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Solving the Problem

Three cards for an everyday difficulty you need to settle today: what the problem really is, what keeps it alive and which action dissolves it.

Take it for one specific, lingering difficulty that needs a solution, not a generic quick read.

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How to read it

The top card names the problem as it is, not as you phrase it; this is often where the question turns over. The lower left card is the root: the habit, person or fear thanks to which the difficulty has lasted for weeks. The lower right is the solution, and it must be read as an action rather than a mood: ask yourself what this card actually does. Bind all three into one sentence: the problem is this, it holds because of that, it comes undone by this step. If the solution is weaker than the root, the root needs a reading of its own first.

Positions

  1. The real problem

    What the difficulty actually is once your habitual way of phrasing it is removed.

  2. What holds it

    The habit, person or fear because of which the problem has stayed unsolved.

  3. The solution

    The concrete action that lifts the difficulty, and what changes immediately after it.

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