Is the Five Whys a Mindfulness Technique?

MartinEdic
4 min readNov 17, 2020
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Can a business problem-solving hack help you focus?

The Five Whys is a system for getting to the true underlying source of a problem by asking a series of ‘why’ questions. It was developed as a means of increasing efficiency at Toyota manufacturing plants in Japan in the sixties and seventies. It was later incorporated into newer efficiency schema including…

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