It’s for your head and your heart.
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We’d like to share some sweet ideas with you! A.M/23
Hello and welcome to ‘Here’s a Thought,’ commonly known as HAT. Did you know that the supercomputer in your head (your brain) processes more than 6,000 thoughts per day? Without oversimplifying, your thoughts typically fall into 10 categories:
1. Everyday Thoughts: These involve your daily routines like getting ready for school, doing chores, or checking messages.
2. Feelings and Emotions: These encompass thoughts about how you’re feeling, such as being happy, sad, angry, excited, or worried.
3. Problem-Solving: These thoughts occur when you’re figuring things out, finding solutions, making choices, or planning.
4. Social Thoughts: These relate to friends, family, conversations, relationships, and how you fit in with others.
5. Creative Ideas: These thoughts arise when you’re imagining or creating new things, like stories, drawings, or inventions.
6. Remembering: These thoughts involve things that happened before, like memories or recalling stuff you’ve learnt at school.
7. Self-Reflection: These thoughts occur when you talk to yourself in your head; they can be both helpful and not so helpful.
8. Daydreaming: These thoughts happen when you imagine being a superhero, a rockstar, a sporting legend, or going on adventures.
9. Worries and Fears: These thoughts arise when you might be scared or worried about things that might happen in the future or that are out of your control.
10. Observations: These thoughts happen when you look around, notice details, or think about what’s happening in your surroundings.
‘Here’s a Thought’ presents singular thoughts for you to ponder, reflect on, discuss, write about, and get creative with as a class or a group. Consider it as a friend giving you bite-sized chunks of super helpful advice to guide you through the ups and downs of being a young person. HAT is all about sparking beautiful, meaningful, and interesting conversations. It’s also an opportunity for you to share what’s truly important to you with your school and fellow students.
If we could give one bit of advice it would be this: Go slowly with HAT. Take time. Don’t rush ahead. Enjoy the journey. And that way, you’ll get a lot more out of it.
Best wishes, The HAT Team
Our greatest super power is our ability to help one another.
At school we hear a lot about ‘independence’. We have created this myth that: Being independent is to be strong. It’s partly true and partly false.
True because independence makes us feel confident, courageous, and competent. False because we humans are a social species, we literally can’t survive by ourselves. Trying to do life alone is a bad strategy.
The happiest and strongest people amongst us are not the independent ones. They’re the ones who are both independent AND inter-dependent.
An inter-dependent person will care for someone one day and lean on someone for help another. Helping and supporting one another is simply what humans do.
Life is special because you are unique and different. We all are. Let’s celebrate the difference.
How you see the world, how you feel, how you think, how you look is totally unique to you. Your fingerprints, voice, and DNA – totally unique. Your specific combination of skin colour, hair colour, height, values, passions, possessions, beliefs will never occur again. You’re the OG, never to be repeated!!!
And yet 99.9% of your genetic make up is identical to every other person on earth. Our blood is the same colour, we cry the same tears, feel the same pain, know the same feeling of joy. We are all the same ... almost. When you view that 0.1% difference with open eyes, mind and heart, it makes the world beautiful and bright.
How boring would it be if everyone was the same as you?
