Sense making of a bigger world is an important skill in today’s world that is complex and constantly changing.

There are many ways by which we can learn to do expansive sense making.

My guest, Douglas O’Loughlin offers several ways for how we can think better. They include:

1) If we find ourselves telling a version of a story, we could think about whether there might be other possible versions of that story.

2) If we want to find out what people are thinking about a certain topic, we could get them to complete a sentence about that topic.

3) Another way to think bigger is the subject-object interview. This method entails interviewing the subject about the topic and then analysing why they are thinking that way.

4) Adopt polarity thinking. A simple way is to do polarity thinking is to use the word ‘and’ to expand our thinking.

5) And finally, if we hold our opinions more lightly about us and other people, we can also expand our thinking.