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This made me chuckle. Its true, we are in one of the most incredible times in history. We shouldn’t forget that so easily.

I originally saw this at:
http://www.justsell.com/be-more-amazed-complain-less/?utm_source=js-newsletter_2009-08-05&utm_medium=email&utm_content=text_heres-a-hilarious-4-minute-video-clip

I thought overall he has some very motivational things to say. A lot of what I got from him is, if you are scared, ask yourself why and what’s the worst that could happen. Learn from the best. Reading some other people’s comments, he might over simplify some things in the sense that they may not be exactly reproducible. Specifically, he learns japanese, buuuuut he says it was because he had a kanji poster that helped him narrow his problem space. Having a poster on my wall of stuff might help but the fact that he was also living IN Japan AND living WITH a japanese family probably helped a little too. I do agree with narrowing and breaking down your problem space though and also that attitude is a huge part of achievement and success. He’s got a great amount of attitude, achievement and success.

Like his talk? Check out his book:

Bonnie Bassler has a fantastic way of painting bacteria as if they were the tiny men from Gulliver’s Travels. I think I was just as interested in the squid she talks about as I was in bacterial communication. She talks about how the squid holds the bacteria in a special compartment and has detectors on its back to figure out how much light is coming down during the night and to let out more light or less from the glowing bacteria based on the amount of light detected from its back. Basically it is the stealth bomber of the sea.

Here’s her profile at Princeton:
http://www.molbio.princeton.edu/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=27

Ok, I’ve been on a real education kick lately with videos, so here’s another. The main idea was starting a tutoring center for writing and homework. I love his idea of a pirate store that you have to walk through that leads to the tutoring area, and all the other crazy store examples showing that it isn’t school, its something completely different. I think the idea of tutoring is powerful and what he says about one on one time and how it transformed the life of the boy who was addicted to video games is a great story.

Here’s a link to the organization he talks about:
http://onceuponaschool.org/

They’ve also got a facebook page for this:
http://www.facebook.com/onceuponaschool

Like his talk? Buy his book:

One of my favorite parts of this video is where he talks about the story of the little girl that couldn’t seem to sit still. I’m sure just reading that you are already thinking “yeah, another ADHD kid”, but its worth watching to see what they ended up doing and what she ended up becoming. Sobering to think about in how we deal with children and what we see in them.

Like his talk? Check out two of his books:

There’s more than one Ken Robinson on wikipedia so here’s his wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Robinson_(British_author)