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How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

by Ken Robinson (Author) (edit contributors)

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From one of the world’s leading thinkers and speakers on creativity and self-fulfillment, a breakthrough book about talent, passion, and achievement The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When people arrive at the element, they feel most themselves and most... read more

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  • “Knowing that intelligence is diverse, dynamic, and distinctive allows you to address that question in new ways”
  • “One myth is that only special people are creative”
  • “To be in the zone is to be in the deep heart of the Element”
  • “Farmers base their livelihood on raising crops. But farmers do not make plants grow. They don't attach the roots, glue on the petals, or color the fruit. The plant grows itself. Farmers and gardeners provide the conditions for growth. Good farmers know what those conditions are, and bad ones don't. Understanding the dynamic elements of human growth is as essential to sustaining human cultures into the future as the need to understand the ecosystems of the natural world on which we ultimately depend.”
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  • The Element is the meeting point between natural aptitude and personal passion.
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  • The Element has two main features, and there are two conditions for being in it. The features are aptitude and passion. The conditions are attitude and opportunity. The sequence goes something like this: I get it; I love it; I want it; Where is it?
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  • What is true is that if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.
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  • “The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude of mind. . . . If you change your mind, you can change your life.”
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  • High achievers often share similar attitudes, such as perseverance, self-belief, optimism, ambition, and frustration. How we perceive our circumstances and how we create and take opportunities depends largely on what we expect of ourselves.
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  • Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play. This turns possible underachievers into happy warriors.”
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  • “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never produce anything original.” The second was, “Great education depends on great teaching.”
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  • Imagination is not the same as creativity. Creativity takes the process of imagination to another level. My definition of creativity is “the process of having original ideas that have value.”
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  • Susan Jeffers’s landmark book Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway®.
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  • To be creative you actually have to do something. It involves putting your imagination to work to make something new, to come up with new solutions to problems, even to think of new problems or questions. You can think of creativity as applied imagination.
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Page Count: 288

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