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= '''<span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Where to start? Empathizing, identifying and defining problems</span></span>''' =

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">'''Empathizing, identifying and defining problems'''<br/></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Design thinking is a process that teaches people to have humility and humble themselves, leading to the thinking about others. When people place themselves in the shoes of others, they see the world through a different lens, discovering many problems. This empathizing with others, often leads to a burning desire to help, a passion.</span><br/> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Without empathy and a resulting passion, there is no reason in continuing to talk about the process of design thinking. To get students engaged in design thinking in relation to community problems, they must first empathize and internalize a passion. With this passion, it turns out that most physical and structural barriers fade away. People with passions find a way to solve the problem they seek to solve. T</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">he question to answer really is then “How to get students to empathize and start the first step to a long often arduous, but fulfilling experience of design thinking?” &nbsp;The first thing to realize seems to be that in most people, a desire to solve problems is inherent. From the time we are born throughout lifetime, we constantly face problems, surmount some, and get frustrated by others. The reason we do not continue seems to be that we sometimes, get sucked into our own life, and other times, we give up thinking problems bigger than ourselves cannot be solved.</span><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Getting college students, or even better, college students, into groups where they go around their community and learn about not-for-profit organizations, and other resources available can make the students experience the problems people face around them. Interacting with the people who face the problems, and working with them as “Co-designers” rather than through an organization indirectly makes people empathize better. Once a feel for the problem and the manner in which the problem affects society is understood, a passion begins to evolve and the desire to solve a very specific problem emerges almost automatically. At this point, a problem is found and defined.</span>