THE APPLE AND THE MOON

The story goes that Sir Isaac Newton cracked the mystery of gravity when he saw an apple fall from a tree and wondered why it fell perpendicular to the ground rather than up or sideways.

While this realisation was important, alone it wasn’t enough. Looking beyond the boundaries of earth, Newton looked up to the moon and realised that for it to hang in the sky, the same forces that pull an apple to the ground, must be the same that keep the moon as a projectile in its gravitational orbit around our planet.

He connected the two and stretched his thinking beyond his initial perspective, beyond the planetary boundaries and up to the moon, to see the bigger picture. So, it seems Newton was a NXthinker too.

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Oman: The sea of banana palms

In Oman, the Awasir team reimagined the simple banana as as a flourishing eco-system, improving bio diversity and creating economic wealth through the production of eco friendly products.
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Training Reimagined - Indonesia

In Indonesia, the team has just completed their Train-the-Trainer programme ahead of the first cycle of NXplorers programmes in schools later this year.
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Training Reimagined - Hong Kong

In Hong Kong, the team has just completed their Train-the-Trainer programme ahead of a first-of-its-kind NXplorers programme with teachers this year.
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CRITICAL THINKING - THE POWER OF PERSPECTIVE

When we combine different perspectives we close the gaps in the bigger picture and fill the different blind spots that every person has - try this exercise to see where your blind spots are.
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