Chic Thompson

Charlottesville, Virginia Area United States

Founding Fellow of OpenGrounds at University of Virginia

From my first childhood drawings to my latest business venture, I have loved creating, finding and sharing new ideas. My best ideas have always come in the shower and not at a desk. I see in opposites… I look for what’s right about every failure… I reverse words… I connect adjacent, unrelated possibilities. I have the gift of dyslexia. To capitalize on this tendency to see in different directions, whenever something goes wrong or when I hear a wild idea, I instinctively ask, “What’s right about it?” The answers that have come from asking, “What’s right…” have changed my life and hopefully the lives of my clients.