“Current problems cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that created them.” Albert Einstein
It’s been estimated that 2 trillion pieces of critical information are created each year - everything from photographs to songs, formal documents to email. It’s also estimated that in the US, knowledge workers spend 30% of their time looking for this important information.
Where does time go when we lose track of it? You know, when we sit down “for a couple of minutes” and get so absorbed that when we glance up, an hour - or more - has passed without our noticing? And who puts on the brakes when time drags in the face of a mountain of postponed paperwork? The minutes don’t speed up or slow down, but we get the feeling they do.
This verbal framework lets you put your thoughts into a context at the beginning of a conversation so the listener knows the focus of the discussion. Remember, not everyone can read your mind.
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Award winning furniture designer Robert van Embricqs is curious about plants, bone structure and movement which inspire creations that mimic nature. His furniture is designed from a single piece of bamboo and rises to a piece that combines functionality and aesthetics. His “rising chair” resembles an unfolding blossom.
Rube Goldberg was a true NL - engineer, sculptor, inventor, author and cartoonist. In his cartoons, he used gadgets to accomplish basic tasks in convoluted chain-reaction ways. Kinetic artist Joseph Herscher leverages his own nonlinear thinking to design a creative chain-reaction process to carry out a fairly linear way to “Pass the Salt”.
