You Can't Do Your Art Under the Table

A story from my teaching years, on how your interpretation of a challenge informs reaction and outcome.

Don’t worry I changed the names of everyone in this story.

I want to tell you a story about a child named Nicky. This is a story about how we may choose to interpret information we take in.

The source of most arguments is the fact that one person interprets a problem completely differently than another, and that we may not like how another interprets the…