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September 30, 2022
What do they mean by "Spatial Thinking?"
I like to think of this as super-problem-solving. We women are great at this because when you have a car full of kids screaming "ICE CREAM" in the back of the SUV, and you get a flat tire, you don't sit around and 1.) assess how flat the tire is, 2.) how did the tire get flat, then 3.) who to blame for the flat tire, cause all that doesn't solve the problem. You're sitting there thinking, 1.) where's the closest tire shop, 2.) How do I get there with
this flat tire, 3.) what bite out of the household budget is this going to take so that you can get back to the ice cream store with the kiddos.
I find a lot of this kind of funny in corporations that like to sit around and analyze something out the wazoo of what went wrong while the problem is STILL wrong. And sometimes that bleeds over into our sewing work. Yeah, we can sit and consternate about how this or that went wrong, or how did it get this bad, when in reality, that does nothing to solve the problem. I'm a little like: there's a problem, it's been identified, now let's find a solution?
I know a lot of you do not have immediate access to help or even ideas about how to solve a sewing problem, so it's either work on it or solve it. The first step toward problem-solving is to realize that there is almost always a solution. It may involve doing something creative and it may involve a slight variation on a look, and not the original idea you had. It may involve re-thinking a problem and even a redesign of the garment. All that is
OK.
Often this can lead to happy accidents, which may be something entirely different than what you had originally planned. This can turn out to be better than what you originally planned, but will work just as well as the original idea. That's OK. Remember that some of mankind's most important and Earth-shaking discoveries have come through happy accidents like penicillin, without which many of our parents and grandparents wouldn't have lived long enough (especially through World War II) to father or grandfather us! The discovery came about from a particularly sloppy researcher who went on vacation and came back and the rest is history! So sometimes even "sloppy" work can
be very beneficial - although I wouldn't recommend it on a regular basis!
So instead of getting all caught up in 1.) how bad is the mistake, 2.) who caused the mistake (machine or man) and 3.) who to blame for the mistake, when probably a better set of questions would be, 1.) how can I make this look okay or even 2.) how can I make this look better than what I had originally planned.
This sounds a little counter-intuitive, but this kind of thinking really does get you closer to a solution which is what should be the goal in the end. Somehow we all (including myself) get caught up in assessing irrelevant information or asking questions that don't work toward a solution. When we should be asking questions like:
1. This problem can present me with an opportunity to find a different method, technique or idea that I might not have otherwise thought of or even had the chance to think of before
2. The solution I'm thinking of may not be the best, but since this is in a location that doesn't show that much, I will most likely be the only one to know
3. The solution may not be perfect, and that's an adequate solution in itself.
Mostly, be gentle with yourself while you're working through problem solving. Here are some steps that help me.
1. If you need to, walk away, even if it's just for 10 minutes.
2. Breathe deeply and remember to relax - yeah, I know doesn't sound like relaxing will solve anything, but it puts you in a better mood to receive solutions from your creative muse.
3. If you are tired - it's late in the day or at night, put it aside for a while.
4. Cooking on a problem (allowing it to sit for a time, while you roll over different ideas), can bring about some remarkable solutions.
5. Don't immediately discount some pretty wild solutions.
We are naturally creative. That's what sewing is about. Our commitment and drive to sew speak to our desire to create and our desire to be attached to the things around us that serve us (See last weeks blog - click here at the bottom for more info and a new blog on the site) is very important to us. Even if we don't
understand it, it's still important to us and how we fill our lives with purpose and meaning.
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