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I saw a comment on social media lately that said, “All problems have solutions.” And that’s true. I like to think of a problem as the difference between the current state or condition and the desired state or condition. So, the solution to a problem is to get from where you are to where you want to be.
But not every challenge we face is a “problem”. The book “Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems” by Barry Johnson, Ph.D. introduces the concept of a polarity, which is defined as “the presence of two opposing, opposite, or