Dialogue
I recently took an online class called “Innovative Thinking.” One lesson in the class examined what it means to be innovative in ones thinking, and how to think innovatively. The class listed several techniques to bring about innovative thinking: Dance as if no one was watching. Play like a child. Experiment. Challenge. Do. Learn. Study. Create. Accept failure. Try new things. Take a different route home from school or work. Go see a movie that you would not normally see. Listen to music that you would not normally listen to. Try to see things from another person’s perspective. Start a dialogue with someone different than yourself. In your dialogue, talk about uncomfortable things. Learn to be comfortable being uncomfortable. Dialogue is something I had not thought of as being a tool to thinking innovatively. However, in the current state of things, the onslaught of “fake news” into social media and news outlets, dialogue is just what the world