Last night I talked with one of my favorite mentors. He taught me something profound. We had been discussing the difficulty of helping people change poor behaviors. He said something like, "maybe we can help people change by changing the angle their head hits the wall."
In other words we often don't change until we see things differently. Break traditions, break-through.
A new favorite book of mine, Smartcuts, explains how thinking laterally (using a new angle) causes massive breakthroughs. Remember warping in Super Mario Brothers? Warping was a new way of looking at accomplishing a traditional task. Lateral thinking often trumps linear thinking.
Next time you feel like you're banging your head wall, try a new angle. Maybe even use your Mario hammer and break-through to a Warp Zone!
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