Life and Career Skills

Do you want to develop an integrative mind that takes input from everywhere and comes up with new solutions? Do a “newsstand roundup”. If you are stymied on how to solve a problem or just want to freshen up your own thinking – visit the largest newsstand you can find. Spend 15-20 minutes browsing and select several publications that you’ve never read and would likely never buy. That’s the challenge: buy magazines you never noticed previously. Take some time to look through them, scan the ads and major articles and get a sense of what the magazine is about and what its readers have on their minds. Then look for connections to your own work, life or problem.