Catch 22

Think about this; you have a mov­ing object with an unlim­ited power that can destroy what­ever it come across. On the other hand you have another object in a firm posi­tion with also an unlim­ited power that no mat­ter what force you hit with it, it doesn’t move. Now what hap­pens if these two objects meet and collide?

If your head is spin­ning around now, let me assure you – there is no such a thing as an answer to this, at least a log­i­cal one. The sce­nario above is unimag­in­able or impos­si­ble – or Catch 22.

Catch 22 comes into the pic­ture when you merge two dif­fer­ent sit­u­a­tions that together become unworkable.

Have you ever been in the sit­u­a­tion where you apply for a job with­out expe­ri­ence? The recruiters tell you that you lack expe­ri­ence and as a result can’t offer you the post. You are asked to obtain expe­ri­ence first.

With­out a job you can’t get the expe­ri­ence, and with­out expe­ri­ence you can’t get the job.
That is indeed a seri­ous prob­lem – or sim­ply, Catch 22.

I have been asked numer­ous times how to deal with this “Catch 22” dilemma and although I can­not under­es­ti­mate its com­pli­cat­ed­ness I’ll try in my next post or so, to explain how we can deal with Catch 22.

In the mean­time let’s go back to the first ques­tion about the stones — did you believe me when I said impos­si­ble sce­nario or do you actu­ally think it has a viable solu­tion?

The devel­oper of this web­site, Abdirisak Jib­ril is a stu­dent of engi­neer­ing and enjoys offer­ing valu­able tips on top­ics related to career, per­sonal devel­op­ment, study-life and much more.

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