1664This lovely lady is often sent cartoons by a friend, and one particular one contained these word as its message. “We both liked it because, on the face of it, it sounded like a really obvious and somehow humorous observation,” she says in her audio clip.

Some weeks later, our subject was talking to the same friend (a cartoonist herself) about a problem she was having, prompting the friend to quote that same cartoon.

“It was also a way of telling me that if you can’t find a solution to a problem the way you thought you were going to, then maybe what you need is a different way to find a solution.” Taken on Westminster Bridge, London, UK.