Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

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It’s never too late, never. Even if you’re 50 years old, you can start a new career. With all those courses and tutorials out there, how much time should you really need to acquire a new skill? A few months? A year? Maybe two? Finding your Element is a personal quest...The quest for your Element is really a two-way journey. It is an inward journey to explore what lies within you; it is an outward journey to explore opportunities in the world around you. The aim of the book is to help you find your way. Whether you fulfill your potential depends on your commitment and fortitude and on how highly you value the possible prize. If you are prepared to do what it takes, I trust you’ll find a lot here to help and inspire you.” (pp. xxii-xxiii) In this book he helps you focus on "the element' where the things you are good and what you love to do come into clear view. There are some steps to follow to help you form your talents into focus. I wish there had been more of these. He gets you started in the direction you need to go it's up to you to keep the momentum. Written by one of the foremost educationalists of our time, Sir Ken Robinson, and his collaborator, Lou Aronica, “Finding Your Element” is a proper sequel to the pair’s tremendously successful debut titled “The Element.” All young people have unique talents and interests. In his moving poem, Malcolm London argues that education has to connect with the real lives of young people and not stifle their hopes and dreams. This is one of the themes of my own new book, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life.

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The book is full of thought-provoking information, suggestions, and case histories, but what might be most valuable are the self-exploration questions the author proposes at the end of each chapter. Here’s a sampling: Like the rest of nature, human talents and passions are tremendously diverse and they take many forms. As individuals, we’re all motivated by different dreams and we thrive—and we wilt too—in very different circumstances. Recognizing your own dreams and the conditions you need to fulfill them are essential to becoming who you can be. Finding your own Element won’t guarantee that you’ll spend the rest of your life in a constant unbroken state of pleasure and delight. It will give you a deeper sense of who you really are and of the life you could and maybe should live.” (pp. 242-243) This book is part inspiration, part guided introspection, a celebration of our abilities and creativity and builds upon his earlier work. I didn’t read its predecessor as I tend toward a more hands-on approach and this fit the bill. Delivered in a conversational tone and often self-deprecating, it is a practical guide to finding your element: where your passions and aptitudes intersect. This isn’t a prescribed-step program, but a highly personal process based on three principles: your life is unique, you create your own life and it is organic. Nothing new, I know, but he couches it in reality, not psycho-babble. An organization with a staff that’s fully engaged is far more likely to succeed than one with a large portion of its workforce detached, cynical and uninspired.” While not everyone can become financially rich through their Element, everyone is entitled to be enriched by it." (p. 103)Then, why HAVE so many people have not found their Element? Simple, it’s because they just don’t know what their aptitudes are, since the educational system and society don’t care for uniqueness and individuality as much as they do for conformity and templates. Craig Kielburger]: "...I met with drug dealers who have greater faith in children to run drugs than I see people in the United States and Canada put in their own kids." (pp. 137-138) Sometimes, the latter makes all the difference: if you’ll discover your aptitude and find a way to link it with your passions is severely affected by your immediate surroundings.Poor people, for example, don’t have the same freedom in pursuing their passions as rich ones, and some cultures permit or discourage some aptitudes.

Robinson: Finding Your Element (Full Transcript) Sir Ken Robinson: Finding Your Element (Full Transcript)

The quest for your Element is really a two-way journey. It is an inward journey to explore what lies within you; it is an outward journey to explore opportunities in the world around you.”

So appreciate how unique your life is, both socially and biologically. Your exact experience has never existed in human history, and it will not exist again. You were born with an entirely unique biological makeup, and entered into entirely unique social circumstances. This results in a life experience that can never be recreated. One of the themes of TED Talks Education is that current policies are based on a tragic misdiagnosis of the problem. They treat education as an industrial process rather than as a human one. They are driven by a culture of testing and standardization that has narrowed the curriculum and sees students as data points and teachers as functionaries rather than as living breathing people. The ideal amount of money that most people want is more than they have now. Like the end of the rainbow, the optimum income seems to be just ahead of where we actually are." (p. 116)

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People of the earth element are rational, even-tempered, punctual, and adhered to reality. They are phlegmatic persons by temperament. These are earthy persons who do not make any amazing plans and projects. The person belonging to earth element perceives only what is possible to see and hear. Compatibility: Full text of educator Sir Ken Robinson’s talk: “ Finding Your Element”. In this talk, Sir Ken Robinson, offers a guide to finding and being in your element. He provides basic principles and tools to help guide us to do the work we enjoy with a sense of contentment and purpose.I meet some people, quite a lot of people actually, who feel they don’t have any real talents. They don’t have any special talents to speak of. Also, they don’t much enjoy the work they do, if they do work. They don’t enjoy their lives all that much. You know what I’m talking about, don’t you? I’m not saying it’s true of you, but you know, it’s true of a lot of people. Although mindfulness does not remove the ups and downs of life, it changes how experiences like losing a job, getting a divorce, struggling at home or at school, births, marriages, illnesses, death and dying influence you and how you influence the experience. . . . In other words, mindfulness changes your relationship to life.” Am observat trei principii esențiale, de care putem țin cont în planificarea drumului înspre Elementul fiecăruia: As the book quoted from Mark Twain, “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”