The problem with my brain is that it is always racing ahead at a hundred miles an hour, now how on earth am I supposed to have time to process any thoughts when I am so short of thinking time?
Just when I think I am beginning to get a glimpse of some form of simplistic chaos another idea comes along to challenge my conceptions and I am off again.
It's not like I can even blame outside influences as the worst offender is myself.
Do I want to change? Of course not.
Is the best challenge that which comes from within? Is this what drives us more than anything? If so should we aim to control or should we embrace our idiosyncrasies and desire more?
Linking to David Perkins and positive mindsets, how can we help to develop an open mindset with learning power minds Guy Claxton describes, if we, ourselves, have closed mindsets? We want to teach skills that will allow problems to be attacked, deliberated, explored not shied away from. Before we can do this we need to explore our own resources when it comes to facing something new. Do we ignore it? Do we twist the issue and relate it to a previous problem? Do we devise a new solution for dealing with a new problem? or do we use a range of strategies to help us?
The immediate answer may be apparent, but, ask yourself how often do we really do this?
