| I know that Albert Einstein was smart. Way smarter than me and probably smarter than you, although I don’t know you that well so I’ll leave some room there for you to be smarter than him. Still, I found this quote of his and stopped in my tracks. Is this how he solved his problems? By changing the level of thinking each time? The truth is, most of us aren’t taught to change our level of thinking when faced with a problem. Our schools don’t teach us this and our parents are so busy making a living and feeding us that sometimes they forget to teach us this. Then we get tossed out into the world and it’s hit or miss whether we learn this from our own experiences or if we wallow our whole lives on the same level we entered it, sometimes never even knowing that all we had to do was change the level. Go up, go to the side, go down, go diagonal. Think of it. He doesn’t even say that you have to go one level higher. I think too often we see life as a ladder and if we aren’t going up one more rung than something is wrong. But sometimes going up one more rung just isn’t in the cards. Either we are too tired or worn down, depressed or don’t even know where our foot is to move it upwards. But what if life had more dimensions than just a flat computer screen with a two dimensional person going up the rungs of a flat ladder? What if changing the level didn’t always mean up, but simply a different level? Why do we think of going under or down as always bad? Or to the left or right? Why is it bad? Who said it was bad? And why did we believe them?I encourage you today to take some time to look at a problem you have from the view of a different level. Change the way you approach it and think about it and see what happens. Because, if the answer isn’t coming on this level, there’s really no harm in trying it Einstein’s way. |
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