Approaches to life

[quikchange]

There are 6 approaches (that I can think of, anyway - tell me if I missed any) to approaching the problems one encounters in life:

1. Anticipate and avoid them.
   
2. Fix the problems.
   
3. Pay others to solve them.
   
4. Adapt to the new situations so they stops being problematic.
   
5. Run away.
   
6. Ignore or accept them.
   

Different kinds of problems lend themselves to

Comments

[punk_apple]

I've had classified them also in 4 ways:
1. Ignore them
2. Fight them (anything active to change the)
3. Adapt to them (so they are not problems any more)
4. Escape or go away (if none of the above works, leave it as it is and get somewhere else).
However, paying somoene else to deal with it should be added to my list.. :)

[quikchange]

Your 2 & 3 are an expansion of my original #2. I think it is a good expansion.

Your 4 was something I hadn't really considered but should have. I've updated the post now but will leave these comments here so you get credit :)

[punk_apple]

My #4 is something I always keep as my backup plan. If life and everything would suck too much... there always has to be an escape (even if I would never use it). The escape of changing the city or job, or moving out of a bad relationship. Even when I enjoy the job, place, people around me, there always is a mental backdoor for me. Sometimes life is too short to waste if none of the other options work. :)

[bitcomber]

How about:

1. Choose what's more appropriate in each particular situation?

:)

[quikchange]

That's a meta-rule that I attempted to describe with "mix and match" but your explanation is clearer.

[squidmark]

oo, don't forget:

Learn from them so you
Don't repeat them...

[quikchange]

That was a prerequisite for #1 ;-)

Not necessarily

[kinthelt]

I like to think that somebody of reasonable intelligence can anticipate situations without necessarily having previously experienced them. The more intelligent the individual, the less experience they need.

Re: Not necessarily

[quikchange]

By analogy, yes. I guess it's more like optional input to #1.

[tangbu]

Face them, and they usually go away, or at least diminish to the level of background noise.

[morethanreal]

That makes me think a bit about how I usually deal with problems. Generally I would do 2 if it's in my power to fix, otherwise I prefer 5 with 6 as a second choice. 4 is similar to 6.

[quikchange]

It's true that 4 is similar to 6. I think the critical difference is that 4 takes more effort and is applicable in fewer situations but produces a better result.