The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
Mindfulness at Work: How to Avoid Stress, Achieve More, and Enjoy Life! Stephen McKenzie Career Press (2014) How and why awareness and acceptance are essential to personal growth and professional development What is mindfulness? Opinions vary. Here is one that…
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Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…
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Why don’t we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies — far from being cultivated for their…
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The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything Ken Robinson with Lou Aronica Viking Adult (2009) What we can accomplish when “drawn effortlessly into the heart of the Element” Why did Ken Robinson write this book? He explains in his…
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Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative Ken Robinson Capstone Publishing Ltd. (2011) How and why to think differently about learning to be creative This is a “New Edition, Fully Updated” of a book first published in 2001. Why…
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In his latest book, Ken Robinson observes in Chapter 7 that being creative is not only about thinking; it is also about feeling. For example, “Among the legacies of the Enlightenment and Romanticism are many common-sense but mistaken assumptions about the differences between the arts…
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The new and fully updated edition of Ken Robinson’s Out of Our Minds has just been published. He explains how to learn to become much more creative. In Chapter 3, “The Trouble with Education,” he introduces what he characterizes as “The Septic Focus” when discussing his…
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Why Ken Robinson is so important
Why don’t we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies — far from being cultivated for their…
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