Are All Problems Solveable and obstacles surmountable?

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In order to learn how to drive a car, you have to actually drive a car.

I only learned to drive once I was thrust into a situation where I HAD to drive the car.

I had 70 lessons--no success. It was because I wasn't actively participating in my learning.

No book, no instructor (most of the time) is as good as actual hands-on-experience.

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Welcome To Holland brought up "taking initiative." Here is what I found. Some of it is so confusing.

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Your problem is not lack of information, there is a lot of information available to you to learn about doing common things like applying for jobs and driving cars. This seems like a lie that you are telling yourself.

Here is eggsample of begin new task before I am told:
It pops into my mind that I might want to compute XYZ from my data and compare between condition 1 and condition 2 of my eggsperiment. The computation is relatively involved, but I code and run it over two days to get the results that suggest novel difference between condition 1 and condition 2. No one told me to do these things, as XYZ was something that popped into my mind while working on my project, as new ideas tend to come to mind when one is working on a project and one's mind is full of thoughts related to it. After I get the results, I email professor to tell him what I did, why I did it, what results are, and what he thinks. If I had a big idea to do a whole new eggsperiment or study, I wouldn't go ahead and do it on my own. Instead, I would ask my professor if he thinks it is a good idea before I proceed.

You keep bringing up falsifiable hypotheses and logical arguments as if such were highly adaptive towards living one's life or that they direct science research, but anyone who does any science research knows that researchers don't generally start with falsifiable hypotheses, logical arguments, or much information about what is being studied. The point of research is to add knowledge where it has run out, thus an eggstreme lack of information and trial-and-error to gain new knowledge. Research projects generally start on hunches and a made-up idea that something might work a certain way in the brain or cells or in the sun or doing this thing might cause the desired outcome of much greater yield on this chemical reaction. Sometimes, something seems to work in a eggsperiment, and researchers don't know why it worked, but they go with it while lacking information and unable to logically justify what they are doing. Perhaps they can figure it out later, but meanwhile, they'll take the outcome and push forwards. This is what a "scientific mind" is.

I am not talking about falsifiability of hypotheses in science, I am talking about doing science and living life through requiring that all of one's actions have to be based on falsifiable hypotheses for oneself to try to do something. I doubt that most people in America ackshuly believe that if they believe that they can do something that thing can definitely be done. Instead, people who are positive about themselves being able to do something generally believe that there is non-zero chance that something can be done and they have ability to try to do it, even though they may lack much information needed to do it, but they can learn as they go. In some cases, they do the thing and prove that the thing can be done. Such thinking and acting may lead to greater results in some area of pursuit than opposite pattern, while most leaps of understanding in science result from such thinking and acting applied quite strongly.

To prove that a given problem is solvable, all you need to do is find one potential solution.

To prove that a given problem is insolvable, you need to find every possible solution and determine each one infeasible. That's... almost an impossible task.

One thing that I learned from reading Temple Grandin's Thinking in Pictures is about how she got into the field of animal behavior, how she contacted someone working in the field and that person helped guide her entry into the field. I read that she had done such a thing, so I generalized what she did into something that I also could try, then I took action to try it, and it worked for me too, after multiple attempts.

Something that someone else did successfully, you could also generalize in your mind into something that you could try, then take action to try it. I did not contact Temple Grandin to ask her all the details of what she did, and her details might not directly apply to me or work for me anyway. From her, I got this general idea of how to get into area of interest, and the details I implemented myself, such as looking up stuff on internet and emailing people. Those tasks of finding information about science topics and writing emails asking about how to get into a research area and if there were any positions in a lab, I already knew how to do. I did not ask someone how to write the emails, because I had the questions in my mind already, so I just put them in writing in the emails. If I had not known how to write the emails, I would have asked someone how to do it. I could have posted my question on wp, another forum, or some site like yahoo answers or quora.