I recall being in an English class at school when I was 14. My teacher was encouraging me to read more. I went back the next week and proudly said I had started on my fathers stack of Readers Digest. I remember her saying, that wasn\u2019t quite what she had in mind – she was keen on full novels not abridged stories, little jokes and tales of wilderness bravery.<\/p>\n
So, you see, I didn\u2019t read some of the classic texts when I was younger. However, I know the second book from Harper Lee is due out in July, so thought it was time I read \u2018 To Kill A Mockingbird\u2019.<\/p>\n
You probably know I like seeing things from different angles and through alternative\u00a0perspectives – see this self assessment <\/a>from 6 months ago.<\/p>\n I liked this section of text early on in \u2019To Kill A Mockingbird\u2019. Atticus is talking with Scout about her experience at school – and the teacher who wants to hold 6 year old Scout’s ferocious reading back to fit the class scheme. Her father explains about the importance of seeing things from another point of view, particulary the new teachers.<\/p>\n \u201cFirst of all, if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you\u2019ll get along better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”<\/p>\n The theme – the skill of walking a while in someone else\u2019s \u2018skin\u2019 or shoes – occurs a number more times in the book. In fact, you could say it is the heart of the story – or even the whole\u00a0book.<\/p>\n What topic would you like to know more about? I recall being in an English class at school when I was 14. My teacher was encouraging me to read more. I went back the next week and proudly said I had started on my fathers stack of Readers Digest. I remember her saying, that wasn\u2019t quite what she had in mind – she was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2817,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhere would you like to think more clearly?
\nWho would you like to understand?\u00a0 Maybe a customer view (marketing)?\u00a0Or a co-worker (engagment)?
\nThis is all about discipline – learning to see WITOS<\/a>, as i have discussed before. A skill that is worth developing – and one that requires continual honing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"