A history of ten second miracles

I have spent most of my adult life in the construction industry as an electrician. I have worked on building houses, apartment complexes, grocery stores, hospitals, wind towers, ethanol plants and a variety of other types of buildings.
When constructing buildings there are, depending on the architects and engineers who design and draw the plans, often, or at least sometines, things in the plans that are overlooked or just plain not considered.
It has been in these situations where I have found myself experiencing TSMs. Sometimes, no matter how carefully plans are created, issues come up. I have been a foreman for electrical contractors on a number of jobs and while looking over the construction drawings have noticed a variety of issues that have had to be taken to the general contractor (GC) who then has to call the architect and/or engineer who then generally accepts the input provided by me to the GC as to a potential solution to the issues brought up. When this has taken place and my suggestions implemented the issues always work themselves out, if the revised plan is followed.

To me, that is using the ten-second-miracle to integrate known information to reach an acceptable solution for a problem that other’s had not even had the knowledge or experience to see.

I had never referred to that “ability” as a miracle, it just always seemed to be a part of the job. But, I have found, as other other integration writers have indicated in their pieces, that once the “boss” has corrected the issues found by the lower ranking person who found the issue, described it and come up with a workable and appropriate solution to the problem that was outlined, the “boss” likes to get rid of anyone who sees things from a perspective where problems can be seen and rectified with few or no problems.

It is interesting to read that others have given a name to the ability to see problems and put forth best-case scenarios to forestall the issues that might otherwise have come up if the issue had not been brought up at an early time. The TSM is merely, integrated thinking being used by any and all creative types.

Good Job Mark H.