Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Popular v. Uncommon Thinking


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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