Tham khảo tài liệu 'critical thinking skills success_3', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | LESSON óV Troubleshooting LESSON SUMMARY This lesson is about taking care of the large and small problems that can get in your way and stall your progress. Troubleshooting is about thinking ahead. Before things do not go as planned before you are faced with huge problems you think through your situation identify issues that could get in your way and take care of them. When you troubleshoot you anticipate what might go wrong and keep problems from growing by resolving them when they are of a more manageable size or you prevent them from coming into existence in the first place. Troubleshooting is also about taking care of the setbacks that can stall you as you work toward reaching a goal. From small annoyances to major setbacks these problems must be resolved in order to get where you need to go. Identifying Problems That Interfere with Goals After you set a goal and begin working toward it you will inevitably be faced with a roadblock or two. You learned in Lesson 1 that you can t solve or troubleshoot problems without first acknowledging them and 51 TROUBLESHOOTING that holds true for the problems that interfere with your goals. Some of these problems are foreseeable that is you can anticipate them before you even begin to work toward your goal. Others are unexpected and must be dealt with as they arise. Unexpected problems are usually easier to spot and easier to solve even though you have not prepared for them. Identifying foreseeable problems takes more work. You must honestly assess the goal you wish to achieve and think critically about what must be overcome in order to achieve it. An example of a foreseeable problem may be found in Lesson 5 in which a goal-setting chart was presented. The goal is to get better grades and the student notes that too much socializing and poor study skills are the problems in his way. Before he even begins to work toward achieving better grades he knows what he must overcome or solve in order to successfully reach his goal. Note
