Looking beyond the symptoms of a problem is like the game "whack a mole" — where a mole pops its head up and you whack it with a hammer.

If you don't stop the mole (the root cause problem), then all that happens is the mole pops its head up somewhere else. Go ahead, whack that problem-give it a good try. "Percussive maintainance" also increases testosterone and relieves stress' Don't tap it,whack it - what's the risk? It is even a strategy in the high tech field.

On the NASA space walk to fix the Hubble, the NASA astronauts had a set of precision, million-dollar NASA instruments to remove one bolt and over 100 customized precision tools to fix the Hubble. They also had a soft blow space hammer. When they had a problem reomoving one part, the orders from below were "to whack the bejeebers out of it with the space hammer". Luckily it didn't get that far, and elbow grease and force eventually worked. But, the astronauts ended up kicking the Hubble's antenna, breaking it in half, and sending it into outer space! It's the golden rule of repair: When you fix something, break something else.


""Before we got technology, my Mom would spit on the stove to get the temperature right, she could tell how hot it was by the noise and speed the spit bounced off"" Another quote from the worldly Anon