{"id":541,"date":"2017-10-13T07:25:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T07:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/?p=541"},"modified":"2018-05-30T18:51:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T18:51:22","slug":"explore-the-universe-with-a-universal-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/rwc-blog\/explore-the-universe-with-a-universal-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore the Universe with a Universal Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">We each have one life to live. We each are unique human beings &#8211; there is no other being like us in the entire universe !<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">During my secondary school years, there was one pupil who although had no real bent towards fitting into the school system, quite often came-up with some brilliant words of wisdom. I can still recall (reflecting back on my fifth form year at Wairoa College) this person expressing this philosophical statement: &#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>explore the universe with a universal mind<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;. At the time, I didn&#8217;t attach any greater\/ deeper meaning to it than it perhaps being some wild hippie saying that may have been borne from the hit T.V. series &#8220;The Young Ones&#8221; &#8211; that was screening at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">However, over the past 3 &#8211; 4 years I&#8217;ve come to see a wisdom in respect of the aforementioned expression that I hadn&#8217;t appreciated before. That being, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>keep remembering to open your mind to what life offers &#8211; be adventurous and open doors to see what lies beyond<\/strong><\/span>. Most importantly, for me this expression is about <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">retaining a strong sense of curiosity &#8211; being prepared to keep learning and keep adapting<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Interestingly enough, Puketapu School (the school that our daughter currently attends in Hawkes Bay) has as a part of its mantra and Mission\/ Values Statement the quest to develop its pupils as &#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Life Long Learners<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;. What a great quest &#8211; to help students develop <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">a mindset of curiosity, exploration, discovery and learning&#8230;ongoing.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I have found that it is people with this sort of mindset who are the innovators\/ creators of the world. Long may schools like Puketapu continue to help build these strengths in generations of young people.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We each have one life to live. We each are unique human beings &#8211; there is no other being like us in the entire universe ! During my secondary school years, there was one pupil who although had no real bent towards fitting into the school system, quite often came-up with some brilliant words of wisdom. I can still recall (reflecting back on my fifth form year at Wairoa College) this person expressing this philosophical statement: &#8220;explore the universe with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}