Tag: Reflection

How Schools Kill Creativity: Insights from Ken Robinson’s TED Talk

How Schools Kill Creativity: Insights from Ken Robinson’s TED Talk

Exploring why our education system may be stifling rather than nurturing creative thinking A TED talk about education and how we are teaching kids to grow out of creativity in school. The notes I took during watching the video highlight some fascinating insights about our education system and how it shapes (or limits) creative thinking. Key Insights from the Talk Communication equals literacy: Communication is just as important as literacy to teach children Children embrace...

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If You Are Not Happy Now, You Never Will Be

Reflections on unconditional happiness and detachment "Perhaps true happiness is something different from this clinging and pushing away. Perhaps true happiness is an internal thing." But this running toward and running away; can it ever provide us with lasting happiness? We're happy with our kids, but the little rascals tend to grow up, and then reject everything we have ever taught them. As they go their own way. Perhaps true happiness is something different from...

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TiVo as a Metaphor for Life

If we could control time like a DVR... There is a saying that life emulates art, but being a self-proclaimed geek and knowing next to nothing about art, my life has always seemed to emulate technology. Have you ever stopped and thought about how great it would be to have a TiVo for your life? Do you buy cable TV and get all that life has to offer, or are you satisfied with what life...

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What Do You Want On Your Tombstone?

Legacies That Matter: Reflections on Life and Loss Death is a subject we often avoid in conversation, yet it's the one certainty we all share. Rather than dwelling on its inherent sadness, I find myself reflecting on how our encounters with mortality can unexpectedly enrich our perspective on living. The Gifts of Goodbye I've been fortunate to have experienced relatively few losses in my life—a blessing I don't take lightly. Yet, those departures I have...

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The Grass is Always Greener…

Is the Grass Really Greener? Reflections on Human Nature and Contentment Every day on my way to work, I pass cows eating grass in the fields of lovely Livermore, CA. Every morning, there is always at least one cow who has decided that the grass on the other side of the fence is greener and sticks his (or her) head through it. It is interesting because, like cows, humans don't want to be constrained by...

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