Posts Tagged ‘challenge’

What’s Your Territory?

I'm pretty shy. You wouldn't know it to watch me – I’ve learned how to handle most of the superficial stuff that makes up day-to-day interactions -- but deep inside I'm pretty scared of talking to strangers or making a spectacle of myself.

But when I walk into my classroom, I'm completely at ease. I've never experienced more than a second’s hesitation in front of… Continue reading

August 11 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: career, challenge, confidence, self-improvement, territory | 11 comments»

Limits and Creativity

I want to tell you a story about two photographers. For a while now, I've been wanting to get more into photography, hoping eventually to buy a nice digital SLR camera. So I was quite thrilled when a photojournalist friend offered to give me some of her old film equipment to learn on. The camera, a Nikon FM2, is a fully manual model first introduced almost 30 years ago. It only… Continue reading

March 25 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: challenge, creative, creativity, limit | 26 comments»

We Need to Challenge our Children

A Personal Story I went to a Catholic boys school in Blackpool in the North of England. In my first year in the senior school I was a nerdy kid, with spectacles and short trousers. For one hour a week the class had elocution lessons from an old, portly teacher called Mr Priestley. He had a hard task wrestling with our flat northern vowels and trying to get us… Continue reading

December 11 2008 | By Paul | Tagged: achievement, challenge, children, education, gratitude, learn, lesson | 4 comments»

Confront Assumptions

Every time that we approach a problem, in any walk of life, we bring to bear assumptions that limit our ability to conceive fresh solutions. Innovators are always aware of assumptions and are always happy to confront them. There is a story told about a northern pike, a large carnivorous freshwater fish. A pike was put into an aquarium, which had a glass partition dividing it. In the other half from… Continue reading

July 9 2008 | By Paul | Tagged: assumption, business, challenge, creativity, innovation, innovator, lateral, leader, thinking | 7 comments»