Mindful Monday - Perspective

About This Talk

Chris builds this talk around one of his favorite quotes, which he credits to Albert Einstein: we can’t use the same thinking to solve a problem that we used when we created it. When something isn’t working, he says, we tend to do more of it and push harder. He asks listeners to step back instead and look for new thinking that leads to a different outcome.

Key Ideas

• As circumstances change, we find ourselves in a new place that calls for new solutions.
• When something isn’t working, we often do more of it and work harder instead of stepping back.
• Look at the circumstances behind the original decisions, then ask what new thinking could bring a different outcome.

“Wherever we are today, it was based on a set of decisions based on a set of information that we had at the time.”