Continuing the advice you might offer to the next generation?
On the 1st December I published the first message. It had been inspired by a conversation with Peter McCarthy, who lives and works in Bristol, England. Here’s a little of what I wrote,
Anyway, Peter and I were talking about the sorts of qualities that enable some young people to take a risk-based entrepreneurial approach to life. Peter gave me the links to three videos that he thought were especially relevant to the notion of achieving success in life. So over the next few days I want to share those videos with you, dear reader. To me, these videos are, indeed, the essence of the messages that any person, especially those the wrong side of 60, would wish to leave in a bottle floating down the river of life.
So to the second message which is a recording of the talk that Sir Ken Robinson gave to the TED Talks conference in Monterey in February, 2006. It has been widely seen for all the right reasons; Sir Ken offers some powerful common-sense and a wonderful message for all the young people out there. As Sir Ken’s website says,
Sir Ken Robinson, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in the development of education, creativity and innovation. He is also one of the world’s leading speakers with a profound impact on audiences everywhere. The videos of his famous 2006 and 2010 talks to the prestigious TED Conference have been seen by an estimated 200 million people in over 150 countries.
Read the rest of Sir Ken’s background here.
So with no more ado, here’s the film, watched by nearly 3 million people!
Learning from Dogs 
“human intelligence”??
WHOSE intelligence? We already KNOW that human intelligence can be immeasurably rich: Einstein, Newton, Planck, Da Vinci and many others.
The problem is that A) Such people are swamped by the vast masses and B) few of them get into positions of real power where they can DO anything politically, which is actually where it matters.
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BTW, Einstein himself said that “the secret of creativity is to hide your sources”. Of course what he meant was: “the secret of many people’s creativity rests in hiding their sources”. And of course he was talking about himself (Einstein did not invent relativity, but for an extreme variant which will probably not stand the test of time).
This being said, I agree with Chris. I even agree about one of the objects of his displeasure, Lagarde (obviously an agent of the plutocracy: some people are creative about navigating for themselves).
Another point: the ultimate creating agent is civilization itself. Some civilization are completely uncreative, others are hypercreative. A civilization is the ultimate school.
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Sir Ken speaks sense….Creativity~ in children is amazing.. Often though their creativity is squashed… and he is so right in his statement as we are educated out of it. … I was lucky in the fact that In infant school I was encouraged to draw and paint.. which was picked up by my head teacher who was also a good artist.. this talent I have used all my life be it in my leisure time.. but its been used in my Textile career and also in my Supporting roles.. The problem is our own creative talents dont get looked into… Children Do well in the subjects they enjoy.. Not one they are forced into….
Our thoughts today are not allowed to ‘THINK’ for themselves.. For we are Told what to buy, how to dress, what to eat.. and that is because the Media is trying to control the masses..
He makes alot of sense.. Many thanks Paul for sharing.. 🙂
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I’ve been remiss in not thanking all three of you for your fascinating comments. So ‘thank you’.
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