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All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten
ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN
(a guide for Global Leadership)
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.
These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.
Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum].
(a guide for Global Leadership)
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.
These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.
Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum].
Problem Solving People:: Severn Cullis-Suzuki
At 12 years old, Severn Cullis-Suzuki stood up and spoke at the United Nations in Rio at their Earth Summit This is leadership in action all at 12 years of age. Very inspiring.
http://www.skyfishproject.org/
you want to solve problems and have a look at some green-tech alternatives?
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Monday, March 2, 2009
Addis Birhan & Intercept Poverty Problem Solve
Addis Birhan Programme, Educates Youth at Risk about HIV/AIDS prevention and gives Life Skills. Intercept Poverty.org partners with Addis Birhan to gain financial support to expand the program.
This program problem solves and intercepts the trajectroy of life and death situations through youth education. It trains local African nationals, to teach others who teach others and so on. www.interceptpoverty.org
We are inspired at this Problem Solving Initiative on the ground in Addis Ababa, the brain child of our parnter, Connie Dandy, an Australian woman whose been living in Addis Ababa for 20 years.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Problem Solving Tips - Article by Tanya Lacy
Problem Solving Article Solutions Thinking Savvy: Ideas + Strategies to produce problem-solving people.
This article is chock full of tips appears in Business Franchise Magazine January/February edition - Business Solutions Section.
Written by Tanya Lacy, Resource Speaker, Founder Intercept.
One of the keys from the article is thinking in the gaps.
Having a look at what's missing and getting there by asking questions untill all roads lead to understanding what's missing. This gives you the clues on how to fill it and what the solutions need to be. Sounds simple, but common sense isn't always common.
This article is chock full of tips appears in Business Franchise Magazine January/February edition - Business Solutions Section.
Written by Tanya Lacy, Resource Speaker, Founder Intercept.
One of the keys from the article is thinking in the gaps.
Having a look at what's missing and getting there by asking questions untill all roads lead to understanding what's missing. This gives you the clues on how to fill it and what the solutions need to be. Sounds simple, but common sense isn't always common.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Problem Solving Quotations
Henry Ford
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
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Theodore Rubin
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
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Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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Billy Graham
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
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Denis Waitley
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
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Unknown Author
Worry is like a rocking chair - it gives you something to do but won't get you anywhere.
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John Dewey
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
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Norman Vincent Peale
How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself - so always think positively.
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Norman Vincent Peale
Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
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Norman Vincent Peale
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
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Theodore Rubin
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
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Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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Billy Graham
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
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Denis Waitley
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
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Unknown Author
Worry is like a rocking chair - it gives you something to do but won't get you anywhere.
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John Dewey
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
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Norman Vincent Peale
How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself - so always think positively.
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Norman Vincent Peale
Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
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Norman Vincent Peale
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the
Bill Gates - "Any tough problem can be solved"...
This is taken from a piece in the Telegraph UK. It is from Bill Gates commenting at a conference for Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference. Also known as TED. At this conference he released a swarm of mosquitoes into the audience.
"Malaria is spread by mosquitoes, "he yelled to the crowd before unleashing the insects, which were not carrying the disease. "I brought some. Here I'll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people shoule be infected."
The organisers of the TED Conference said it was an "amazing moment" and provided the audience with "food for thought".
Gates said that more money was being spent finding a cure for baldness than developing drugs to combat malaria. "Now, baldness is a terrible thinkg and rich men are fflicted,"he joked. "That is why that priority has been set.
"The market does not drive scientists, thinkers, or governments to do the right things. Only by paying attention and making people care can we make as much progress as we need to".
He called for greater distribution of insect nets and other protective gear, as revealed that an anti-maleria vaccine funded by his foundation and currently in development would enter a more advanced testing phase in coming months.
"I am an optimist; I think any tough problem can be solved," he said
"Malaria is spread by mosquitoes, "he yelled to the crowd before unleashing the insects, which were not carrying the disease. "I brought some. Here I'll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people shoule be infected."
The organisers of the TED Conference said it was an "amazing moment" and provided the audience with "food for thought".
Gates said that more money was being spent finding a cure for baldness than developing drugs to combat malaria. "Now, baldness is a terrible thinkg and rich men are fflicted,"he joked. "That is why that priority has been set.
"The market does not drive scientists, thinkers, or governments to do the right things. Only by paying attention and making people care can we make as much progress as we need to".
He called for greater distribution of insect nets and other protective gear, as revealed that an anti-maleria vaccine funded by his foundation and currently in development would enter a more advanced testing phase in coming months.
"I am an optimist; I think any tough problem can be solved," he said
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