Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

I like to hang with people who think differently. It is very revealing and I'm afraid that as I get older I have more trouble getting outside the box. The lack of elasticity in my brain these days screams out for creative thinking. I fear I've become too linear sometimes.

I think we are all creatures of habit, Bob ~ it's just which habits. I, for example, rarely read a book from the beginning to the end [a habit that began in childhood & sends my B&W linear thinker into meltdown ]. I begin wherever I find something interesting & then read towards either end fairly randomly. I've done this all my life because for me a book is just like a jigsaw. It doesn't matter what order I acquire the pieces, it will all fit together to create the big picture. History works the same way but I think it is why I have always had so much trouble with math & some science. They are very much linear disciplines: line on line, precept on precept. That gets old very quickly for someone like me. The joke in our house was we had 5 kids because 5 is the only times tables I knew.I'm just glad there are linear thinkers around who invented things like calculators to make a linear world easier to cope with.

 

[Ribh]

Good evening folks

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[Ribh]

Good evening everyone

Hi Sue. Hope you are holding up well.

 

[Ribh]

I look forward to being smart again...until I'm accused of dementia (sigh)

I'm banking on my kids not being able to tell the difference.

 

[Ribh]

I just got an email from mine regarding their being open and what they are doing to help with distancing, transmission of Covid to pets, and the importance of not skipping some routine procedures like worming, medications, and testing. That skipping preventative pet health care can make things far worse in the long run, and encouraging people to maintain their apprehend possible.

Yes, I think they are essential & should be open but there are a lot of people running scared. Although our restrictions are starting to ease not many people were out & about yesterday when we went to the mainland.

 

[Grammy60]

Hi Sue. Hope you are holding up well.

Doing pretty good, but being home this much is driving me crazier than I already am I'm trying to stay busy as much as I can. I just have to make it until my call back date in July. The 12th we close down the center so that will be a full day at least.

 

[Ribh]

Doing pretty good, but being home this much is driving me crazier than I already am I'm trying to stay busy as much as I can. I just have to make it until my call back date in July. The 12th we close down the center so that will be a full day at least.

I'm sorry you are finding it hard. Today, if the rain will stop, I am painting a bee hive & the man has a live hive arriving as well. Our postie hates us!

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning Jeannie, I too am not a linear thinker. I fail most standardized tests, yet I graduated with a 4.0 GPA from one of the best aeronautical institutions on the planet (my SAT and LSAT scores were in the subterranean range). Based upon my SAT scores I could never successfully complete college. Most of my success in the business world has been finding unique (off the wall) solutions to major challenges. I am good with math and do a lot of programming, but I fit the solution to the problem in non-traditional ways.

My greatest strength throughout my professional and military career has been to surround myself with people way smarter than me and leverage their talents. I'm also very good at finding other non-linear thinkers who have potential (if developed) and helping them develop that potential. I've often heard the boss tell me that this is a square peg in a round hole and later be amazed at how well that individual is doing. People just need the opportunity to express themselves and feel valued.

My last boss (total linear thinker) argued that every new venture I pursued would fail and to his amazement they excelled. The customer was thrilled and wanted to throw more money at me to solve more of their problems. Often times problems he'd declared unsolvable.

 

[Ribh]

Good morning Jeannie, I too am not a linear thinker. I fail most standardized tests, yet I graduated with a 4.0 GPA from one of the best aeronautical institutions on the planet (my SAT and LSAT scores were in the subterranean range). Based upon my SAT scores I could never successfully complete college. Most of my success in the business world has been finding unique (off the wall) solutions to major challenges. I am good with math and do a lot of programming, but I fit the solution to the problem in non-traditional ways.

My greatest strength throughout my professional and military career has been to surround myself with people way smarter than me and leverage their talents. I'm also very good at finding other non-linear thinkers who have potential (if developed) and helping them develop that potential. I've often heard the boss tell me that this is a square peg in a round hole and later be amazed at how well that individual is doing. People just need the opportunity to express themselves and feel valued.

My last boss (total linear thinker) argued that every new venture I pursued would fail and to his amazement they excelled. The customer was thrilled and wanted to throw more money at me to solve more of their problems. Often times problems he'd declared unsolvable.

I love this, Bob!!!! I know a number of homeschoolers who's children think differently & were doing poorly in school [partly why they got pulled. ] Most are super bright & school drives them crazy. My kinesthetic daughter drove me crazy. She left her schoolwork all round the house.

When I was doing remedial work I got one really, really bright but super difficult young man [eventually got himself expelled, no mean feat in today's educational system] who still couldn't read in grade 6. He had no interest whatsoever. What he was interested in was fast cars, fast bikes, fast boats & monster trucks. I told him he could bring his dad's bike manual in & then found every book I could on cars, bikes, boats, trucks. Eventually we moved on to sharks & fishing. Yes, it was one on one teaching & he was so difficult I was given a lot of leeway to teach however I saw fit [his teacher was just relieved to get him out of her classroom! ] but finding a key to spark his motivation to learn is what made the difference. I had him nearly up to grade level by the end of the year & I only got him for 20 minutes 3 times a week for 6 weeks a term ~ that's all our funding would run too.

Here was a kid who could take apart a non~working motor & put it back in working order yet was expected to sit still all day & do things that had no relevance to life as he knew it. We should be doing better. We have the information.

 

[Grammy60]

I'm sorry you are finding it hard. Today, if the rain will stop, I am painting a bee hive & the man has a live hive arriving as well. Our postie hates us!

It will be fine, just need to get moving on it all. Bees when we got life-threatening Bob's truck was in the shop and we had to use my jeep to bring them home some got loose inside and I just kept praying I wouldn't get stung.