The document discusses several examples that illustrate the principle of keeping solutions simple: 1. A small soap company solved an empty soap box issue on their assembly line by using a fan to blow empty boxes out of the line, rather than installing complicated X-ray machines like a larger company. 2. Russians used pencils instead of spending millions to develop special pens to write in zero-gravity like NASA. 3. When asked how to determine if a patient should be institutionalized, the director of a mental asylum said a normal person would just pull the plug on a full bathtub rather than try using small utensils to empty it. The overall message is that simple solutions are often

1. Keep It Simple Stupid

2. The professor in a university talked about the case of the "Empty Soap
Box", which happened in one of the biggest cosmetics companies.

3. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soap box that
was empty. Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly line,
which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department.

4. For some reason, one soap box went through the assembly line
empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem.

5. Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-
resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soap boxes that
passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they
worked hard and they worked fast but they spent a fortune doing so.

6. What’d happened
to the small company
when they faced
the same problem?

7. The Smart Solution : When this same problem was posed by a small company, they
did not get into complications of X-rays, etc but they bought a strong industrial
electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as
each soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.

8. The professor in a university continued talking about the case that when NASA
began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens
wouldn't work at zero gravity (Ink won't flow down to the writing surface).

9. In order to solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12
million. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside
down, underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and
in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.

10. And what did Russians do.............................??????
Guest it!!

11. The Russians used a Pencil!!!

12. The professor in a university continued talking about the case when he had
a visit to the mental asylum, the professor asked the Director how do
you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized.

13. "Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer
a
teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him
or her to empty the bathtub."

14. "Oh, I understand," said the professor "A normal person would
use the bucket because it’s bigger than the spoon or the
teacup."

15. "No." said the Director, "A normal person would pull
the plug. Do you want a bed near the window?"

16. People tend to ramble, never getting to the point. They focus
more on showing what they know, rather than on what needs
to be achieved. They focus on problems more than solutions.

17. If all your attempts to find a solution seem futile, take a step back. It means that you're
already looking at the problem and not on the solution. Always remind yourself this:
Every problem carries with it its corresponding solution. Most of the time, the answer
to any difficulty you face lies within the confines of the difficulty itself.

18. Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole. Nope, it's not
about food or problem. It's how you face problems. KISS (Keep It
Simple, Stupid) i.e. always look for simple solutions. Devise the
simplest possible solution that solves the problem.

19. So, learn to focus on solutions
not on problems "If you look
at what you do not have in
life, you don't have anything.
If you look at what you have
in life, you have everything.
Life really is much simpler
than we tend to make it. It is
up to us whether we allow it
to be so or not. It is our
choice!!!
Have you answered
all above questions Thank You Very Much
Correctly??? Sompong Yusoontorn