The Element - Sir Ken Robinson's new book on Finding your Passion.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 10:07AM
Ralph Kerle in behaviour, creative leadership, creativity, passion

I have to admit a bias to commence. I am a huge fan of Sir Ken Robinosn.  I await the release of his every essay or book as if I was a teenager waiting the release of a new Blondie album - expectant, knowing I already strongly identify with the band; luxuriating in the new sounds and lyrics that abound as the new songs are revealed - all the time trying to identify the cultural influences that have formed this new creation. I go through exactly the same process with Sir Ken Robinson.

Sir Ken Robinson's new book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything is a collection of real stories of highly successful people, just as ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, actress Meg Ryan, cartoonist Matt Groening, choreographer Gillian Lynne, author Arianna Huffington, physicist Richard Feynman and many others who are "passionate about what they do and couldn’t imagine doing anything else."

As the author says, "...too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don’t know what they’re really capable of achieving. In that sense, they don’t know who they really are".

"Most of us lose our confidence in our our imagination as we grow up. [...] I believe that their stories have something important to teach all of us about the nature of human capacity and fulfillment."

I have not read the book yet. I am sitting here righting this blog urgently awaiting my copy from Amazon. Get a copy yourself!!

There is a nice review on Steve Dahlberg's blog at the International Centre for Creativity and Imagination.

 

Article originally appeared on The Creative Leadership Forum - Collaborate - Create - Commercialise & Transformational Change (http://thecreativeleadershipforum.com/).