I borrowed this from Matt Damon’s character in The Martian (good movie, BTW), and I think it works for me.
Work. The. Problem.
In the movie, Matt Damon’s astronaut character gets stranded on Mars during what was supposed to have been a routine space mission (aren’t they all"). Well, he gets accidentally left for dead, except that he’s still very much alive, but some of his equipment is broken and he can’t communicate with NASA or the crew of the spaceship ? he traveled to Mars with.
Yeah, talk about a BAD day.
And the day turns to weeks, then months, then… At any rate, it was a really bad time for Matt Damon’s character. One theme that pops up over and over again in the movie is the idea of working a problem.
What does that mean"
Well, if there’s a problem in front of you — like, say, being accidentally stranded on a hostile planet with very little food, no friends, no spaceship and no means of communication — first, you gotta keep it together (a.k.a. don’t freak out).
Then, you work toward solving the very first problem in front of you, and you keep working that first problem until it’s solved.
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