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How can I apply the ESTE™ framework outside of the classroom?

As you now know, the ESTE™ Framework (Figure 1) facilitates the exploration of your innate interest or preference in entrepreneurship, science, technology, or engineering. As you continue your ESTE™ journey, you will come to understand, and hopefully appreciate, the differentiation between these domains that align with how you tend to think and behave.

Recall an earlier discussion about Team function and how ESTE™ helps one to relate on a team. During a particular critical stage of team growth and development, the team learns how to optimally communicate, understand, and therefore appreciate each other’s perspectives to collectively work towards a common goal or solution. The next stage describes the highest-performing team that behaves as one unit with peak efficiency.

What about the situations though in which you and another individual do not share a common goal and are seemingly on opposite sides of an opinion?

Recall in another discussion on ESTE™ and the importance of entrepreneurial thinking skills – skills that include critical thinking, adaptability, problem solving with creativity, and self-leadership. Here we learned how we need to flex our thinking skills to transcend traditional boundaries and adopt a more integrated cross-cutting approach in our collaborations. In this sense, we are collectively fostering a unified language across government, academia, industry, and society.

We also learned that important skills, such as independence, self-regulation, and personal identity, start forming as early as 11-12 years old. ‘Reskilling’ and ‘upskilling’ are increasingly important to the long-term sustainability of economic stability. Certain skills become life-long partners in our growth and development. We seek to identify, embrace, and improve them.

One of these important life-long skills is that of perspective, specifically the ability to understand various perspectives. Similar to how the ESTE™ framework identifies preference, we also come to realize that along with preference, comes a certain perspective. And, as our preferences can evolve over time, so can our perspective. Given that opinions are grounded in perspective, our opinions therefore can evolve over time.

So, in those situations in which you and another individual do not share a common goal or are on opposite sides of an opinion, perspective is an important element.

The ESTE™ framework promotes the concept of perspectives, specifically that perspectives are as important as they are different.

How to leverage the ESTE™ Framework in key areas of your life.

1.    Understand that fundamentally, everyone is unique in how they think, assimilate, and participate in their world. Lean into accepting their uniqueness. Take it further to appreciate and celebrate their uniqueness.

2.    Consider that different perspectives help inform different options, approaches, and outcomes. How can you leverage this when you plan your next vacation, dinner party, or focus group?

3.    When you think you’ve solved your next problem, reach out to someone who you know thinks differently than you do (i.e., enlist your favorite ‘devil’s advocate’). How would they go about solving this problem? How does their unique insight help inform your options for problem solving?

[How to Develop Different Perspectives on Life https://www.lifehack.org/868287/perspective-on-life accessed December 6, 2022]

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