Notes from Sir Ken Robinson’s presentation at The Art of Leadership Conference, Friday, October 21, 2016.
This speaker is the author of Finding Your Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything — which I ended up purchasing after this presentation.
All people are born with tremendous talent, which may go undiscovered their entire lives. Learning is a natural thing for humans, but is influenced by our environment. Talent needs to be cultivated.
From a Gallop poll: 70% of people working in office jobs are disengaged with it. From WHO: by 2020, the second most prevalent cause of illness and mortality will be depression. Antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs now sell more than anti–acid reflux drugs. This means a lot of people haven’t found what their true talent is, and they are working in some kind of job just to be able to live a mundane life.
So it’s about finding what you’re good at, not just about aptitude. It’s more than that, it’s about finding what you LOVE to do. You will know what it is when it increases your physical energy as well as your spiritual energy. You feed off of it. If you love what you do, it feeds your energy.
To capitalize on talent, you need both attitude and opportunity to make it work. But it’s actually harder to contain talent than it is to allow it to flourish.
To be born at all is a miracle, so what are you going to do with YOUR life?
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