Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don’t feel they’re good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven’t yet put the work in to develop them.
If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’re not prepared to be original.
All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
If you’re running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it’s an advertising company or whether you’re running a hospital.
Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.
Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.
We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it’s impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.
Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it’s about passion: it is about loving what you do…tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.
Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.
There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?
We are educating people out of their creative capacities.