I am working on a new book called, What's the Object. It is a book to teach you how to use props in training and presenting. I think you will like it. I was working on an idea for using a sunflower, or a picture of a sunflower and talking about how it follows the sun. But when I did a little research I found that it didn't exactly follow the sun all its life and now I know why. You will too if you read on.
Bring in a sunflower head (or a picture of one).
Most people believe that the sunflower follows the sun from morning to night. That isn't quite so. When the sunflower is small and in the budding stage it needs to track the sun every day, it needs the warmth, the support and the power of the sun. But when it comes into its own, full flowering with its glorious yellow petals, it can stand by itself. The cells in its stem lock and the sunflower no longer needs to track the sun from morning to night. Instead it faces east to get the sun in the morning and then stays in that direction all day. In this way it protects itself from looking full face into the sun in the hottest part of the day.
How I Would use This
In many ways when we start out doing this job (fill in your content here), we need the support that our mentors give. It isn't uncommon to follow them around, do what they do, track their ideas through the day. But given a little time, we can find that we can stand on our own two feet and do the job with just a little help.
(Now the trick is to fill in with content of your own, may I suggest a few topics - child rearing, telephone support, relationships, etc.)
2 comments:
This is really interesting! I didn't know that about sunflowers, but I do see how that is true of mentors.
I surfed in from the SL boards, I'm hipmama1970 there :-)
Glad you dropped by hipmama.
you'll never look at sunflowers the same again, eh?
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