Lessons from a new generation.

Would you ask a dodo for survival strategies?  Would you go to Leahman Brothers for financial advice? Would you go to President Nixon for tips on re-election?

No doubt the ideas presented would have proved really useful right up until the moment of their extinction.

The more productive information may well have been held by those species, thinkers and leaders whose time was yet to come. The difficulty is in identifying an idea or opportunity ahead of its time and having the courage to entertain a different possibility to the prevailing 'truth'.   

One clue is to look at something which has emerged without obvious reason, is clearly different and seemingly poorly adapted to the current paradigm. Think of a fragile mammal on the fringes of the dinosaur empire.

Our clue was a generation of children who struggled to adapt to their current paradigm, failing to access the structures and demands of an education system and society which proved just too coarse for their sensitivities.

Whatever your beliefs around the causes of so many of the 'labels' we stick on our kids, one thing is certainly true; these children process information in a different way. Often right brained, sensitive to feeling and impossible to condition, these kids have the clues to our future.

Our work at acreativespace has always been based on a curiosity and understanding of these children in an attempt to make their experience more comfortable. What we learned was that these kids held the information which allows us to be more comfortable in our experience! The supposed problem proved to be the answer.

The answer to what? Well...everything I guess. These children are hard wired for authenticity and presence. They communicate through  resonance. To join their world demands the same, and whether it be in business, family or pleasure. The current paradigm seems to be more than just tired, it feels finished.

It is impossible to predict even the immediate future but I suspect these kids are equipped with the tools best suited to what emerges.

To thrive we could do a lot worse than learn the lessons from this new generation instead of trying to squeeze them into our clumsy dinosaur suits.