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The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
by Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica
The title makes this book sound really campy, like one of those self-help books that is clearly meant to just waste your money so someone else can get rich out of BSing you.
However, it wasn't really like that.
The Element is essentially a collection of stories of how famous people found the "thing" that they are good at, and that they love doing. Ken Robinson humanizes them, taking away all the mythical glitz, and describing how they accomplished their passions even through intense hardships. i.e. Apparently James Earl Jones was a stutterer and had stage fright before he became a famous actor.
All of these stories are very encouraging since he approaches them from every possible doubt or excuse one may be tempted to hide behind. i.e. What if a centenarian wants to be a ballerina?
He ends the book with a strong criticism of current school systems and how they stifle creativity (and finding our Element) under the guise of teaching kids what someone standardized test decides they "need" to learn.
I couldn't agree more with this, and his compilation of stories was very educational and motivational.
The question is: how do we get there?
p.s. This book is not a practical guide to achieving everything he shares in his stories. Apparently this is: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158494-finding-your-element
However, it wasn't really like that.
The Element is essentially a collection of stories of how famous people found the "thing" that they are good at, and that they love doing. Ken Robinson humanizes them, taking away all the mythical glitz, and describing how they accomplished their passions even through intense hardships. i.e. Apparently James Earl Jones was a stutterer and had stage fright before he became a famous actor.
All of these stories are very encouraging since he approaches them from every possible doubt or excuse one may be tempted to hide behind. i.e. What if a centenarian wants to be a ballerina?
He ends the book with a strong criticism of current school systems and how they stifle creativity (and finding our Element) under the guise of teaching kids what someone standardized test decides they "need" to learn.
I couldn't agree more with this, and his compilation of stories was very educational and motivational.
The question is: how do we get there?
p.s. This book is not a practical guide to achieving everything he shares in his stories. Apparently this is: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158494-finding-your-element