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The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. It is here that people feel most themselves, inspired and able to achieve at their highest levels. In this ground-breaking book, world renowned creativity expert Ken Robinson identifies a crisis in education and business: whether it's a child bored in class, a disillusioned or misused employee or someone who feels frustrated but can't quite explain why, too many people don't realize what they are capable of achieving. Through stories of people - like Vidal Sassoon, Ariana Huffington and Matt Groening - who have recognized their unique talents and been able to make a successful living doing what they love, Robinson argues that age and occupation are no barrier and explains how it is possible for each one of us to reach our element. With a wry sense of humour, Ken Robinson inspires us, above all, to reconnect with our true self - it could just change everything.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Element

Think Differently

Beyond Imagining

In the Zone

Finding Your Tribe

What Will They Think?

Do You Feel Lucky?

Somebody Help Me

IS It Too Late?

For Love or Money

Making the Grade Afterword

Notes

Index

This book contains a wide range of stories about the creative journeys of very different people. Many of them were interviewed specifically for this book. These people tell how they first came to recognize their unique talents and how they make a highly successful living from doing what they love. What strikes me is that often their journeys haven’t been conventional.

They’ve been full of twists, turns, and surprises. Often those I interviewed they said that our conversations for the book revealed ideas and experiences they hadn’t discussed this way before. The moment of recognition. The evolution of their talents. The encouragement or discouragement of family, friends, and teachers. What made them forge ahead in the face of numerous obstacles.

Their stories are not fairy tales, though. All of these people are leading complicated and challenging lives. Their personal journeys have not been easy and straightforward. They’ve all had their disasters as well as their triumphs. None of them has “perfect” lives. But all of them regularly experience moments that feel like perfection. Their stories are often fascinating.

But this book isn’t really about them. It’s about you.

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One myth is that only special people are creative. This is not true.

So my initial definition of imagination is "the power to bring mind things that are not present to our senses."

As soon as we have the power to release our minds from the immediate here and now, in a sense we are free.

Imagination is not the same as creativity. Creativity takes the process of imagination to another level. My definition of creativity is "the process of having original ideas that have value."

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

Creative thinking depends greatly on what's sometimes called divergent or lateral tinkling, and especially on thinking in metaphors or seeing analogies.

William James put it this way: "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives ...

One of the most basic reasons for thinking that it's too late to be who you are truly capable of being is the belief that life is linear.

exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life.

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With a crackling wit and a deep humanity, (Ken Robinson) urges us to ignore the naysayers, bypass the crowd and find the place where our talents and desires intersect -- Daniel Pink, Author Of A Whole New Mind A book that lightens and lifts the minds and hearts of all who read it -- Susan Jeffers, Author Of Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway Happiness really is within your grasp Guardian The Element gives you the feeling that all is possible if we dig deeply within ourselves, using our imaginations and curiosity -- Vidal Sassoon

书籍介绍

The Element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When people arrive at the Element, they feel most themselves and most inspired and achieve at their highest levels. With a wry sense of humor, Ken Robinson looks at the conditions that enable us to find ourselves in the Element and those that stifle that possibility. Drawing on the stories of a wide range of people, including Paul McCartney, Matt Groening, Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington, and Bart Conner, he shows that age and occupation are no barrier and that this is the essential strategy for transform­ing education, business, and communities in the twenty-first century

• 作者：蓝蓝和月月 发布时间：2023-02-23 10:21:35

  看了这个之后觉得自己胡诌讲故事水平好了不少

• 作者：麻烦你，我要鱼丸粗面。 发布时间：2018-09-15 14:44:42

  尾声明明可以很黑暗啊！弄得那么阖家欢乐。搞屁。

• 作者：Simpleton 发布时间：2020-03-04 03:12:06

  在National Gallery买完结账的时候，店员小哥特意给书套了两个大纸袋，才使这本书得以安全地被我拎上飞机……

• 作者：Tiger2004 发布时间：2014-03-28 11:31:55

  大哥这是原版么，给平面能给个指北针和比例尺么。推敲了半天平面数据我都不知道推敲啥？

• 作者：Peng 发布时间：2023-11-18 11:38:48

  总结失败的教训，专业人员对接客户模式印象较深，但内容显得还是有些抽象，思考不够深入

• 作者：Babynumb Nada 发布时间：2011-02-17 05:32:58

  振聋发聩，醍醐灌顶

  接下来就是如何在实际生活中去体会、领悟其中讲到的哪怕万分之一 (ps 以上评论是给秋阳创巴仁波切的同名书“突破修道上的唯物”的评论，现在这本乃豆瓣狸猫换太子产物，与本短评无关。。）

• 失重与哲思

  作者：影随茵动 发布时间：2013-01-05 10:32:36

  比利牛斯山是欧洲西南部最大的山脉，也是法国与西班牙的天然国界，而“比利牛斯山的城堡”是比利时超现实主义画家勒内•马格里特于1961年完成的一副油画作品，画作的下方是波涛汹涌的大海，背景是蓝天白云，而在正中是悬在半空的与城堡连为一体的比利牛斯山，画作的本意传达的是一种建筑和自然力量之间的不稳定的平衡感，但是当挪威作家乔斯坦•贾德移用此画作为自己的《比利牛斯山的城堡》一书命题时，其力图传达的主题也有了另一番味道，即以“失重”引发的唯物主义与唯心主义的一场哲辩。对于悬浮于半空的山体与城堡来说，从唯物主义的角度考虑，它仅是失去地球引力的一种物理现象，但对于唯心主义而言，很可能就是神力所至，而这也就是两者的分歧所在。

  乔斯坦•贾德与他的《苏菲的世界》已经在中国读者心中留下了很深厚的口碑，他的作品不能单纯的以文学或者小说来界定，显然，触及哲思才是其创作的诉求，比较起《苏菲的世界》，《比利牛斯山的城堡》依然保持着对哲学的终极思考，不过它的探讨明显变得过于单一了，多少失去了《苏菲的世界》里的那份庞大，当然，反过来说，作为哲学的启蒙类读物，《苏菲的世界》需要熟知大量的西方历史与文化思想史，但是《比利牛斯山的城堡》就会简单得多，因为他最初的落脚点就在于我们几乎所有人都会涉及到的信仰的问题。

  千万不要以为没有宗教信仰就与信仰无关，我们可以把宗教信仰定义为精神上的依靠，当然，也有些人会在物化里寻找依托。信仰可以无限大，如圣地耶路撒冷所承载着的荣耀与血泪；信仰也可以无限窄，如风雨飘摇不离不弃支持自己热爱的一只球队。而正是信仰的不同让一对如胶似漆的情侣转眼分道扬镳，《比利牛斯山的城堡》就是从这对分离三十年后重逢的情侣开始写起，在他们之间不断互通的冗长的电子邮件中慢慢揭密当年分手的真相。

  如果按照《苏菲的世界》的写法，其实作者可以在这个过程中填进很多哲学的东西，不过也许它会使这本书变得更加的枯燥，也会使他的哲学与小说的比例“失重”，而现在的篇幅却恰如其分的平衡了这种危险，当然，只是简单的回归到唯物与唯灵的争论上，对于多数中国读者来说，可能还是过于清淡了，但是在西方，它自有不同的意义，每每对上帝的质疑都会引发一场争论，我始终认为自己追了八年的《邪恶力量》是相当大胆的一种颠覆，而2007年有一部看上去非常枯燥的电影《这个男人来自地球》，也是因为涉及宗教的话题，而拥有非常高的关注度，那部电影与这本书有着某种异曲同工之处，即在某种无趣的表现形式下对人类存在的终极探讨。

  以小说这种载体来说，《比利牛斯山的城堡》过于弱化的情节使之缺少吸引人的张力，但是还好，它有一个带点反转味道的结尾，这一结尾在把故事推入高潮的同时，也产生了蝴蝶效应般的思想连动，当唯灵主义的女主角在理论上终于要站到至高点的时候，却在即将消逝的形体前动摇了自己坚定的信仰，毕竟对另一个世界我们只能去想，而无法真正确定，而此时，一直笃信唯物论的男主角，当再次遭遇种种巧合时，也开始反思另一种力量存在的可能性。

  显然，这本书最终并没有给出一个定论，而这恰恰是哲思的所在，也是这本书的真正意义。

• 正义是一种教养

  作者：苏更生 发布时间：2010-11-30 00:30:07

  一直以来我都在琢磨到底什么是教养，是不是穿阿玛尼比穿班尼路有教养？后来我明白，穿阿玛尼确实比穿班尼路更体面，教养却谈不上。那教养究竟是个什么玩意儿？看完《杀死一只反舌鸟》我明白：教养太复杂，但首先应是正义，正义是一种教养。

  20世纪30年代美国南方，律师带着一双儿女，他们生活平淡，孩子的童年没什么不幸，玩闹着长大。一次，他们邀请家境贫困的同学来家中吃饭，这同学吃饭的方式奇怪，几乎将一升糖浆倒在食物上，小女孩不解地问他在做什么。仆人将女孩带到厨房说：他是你的客人，就算他要吃桌布，你也不能说什么。有一年，两个孩子从亲戚那收到两支气枪作为圣诞礼物。他们的父亲对这份礼物并不满意，认为气枪是上帝给了他们一个对其他动物不公平的优势。

  平静的日子被一件事打乱，父亲为一位被指控强奸白人女孩的黑人辩护。县里的人觉得他发了疯，麻烦纷至沓来。孩子在学校受到辱骂，认为他们的父亲“为黑鬼帮腔”丢尽了脸。同学的辱骂激怒了小女孩，她对同学拳脚相向。回到家里，父亲知道她打架的原因后对她说：“愚昧低贱的人每当觉得有人关爱黑人胜过关爱他们时，就会拿它来骂人……如果别人认为那是个下贱的说法并用来称呼你，对你来说永远构不成侮辱。他只能显示那个人有多可怜”，父亲让他们做的是：昂起头，走过去，作一位绅士。

  在法庭上，律师尽力为黑人辩护，事实的真相是白人女孩勾引了黑人，被其父撞破，黑人慌乱中逃走，白人女孩谎称被强奸。但陪审团判他有罪，他黑色的皮肤就是罪恶。女儿望着失望的父亲走出法庭，周围的黑人全部站了起来，她身边的人轻轻地提醒她：“琼·露易丝小姐，起立。你的父亲要经过这里了。”

  故事没有结束，失望的一家人被周围人责难，但痛苦更多来源于对正义的追问：这不公平，在打官司的时候，大家知道真相，但总有一部分人会赢，因为既定的无知偏见和独断的权力。父亲说，这个时候仿佛只有孩子才会哭。在他们玩弄起那两支气枪之时，父亲说：“你射多少蓝鸟都没有关系，但是记住，杀死一只知更鸟就是一桩罪恶。”因为它们只唱歌给人听，什么坏事也不做。

  看到这，我徒然增添了自信。若我以后要当谁的母亲，我也要告诉他：孩子，杀死一只知更鸟是一桩罪恶。在很多年前，有一些跟妈妈年纪相仿的叔叔阿姨，他们用心地唱歌给这个国家听，但是他们永远就停留在妈妈这个年纪。那是这个国家最没有教养的时刻。

  我还会对他说，孩子，你要保持敬畏，那种男人对女人的敬畏，文明对自然的敬畏，有权力的人对没有权力的人的敬畏。你不要以为手中拿着枪就是勇敢，真正的勇敢是你知道什么是正义，并坚持不做不义的事。思及至此我对将来成为谁的母亲又少了一份恐惧，我会和他一起昂着头，走过去，作绅士。