What is a Problem-Solving Tool?
A tool is more than just an object—it represents the connection between challenge and solution. It’s a symbol of human ingenuity, empowering us to transform obstacles into opportunities. Every time we use a tool, we become problem solvers, adapting and overcoming challenges. This mindset extends beyond the task at hand, influencing every aspect of life, instilling the belief that no problem is too big to handle. At its core, a problem-solving tool is an extension of our ability to think, create, and build. It’s a reminder that with the right tools and mindset, we can solve anything.
"A KNIFE is more than a tool. It represents the intersection between thought and action. It is the most basic of tools, a general-purpose survival implement and the original weapon that gave human beings the ability to penetrate and kill prey and enemies just like tigers and lions. Even more, iron from an exploded star, forged in the belly of nuclear fusion for billions of years, is mixed with carbon left by countless generations of living things –the marriage of iron and life, in the furnace of fire, forged into steel and tempered by water to be incredibly strong and flexible enough to endure. It is the eternal in the temporal, the universal in the particular. With it alone you can survive in the wilderness, make all other implements necessary for life, defend yourself from predators, human and other animals. It is the most universal object human beings have yet grasped. Behold the knife!"
-"John Duncan"