I love solving Sudoku puzzles. I always write on them in pen. One might think that I solve Sudoku puzzles in pen so that I can show how confident I am in each step I take to solve the puzzle. One might also think I do it to ensure that I think each move through since it is often difficult to trace back where the mistake was made and just erase those steps. One would be right.
There is one more reason I work on Sudoku puzzles in pen though. When I do make a mistake that I can't recover from, I can just crumple up the puzzle and throw it away. I am reminded that sometimes I fail, but like with most of what we do in life that failure is inconsequential in the overall scheme of things. There are billions more puzzles to solve, and the failure to solve one correctly neither diminishes my desire nor my ability to solve others; I simply did not solve that particular one. It helps me keep the failures along my journey in perspective.
06 March, 2010 | mtomsho | Leave comment - 0
