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Chapter 5. Your turn

Have you had problems like these to deal with? Maybe you would like to think up your
own problem. It could be something from your imagination, or something that you really

have had to deal with in the past, or some problem that you are dealing with right now.

Write it down now, and then you can apply the animal-thinking patterns to your own

problem as well as the ones that I have made up.

Can you see the problem clearly, like an eagle? Can you remember what caused it, like

an elephant? Maybe you can use the help of others, like an ant, or look for help on the
web, like a spider.

Be internet-wise!

While the internet, or the ‘web’, can be really useful in helping to find information, be

careful if you do use it – not everything you read and see is the truth, and not everyone
on the internet is good. So get advice from your parents or teacher and do not give any
information about yourself to any person or organisation you don’t know and trust.

Once you have clearly mapped out the problem and thought about some ways to solve

it, use your Wallaby-thinking – let your imagination have a good hop around from one

solution to another, thinking them through until you decide on which one is best for you

right now.

And that is what ‘Thinking Like a Wallaby’ is all about.

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