Welcome to the world of warp speed, The Star Wars fantasies of
our childhood are the work realities of our adulthood. Truth be told I am
envious of my sons generation. Their ability to adapt and change is remarkable
and as adults, educators and employers we look to them with pity and
consternation. I don’t understand WHY?
They are in fact inheriting a fast paced
and even faster evolving landscape and it’s a good thing that what we
incorrectly label as ADD is in fact a necessary skill in the 21st
century and their generation has it in abundance albeit we have so tirelessly
attempted to quell it with drugs but I’ll leave that rant for a future post.
What adults, educators and employers need to do is to find a way to tap into
those skills and evolve with the inevitable instead of digging in there heals
and singing the same sad mantras of the past. If the last four years have
proved anything it is this, “Time stops for No One”.
As we sit on the edge of our seats waiting
for the next financial shoe to drop or the next fiscal cliff to unfold life and
time presses forward and not at a rate slowed down by the financial mess we are
in today. It may have in the past but not today. It presses fast forward at
warp speed and thank goodness my sons generation keeps on moving forward with
it. Demanding better, faster, and fancier innovations. If it were up to me I
would declare an international just think like a kid Week! That’s right a whole
week to think like kids think.
To “think different”! It was Einstein that said "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of
thinking we used when we created them" so a change
in thinking MUST COME FIRST! I’m glad my sons generation doesn’t think like
mine and I’m certainly happy his generation doesn’t think like my parents
generation because if there is one thing that I know for sure it is that his
generation is going to have to come up with the solutions needed to fix
the things all the previous generations have screwed up and since his
generation is also the consumers of the future I’m putting my bets on thinking
more like he does than attempting to convince him to think like I did!
