It all started when a young poor girl asked Richards What makes up success? He didn't have an answer but as he thought he came up with this, passion, serve, work, become good (practice), focus, push, ideas, and persist. These 8 things says Richards will lead to success.
As watching this talk i noticed that a few things contradicted what Dan Pink says in his books "Drive" and " A Whole New Mind" but some are similar. Both say that passion are important things, to have intrinsic motivation for your work and keep persisting. Another is to have good creative ideas. Having creative ideas keeps innovation alive.
One point of contradictory was that Richard said to get good at just one thing yet Dan Pink says to dabble in many aspects in order to be diversely knowledgeable about different things. The question is which is better. Personally, I would say that knowing many things is better than just knowing a lot about one subject, but if a person knows what they are going to do for the rest of their lives then they should excel at one particular subject or trade.
Ken Robinson starts off with a funny intro on himself and how the TED talks have been designed for the buildup of him coming and talking once again. But his main purpose was to spread the idea of new education and learning practices an dof what schools should be doing. Ken says that we are going through a crisis of human resources similar to the one of natural resources know as climate change. He says that we make very poor use of our talents or people who think that they have talents because many people don't believe that they are talented. He splits the world into two groups those who love what they do and those who endure what they do. People who don't get pleasure form what they do people who just go on living life are missing out when compared to the opposite group. This brings Robinson to his bigger point that schools and children's' educational career separates them from their natural talents. Robinson says to dig deeper and find those hidden "human resources" you can't reform a broken system but you need to revolutionize it to get what all children need, talent and skill and passion. There are things that society is enthralled to in education such as if you start here and do everything just like this then you will end up happy and successful in life. All in all his presentation showed that not every one has to do the same things and learn the same way and go to college at the same time to be successful but education and schools pull that out of all of us.
This is the opposite of what teachers and schools tell us to do. So the question is How can WE!! fix it? Because it is up to us to do just that.
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