What would your old friends suggest?
I was watching one of my favourite films the other day - The Big Chill. It's about a group of University friends who get together for the first time in years, at another friend's funeral. It has a fantastic cast (Kevin Kline, Tom Berenger, Jeff Goldblum, Glen Close and William Hurt) and a superb soundtrack.
The film deals with how the group comes to terms not only with the suicide of an old friend, but also the way their lives have turned out after the idealism of their student days in the '60s.
Of course, we all move on from the people we were at school, college or university. But sometimes it pays to look back to the people we were, either to gauge where we are now (and where we want to be) - or to find an alternative viewpoint from which to come up with ideas.
If you're struggling with a problem, or trying to find new ideas, try this exercise: what would your friends from years ago suggest that you do?
Chances are that when you hung about with a big group of friends at college or university you (and they) were more free-thinking, more relaxed, less hung up about responsibility and "the rules".
Try going back to those days for a while - at least in your mind.
What would you have come up with in those days?
What would your old friends suggest?
Hi Kenny, I had a similar conversation the other day about the cockiness of youth, how the world was your oyster and how that shaped a lot more free-thinking.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, good to tap into that!