Kadizzle did not work for a living

In retrospect Kadizzle had a wonderful career. Kadizzle did not work, he watched people work. The job was to keep people from getting injured or killed. To do that you had to watch them, and figure out what they were doing that was going to get them hurt. This meant Kadizzle had to develop a skill for walking around talking to people. Yesterday the old skill came to the surface. Watching the neighbor assemble a piece of furniture Kadizzle noticed he was making a couple critical mistakes. They were not mistakes that would get him hurt, but they would end up costing him a lot of extra time and effort. Neighbor was great for the observations. 

Stepping back from a situation and observing is usuallly of great value. One thing Kadizzle noticed watching people at industrial sites working is the quick cycling up of stupidity. When a job gets slowed down or stopped because of a stuck truck, rain, wind or snow, people start to try to get back on track with a short cut. Often the seemingly simple solution is a bigger wrench, a bigger crane, or a bigger something. This often results in danger. Too many times you put a great big dozer on a tractor to pull the tractor out of the mud and you pull the tractor in half. Kadizzle has seen this happen. Many times there is a simple solution to a big problem. Many times there is some little catch that no one has notices. 

This brings Kadizzle to a story. Once long ago all the brilliant construction guys were baffled by a generator that would not start. They cursed and tried everything. Finally they gave up and concluded they would just have to get a different generator. When they all got away from the generator Kadizzle walked over an examined it. Looking in the gas tank there appeared to be gas in the tank. However, there was just a thin layer of gas. Kadizzle could see the gas was so shallow it did not reach the intake. When no one was looking Kadizzle poured some gas in the generator and it started. In one stroke Kadizzle was considered a mechanical genius. 

The classic case of problem solving is sleep. You cannot figure something out, you go to sleep and wake up with the solution. What happened? You stepped back from the problem and saw it in a different light. 

Many times the problem is imaginary. There is no problem, but you imagine it is a problem.