The Art of Possibility
While reading Roz Zander’s lead in story which lead to the catch phrase “toes to nose” I was thinking about teaching something routine with my fourth graders like multiplication facts. There is research out there somewhere that states someone needs to hear something at least 100 times before it becomes memorized to where the answer comes out as impulsive, not having to think but just react. Of course in Roz’s story the instructor knew there would not be time to think about what to do as a matter of survival.
Even though the instructor seemed to be annoying by repeating the phrase the outcome was highly accepted in the end.
Chapter 1 "It’s All Invented"
Assumptions are the things that seem to put people in the most challenging situations. When I was younger my mother used to share a saying her mother shared with her, “When you assume you make an (a _ s) out of (u) you and (me).” Trying to have an open mind is something I continue to work on daily. It’s all invented reminded me of a similar saying I have heard and used before when trying to figure out or explain the why factor. “It’s all relative” and “It’s all invented” both seem to mean you need to step back and think about or find out how this action is affecting you and make the most of the situation.
White Water Rafting photo by Bartlec Retrieved on June 22, 2009 at http://search.creativecommons.org/#
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