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I always try to go hard on the issue and soft on the person. ~ Henry Cloud

This is so true. I think as a leader it is critical to give people an opportunity to grow and change, feel corrected but valued, but not be negligent with what is happening if something really is an issue that needs to be addressed. Easier said than done but this quote really resonated with me.

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I’ve featured other videos of Sir Ken Robinson, but I love the style of RSA videos. This covers things that are covered from the two previous videos, but is definitely a great video and it’s neat how much the animations and doodles add to the experience. Main points I took from it were, education is broken because it is built off of broken concepts of 2 groups of people, the smart and the not smart. He points out that creativity and “divergent thinking” is very high when kids are young, but as they “get educated” their powers of creativity and divergent thinking tend to actually dramatically go down because of how we are structuring our education today. Also he says some comical but thought provoking things about ADHD and putting things in perspective of the world we live in today. Check it out.

This one starts off funny but not filling, but once he gets into the meat of this probably 5 minutes in or so, he has some fantastic thoughts on education to note. He points out some key things about how educational models need to move from modeling after the industrial model(factories and fast food) to the agricultural model(farming and individualized localized menus). He points out that there are so many people who are good at things they are not passionate about. We need to help kids find their passions. Great talk. Check it out:

I’m frugal. I can’t deny that. I drive a car older than most of the kids in our Sunday School, so I’m always on a continued quest to see if I can shave a few bucks off here or there on regularly used services.

Recently I’ve seen a lot of ads for Simple Mobile. I’m already using tmobile. They piggy back off tmobile. They have a plan that is unlimited phone, text, web for $60. I just got it set up yesterday, but so far so good.

My findings so far:
No quality of sound issues or internet connection issues.
I have a Samsung Vibrant(Galaxy S) phone. It was not intuitive to set up the internet connection when the sim card came, but once I got that taken care of, it was just fine.

If you have a Vibrant and are thinking about Simple Mobile, here’s the info on setting it up. The website says it’s supported, but it isn’t listed when you sign up so you have to find the info on Non-Compatible Phones, which I thought was a little goofy, but manageable.

http://simplemobile.webs.com/index/NonCompatiblePhones.jpg

Let’s see how this goes.

It is absolutely mind blowing what education could be like 5 years from now. The concept is a user interface for books that make it easy to flip chapter to chapter, page to page, and also have interactive objects within its pages, from expandable pictures and video to little apps within the pages, like a fun windpower game like app that shows how wind power might flow through a house structure. I can’t wait to see these in action.

http://pushpoppress.com/ourchoice/

Kathryn Schulz gives an interesting talk. When I first started watching this, I thought, hmm, I’m not sure I’m going to dig her speaking style, but that quickly changed. She brings up some key points about what it means to be wrong.

She asks a question of “What does it feel like to be wrong”. People give all kinds of answers like “sad. embarrassed. etc”. Then she explains, “that’s what it feels like when you realize you are wrong, but what does it feel like when you are wrong, before you know you are wrong?”. Her answer is that it feels a lot like it feels when you are right. The likens this to the coyote and road runner and how the road runner and coyote would run through the sky, but it was realization of the situation that would make the coyote fall. Though not reality, it shows how it feels. I took from it that truth and lies often feel similar when unexamined, but that truth is precious and needs to be carefully sought after because its so easy to live in “wrongness”.

It was interesting. Check it out:

Thought it was interesting. You can get her book here: