[MUSIC] Most people reach a lot of tough challenges in their lives. I think for me, I always seem to be in the wrong at the wrong time, or the right place at the wrong time, depending on your point of view. For example, I couldn't teach in my chosen field because I was a female. Nothing I could do about that, so I had to redefine myself as some other kind of worker and I got other jobs. I couldn't do what I wanted to do, I got different jobs. Then I wasn't the right person for a company because I didn't have an MBA. Okay, I redefined myself as a training manager, I got the job. Sometimes I have work that, I think of myself as a creative studies teacher, but sometimes I don't have enough classes, I'm a adjunct. So I've redefined myself as a teacher and I teach in educational technology, in business diversity leadership, wherever they will take me. And I have peak experiences in those as well. So to me, my persistence and my ability to redefine myself and rework everything I'm doing, to be whatever is needed, brings me peak experiences. I think the beliefs, attitudes and challenges are really based in my underlying belief that whatever happens, I look at what can I do with what I have left? How do I make something out of this? This isn't what I wanted, how can I deal with it? How can I make it something exciting? And so I've just changed it. Redefinition and connection are the kinds of things that I think are really critical to creative thinking. Redefinition, in that if you don't like the way it looks, see what else you can do with it. And connection, and having people find out that their skills match someone else over here, and we can put those together and make something really great, even if I'm not part of it. Normally when I teach this course called CRS 304, it's a facilitation course. And normally my students, there are usually about eight of them, and we take one class during the semester for each student to do a facilitation with an outside client. Well, last spring I had 13 students. So that meant 13 days of classes just doing the process. And I thought, this is going to be horrible. So I redefined and I said okay, what if we don't do it in class, like we normally do? What if we went out and did it in the community with the clients and did it all in one day? And the way it turned out, we did a one day session, and we had clients left over, and we had a location left over. And they all wanted more. So we did two days. And it turned into this big spectacular thing. And my students won best service learning project. [MUSIC]