Know How Skills: 61 books

In my others stories on problem solving and how to create innovations I introduced many skills to readers. Here are another set of skills—how to solve external and internal problems. That is: the 1st,  I classify a problem by asking: what type of problem is it? There are 2 types of problems: external...

How to Design Innovations and Solve Business and Personal Problems These are motivational and inspirational nonfiction 20 short stories in the trilogy of Laws of Life from Wisdom and Experience. This book contained a road map to innovation. From author’s examples of her innovations...

There are several example in this story when the author was faced with huge job problems and must find solutions and then solve it—otherwise her career would be over.         One such problem was: how to design 3.5 miles “a spiral” for the Baltimore Subway, in Baltimore, Maryland. ...

The author, in this short story, describes her real life innovation. That is: how she created her greatest innovation – from conception to completion. This innovation sparked entirely new industry. Thousands of new jobs were created and brought billions of dollars in new revenues every year to many...

That was beginning of the 1970s when the author started her engineering career. Surprisingly, she was hired, but she was the 1st woman structural engineer in a company. Men engineers revolted, they thought that now their engineering career is going down—a woman is going to design a bridge.  The...

One Friday was my graduation day, I received my doctoral degree, or PhD. The next day, on Saturday, my then husband, Chrys, a physician, asked me to come to his office and see that is going on there. I was surprise, but went. He confessed that he is running out of business. All his physicians...

One thing in life is constant—stressful events. They ambushed us very often. The same time they occurred on purpose—for us to grow and became much stronger individuals. Such stressful events come down on the author when she went to work (she is a structural engineer) in post colonial Africa...

On Sunday, a country boy, in his earlier 30s, arrived into a new town and started having difficulties to solve his small problems in unfamiliar environment. His difficulties were: he does not have enough information in his brain storage to solve his big and small problem. To solve every problem,...

Life is full of surprises, both big and small unexpected stressful events. They are occurring many times a day and every day. These events challenge people’s knowledge, creativity, and skills and test their endurance, resilience, and ability to survive. Experiencing a problem? Having difficulties?...

A story on how and where a young child, teenager, young adult, or middle age person could and should channel his or her energy to became sophisticated and knowledgeable. These skills and knowledge one need to survive and succeed in this difficult and unstable world. Why children, young adults,...

I undertook a major change in my life—and filed for a divorce. Shortly I was swamped with numerous difficulties and faced many types of people that some I never dealt before. Lawyers, courts, judges, contractors and subcontractors (I start remodeling our 20-years old house to put it for sale), real...

The history is full of examples how some nations became great and contributed to the development of civilization—all because they built national wealth. In the last 20 years no national wealth was built in the USA. Why is the creation of national wealth so important? Some examples. Egyptians: pyramids;...

The greatest event of the 20th century was the Russian revolution of November 6-7, 1917. The architect of the Russian Revolution was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, he changed the world into 2 systems: capitalism and socialism. Lenin’s socialism and the Russian Revolution’s many decrees...

The conversation between an eagle and a snake based on Ancient Greek mythology. When Greeks, to teach people common sense, logic, wisdom, new skills, and creativity have used conversations between Gods, or between animals.