Coronavirus: The good that can come out of an upside-down world
Our world has changed immensely in the last few weeks but amid the upheaval and distress, there are reasons to believe we can emerge from the crisis with some human qualities enhanced, writes Matthew Syed.
Or, to take a different example, suppose you are considering a new taxi company. The first assumption might be:"taxi companies own cars". The reversal would be:"taxi companies own no cars". Twenty years ago, that might have sounded crazy. Today, the largest taxi company that has ever existed doesn't own cars: Uber. Now we are living through a disruption of unprecedented scale.
Most parents will have realised how difficult it is to teach kids at home. But here are some"rebel" ideas that emerge from assumption reversal. Get your kids to walk to the front of the room, pick up a card lying face down, and then turn it over to reveal a topic. Their task is then to turn around to the rest of the room and speak on this topic for 60 seconds.
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