The following are specific examples of ‘come alive’ times in my life:
- Key-holding in a soup kitchen.
- The 3-strong IT team of which I was a member was rated highest in my organisation, and my organisation was rated best of its kind in the UK.
- On my Psychology degree course, doing statistical and conceptual analysis of results following practical work.
- Making obstacle courses for other children.
- Building a mechanism to configure PCs in a hot-desking environment.
- Building with Lego.
- Explaining aspects of object oriented programming to colleagues.
- Teaching a boy the difference between odd numbers and even numbers.
- Inspiring a nursery class to use construction toys after I built rockets and satellites myself.
- Reading stories to classes, my wife, my son.
- Figuring out how stage magic is done.
- Leading other children to explore the woods by my senior school.
- Handling several crises as best man to a friend.
- Writing stories.
- Solving Rubik’s-type puzzles.
- Helping my wife with her dissertation.
- Analysing a housing rents system.
- Figuring out and then explaining the principles of a counselling technique.
- Encouraging small children to act out the story of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
- Seeing the bigger picture in a meeting about organisational change, where everyone else was concerned with just their own areas of work.
- Creating a welcome screen that is displayed before PCs were logged in.
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