Close your eyes for a moment - imagine you are binding your shoe laces. (If you do not bind/unbind, then imagine with which foot you go into your shoes/sandals.)
Question 1: With which shoe lace do you begin? Question 2: Do you always start with the right or the left one? Question 3: Did you ever think of starting with the other shoe lace? Question 4: If not, why?
Question 3 I had, when binding my shoe laces. So, I select always another shoe lace than the day before. I think when you start with small things like this, this can help to not take the usual paths and also take other ones, which you do not take anymore.
Imagine since how long you always have this habbit with the shoe laces. What would be different when starting with the other one first? Would this cost a little more time? Could your brain get activated a little more? What do you think? (If you believe that your shoe lace has a soul, don't you think you should both treat equally? )
How about, if you extend this to other things like: writing with the other hand - well, ok, this would be hard at beginning - but don't you think this will give you more freedom/power? Imagine when you have an accident and can not use the hand which you use for writing. Or perhaps one day you could write in parallel. Or it will let you think of situations which you normally not think of: e.g. people who are disabled. Wouldn't this change perspective for you? When was the last time you thought of disabled people?
How about entering the car from the co-driver side? This takes probably more time. Probably others could think: "This (wo)man is crazy." or "When does (s)he repair the other door?" But don't you think you would see your car from another perspective? When did you sit the last time on the co-driver side?
I guess you get the idea... You always have the choice which way to take - would it be that bad to take also other ways?
Post edited by: erkan, at: 2007/03/04 13:20
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