Higher Level

Einstein once allegedly said ‘We can’t solve our problems with the same level of thinking that we were at when we created them’. A pretty astute observation I would suggest.

So if we want our life to get better, to find more solutions than problems we need to constantly elevate our thinking. What is your strategy to do that? It won’t happen without a deliberate and focussed effort.

Of course, we all pick up some wisdom and experience as we go through life but it is by no means certain and probably not fast enough a process to be useful to anyone with ambition.

Education might teach us some stuff, certainly, and that might help, but formal education rarely teaches us how to think, how to reason and how to solve problems. These days education is more often about a transfer of knowledge.

Reading will help undoubtedly although reading is a solitary act and therefore devoid of the to and fro of debate. So, it can be frustratingly one sided.

The beauty of coaching is that coaching isn’t about giving people the answer but about enabling them to find their own answer that works best for them. When done well it encourages a curiosity which enables someone to think around a subject coming at it from different viewpoints. It encourages them to easily and effortlessly elevate their own thinking.

So the questions for today are:

• What is your strategy for elevating your own thinking?
• Who is your thinking partner who will challenge and question your current thinking?
• Is this a formal, explicit and regular exercise for you?
• Why not?

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