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Finding Your Element

Ken Robinson

5.0 (17 ratings)
8 mins

In this follow up to their previous successful title, Sir Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica give practical tips to explore your vocational passion. They encourage you to find what is in tune with your natural aptitude by identifying your strengths and weaknesses. The strengths that make you happy will lead to your tribe, and then change is within sight.

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Who it is for

Best suited for people interested in changing their vocation, job, or career choice. Also, helpful to those that want to learn new skills or study something new.

About the Author

Sir Ken Robinson (1950) is an educational advisor, author, and speaker best known for his talks on the absence of creativity in the educational system. He holds degrees in Art and received numerous honorary titles and awards.

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Lessons

  • First principle Your life is unique.
  • Second principle: You create your own life.
  • Third principle: Life is organic.

Key Takeaways

  • How to appreciate your unique talents.
  • How to be more deliberate in your everyday choices.
  • How to embrace change as an organic process.

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