We Each Discover or Create Differently

“Chapter K - Only Wrapped Pieces of Wax

You and Your Personal Creativity 

Are all people alike? The same?

Of course not. But still many managers, supervisors, parents, teachers, etc. treat us as if we were. We are different in hundreds of ways—physical, mental, emotional, social. They include: age, gender, background, interests, hobbies, experiences, opinions, beliefs, religions, strengths, sizes, weights, attitudes, values, skills, abilities, desires, drives, etc., etc., etc.

During the past few years the topic of diversity has become very significant in the United States. When I first heard a presentation done on it I had an Aha which I turned into a speech and a workshop:”

My basic premise and understanding about differences and diversities is that if we focus on how we are different we build walls, barriers, blockades. If we focus on our diversities or how we are diverse we can build bridges, buildings and great structures or cities.

So let’s look at one primary source of our diversity that makes us each more than wrapped pieces of wax: our thinking, learning, problem solving and communicating styles.

Enclosed in the back of the book is a copy of the M.I.N.D. Design? questionnaire and an interpretation pamphlet. Take out the questionnaire now and complete it following the instructions. Once you have completed it then read the gray pamphlet. Then return to reading this chapter. Your score(s) on it will effect how what you read means to you.

Now you may a have a sense of the type of crayon you might be and how different you are from other people you know.”

Excerpt From: Robert Alan Black, Ph.D.,CSP. “Broken Crayons: Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines.” iBooks. 

Alan

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