And I want to say a few words about what it is, about why it matters and what you can do about it if you feel you haven’t found yours yet.

Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and

In this book he helps you focus on "the element' where the things you are good and what you love to do come into clear view. There are some steps to follow to help you form your talents into focus. I wish there had been more of these. He gets you started in the direction you need to go it's up to you to keep the momentum. And what I’ve really tried to try to is describe what that means and how you can bring that about in your life if you don’t have it already. First, nobody shares the same genetic structure with you, even if you have an identical twin. Secondly, you’re pretty different from the people you share most of your traits with because you’ve certainly grown up in some reasonably different circumstances.

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The search for your element is a two-way journey: an inward journey to explore what lies within you and an outward journey to explore opportunities in the world around you. The New York Times bestselling author of The Element gives readers an inspirational and practical guide to self-improvement, happiness, creativity, and personal transformation. You, Your Child, and School is forthcoming from Viking. Is there anything you feel you might be good at if you had the chance to work at it properly? (p. 77)

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You probably have at least one of them, or maybe even more than a handful! You just need to open your eyes to discover them. You need to stay alert and think globally rather than locally. Because you can become a good bobsledder even if you’re living in Jamaica! How would you find that out if you’re not watching the Olympics and dancing to the beat of your heart?Lou Aronica is the author of two novels and coauthor of several works of nonfiction, including The Culture Code (with Clotaire Rapaille) and The Element. Read more Details She who grew up as the daughter of a ‘ranking gang member” in East Los Angeles. After being ‘saved’ by inspirational teachers, she qualified as a teacher herself and returned to her old school to help transform the lives of others. “Everyone has a story,” she says. “Everyone has a struggle and everyone needs help along the way.” In other words, everyone’s life is “a constant process of improvisation” between interests and personality on one hand and circumstances and opportunities on the other.

Finding Your Element : How to Discover Your Talents and Finding Your Element : How to Discover Your Talents and

Then, why HAVE so many people have not found their Element? Simple, it’s because they just don’t know what their aptitudes are, since the educational system and society don’t care for uniqueness and individuality as much as they do for conformity and templates. If you’re even a bit like us, you’ve asked yourself if you’re living your life the right way hundreds of times – and such reflection will likely come again a few hundred times more until the day ends. Let us hazard a guess: you’re probably asking yourself that question right now.

Sometimes, the latter makes all the difference: if you’ll discover your aptitude and find a way to link it with your passions is severely affected by your immediate surroundings.Poor people, for example, don’t have the same freedom in pursuing their passions as rich ones, and some cultures permit or discourage some aptitudes.

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In 2010, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, estimated that every two days we now create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003." (p. 7)

Tu îți creezi și recreezi propria viață. Folosește-te de creativitate și inventivitate pentru asta. You may be better than you think at what you love. You may underestimate your talent because you set unreasonably high standards for yourself. Having high standards is good, provided you're not immobilized by self-criticism. It shares the same primary philosophy and works as a somewhat practical self-improvement manual to go with the theoretical groundwork set in “The Element.” And we’re here to share with you the best bits.Let’s go! Written by one of the foremost educationalists of our time, Sir Ken Robinson, and his collaborator, Lou Aronica, “Finding Your Element” is a proper sequel to the pair’s tremendously successful debut titled “The Element.” If you care about how you are gifted and how to utilize those gifts to reach your full potential so as to make meaningful contribution to the society, then, this book is for you.