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

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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. Understanding your own aptitudes is an essential part of finding your Element,” they write, because your Element is “where natural aptitude meets personal passion.”

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Full Book Name: Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life The author confirms that you have already got your element, but you have to find it. Some key recommendations to find your element; In 2010, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, estimated that every two days we now create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003." (p. 7)

Second principle: You create your own life.

When he was eight, he took a college entrance math exam and got 98%. When he was twenty, he took his PhD in pure math and got it. And when he was thirty, he was awarded the Fields medal for mathematics, which is the equivalent of the Nobel Prize. There are those who say that we can’t afford to personalize education to every student. The fact is that we can’t afford not to. Watch the program and see what I mean. 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.

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Viața este organică și nu liniară, traseul vieții nu poate fi planificat. Singurii care pot fi planificați sunt următorii pași. I stumbled on to the books of Ken Robinson in the way that thousands of others probably have: through his wildly popular TED Talks. His easy-going speaking style and gentle sense of humor serve the topic of self-discovery particularly well. In Finding Your Element, you’ll find a writing style that closely matches what you may have seen while watching those videos. Robinson has a genuine interest in sharing the wisdom of self-knowledge that shines through. Teaching is an art form. Great teachers know they have to cultivate curiosity, passion and creativity in their students. Ramsey Mussallam is a high school chemistry teacher, who shows how achievement soars when teachers fire the imaginations of their students with a true spirit of inquiry.

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That’s why finding your Element means being open-minded and exploring new paths and possibilities in yourself and in the world around you. There is no perfect path nor a certain path. So, don’t try to plan things ahead. Just take the first step. Final Notes You probably have at least one of them, or maybe even more than a handful! You just need to open your eyes to discover them. You need to stay alert and think globally rather than locally. Because you can become a good bobsledder even if you’re living in Jamaica! How would you find that out if you’re not watching the Olympics and dancing to the beat of your heart?