Ken Robinson: The Element (EBook, 2010, Penguin Group UK)
eBook
English language
Published Jan. 7, 2010 by Penguin Group UK.
The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. This groundbreaking new book is all about how every one of us can find our element, connecting with our true talents and fulfilling our creative potential.Creativity expert Ken Robinson believes that we are all born with tremendous natural capacities, but that we lose touch with them as we spend more time in the world. Whether it's a child bored in class, an employee being misused or just someone who feels frustrated but can't quite explain why, too many people don't know what they are really capable of achieving. Education, business and society as a whole are losing out.The Element draws on the stories of a wide range of people – from ex-Beatle Paul McCartney to Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons; from Meg Ryan to Broadway choreographer Gillian Lynne; and from writer Arianna Huffington to renowned physicist Richard …
The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. This groundbreaking new book is all about how every one of us can find our element, connecting with our true talents and fulfilling our creative potential.Creativity expert Ken Robinson believes that we are all born with tremendous natural capacities, but that we lose touch with them as we spend more time in the world. Whether it's a child bored in class, an employee being misused or just someone who feels frustrated but can't quite explain why, too many people don't know what they are really capable of achieving. Education, business and society as a whole are losing out.The Element draws on the stories of a wide range of people – from ex-Beatle Paul McCartney to Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons; from Meg Ryan to Broadway choreographer Gillian Lynne; and from writer Arianna Huffington to renowned physicist Richard Feynman and others, including business leaders and athletes – showing how all of them came to recognize their unique talents and were able to make a successful living doing what they love.With a wry sense of humour and a sense of optimism, Ken Robinson looks at the conditions that enable us to find ourselves in the element, and those that stifle that possibility. He shows that age and occupation are no barrier and he argues that there is an urgent need to enhance creativity and innovation by thinking differently about ourselves.
Endlich auch das Buch zum TED-Talk gelesen. Baut die Präsentation ein wenig aus, ohne viel Neues zu liefern. Hatte mir mehr zum Thema „Bildung“ gewünscht. Dennoch leichtfüßig und schnell zu lesen.
As much as I appreciate Ken Robinson's famous TED speech on education and what we could do to improve it, this book proves to be a bit too boring for my taste.
Look how they did it! Look, look!
It can just be summed down in a couple of words: Do what you like! Be good at it. Learn how to advertise yourself.
Enjoy reading.
Every creative person, teacher, and individual seeking their passion should read this book. Sir Ken Robinson takes you on a journey in which you meet amazing and famous people who all gain success by finding 'Their Element'.
Well written and witty but ultimately unsatisfying.
The book is built around anecdotes that are meant to encourage and illustrate how achievable self-fulfilment is by describing people who, against all odds, managed to find their "element", follow it and thus succeed. Instead the stories, about your everyman such as Paul McCartney, Richard Branson and Arianna Huffington, usually end up as discouraging and depressing to all those many who haven't found their element. As the book's subtitle hints at, finding your passion changes everything, but the hard part is not pursuing your passion, it's finding it and for that there is no help to be found in the book.
