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Victoria's avatar

I love the main article today. I am going to explore information related to narrative thinking. If you know of other sources, please put them in a future link. Thank you so much for today’s idea!

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Peter's avatar

Interesting read; very thought provoking. BTW, who did the photo? Caption under photo says "Photo by Kristin Brown on Unsplash", but tagline below article says "Photo by Sam Balye on Unsplash"???

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Bill Murphy Jr.'s avatar

Kristin Brown, my mistake!

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Jerry Myers's avatar

This sounds like “indoctrination thinking”, not narrative thinking.

Think about it, how many times do you hear the word narrative from politicians, media and “culture” of all types?

They constantly talk about what’s the narrative and controlling the narrative and changing the narrative and so on.

This article seems like a thinly veiled attempt by the writer to tell the reader HOW to think, by attempting to control the readers “narrative” through questionable rhetoric 🤮

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Bill Murphy Jr.'s avatar

Fascinating response!

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Rick Dowling's avatar

That’s putting it mildly

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Jerry Myers's avatar

Truth hurts big guy

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Rick Dowling's avatar

Wow. Yet another fascinating response

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Jerry Myers's avatar

And the point makes itself 😂Spoken like a true “narrative” monkey.

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Rick Dowling's avatar

Must be an interesting little troll world you live in Jerry.

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dj l's avatar

enjoyed the article - I've dabbled in art pretty much my whole life. Raised my sons in creative ways. For several years, I had neighborhood kids come to the house & I did art/crafts. Once a wk, in the mornings, preschoolers w/ an accompanying adult, in the afternoon over age 5 w/ or w/out an adult. Had sooooooooooooo much fun!!! Did so many varieties of activities. One thing ya don't do when you look at a kid's project is say "oh, that's a great picture of a horse (ie)" because it very well might not be a horse, of course. Instead, ask questions, tell me about..., how'd you select that/those colors, etc., etc... or if you're working w/ the kid, let them lead the way... saying all this to say it's creating thinking, not putting blinders on... not telling a kid to paint a tree brown... coloring books - yikes!! unless you cut those simple pics up then mix 'em up to make monsters :-) Stay in the lines - yikes!

then 7 other things/below the fold, the last one just goes to show ya, what can happen when someone has some creative juices flowing...

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dj l's avatar
4dEdited

will tell a quick story about one son... my kids went to a 3-day-a-week preschool program, for 3 yrs. The last yr, near the end of the yr, they did evaluations to see if they were ready for kindergarten. When the teacher talked to me about my son's results, she said she had never experienced anything quite like it... went something like this... was told to pick up the glass from the table in front of him & put it on the table over by the window. So he picks up the glass, holds it while he scoots backwards under his chair, turns around a few times in circles, then skips around the room a few times until he ends up at the table by the window where he places the glass, turns around & smiles

eta: actually, I think there were more steps involved - perhaps taking the empty glass somewhere to a pitcher of water, putting water in the glass, returning it to the table in front of the chair, then sitting down again??? Which he did everything he was supposed to do, in the correct order, just added a "few" things along the way... :-)

and this son went on to earn his Eagle Scout

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Darrell's avatar

Great newsletter today. Creativity is a fascinating topic. Some people are inherently concrete, linear thinkers while others are curious thinkers, kind of like left brain/right brain. Since so much is hard wired it will be interesting to see how much creativity can be effectively taught.

Re 7 other things, what the hell is going on with all the spurious pardons? Is it now pay to play?

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Rick Dowling's avatar

Yep. Transactional president = $ buys a pardon.

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Scott Piefer's avatar

I found the article interesting. The final idea of hiring a diverse team should include creativity. It seems disingenuous to believe you can completely teach narrative thinking and not use creativity as a hiring factor if that is truly important for the position.

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Darrell's avatar

I believe you hire for the natural talents appropriate for the role and help the employee envelop those talents. That’s what Gallup StrengthsFinders is all about.

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MJ Colorado's avatar

I love this article. I’m now retired from government IT and this wholly resonates with me. Busyness often keeps us in our own crayon box.

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Melissa's avatar

I am a runner. It’s not so much the number of cups at water stations that bother me, it’s more the fact people an be bothered to take that extra second to throw the cup into the garbage bins provided. I get the first few runners who are trying to win, but the rest of us need to get over ourselves and do the right thing. It’s really not that hard and won’t affect your finish time that much.

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Rick Dowling's avatar

Well said. Thank you!

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Bill Cunningham's avatar

One of my favorite experiences in teaching Creativity and Innovation at XU was on the first day of class when I asked students to raise their hands if they could sing. Some hands went up. I then asked, "How many of you can dance?" Fewer hands were raised this time. Finally, I inquired, "How many of you can draw well?" A few hands were raised again. Then I asked, "How many of you would have answered 'Yes' to that question when you were five years old?" All their hands went up! I often wish I could keep that five-year-old mindset alive in my brain all the time.

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