The Element.
Sir Ken Robinson is an amazing guy. I keep nearly meeting him at conferences we’re both at, but never quite do. His new book The Element, which he talks about here at the RSA in London, sounds fantastic. It’s about diversity of human talent, and three arguments run through it:
1. Finding purpose in your work is essential to knowing who you really are.
2. Growth and development is non-linear. Education should not be a mechanistic process.
3. Human talent isn’t lying on the surface, it’s often buried deep inside.
Like Gladwell’s most recent outing, Robinson looks at success within different environments. Looking forward to cracking this.
March 2nd, 2009 at 6:31 pm
I bought “Out of our Minds” two years ago after his TED talk on education. It wasn’t quite as good as I hoped although there were places where it was very incisive.
Hopefully this is better because if a book can translate into being just half as good as his speeches it would be spectacular.
Gladwell’s book (and who would have ever thought they’d said this) is highly underrated in my opinion.