This weekend on the cable talk shows, I heard a lot of discussion about birth control.  Congressional panels that included all men and the government taking away freedom of religion.  I don’t want to talk about all of that, but I was very impressed with one point in particular.

A commentator talked about the importance of our internal point of view and how that determines our imagination, which in turn controls our ability to innovate.  The internal vision determines our starting point about any argument and really does control the direction of future thinking.  Take for instance, if you were to ask people what they thought of “work”, a variety of images would occur depending on the person.  For many, work is a way to support the rest of their lives.  They work to live.  For others, their work is their life and they live to work.  I am making no value judgements here but if you were to then ask how work could be improved, the innovative thinking would be quite different depending on the starting point.  Interesting, huh? Continue reading →