This is brilliant. Kids re-invent themselves each school year.
As a parent, I see my kids reinventing themselves every school year. They’ve gone through their Lego phases, their sporty phases, their drama phases, their communicating-only-via-eyerolls phases.
Mary Laura Philpott, NYTimes
Why not, us, as adults? What a great way to encapsulate the neuroplasticity of our minds; we do know that our brains do not stagnate in adulthood, but continue to mold and change:
So, why do we continue on in our jobs without considering the annual-beginning-of-school-year re-invention? Remember in medical school learning Prochazka’s Stages of Change model: how our patients who smoke would go from Pre-contemplative to Contemplative to Preparation to Action to Maintenance? We see this in EHR adoption. Or perhap some go through Kubler-Ross’s stages of grief. OK, however you slice it, perhaps we do each need time and space and permission to “start fresh.”
CMIO’s take? I’m excited to be starting 50th grade! How about you?
