Find/choose/pick the right career path for you
Wait but why: How to choose a career
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)
Creativity and Purpose
Sir Ken Robinson: How school kills creativity
Which role does education play in our search for our purpose?
In How school kills creativity Sir Ken Robinson describes the story of the lady which eventually wrote the Cats musical. He also tells the story in his TED talk - the most viewed TED talk of all times.
- Creativity of humans
- Uncertainty / Unpredictability of the future
Education takes us into the future we can’t grasp
If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with something original
Creativity: Having original ideas which have value
In his second talk
Education dislocates many people from their talents.
Challenging things which we believe are obvious.
Tyranny of common sense
Note: His book “The Element” is all about finding your purpose.
Ikigai
Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life
Refuse to choose by Barbara Sher
According to a framework of Barbara Sher there are two types of humans: Scanners and Divers. She writes about it in her Book Refuse to Choose.
A certain group of people (i.e. scanners) it’s particular difficult to find their ideal career path
Scanner
Who is a scanner?
Intense curiosity about numerous unrelated subjects is one of the most basic characteristics of a Scanner.
Taken from Barbara Sher’s blog post Are you a scanner?.
Diver
Who is a diver?
A violin virtuosa cannot imagine a happy life in which you don’t play the violin every single day for several hours.
Society prefers Divers
Historically socity prefers divers. In the following TED Talk a species very similar to that of a scanner (or is it the same?) is discussed:
- A so-called multi-potentialate.
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