You’ll enjoy this inspirational 6 minute video from a father who almost died. Today's fuel for your innovative brain is a short video posted on TED called “Lessons From a Plane Crash."
It's delivered by the man who was sitting in seat 1D on flight 1549. The plane that crashed in the Hudson River. It is a great, inspiring video for fathers, mothers and those aspiring to a life of creative connection. Enjoy it.
Frequently as an artifact of our Creative Problem Solving and Innovation for Results training programs we will receive e-mails from participants appreciatively sharing how they use what they've learned to strengthen their organization. Not uncommonly , we also receive e-mails telling us that those same skills development trainings are being used to strengthen parenting and primary relationships. This is, of course, extremely gratifying to us.
Core creative thinking skills dad skills:
- Managing the gator brain
- Deferring judgment
- Looking for the value in all new ideas
- Praising an idea before looking for its weaknesses
- Being humble and curious
These core creative thinking skills can make a significant positive difference in the impact that a dad (or mom) has on the quality of life for their children.
So this weekend we celebrate Father's Day, a day that this writer (a dad) has not been home for in the last 22 years. I've always been at the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) but fortunately my wife and children have often been there with me.
As I think about our work to fostering the growth of innovative organizations and the requisite improvement in individual creative thinking and creative problem solving skills, it is very easy for me to translate that same work to advanced parenting
training.
In fact, even though I have had extensive training as a counselor and marriage and family therapist, I would have to say that the practice of living ever-improving creative thinking and creative problem solving skills has been a powerful – perhaps the most powerful – contributor to what appears to be successful parenting as a father.
My youngest child left home yesterday to be a counselor at a Boy Scout High Adventure camp here in the Adirondacks. My oldest is doing the same at a YMCA camp in Colorado. Even so, I know that my wife and I will continue to work to develop ourselves as creative people and good thinkers. It is useful everywhere in our lives.
This video reminds us of why we need to do that. I thank my mom and dad, both deceased now, for setting me on the path that made me curious about developing myself in this regard. It has been a tremendous gift, which I will continue to pass on. We invite everyone following the InnovativeBrain to do the same.
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