Quick Cut: S2E173 Problem Solving 101

It's a Good Life

Brian Buffini

Business, Unknown, Entrepreneurship, Life, Good, Entrepreneur, Coaching

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

If you can successfully solve other people’s problems, you will be both highly compensated and highly trusted. In this episode, Brian teaches why effective problem solving is a mindset and a skill and explains how learning to creatively solve problems for yourself and others will help you to live the good life.

YOU WILL LEARN:

· Why people repeatedly encounter the same problems.

· Why problem solving is such a valued skill.

· How to become a problem solver.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

“You2,” by Price Pritchett

S1E164 The Best Interview of My Life with Neil Armstrong

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:

“Creativity and problem solving are the same thing.” – Brian Buffini

“Solving problems gives you confidence and it also builds your momentum.” – Brian Buffini

“You can't solve a problem until you're asking the right questions.” – Brian Buffini

“Long after your physical strength is not what it used to be, your problem solving can be at an all-time high.” – Brian Buffini

“Don't just be a talker, be a doer.” – Brian Buffini

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0:00.0	Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Baffini, founder of America's largest business coaching company.
0:10.0	Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes.
0:15.0	Today we are going to talk about problem solving 101.
0:21.0	It is perhaps the skill that gets compensated the most that's also part
0:27.5	scale part mindset. It requires an attitude of the mind and then an aptitude in skill. I didn't know much about real estate
0:35.1	when I got into the real estate business but I became a problem solver and
0:38.8	because of that it set up the opportunity for me to generate referrals and grow my business.
0:43.7	And when I got into the business right off the bat, I was mentored by the great Gene Kumen, who was a problem
0:49.4	solver.
0:50.4	And we brought creative solutions to problems.
0:52.3	And because of that, we were able to sell a lot of real estate and because we
0:55.8	solved people's problems. We didn't just get compensated. We got something more important.
1:00.2	We became their trusted advisors. And then they told their friends and it set up an opportunity for me to then unleash what became the referral system.
1:07.0	A problem by its very definition is a matter or situation, regardless of unwelcome, or it could be harmful and needing to be dealt with or overcome.
1:16.2	So we're going to get into some problem solving 101 so that you can understand that in honing
1:21.0	your skills of problem solving and enhancing your mindset towards problem
1:26.0	solving you can be so much more effective and successful.
1:29.6	So we're going to talk about new day same old problem.
1:32.4	We're going to talk about the day same old problem. We're going to talk about the value of
1:34.0	problem solving and how that shows up and then ultimately how to be a problem
1:37.8	solver. So let's dive right in to the new day same old problem. I'm reminded of a book I read years ago that really was helpful for me.
1:47.0	It's called U-squared, and it's written by a fellow by the name of Price Pritchard, all about how to make a quantum leap in your business in life.
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