Ta książka każdemu da wiele do myślenia. The Element. How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson. Pierwsze angielskie wydanie – Penguin Books, 2009 i od razu stała się New York Times Bestseller. W 2012 roku ukazała się po polsku: Uchwycić żywioł. O tym, jak znalezienie pasji zmienia wszystko (wydawnictwo Element).
The Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn saw this clearly. „If you want to change the world,” he said, „who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.”
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To make the best of our time together on this small and crowded planet, we have to develop – consciously and rigorously – our powers of imagination and creativity within a different framework of human purpose. Michelangelo once said, „the greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” For all our futures, we need to aim high and be determined to succeed.
To do that each of us individually and all of us together need to discover the Element.
W indeksie najczęściej pojawiają się hasła: brain, creativity, culture, education system, Element, intelligence, luck, mentors, tribe, zone.
Książka dla każdego ucznia i nauczyciela. Książka dla wszystkich, którzy chcą iść w ślady mistrzów.
Monica Seles, mistrzyni dziewięciu turniejów wielkoszlemowych. Wimbledonu nie udało się jej nigdy wygrać:
Superstar athlete Monica Seles says, „When I am consistently playing my best tennis, I am also consistently in the zone,” but notes, „Once you think about being in the zone, you are immediately out of it.”
