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Authentic Adaptability

Adapting. Adaptation. Adaptability. All are adaptations—pun intended—of the word adapt, which is basically defined as the act of acclimatizing and accommodating. How are we doing with acclimatizing? Do we adapt easily, or do we refuse to bend only to find ourselves being tossed and broken under the pressure of circumstances?...

Cultural Curiosity

Curiosity. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, curiosity is the desire to know…interest leading to inquiry… Did it really kill the cat? Well, we know curiosity didn’t kill the monkey—Curious George. He’s so adventurous that he has books, movies, and television series dedicated to his inquisitiveness. What a curious little...

BUILDING BEYOND BOUNDARIES

Have you ever heard of the term boundary rider? What exactly is a boundary rider? Boundary riders are people who are bridges—bridging people, ideas, concepts, etc.  together—and they tend to ride the boundaries of things due to their abilities to see things in a creative way. They actually echo the...

AN INTEGRATED BRAIN IS AN INTEGRATED LIFE

When thinking of the word integration, what generally comes to mind? Do we even correlate integration with the mind? Oftentimes, we don’t. Integration doesn’t just happen within the classroom; it also happens within your brain. Dr. Daniel Siegal, a neuropsychiatrist and the Mindsight educator out of UCLA, is a thought...

A SYMPHONY OF THE SENSES

Can you recall a joyful moment? Go ahead. Pick any joyful moment in the past. Within your imagination—your mind’s eye—look around and see where you are. Take in a deep breath and smell where you are. What does it smell like? What do you hear? What is next to you?...

LET’S MACGYVER IT! CREATIVE PERSPECTIVE-SHIFTING

Do you remember the 1980’s show MacGyver? This crime fighter could look at any random object and build whatever he needed to solve the case. If he only had a bubble gum wrapper, a paper clip, and a used piece of painter’s tape, he could build a bomb to blow...

JOURNEY OF A SNOWFLAKE

Snowflakes. Many things come to mind when thinking about snowflakes. We think of cold weather, the winter season, snow. Sometimes we even associate it with those cute elementary school projects where snowflakes were made out of construction paper, but have you ever thought about snowflakes from the perspective of a...

Observing The Unnoticed

When my husband and I moved into a condo in 2011, we loved the property grounds, which stood near the edge of a mountain. Though we took a few strolls here and there, we never really observed the area in which we lived. It wasn’t until my son was walking—and...

Adapting, Creativity, and the Future of Work

The world is ever changing. We have gone from mobile phones having only 1740kb of memory to smartphones being able to do everything except bake a roast. There was a time when store catalogs would arrive in our physical mailboxes. Now catalogs, magazines, periodicals, and more are mostly digital. You...

Cognitive Diversity and Shifting Perspectives

When we hear the word diversity, we often think of demographic diversity. The top-four common associations with diversity are generally race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. However, cognitive diversity is just as important as demographic diversity. Cognitive diversity simply refers to how someone thinks: opinions, world views, beliefs, and styles...