My life and my speeches are like that. I have often been told I don't have a focus. Well, I respectfully disagree. I believe my focus is on creative problem-solving and critical thinking. If you have ever seen my website or heard me speak, you know I base my speeches on the premise, "The problem isn't the issue, the issue is how you deal with the problem."
That is also the way I approach my life. Somewhere along the way since that night they drilled those two holes in my head, I have developed a problem-solving process to deal with a myriad of other problems. The philosophy I developed a long time ago was if I could lie on that Stryker frame for six weeks and get turned every two hours to avoid any pressure sores, I could handle just about any problem I need to address. People tell me it's about my attitude!
Here is a picture of Nurse Ratched turning me shortly after my accident:
Notice the forty pounds of sand hanging at the head of the bed. The bags were hyperextending my neck so the Crutchfield tongs in my skull were putting traction on my cervical spine, thus immobilizing it and aligning the vertebrae. I grew three inches in those six weeks! See there: I lost my focus again! This post is about a global quiz and I go and make it about me. Shame on me!
Back to the quiz:
I don't claim to know it all, and never will. When I only answered six out of ten questions correctly, I realized I am not as aware of urgent global issues as I would like to think I am.
Take this Global Quiz from the Clinton Foundation by clicking here, and if you are willing to share your results, please do. Who knows, you may learn something? I know I did.
If you are a teacher and want to use this quiz in your classroom, please do. I am sure President Clinton would approve. Also, feel free to share it with your friends. I think that is the whole purpose.
Later,
Mike
2 comments:
I got 8 correct. I guess I'm pretty literate in a global kind of way. The obesity issue is crazy. P.E. programs are getting cut left, right and center and now like they said — which I got right — was one in three kids are obese! I see it in the gym and it's really bad at the middle school where I teach 7th and 8th graders. They are almost ALL obese and it's hard work for me to get them to do any exercise at all. It is a lot of work teaching that one class.
I amazed myself with an 8! Just came back from the Junior High and the overweight kids was just incredible.
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