I'll just start with what Ashley started with. It all comes down to people being considerate. Considerate of the real world, considerate of what consequences, good and bad, result from their actions, and other things to consider as well. Not only that, but what does the person do when he/she considers, and after he/she thinks about it; in other words, the product.
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Originally Posted by Kims Robot
how do I bring out the leader in them, or just get them to take ownership (instead of me giving it to them)
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You really can't. You can try, it may work, but leaders are called to be that way. It's also the same with 'lazy' people strangely. They are called to be lazy and inconsiderate on purpose. By who? God, some event, something makes their brain that way.
I'll take myself for example. I was called to lead the LEGO League team at the Middle Shcool because it would've died if I hadn't bugged that teacher to be an advisor to the program and stood up when the team got going. Now, I am called to lead the robotics team because I want to make it better overall. There are many barriers to doing that that I wish to crush, and that others say are impossible to. I don't think that way. I think: if there's a problem, fix it, no matter what (not to the demise of the team, of course). Am I leader yet? No, but I'm getting ever closer to doing so because I know I have to. (I made a mistake in the election of the co-leaders the previous year, so I learned something)
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Originally Posted by Kims Robot
Too many parents are protecting their kids from the harms of the great big bad world these days... I say let them experience it. Let them get hurt, but be there to help them pick themselves up. The world is real, and it will be much more of a shock if they are sheltered from it.
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Very very tough to say that, but I agree with it 100%. It would've made me a better person by a conderable margin in my opinion. The only reason why this is happening is because people want to make money off of the littlest things. As a real soft and off the subject example in comparison: EBay. But in the real world, people complain about sidewalks being a little off kilter, playgounds having dangerous but really fun equipment (ahh, remember those days), etc.
In short, this world has ran off of problems since its beginning, when Adam decided to eat the apple, and a whole series of events followed. To be perfectly real, there is absolutely no such thing as the perfect solution to big world problems. If somebody claims they have found one, they must me somewhat out of line. Therefor we have leaders to lead the lazy, engineers to help the leaders, and teachers to teach the engineers and leaders, and it just goes on.
And what about purpose to life. We cannot state a real purpose or a lack of, because the amount of knowledge we don't know is too much that makes it impossible to make such a statement. Not to stir something up, but that's why we have something called religion, because without purpose, everything just dies due to a lack of reason to live. The plants live to feed us and other living things, who live for other purposes, etc. Water exists because something needs it, like other objects, seen and unseen. And a God exists in theory and belief to give the idea to us of purpose to live. And that leads back to the beginning of this chain... (Energizer bunny, keep beating).
This is definitely more than 2 cents, and I'll probably have more.
-Joe