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Pink shifts to the right

Hey everyone Claude Sigmund here. Long time reader, first time poster for Mikes Blog....

I really love Pink. His book is sort of window into the world and what we need to do to teach towards it.

Remember the video "Shift Happens" Pink takes that video and talks about the concepts contained within that video. The economic, social and human consequeses that we face on a daily basis.

He helps us understand that creativity is not just art. That decisionmaking and problemsolving is a kind of creativity. Science is creative... but not how it is presented or often taught. How do we change the standard way of thought. How do we teach for our future... not for the present?


A book worth reading and a conversation worth having.

Cheers

Comments

Unknown said…
Welcome aboard the conversation, Claude!!
I thought his example of the launch of the ipod,and his optimism regarding our economic future(provided we follow these principles!) was a big take-away. I hope we can make it happen!

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