The Dov Baron Show Part 1
Part 1: 🎙 The Lie That Stops Smart Leaders from Solving Problems: Reclaiming Your Solution Mindset | Nir Bashan.
What if the story that the world is broken is the most dangerous lie leaders keep telling themselves?
Description
We're told every day that the world is failing, overwhelmed, under-resourced, and spiraling toward collapse. But what if that story isn't reality, it's a filter?
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In Part 1 of this deeply challenging conversation, Dov Baron sits down with Nir Bashan, author of The Solution Mindset, to confront a belief most leaders never question: that complexity is inevitable, and despair is realistic. Together, they unravel the lies and offer a path forward for the most complex to the most personal dilemmas.
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Nir makes an intellectually uncomfortable claim, not motivational, not inspirational, but confrontational. Nearly every problem we face, personal, organizational, or even global, is solvable. Not through slogans. Not through positive thinking. But through disciplined creativity fused with innovation.
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Together, Dov and Nir explore why leaders lose their problem-solving edge, how fear disguises itself as realism, and why an over-reliance on analytics without wisdom quietly erodes our capacity to lead.
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This episode challenges the modern addiction to comparison, performance optics, and spreadsheet certainty, and exposes what happens when leaders trade curiosity for comfort.
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If you've ever felt like your creativity went missing somewhere between responsibility and results, this conversation will unsettle you in precisely the right way.
🔍 In This Episode
Why the "broken world" narrative shrinks courage and kills initiative
How fear masquerades as realism in leadership decision-making
Why creativity is a discipline, not a personality trait
The hidden danger of analytics without wisdom
How comparison is the fastest way to suffocate creative intelligence
Why leaders stop making mistakes, and why that's fatal to innovation
The power of "silly idea meetings" and structured permission to think differently
How embarrassment, iteration, and courage unlock real solutions
👤 About Nir Bashan
Nir Bashan is a creativity and innovation expert, a former advertising executive, and the author of The Solution Mindset. His work focuses on reclaiming creativity as a practical leadership skill for solving real-world problems, from hiring systems to environmental collapse. Nir challenges leaders to stop outsourcing thinking to data alone and rebuild their capacity for human problem-solving.
🔗 Resources & Links
Nir Bashan: https://nirbashan.com
The Solution Mindset is available wherever books are sold (All links and resources are included in the show notes)
Websites: www.nirbashan.com
www.thecreatormindset.com
Social Media https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirbashan/ https://x.com/Nir_Bashan https://www.instagram.com/nirbashan/
🎧 Listen If You've Ever
Felt overwhelmed by complexity and quietly resigned to it
Relied on data but sensed something critical was missing
Avoided taking risks because failure feels too public now
Confused realism with resignation
Wondered where your creative courage went
💭 Reflection Before Part 2
Where have you mistaken comfort for realism, and what problem are you avoiding because you're afraid of looking foolish trying to solve it?
