Hindsight

The person with good hindsight must have mastered being a keen observer and the other attention skills discussed in the blog. Unfortunately just a  few of which has entered my limited attention at the moment. The person must learn how to use or apply presently existing resources and/or past experiences to improve methods and other systems to work around similar or new problems.

Infants and young children must learn many other alternative uses of everyday things. Play games with your child to illustrate this. With a simple stick for example, show her its many possible uses. Show her different but similar-appearing objects that may be used in the same way.

Adolescents must become interested in findings more efficient ways of solving problems or of implementing projects. He must dig deep into his past experiences or the experiences of others and use what works. Rise above the fear of discussing your failures, discuss and try to understand the reasons or causes of failure and how to avoid them. Maybe put this into a game where different teams will try to solve a similar problem as different groups who will race to brainstorm and take advantage of each members experiences. Discuss how the winning team got the upper hand.

When confronted by a problem not solved by the usual available methods, adults must learn to leverage from past experiences or experiment with new ideas.  We must have enough contingencies as well as enough awareness to work around every obstacles we encounter that keeps us from reaching our goal. We must embrace error and failures as necessary components to learning. If we have to, we must fail our way to success. Once success is obtained, you may want to make some effort to understand why the chosen method/strategy worked. And exploration as to other possible future applications of the same utilized method may be undertaken. If only people use this everyday, we would notice more and more people learn genuinely and less people will believe that common sense is not common nowadays. Let us bring common sense back to our work places. Do you agree? Start with your kid. Spend quality simple and productive time with them. They will learn faster than us adults. In fact we could teach better than we could learn because of our bad habits that would get in the way. Our kids do not have those bad habits. It is our kids who will be able to solve the mess we leave them in this crazy world of ours.