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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...
Creative Culture, Inclusion July 21, 2022

The Comfortable, The Uncomfortable, and A Couple of Perspectives

Ah, the joys of comfort: a comfortable bed, couch, work schedule, hobbies, life, and on and on the list goes. Is it possible to ever have too much comfort? If things remain in a constant state of comfort, could that potentially be preventing areas of growth? Perhaps. That’s why it...

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...