Those experiences of construction with my hands helped me to not only hone spatial skills, but also my hands-on problem solving capabilities, as I had to figure out how to build what was in my imagination.
For instance, the mysterious character would not be a sit-behind-a-desk-moving-puzzle-pieces guy, as implied in an early script, but a martial arts expert, a hands-on problem solver and an all-around chameleon.
This isn't market research, but hands-on problem solving.
Spend less time in lectures and more in hands-on problem solving.
Intensely curious and driven to explore, the people of MIT value rigorous analytical thinking, ingenuity, hands-on problem solving, and big new ideas.
Capstone projects, like Capstone courses, provide students with an opportunity to integrate academic study and research with real-world, hands-on problem solving.
And to do all that at MIT in collaboration with 100+ talented global peers —a community of hands-on problem solvers eager to make the world a better place.
"Once we started designing our project, the walker, it was really nice to be able to show it to the elders and get their feedback on what they thought, their preferences and their advice". She said that the project also allowed her to apply what they learned about high-performance fibers to hands-on problem solving.
Alice Brooks, who co-founded Roominate, the wired-dollhouse kit, told me that the company's design drew on its founders' own engineering experience — both have engineering degrees — and their understanding of the skills important to success: "hands-on problem solving, spatial skills, and self-confidence".
This is especially important for business leaders who were trained in a "business-as-science" model (Barry & Meisiek, 2014) that involves formal process and analysis rather than hands-on problem solving.
