Quotation on thinking

‘Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it.... It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts if my brain come in to play, that I arrive at an original idea.’

William Deresiewicz

What's the Crisis of our time... great content to follow up on...

On the 16th September I did an online webinar with the Southbank Rotary club. The main points I made were that I really believe the crisis of our time is in the way we're thinking. I feel like our ability to consume and process information with good, evidence based critical thinking has been lost to opinion based rhetoric and angry, dogmatic voices.

For those in attendance I promised a list of useful resources to explore how we should be thinking differently about our education system, embracing systems thinking and looking at how organisations can shift themselves to be come learning organisations.

Tony Wagner - Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change The World

Warren Berger – A more beautiful question

Ken Robinson – TEDX talks on creativity in education

Alain de Botton – School of Life www.theschooloflife.com

ideo – https://www.ideou.com (design thinking courses)

Nice White Parents – podcast by NYTimes journalist Chana Joffe-Walt

System Thinking – https://thesystemsthinker.com

Carol Dweck – Growth Mindset www.ted.com/speakers/carol_dweck