A client (I’ll call her “Mary”) recently described to me how she isn’t as smart as her senior managers. My take on smartness is that there are many different ways to be smart and that it is a one-dimensional, bullshit descriptor. The super-smart VP dominating the room who has had three divorces is probably not very smart, for example. The super-smart manager whose team is afraid to voice an idea or opinion is probably not very smart. Not feeling smart …
Green Triangles
I made a bunch of new friends yesterday. They’re 6 or 7 years old. They call me Ms. Kathryn. I’ve started volunteering in their kindergarten classroom. I worked with pairs of students on letter recognition and numbers. I discovered that I LOVE working on letter recognition and numbers with kindergarteners! Over the course of the morning we developed a game that got them off their chairs and sprawled on the floor in the hallway. They had to put a bunch …