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"I do my best thinking in the shower."
Hear! Hear! I totally agree with this. There is something about the white noise of the water, the warmth of the steam, and perhaps the being totally naked, that allows my mind to relax and dream. I have had many aha moments while supposedly focused on washing myself. And in this I am not alone. Many people have told me this same thing happens to them. Yet I watch my daughter, frown on her face, brows scrunched up in concentration, and wonder why this type of thinking looks like such hard work. Which is true? Do we think best when we are relaxed or when we put all our strength behind it? It appears to be a contradiction. Forbes has a great article about what it takes to become a Strategic Leader: How to Develop 5 Critical Thinking Types. In it the author, Holly Green, suggests that to be strategic we must be able to draw from these five types of thinking:
As I look over this list I can only see one that seems too difficult to do in the shower, critical thinking. Aside from ruining my computer, I’m not sure I would want to ruin a perfectly nice shower sorting through data. I guess some types of thinking are more challenging. So I have come up with the perfect answer; begin to take my shower mid-day, after the hard work of researching and analyzing the information is complete and when all my brain needs to do is dream and plan.
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”You’ll never see two owls cuddling.”
We were at the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center learning about birds of prey. A beleaguered mom had been pestered into asking if her daughter could pet the birds, and the kind presenter used this example to explain why they didn’t allow it. Owls might look all cuddly with those beautiful feathers, but it doesn’t mean they like to cuddle. There are five senses, by the way… but the one most associated with love is, of course, tactile. We cuddle, we hold hands, we kiss…um, etc. What about the other 4 senses, though? We always hear about how women like to talk while making love and poetry was created to be read aloud, not to oneself. Certainly food can be quite sensual (though I would argue it is the feel of the foods, not the taste, which is associated with romance) and of course we all know about oysters and chocolate. Though invisible, scent can have a powerful subconscious effect on attraction. Perfumers have preyed on this fact for ages and who can forget the movie, Scent of a Woman? Finally, the last sense, sight can be the most intimate of all. In one Pregnant in Heels episode a counselor made a couple stare into each other’s eyes without touching for a numer of minutes. Difficult to do? Incredibly. The couple laughed a lot at first. But after they had done the exercise they both admitted they felt more connected. Studies show that people have a preference for one sense over another. Some of us are auditory (hearing) while others are visual. So it makes me wonder, what happens when a physical person ends up with a non-physical person? I would guess a lot of confusion… a lot of tension… a lot of conflict. Sounds like the makings of a great story, doesn’t it? |
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