The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
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- ISBN13: 9781400160600
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From one of the world’s leading thinkers and speakers on creativity and self-fulfillment, a leap forwards book about talent, passion, and achievement.
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I stopped reading it. It’s just adage the same things over and over. It was a “recommended” book when I bought another book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is such a silly book. Worse, its therapies are misguided.
The leader rails against traditional education that emphasizes reading, writing, and math. He also dislikes the standardized tests that students across the country must take.
How misguided! To get a excellent job, one that is appealing and fulfulling, you must gain foundational skills in these three areas. It is absolutely imperative for most students. There are a few exceptions, but how many people have the superb native talent of a Mozart or an Einstein?
Once you have these foundational skills, you erect upon them in the meadow of study you delight in. Then you can go anywhere, do anything. And probably get well paid for it. At least in America. But getting persons foundational skills in the first place requires regularly dull routine study and some rote learning. That is a hard truth that many modern educators rebel against. But there doesn’t seem to be any shortcut around it.
There is so much to disagree with in this book. For example, the leader says once you are cast as a certain type in a corporation, you are stuck with that role. I disagree entirely. The leader is British, and maybe that is right of corporations in the UK. But not in the USA. I have worked many years for several American corporations, both huge and tiny, and nearly lacking exception, they are open to advancement by their employees. They consider it win-win — the corporation wins and the employee wins.
For example, if you are a ’science’ type or a ‘financial’ type who wants to strike out into new territory, let’s say into publicity or sales, many corporations will welcome you. Here’s why: So few people in their publicity department have a clue about science, logic, and numbers, they welcome your background and expertise. In fact, you can regularly write your own ticket in such situations. You already know what the science side of the house is thinking, ie, their mentality and their approach to problem-solving. That can be very valuable in the right circles.
But the point is you need (at least) a foundational education in reading, writing, and math. You can’t get around it. When you have that foundation, the sky’s the limit — you can pursue virtually any career, you can go wherever you like. Lacking that foundation, you will likely flounder around for the rest of your life, possibly become a burden to your family tree and to society — unless you are very exceptional.
The leader points to several exceptional talents, eg Paul McCartney, whose undiscovered talent was overlooked by his school system. McCartney is indeed an exceptional talent, and whose talent eventually shone through, as has the talent of countless songwriters in the past. Did Harold Arlen or Richard Rodgers, the creators of melodies at least as gorgeous as any of McCartney’s, go to special schools or follow a special curriculum? Of course not. Is McCartney representative of most students, even a few students? Hardly. I suspect that the majority of students place into special programs, thinking they’re the next Paul McCartney, would end up being very disappointed. Worse, they may end up being a derelict with skills that are valued by nobody.
You only have a few precious years to learn foundational skills. Let’s not waste them by following pie-in-the sky, unproven, and treacherous theories like this leader’s.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The premise: Find success tales of persons who were criticized early in life by persons who did not admit their talents. The plot: Work backwards and say, “Wow! They did it anyway.”
What an obtuse bore. I saw this guy interviewed on Huckabee, too, and thought that the book would rate with a Malcolm Gladwell read. Not even close. There are few facts and longwinded observations that trek into the all too obvious. I’m 53 pages in and feel like I haven’t made it past the introduction. It’s a tedious read–one that would be assigned in an education class. Not as terrible as “Hooked on Books,” but it belongs on the same shelf. It’s no surprise to me that the leader is an educator.
Blah. Blah. Blah.
What a serious disappointment.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book could well go down as one of the most vital books of the 21st Century. Sir Ken Robinson is one of the formost thinkers of our time.
Allan Hunkin, Leader
“Finding The Elegant Solution In Any Situation”
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Some of these reviewers must be disingenuous. This is not the book that is suggested on the back take in. I am very interested in creativity and work in a creative meadow, so naturally I was drawn to this book. But as some others have noted, this is nothing more than a collection of abbreviated bios of the rich and legendary and contains hardly a word about being more creative in our own work, or how to find this rumor has it that erroneous “element”. One star because it was not what it alleged to be and that is fraud (but a creative way to sell a book, no doubt).
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5