Yesterday was especially reflective for me … partly because of John 
Updyke’s concern about people drawn to fundamentalism which can lead to terrorism… and partly because Dr. Sam Walton’s story of lived creativity. These two men left me thinking more about reflection’s power to take the “ordinary” … or the “every” out of “day”.…
John Updyke spoke of reflection on NPR … and I was intrigued by his lament about the fact that terrorists are coming far more from the hard sciences and engineering departments… where reflection is sometimes a missed ingredient…. To be fair… I have many good friends in these fields … who teach us all about reflective approaches in their work and personal lives… But Updyke has a point here…. What do you think?
Then we kicked off the Creative Mind Series… and Dr. Sam Walton told me how reflection adds creativity and finds solutions beyond limitations of organizational culture. It also rewires the brain for diversity, and it creates new neuron pathways beyond blame. Reflection allows a person to face the Gorilla Goferya in your day and it makes mistakes into stepping stones of opportunity…. Care to share your reflection with us...?
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