06/11/2023
So, yesterday my daughter said, in a nutshell, “Dad, you think differently.”
It was such a compliment - and fortunately she meant it that way. We were just having our typical random convo bouncing from idea to thought to something we find amusing (such as last mile distribution with VEHO). But it also turned into a conversation about the importance of “no box” or bare minimum, out of the box thinking (a concept I don’t really like). How do we get more young folks to think differently? How do we infuse critical thinking skills?
It’s one of the reasons I’m passionate about the “Impactful Sandbox” program between the The Jacobs Institute for Innovation in Education and Cloudcast / Iloveschoolcast.
WE just HAVE to infuse the ability to think differently into as many young people as possible. The world has many challenges, none of which will be solved with thought stasis.
On this Monday, I’m encouraging everyone to think differently about some challenge, some issue, some matter. Try and see it entirely differently and the answer might always have been there. It’s hard to be a subjective participant and an objective observer, but give it a try.
Let’s make this the beginning of the National Think Differently Day.