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Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems

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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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City of Liverpool
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Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.
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The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.
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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.
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We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.
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It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.
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What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.
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Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.
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Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.
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We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.
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Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.
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Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.
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Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.
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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.
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One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
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