INTEGRITY OF CHARACTER + CREATIVE THINKING = SUSTAINED SUCCESS IN LIFE.

It's nice that my blog can now be seen again, for sometime it had just disappeared.

Whenever I talk to students, that what kind of thinking is required to succeed in life - invariably the answer is positive thinking. Positive thinking is important, no doubt whatsoever, but what is the kind of thinking that leads you to become positive in your approach. Are we positive for the sake of being positive? or we remain positive because we see possibilities in every down side that we face. I feel if one practices creative thinking or lateral thinking, then the greatest by- product of that thinking is that lot of positivity creeps in your thinking. This thinking creeps in by default.

One of the greatest tools of lateral thinking is, challenging your mind to think of a certain number of alternatives for any little/big challenge that we face, and the second part of this exercise is to suspend judgement for sometime. Now let's say- You have to decide What birthday present to buy for your mother; then practising lateral thinking techniques you challenge your self to think of ten options as presents, jot down these ten options, now apply your judgement as to which of these ten options will be loved by your mother and what you can afford. The key is, to purely think when you think, and apply judgement only after you have reached the required number - in this case ten options. If we think and judge at the same time then our poor mind gets confused and just stops thinking of options.

This exercise is so much fun, and so productive that once you start using it, you get addicted to it, and cannot help using it for all kinds of things, including ten befitting replies for a bullying peer who leaves no opportunity to put you down in public. If you feel you are equipped to handle these small/ big challenges by your thinking then you are a positive thinker aren't you, and success is always waiting in the horizon.