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My mother owns a loom she uses for making small blankets and an occasional wall hanging. When I was four she pulled me away from my blocks and legos to hold a spindle of yarn while she unrolled the thread and rewound it into a ball. For several minutes I did as I was told, until a better solution occurred to me. I asked my mother to cut a piece of string, which I slipped through the hollow core of the spindle. I tied either end to the edge of a tall metal basket. The spindle could now twirl freely on its own, and I could return to my blocks.

. . . Search for simple, elegant solutions to ordinary problems – and some not so ordinary. Why settle for what’s given when finding your own superior solution is just as possible?

Thanks so much to Julia Padvoiskis for allowing me to use her story. I couldn’t agree with her more.

We need more people who think like Julia.