Popular thinking is the easy way
out in most situations. It can be like
living from one cliché to another which is so ordinary. Popular thinking is generally not even true
thinking because it is simply repeating what has been said or done before. To grow in one’s career, life, personality or
achievements looking beyond the popular, questioning “knowns” is
stimulating. John Maxwell equates it
this way:
Popular = Normal =
Average
Who wants to be average or
achieve average if there is a possibility to do better? Uncommon thinking can and will be
misunderstood, unappreciated and even unrecognized. Curiously (or not) when a woman thinks
outside the box they are much more likely to be ignored than men. Why is that?
Here are some common household
problems that have never been properly resolved. Where in the house is there a proper closet
for the vacuum? Why is the linen closet
a narrow little unit with 4 shelves when there is a family of 4? Why isn’t there enough storage for the
washroom supplies? Why isn’t there a proper
cooling place on the counter for the butter to stay fresh? Why are the top shelves 10 feet high when
women are only 5 1/2 feet tall (at most)?
We aren’t talking rocket science here, we just would like our everyday
tools to be handled like the monster garage where tools are stored that the man
never uses. Ruum ruum.
I could talk about political,
spiritual or philosophical thinking but just common everyday dilemmas don’t
seem to get resolved because the builders just do the same old thing.
“All too often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of
what is rather than shapers of what might be.”
John Gardner
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