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A review by kimball_hansen
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica
3.0
3.5 stars. A decent self-help book. The element is the things that we love to do and the things that we're good at coming together. Nothing revolutionary or groundbreaking. You can also call it your passion, calling, or whatever you do when you're in Flow.
The Element is recreational time not leisure time. One is fulfilling one is entertaining. Paychecks shouldn't validate talent.
The author got polio at a young age and that closed a lot of immediate doors for him such as soccer but then later on it opened many more doors in his life that probably wouldn't have opened had he not contracted polio. It's neat when these things happen. Now maybe you guys will quit crying about Covid-19.
Notes:
The only way to prepare for the future is to make the most of yourself.
We have more senses besides the five traditional ones such as:
- sense of balance
- sense of temperature
- sense of pain
- kinesthetic sense (which gives us an awareness of our limbs)
- sense of intuition (Some doctors don't like to recognize the)
The diversity of intelligences is one of the fundamental underpinnings of the Element, if you don't embrace the fact that you think about the world in a wide variety of ways you severely limit your chances of finding the person who are meant to be.
Creativity can be taught and learned like traditional intelligence.
People's intelligences are as diverse as a fingerprint.
The author likes the Herman brain dominant instrument test is better than the Myers Briggs one.
Almost as good as the element is finding your tribe. A good tribe should inspire validate and provide synergy.
Doing something for your own good is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less then you really are.
Languages are the bearers of the culture genes.
There are four principles that characterize lucky people:
1) they tend to maximize chance opportunities
2) they are effective at listening and following their intuition
3) they expect to be lucky
4) they have an attitude that turns bad luck into good luck.
I believe my recent host Joe, is lucky. Or rather, he creates his own luck, like Harvey Dent.
Mentors appear in people's lives at opportune times.
I love his last bit on it's never too late.
There should be a difference in our chronological age and our real age.
People don't age. They decay and rot because of their bad choices.
I need to go to the website realage.com
The college degree was once a passport to a good job now it is just a visa because of the inflation of degrees and everyone has one.
He got on his little political soapbox at the end which was stupid and unnecessary. He couldn't have come up with a better name than "the other climate crisis" that we're going through?
The Element is recreational time not leisure time. One is fulfilling one is entertaining. Paychecks shouldn't validate talent.
The author got polio at a young age and that closed a lot of immediate doors for him such as soccer but then later on it opened many more doors in his life that probably wouldn't have opened had he not contracted polio. It's neat when these things happen. Now maybe you guys will quit crying about Covid-19.
Notes:
The only way to prepare for the future is to make the most of yourself.
We have more senses besides the five traditional ones such as:
- sense of balance
- sense of temperature
- sense of pain
- kinesthetic sense (which gives us an awareness of our limbs)
- sense of intuition (Some doctors don't like to recognize the)
The diversity of intelligences is one of the fundamental underpinnings of the Element, if you don't embrace the fact that you think about the world in a wide variety of ways you severely limit your chances of finding the person who are meant to be.
Creativity can be taught and learned like traditional intelligence.
People's intelligences are as diverse as a fingerprint.
The author likes the Herman brain dominant instrument test is better than the Myers Briggs one.
Almost as good as the element is finding your tribe. A good tribe should inspire validate and provide synergy.
Doing something for your own good is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less then you really are.
Languages are the bearers of the culture genes.
There are four principles that characterize lucky people:
1) they tend to maximize chance opportunities
2) they are effective at listening and following their intuition
3) they expect to be lucky
4) they have an attitude that turns bad luck into good luck.
I believe my recent host Joe, is lucky. Or rather, he creates his own luck, like Harvey Dent.
Mentors appear in people's lives at opportune times.
I love his last bit on it's never too late.
There should be a difference in our chronological age and our real age.
People don't age. They decay and rot because of their bad choices.
I need to go to the website realage.com
The college degree was once a passport to a good job now it is just a visa because of the inflation of degrees and everyone has one.
He got on his little political soapbox at the end which was stupid and unnecessary. He couldn't have come up with a better name than "the other climate crisis" that we're going through?