School gave you knowledge, and took your creativity

Do you ever need to be creative at work? Are you ever charged with coming up with new ideas? Do you struggle?

I reckon the education-industrial complex has some serious questions to answer about its efficacy. The closer my kids get to school-age, the more I think about the ways that school feels more like industrial child-minding than the ideal way to prepare a child for the modern world.

Unfortunately, your schooling has already happened, and we can't rewind three or four decades to give you a different education. You're stuck with the mind you've got. Fortunately, there are some really simple strategies to help you make the most of it.

Like, the box method: