Blog 1: Business Story Telling
Blog 1: Business Story Telling
How inspiring is to watch “Bring the Learning Revolution” delivered by Sir Ken Robinson on Ted.com. One of the key elements in this article is to “revolutionize” our learning experiences by recognizing that every single human being is different. Nowadays in a web world, with all these new technologies blasting our experiences the word “different” has a real meaning, because it means that there is something out there with enough power, with abundant potential of his or her own, something unique that might enlighten our vision, our perspectives about our own conceptions.
As the author stated “Many people go to their whole life having no sense of what talents may be or if they have any to speak of”. In that respect, the problem is how life is conceived “they endure it rather than enjoying it”, says Sir Robinson.
The speaker really caught my attention when he stated that “education dislocate many people from the natural talents, and human resources are like natural resources’. In that sense, the author makes an interesting point at comparing human beings with natural resources that are hard to find. From his point of view, we need to return to the agricultural model instead of the industrial model that produces linearity, comfortability and batching people. In contrast, agricultural model is about harvesting what we sow, and human nature follows the same rule. Even though he recognizes that “human flourishing is not a mechanical process, it is an organic process, and you can not predict the outcome of human development”.
Moreover “all you can do like a farmer is to create the conditions on the soil, they will flourish”.
In that sense, the author suggest that leaders in education, media and corporate must change metaphors in which an educational system, in an industrial model, produces a line of people in certain area of expertise. It is about revolution in education, it is about creating a movement where people develop their own solutions. “Once we reform education and transform it, it is about customizing to your own circumstances and personalize education to people that is actually teaching”.
This particular speech, from Sir Ken Robinson, reminded me about Full Sail University. In every class, every single instructor has highlighted the importance of doing what we really like. Doing what we really like is about exciting our spirits, feeding our energy, feeding our passion to create a meaningful company, program, movie, song or adventure that really makes a difference in this world, because we are passionate about it. It is about passion for a dream, it is about putting your heart, your mind, your talent to work in something that is meaningful to us. As Sir Robertson concluded “doing that is the answer to the future,” and indeed, we will create a relevant career behind us for the passion that is behind our spirit.
For those of you who want to watch this topic, you can find it at: http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html
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Millennial girls and women have grown up with the sentiment that independence is one of the most important qualities for a modern woman to possess and that we should never, ever let our happiness depend on a boy. While those are certainly important tenets to try to live in accordance to, it can be hard to reconcile that with our needs as humans who have the basic desire to be liked and cared for. What results is the tug-of-war between finding healthy companionship and maintaining your own self-sufficiency that comes to define late-youth. Katie Crutchfield, the woman behind Waxahatchee, is now 26 years old—a good age to begin the inevitable power cleanse of the toxic relationships in your life. Her third album Ivy Tripp documents this transitional period with even more of the self-awareness and wisdom that characterised her previous work.
There is subtle sunniness to the album suggesting that whatever was burdening Crutchfield during the making of her last two albums has dissipated, most likely through her own will. While, as a whole, Ivy Tripp stays on brand for Waxahatchee, there are a few pop tracks sprinkled throughout that prove Crutchfield is growing sonically as well. Crutchfield’s fingerprints are all over the album and the delicate lo-fi quality harkens back to her debut album of bedroom recordings, 2012′s American Weekend, making the maturation of her lyrics even more apparent.
Even with some of the quieter songs, Ivy Tripp is never boring. However, the standout is, without a doubt, its first single “Under A Rock”. The pop-rock track is Crutchfield’s rallying cry against dudes in whom she’s become maybe too emotionally invested, flippantly singing “Now you’re someone else’s mess tonight”. Later on in the album, in the hazy “<”, she croons “You’re less than me; I am nothing”, articulating the simultaneous self-deprecation and self-assuredness of a 20-something fumbling around with their newfound adulthood.
Ivy Tripp is the light at the end of early adulthood. While it is melancholic, there is a sense of contentment overshadowing that, or at least making it a little more palatable. Listening to it in one sitting feels like going to the beach on a rainy day at the beginning of spring; everything is damp and the air still feels vaguely bitter, but at least you’re finally outside.
How the power of imagination can shape and redefine society
The key is to recognize that our imaginings must be in some way tethered to the world in order for them to be useful to us. When we let our imagination fly completely free, it can be of use to us, but only in the transcendent sense.
The power of imagination is not to be underestimated. As Albert Einstein accredited a plethora of his pioneering scientific work to his imagination, Martin Luther King’s dream allowed him to convey his idea of a better, more tolerable society. These changes are made possible when the imagination drifts into an alternate space, considering the world as it is currently in its entirety, while dreaming of an improved version of it.
Image: Hot Air Ballon by Cleverpix. CC0 Public Domain via Pixabay.
Elimina el sexo de la relación, y verás que hay personas que no tienen nada más que ofrecer.
“In mechanical arts, the craftsman uses his skill to produce something useful, but his sole merit lies in skill. In the fine arts the student uses skill to produce something beautiful. He is free to choose what that something shall be, and the layman claims that he may and must judge the artist chiefly by the value in beauty of the thing done. Artistic skill contributes to beauty, or it would not be skill; but beauty is the result of many elements, and the nobler the art the lower is the rank which skill takes among them.“
– Attributed to Fleeming Jenkin, in John Munro’s Heroes of the Telegraph.
Professor Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin represents both the craftsman and the artist of the early nineteenth century. This renaissance man of Edinburgh was born on 25 March 1833. His prolific career as an electrical engineer and professor glitters with a variety of accomplishments. He is known as the engineer of the telpher, or aerial tramway. In addition to engineering, he crossed over into the business and academic work; his writing topics extended into over 35 British patents, and over 40 published papers.
Fleeming Jenkin won medals during his professional career from the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his graphical method to calculate strains in bridges; yet he also drew portraits, wrote about artistry, and contributed to commentary on popular literature in his time.
Electricity and magnetism formed one of Fleeming Jenkin’s major passions; he participated in the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, and determined a convenient unit and standard of electrical resistance with a committee.
Image: Aerial tramway in La Grave (France) by NielsB. CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
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Remember: Comparison is the thief of joy. No matter how high you climb, it’s always easy to worry about who has climbed higher, or if you are climbing fast enough. I keep this quote on my writing desk and stare at it every day to remind myself never to compete against anyone except myself. There will always be someone better, and there will always be someone else who believes that I am better than they are. It doesn’t matter a whit—what matters is your heart and your drive. And nothing else.
Lisa Amowitz is the author of fantasy/thrillers for young adults, including Until Beth. She is also a cover designer and a professor of Graphic Design at Bronx Community College.
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Here you will find some of the things that I really like. I like writing, music, poems, and producing any idea that comes to my mind. I hope you like it!
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