The PROBLEM SPACE/STEP TWO: THINK SCALE BEFORE DRAFTING A PROBLEM STATEMENT STEP TWO: THINK SCALE BEFORE DRAFTING A PROBLEM STATEMENT When working towards a problem statement, it is important to first think of scale. Don't worry about the solutions for now, just think of the general community issues your team is most interested in and what your team believes to be some of the causes of that problem. Then talk about the variety of scales at which the problem manifests. Often it is difficult to think this way because some of the biggest problems we face are mind-boggling. Perhaps, it will be helpful to warm up the mind to think a bit more in terms of scale. Please explore the following resource, noticing how a variety of material scales are presented, from a basketball all the way down to a Planck Length at the sub-atomic scale and all the way up to the size of the observable universe. It's still a problem to have a basketball that has deflated, but talking about the problem you could talk about the breakdown of the basketball's atomic structure or the existential meaninglessness of playing basketball in such a vast cosmos