of time coming up with solutions - even complex solutions - to not do any repetitive task more than once if I can. That’s even my job at work: I design test equipment for production and I make it as automatic as possible, so that neither I nor the production engineers have to spend time doing the same thing over and over whenever possible.
It’s a reflex for me: if I do something more than twice, I start thinking about how to automate it or arrange things so I don’t have to do it again. The Finns I worked with for years almost never have that reflex: if whatever they have to do yields the results they want, it’s good enough, even if some lateral thinking could get them to do less work.
I too am disabled (I’m a double partial foot amputee) and I applied that line of thinking to my own problem of finding proper footwear. For instance, instead of having to physically go for a fitting (which limits my choice of shoemakers to local ones) I made acrylic casts of my feet that I can ship to any shoemaker in the world, so they can fashion the shoes around copies of my actual feet. It’s a surprisingly simple way to buy bespoke shoes that are guaranteed to fit without leaving the comfort of my living room 🙂 But funnily enough, nobody with special footwear needs seem to think of doing that.
Obvious or not so obvious. Me,I will spend inordinate amounts of time coming up with solutions - even complex solutions - to not do any repetitive task more than once if I can. That’s even my job at work: I design test equipment for production and I make it as automatic as possible, so that neither I nor the production engineers have to spend time doing the same thing over and over whenever possible.
It’s a reflex for me: if I do something more than twice, I start thinking about how to automate it or arrange things so I don’t have to do it again. The Finns I worked with for years almost never have that reflex: if whatever they have to do yields the results they want, it’s good enough, even if some lateral thinking could get them to do less work.
I too am disabled (I’m a double partial foot amputee) and I applied that line of thinking to my own problem of finding proper footwear. For instance, instead of having to physically go for a fitting (which limits my choice of shoemakers to local ones) I made acrylic casts of my feet that I can ship to any shoemaker in the world, so they can fashion the shoes around copies of my actual feet. It’s a surprisingly simple way to buy bespoke shoes that are guaranteed to fit without leaving the comfort of my living room 🙂 But funnily enough, nobody with special footwear needs seem to think of doing that.