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Solving your Issues begins with Identifying their underlying Causes
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It’s much too simple to shift the blame.
Is billiards a hobby of yours? No, not at all. But I know enough about the game to use it as a metaphor for the reasons we don’t follow through on our promises.
Solving your Issues begins with Identifying their underlying Causes
Using a large stick, the goal is to get balls into the pockets. In order to smash the balls into the pockets with the stick, you first need a white cue ball to whack the ball in the appropriate direction.
So here’s the question: What causes the balls to go into the pocket?
Firstly, the white cue ball does this. Since the white ball must strike the numbered ball in order for the shot to be successful, it must be the underlying cause. There is, of course, a lot more to the tale than that. The player was required to get the cue ball rolling. The force applied by the player via the stick is clearly responsible for launching the chain reaction in the first place.
For many of our difficulties, understanding the “root cause” is essential. For example, understanding the “root cause” of distraction is vital. “That most fundamental cause for an undesired situation or issue that, if removed or remedied, would have prevented it from developing” is how the book Root Cause Analysis defines the phrase. In the absence of the cue ball, what would happen? It was impossible to play the game. But if the player really wanted to, he or she could walk out and buy a new cue ball.
The cue ball, then, cannot be the source of the problem. Suppose the player doesn’t feel like playing. What would happen? Those behaviors would never take place if that were the reality.
The cue ball isn’t the root cause, but rather the “proximate cause,” the penultimate step before to the consequent action in the game of pool. However, in the game of life, it is far more difficult to detect the underlying causes:
- Rather of blaming a colleague who stole our position, we blame ourselves for not being promoted.
- It’s easy to get into a dispute with our spouse over a little problem, like who didn’t wash the dishes, rather than admitting years of unsolved concerns that have accumulated.
- To be fair, we tend to blame our political and ideological rivals for the world’s woes instead of taking responsibility for our own part in them.
All of these immediate reasons have one thing in common: they allow us to place blame on someone or something else instead of taking responsibility for our own actions. However, although the cue ball does play a part, like the dishes or colleague, it is by no means the whole narrative.
We’re trapped as powerless victims in an illusory world if we don’t address the core issues. With no actual understanding of how things function, we’re just being banged about like a rag dolls.
Many of the things we employ to keep us distracted—the TV, computer, social media, and email—are only proximal causes.
The same way a pool player would discover another cue ball if they truly want it, I am certain that we, too, can find a method to divert our attention elsewhere if we really want it.
We all have a deep-seated source of distraction. It’s why we justify our acts, even though we know they’re not what we wanted to accomplish. We’ll constantly be playing someone else’s game if we don’t know why we can’t remain on track.
Summary
Billiards is a metaphor for the reasons we don’t follow through on our promises. Solving your issues begins with identifying their underlying causes. In the absence of the cue ball, what would happen? It was impossible to play the game. But if the player really wanted to, he or she could walk out and buy a new cue ball.
The cue ball isn’t the root cause, but rather the penultimate step before to the consequent action in the game of pool. Many of the things we employ to keep us distracted are only proximal causes. Instead of blaming a colleague who stole our position, we blame ourselves for not being promoted.
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