During my conversations with colleagues about a world without e-mail, the Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2014 came up. One of the points from the list that was brought to my attention was that this generation “will need to acquire the patience of scholarship. They will discover how to research information in [...]
Also tagged Creativity, Education, Social Media, Social NetworkingI am reading Clay Shirky‘s book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age and will share my thoughts once I’ve completed it, but wanted to share this little tidbit now. The idea of true competition is one that really resonates with me and is something I’ve been trying to make sense of in [...]
Also tagged 2.0, Books, competition, Creativity, LifeThe following ties in well with my recent post Parents should be leaders (not managers) and my overall theme for Autism Awareness Month, so I’m reposting it in its entirety. I first posted this in April of 2008. – – — — —– What would you think if your friend/neighbor/sibling told you that they had [...]
Also tagged acceptance, autism, awareness, leadership, Life, parentingLike Rework (which I reviewed last week), Ignore Everybody is my kind of book. Written by Hugh MacLeod of gapingvoid.com, it is made up of 40 short essays that each dive into a very specific idea or question. And pictures, lots of pictures from the cube-grenade gallery at gapingvoid.com. Based on many years of experience, [...]
Also tagged ArtOfLiving, Books, Creativity, DeliberatePractice, Life, Mastery, Work as ArtYou’re 22 years old, fresh out of school. It’s your first day as a teacher, and you learn that one of your students is a 6 year old autistic boy. You are given a stack of reports and files that tell you, in detail, how “bad” this little boy is and how hard it is [...]
Also tagged Asperger's Syndrome, autism, awareness, Books, Education, parentingI don’t remember exactly where I read this, and I’m paraphrasing a bit, but this little anecdote captures the essence of mastery, and the sacrifice that often goes with it: A world class, and world famous, dancer was approached by an excited fan following a performance. “You were fantastic!” the fan said. “I’d give half [...]
Also tagged Balance, DeliberatePractice, Life, Mastery, parentingHow many times have you heard someone say, “Those who can’t do, teach (or coach)”? How many times have you said it, or thought it? I think we all probably have at some point in our lives. Except for those who know early on that what they want to do is teach or coach. They [...]
Also tagged DeliberatePractice, Education, Life, Mastery, Work as ArtIn his recent article Planning is very important…. It doesn’t work, Jack Vinson has this insight into planning: If they hadn’t planned, there is no chance they would have been able to accomplish what they wanted to do. At the same time, if they had decided that the plan was exactly what they were going [...]
Also tagged Books, Complexity, Concept Work, DeliberatePractice, Mastery, planning, thinkingI have had a lot of teachers throughout my life. Some taught me because they were paid to, some because they were supposed to, and some because they wanted to. Many of the best teachers in my life, though, had no idea that they were teaching me. (Or, perhaps more accurately, that I was learning [...]
Also tagged Life, Mastery, parentingOn the TV show NCIS the main character, Special Agent Gibbs, has two primary passions: catching bad guys and building boats. Not just any kind of boat, but hand made wooden sailboats. Which he builds in his basement. (A running gag on the show is the question of how he gets the boats out of [...]
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