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his popular TED Talks on creativity, Sir Ken Robinson emphasizes the importance of taking risks and making mistakes. “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original,” he explains. “We’re running education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. We’re educating people out of their creative capacities.”
Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick, Ken Robinson
Brand: The one thing I draw from your work and from Danny's is a sense that stories are always wrong. These narrative accounts that we give are not only always wrong, they're always misleading because they're so comforting and persuasive. We want to tell stories, we like to hear stories, and once we've heard the story, we now understand the situation and we're done. It's pathological, our love of stories in this sense of trying to be accurate about things that might happen, or trying to understand the levels of what's going to. In biology, we encounter this all the time. There are so many simplistic stories relating to evolution, and you look a little deeper and it just isn't that simple ever.
Edge Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class I | Edge.org
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The problem is that so many of us discount the value of minutes and overestimate the value of an hour or a day or a weekend. We dither away our minutes as if they were useless, assuming that creativity can only happen in increments of an hour or a day or more. What a bunch of hooey.
Someday Is Today
Matthew Dicks and Elysha Dicks
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