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# Try it yourself
- URL: https://www.cesarrg.com/try-it-yourself/
- Published: 2023-10-17T12:44:25.000Z
- Updated: 2023-10-17T12:44:25.000Z
- Author: César Rodríguez
- Tags: Techniques, Insights

#84 - Oct.2023

The most effective way to solve a problem is by *living* it yourself. 

Is by walking the walk and experiencing the nuances of the difficulties, opportunities, and context that you will be able to better design a solution for that problem. 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/2023/10/Walk.png)

Role-playing, shadowing a customer, being a customer yourself are all great ways to immerse into the problem and develop [empathy](https://www.cesarrg.com/empathy/). 

An important reminder: empathy is not putting *ourselves* into others' shoes. 

With *ourselves*, we also take our conditioning, perspectives, and biases. Genuine empathy is about trying our best to remove ourselvesfrom the equation and diving deep with a beginner's mind. 

Be open and curious to learn through others' perspectives. See through *their* eyes instead of yours.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/2023/02/sign_CRG4-1.png)

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