Words to Live By

Words to live by from Dave at How to Save the World blog.

Sense:	Observe, listen, pay attention, focus, open up your senses, perceive everything that has a bearing on the issue at hand. Connect.
Self-control:	Don't prejudge or jump to conclusions. Don't lose your cool. Focus.
Understand:	Make sure you have the facts and appreciate the context. Things are the way they are for a reason. Know what that reason is. Sympathize.
Question:	Ask, don't tell. Challenge. Think critically.
Imagine:	Picture, hear, feel what could be. Be visionary. Every problem is an opportunity. Anything is possible.
Offer:	Consider. Give something away. Create options, new avenues to explore. Suggest possibilities. Lend a hand. Help.
Collaborate:	Create something together. Solve a problem with a collective answer better than any set of individual answers. Learn to yield, to build on, to bridge, to adapt your thinking.

What do you think? If we're going to save the world and stuff we're going to have to follow Einstein's advice: "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." I sense that thinking that bridges, unifies, synthesizes conflicting points of view might be the kind of thinking that Einstein used to solve problems. If it's good enough for him, it's good enough for me.