Finding problems to solve — product ideas.

[Aspiring Goose]

I'm finishing The Great Rat Race Escape and it feels like the next thing I have to learn is finding problems. So how can I learn to see and find them to make products? Are there any books or courses and etc.?

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

I'm finishing The Great Rat Race Escape and it feels like the next thing I have to learn is finding problems. So how can I learn to see and find them to make products? Are there any books or courses and etc.?

So your life is perfect?

Congratulations on achieving what few humans can accomplish, the perfect life with no problems, struggles, inconveniences, or issues.

 

[StrikingViper69]

I'm finishing The Great Rat Race Escape and it feels like the next thing I have to learn is finding problems. So how can I learn to see and find them to make products? Are there any books or courses and etc.?

What did the characters in the book do?

 

[Aspiring Goose]

So your life is perfect?

Congratulations on achieving what few humans can accomplish, the perfect life with no problems, struggles, inconveniences, or issues.

My life isn't perfect because there are problems to which I have not yet found the solutions. I do notice inconveniences that could possibly be an opportunity, but it's always stuff like traffic. It sounds like a great idea(if solved) but I have absolutely no clue how to fix traffic.

Somehow the only problems I notice are the ones that I don't know how to solve. But I'm trying to observe products that people sell to maybe come up with something by analogy.

 

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[Aspiring Goose]

What did the characters in the book do?

Magically remember how someone liked Sam's soup?

 

[REV5028]

I do notice inconveniences

But I'm trying to observe products that people sell to maybe come up with something

Keep doing these things, constantly, and eventually you'll have your answer.

 

[Antifragile]

but I have absolutely no clue how to fix traffic.

That the point. You find problems and inconveniences. Most of them will be very hard to solve! If they were easy to solve, would it remain a problem for long? Wouldn’t someone else fix it already?

If you want to make it in Entrepreneurship, remember that you need to become an inventor. It’s not easy, never has been and never will be.

What steps can you take to become better at inventing solutions?

If that sounds too scary, can you rephrase it to the way @Andy Black says it “who can you help and get paid?”

An elderly couple who needs their driveway … what?

It’s that simple. Not easy, but simple.

 

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