Think About It

Why do you do what you do? How do you
know what you know? How do you do what you do? Think about it.

As much as you are busy and don't feel you have the time to stop and think, you should. Have time to soak it in. You can't control your time, but you can manage it. Every experience should teach something new, even if it strengthens the importance of a past lesson.

The role that blogging plays for me is sharing memorable experiences and my reflections. I influence the thoughts of other people positively so that they want to influence others. How about you? What does blogging mean to you and value to do share?

Welcome to the interwebs, and I hope I've made you think about thinking for at least a few seconds.

Why do you do what you do?

January42013

Ken Robinson - Educating the Heart and Mind (Quotes from the talk below for summary)

- Education must move toward diversity and not conformity

- It’s a humam resources crisis. People need to know what they are capable of.

- Out of about 80 billion people born on Earth, 10% of them are on the planet today.

- The problem is the ideology of education, the values and assumptions.

- to be born at all is a miracle. YOU MADE IT.

- Every school should be different and great, not a fast-food model of education

- what are chicken nuggets? It’s a conspiracy? We should be TOLD! (Haha!)

- the plague of ADHD is a false epidemic (900,000 falsely diagnosed in 2010)

- when cuts begint o be talked about and standardization becomes the order of the day, the hierarchy of education becomes apparent.

- we associate certain subjects with hard and soft knowledge, which leads to labeling subjects “unimportant”

- students are too much thought of “”minds in a head” instead of developing people

- I think and feel, therefore I am.

- We may go as a species. Planet Earth may try to shrug us off. “We tried humanity, not so good. We gave it fifty thousand years….” - The Onion

- We live in two worlds (The world you in exist in and the world that exists because you exist. YOUR INNER AND PRIVATE CONSCIOUSNESS.

- We try to bridge these two worlds. Education problems are caused from not bridging these two worlds.

- I think we pay a high price for the exile of feeling in education.

- Feeling and knowing are parts of the came complex of a whole being. Feeling is a perception affected by our thinking.

- Education should connect ourselves with ourselves and ourselves with each other.

- We have to recognize that education is personal

- We have to put the arts back into education. We express our own unique individual humanity in these.

- Learn to embrace mindfulness and apply it in experience

- Most educations are impersonal and mechanistic. People are not mechanism, they are organisms.

- Schools have much more freedom then we often believe they do. How the school is run is really up to the leadership of the school and the collective will of the people running it.

- Education and human life is organic

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November42012

Top Ten TED Talks.

Do it. Watch one of these videos every day. No more than 18 minutes. Watch them. A never-ending source of amazing information to help you see the world differently and learn more then you ever thought possible.

This is where things are happening that most of us don’t see.

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September112012

The Test that Really Matter: The TESTS of LIFE

ve have tests on my mind. Specifically, the tests that really matter and the ones that are just a test. I’m talking about the tests that build character and personality. The tests that you don’t want to fail. If you do, you see the consequences and they worsen when you fail them. Not one individual is exempt from the tests that come from leadership responsibility of the self and other people. Habitudes book chapter from the organization Growing Leaders (This is not my idea).

Key points:

- We all experience these tests at one time or another.

- Our goal is to pass the test and excel the expectations

- Anticipate tests in life and assume a positive outlook on passing them to do well.

- Before promotion or growth, you must be tested.

- Every promotion builds internal preparation and reveals your readiness to move forward

- There is a difference between self-promotion and authentic promotion.

- Promoting oneself does not substitute for true promotion from real leaders

- Cool metaphor: A product is never used until it is tested; the same goes for people in life challenges. People that make a difference have been tested constantly.

- Authority and usefulness is your goal? Expect to be tested constantly

All right, enough of the points. Here’s the real course of the meal.

Life Tests:

1. Small Things - Are you willing to go beneath your potential to accomplish small tasks, step-by-step, to prepare for the future?

2. Motive - Are you willing to do the right thing for the situation? Why you do something determines what you do.

3. Stewardship - Are you willing to be wise and generous, thankful for the resources that you have?

4. Wilderness - Are you willing to perform when life isn’t fun? Changing and growing despite the brick walls that you encounter?

5. Credibility - Are you willing to follow through on tasks with integrity? Can you compromise under pressure?

6. Authority - Are you willing to learn to be a follower before a leader? Can you submit to positional authority?

7. Offense - Are you willing to forgive others and balance your level of vulnerability when it comes to dealing with situations?

8. Warfare - Are you willing to stick with it? Pursue visions despite consequences and conflicts?

9. Time - Are you willing to use your time wisely and seize important opportunities when they come to you?

10. MASTERY - Who has the true authority in your life? When situations get tough, whose voice will determine what you do? Do you have a heart response to authority in your life?

Recognize these life tests and pass them. I guarantee you could take any life situations and apply several of these life tests. I love leadership. Can’t you tell?

Thanks for reading. I can honestly say that it’s difficult following every single one all the time.

How well have you done with these tests?

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February222012

Don’t Lecture Me: Rethinking How College Students Learn

Redish has been teaching at the University of Maryland since 1970. When he started, he lectured because that’s the way he had been taught. But after a few years in the classroom, Redish was meeting with one of his mentors, a famous physicist named Lewis Elton who had begun doing research on education.

“He asked me, ‘How’s your teaching?’”

Redish told him it was going well, but that he seemed to be most effective with the students “who do really well and are motivated” about physics.

Elton looked at Redish, smiled, and said, “They’re the ones who don’t really need you.”

(Source: world-shaker)

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February202012

Something to really think about. What is true learning? Memorization? Experience?

Michio Kaku brings up an interesting point.

Education Curiosity Learned Michio Kaku

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