Mind Power Games

Want a fun way to tune up your brain? Why not use some classic mind games to help you increase your brainpower and get you out of your thinking "ruts." Good mind games habituate you to using creative problem solving as a normal part of thinking about things.

One lateral thinking puzzle you can try right now involves nine dots, layed out three by three. You have to connect them all with four straight lines, and without lifting the pen or pencil from the paper. Figure this one out and you'll appreciate the expression "thinking outside of the box."

Mind Games For Groups

Some group mind games are especially good for long trips in a car. For example, someone looks out the window and randomly chooses an object. Everyone in the car then tries to imagine a new way to make money with it. Street signs become places to advertise, trees are sold with names, and a truck becomes a traveling grocery store.

The "change of perspective" technique can be used as a problem-solving game. Pick any topic, and see who can come up with the most unique new perspective. Could there be a world where jobs weren't necessary? How would a virus define morality if it was conscious?

Another creative game for a group uses a specific technique, called "concept combination." Simply combine random concepts or things in interesting ways, and see who has the best idea. A chair and a microwave? Maybe an easy-chair with a built-in cooler, microwave and television, or microwavable "couch potatoes" - a potato snack in the shape of a couch.

More Mind Games

Some lateral-thinking puzzles use a scenario, real or imagined, with a selection of things you have to use to accomplish something. Imagine a ping-pong ball in an iron pipe that's set in cement. The pipe sticks up two-feet high, and has almost the same diameter as the ball. With only a box of frosted-flakes, and a t-shirt, how many ways can you find to get the ball out of the pipe? You could also set this up for real, to know if a proposed solution will really work.

Riddles are just mind games or lateral-thinking puzzles. You move laterally in your mind, away from your usual line of thought, to solve a riddle. What did his friends do when the canibal was late for dinner? Gave him the cold shoulder. Keeping your brain in shape doesn't have to be a matter of serious study, does it?

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Leadership In Society – Is It Only For The Privileged Few?

Leadership is mistakenly thought to be something limited to certain people - people in positions of authority typically, but otherwise people with certain rights and responsibilities over and above those around them.

Lets be frank and admit that such people could be called leaders, but it certainly doesn't mean that each one of them shows leadership. Nor does it mean every person who shows leadership is labelled a leader. Let's look at this in more detail.

Leadership is a quality in us that helps us take an initiative toward change. It is the quality that allows us to look at possibilities with potential that are beyond the predictable, and take risks to choose them and then make them work.

It could be something as simple as setting up a party along a completely different theme, or something as big as challenging something dysfunctional in the work space and working to make it more effective.

A leader is a person who leads. It may be designated, or voluntary. The role requires leadership to be effective, yet it is a role, not a quality.

Leadership is about taking responsibility, foresight, risks and committing to seeing it through. It can be anywhere. In today's world, leadership is needed everywhere.

There are more choices than ever before and utilizing the opportunities they present bring forth the challenge of being able to move away from the known and the comfortable and exploring potential. It needs a person to be able to sense the people around, situations and adapt quickly to act in a manner that leads to a situation that works.

This in itself is leadership. Once you start seeing it like this, you open yourself to possibilities of freeing your own creativity and acknowledging your initiative. It leads to a whole new way of being.

From the constricting and powerless situation of someone else being the leader, you become your own leader and in the process empower yourself to BE and realize your potential.

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