I found a great video that supports the views that I believe and speak of in my presentations. We have poor use of our talents. Many of us do not believe that we have talents at all. This is a great misnomer.
Tell me what type of work you would prefer to do, work that is a chore or work that you enjoy. Do you believe you can actually enjoy the work you do daily? I know, for a number of people this is unbelievable, only because they have never tired it.
If you were doing a job which spoke to you, the real you inside, you would enjoy it and not even consider the fact that it was work. Consider something that you enjoy so much that you lost track of time and you wish you had more hours in the day to do what you are doing. This is when you are working from a position of using your talents.
Sir Ken Robinson talks about having a revolution in education to provide an opportunity to develop creative thinkers and value the talents that people have. To stay competitive in the global market we need to develop more talent focused organization, businesses and institutions of education. What do you think? Please share your thoughts in the comments below.
I believe that we are losing the focus on creativity with the heavy focus on cost reduction in education. But that is not good.
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Rosie,
I think that if our education system was more talent focused and our society valued people who worked using their talents we would not be so concerned about budget reduction. Why? Everyone would be enjoying their job and be more productive.
Developing a talent based workforce is the type of stimulus our country needs.
Kevin
Kevin I did a guest post last week on Marvelous Martha’s blog which relates to this topic.
http://marthachinnock.com/joecheray/
I talk about my light bulb moment when I realized I had talents that I should be using every day and for the most part wasn’t due to chronic pain and depression.
I hope you check it out and please feel free to leave a comment.
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Kevin ~
Sir Ken Robinson’s presentation is nothing short of magnificent!
What a truly profound message! No wonder you wanted to post this video on your blog. Oh, I wish I could get 1000’s upon 1000’s of people to take 16 minutes out of their lives for the opportunity to hear this message.
We don’t need “evolution”, we need a “revolution” in education. I got chills when he spoke those words as well as when he spoke at the end about children spreading their dreams at our feet – and how we must tread lightly so as not to destroy them.
Thank you for sharing this!
Melanie
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Hi Melanie,
I agree. This is one of my main areas of focus when I present. Please feel free to share this with your friends and thanks so much for your post.
Be well,
Kevin
Great post as a guess blogger Joe. I am so glad that you threw caution to the wind and went after your talents.
Keep up the good work,
Kevin