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The Element by Mind Map: The Element

1. Afterword

1.1. The core principles of the element are rooted in a wider, organic conception of human growth and development

1.2. Current view is mechanistic

1.3. Human organisations are more organic

1.4. Climate crisis

1.5. The other climate crisis

1.5.1. Self inflicted physical illness from bad nutrition and eating disorders

1.5.2. Over medication

1.5.3. Suicides

1.5.4. Growth of cities

1.6. Aiming high

1.6.1. Death Valley

1.6.1.1. Flowers

1.6.1.2. Rain

1.6.2. Michaelangelo - "The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it"

2. 11

2.1. Making the grade

2.1.1. Too many think they are not good at anything

2.1.2. Branson

2.1.3. Finding our element is essential for us as individuals and for the well being of our communities

2.1.4. Education should be one of the processes to take us towards the Element

2.1.5. Too often it serves the opposite function

2.1.6. What are we going to do about this?

2.1.7. This looked-down-upon thing

2.1.7.1. Rails against

2.1.7.1.1. Hierarchy of disciplines

2.1.7.1.2. Conformity has a higher value than diversity

2.1.7.2. Conformity or creativity

2.1.7.2.1. Public education puts relentless pressure on students to conform

2.1.7.2.2. Created in the image of industrialism

2.1.7.2.3. Factory culture

2.1.7.2.4. Standard units

2.1.7.2.5. Bells

2.1.7.2.6. Batched by age

2.1.7.2.7. Standardised tests

2.1.7.2.8. Benefits and successes

2.1.7.2.9. Drawbacks

2.1.7.2.10. The rise of the graduate

2.1.7.2.11. Reforming education

3. 10

3.1. For love or money

3.1.1. For the love of it

3.1.1.1. Amateur

3.1.1.1.1. Not necessarily amateurish

3.1.1.1.2. The Pro-Am revolution

3.1.1.1.3. Professional

3.1.1.2. Transformation

3.1.1.2.1. If we're not in our element at work it becomes even more important to discover that element somewhere else

3.1.1.2.2. Finding the Element is essential to a balanced and fulfilled life

3.1.1.2.3. The kite runner

3.1.1.2.4. Room to read

3.1.1.3. Beyond leisure

3.1.1.3.1. Leisure is a break

3.1.1.3.2. Recreation

3.1.1.3.3. Scientific study of happiness

3.1.1.3.4. The element won't make you rich

4. 8

4.1. Somebody help me

4.1.1. Polio

4.1.2. The life-changing connection

4.1.3. Mentors

4.1.3.1. Roles

4.1.3.1.1. 1

4.1.3.1.2. 2

4.1.3.1.3. 3

4.1.3.1.4. 4

4.1.3.2. More than heros

4.1.3.2.1. They show us the next steps and encourage us to take them

5. 7

5.1. Do you feel lucky?

5.1.1. The element is also a matter of attitude

5.1.2. It's not what happens to us that determines our lives-it's what we make of what happens

5.1.3. Attitude and aptitude

5.1.3.1. Luck

5.1.3.2. All the people have taken an active role in "getting lucky"

5.1.3.3. Luck Factor

5.1.3.4. One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at out ordinary situations

5.1.3.5. Ability to reframe

5.1.3.5.1. Vidal Sassoon

5.1.3.5.2. Brad Zdanivsky

6. 9

6.1. Is it too late?

6.1.1. Susan Jeffers

6.1.1.1. Floating hospital

6.1.1.2. Wrote book

6.1.2. Paul Potts

6.1.3. Extra middle age

6.1.3.1. 35-50

6.1.4. 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

6.1.4.1. Ridley Scott

6.1.4.1.1. Commercials

6.1.4.1.2. TV

6.1.4.1.3. Cinema

6.1.5. Human lives are organic and cyclical

6.1.5.1. Multiple opportunities for new growth and development

6.1.5.2. Benjamin Franklin developed bifocals at 78

6.1.6. Look after yourself physically

6.1.6.1. exercise

6.1.6.2. nutrition

6.1.7. Keeping things plastic

6.1.7.1. Multiple languages

6.1.7.2. Keep your brain active

6.1.7.3. Insight arrives with age

6.1.8. Engaged forever

6.1.8.1. Grace Living Centres

6.1.8.1.1. Kindergarten

6.1.8.1.2. Home

6.1.8.2. Western idea of keeping generations apart is a failure

6.1.9. There's time

7. 2

7.1. Think differently

7.1.1. Mick Fleetwood

7.1.1.1. "my parents saw that the light in this funny little creature certainly wasn't academics"

7.1.2. Taking it all for granted

7.1.2.1. Key element

7.1.2.1.1. We need to challenge what we take for granted about our abilities and the abilities of other people

7.1.2.2. Senses

7.1.2.2.1. An enemy of creativity and innovation is common sense

7.1.2.2.2. 5 regular

7.1.2.2.3. Intuition

7.1.2.2.4. Balance

7.1.2.2.5. Temperature

7.1.2.2.6. Pain

7.1.2.2.7. Vestibular sense

7.1.2.2.8. Kinesthetic

7.1.2.3. Athletes

7.1.2.4. Gymnasts

7.1.3. How intelligent are you?

7.1.3.1. 1-10 scale

7.1.3.1.1. Survey of hands

7.1.3.2. Common sense view

7.1.3.2.1. Fixed intelligence

7.1.3.2.2. At the heart of the education system

7.1.3.2.3. Underpins testing industry

7.1.3.2.4. Dominates college entrance exams

7.1.3.2.5. Foundation of IQ concept

7.1.3.2.6. Back to greece

7.1.3.3. History of IQ

7.1.3.3.1. Binet

7.1.3.3.2. Terman

7.1.3.3.3. Stanford

7.1.3.3.4. IQ matter of life and death

7.1.3.4. Standardised tests

7.1.3.4.1. SATs

7.1.4. How are you intelligent

7.1.4.1. The right question

7.1.4.2. There are a variety of ways to express intelligence and no one scale could ever measure this

7.1.4.3. Three features of human intelligence

7.1.4.3.1. It is extraordinarily diverse

7.1.4.3.2. It is tremendously dynamic

7.1.4.3.3. It is entirely distinctive

7.1.4.4. Discovering the element is about allowing yourself access to all of the ways in which you experience the world and discovering where your own true strengths lie

7.1.4.5. Just don't take them for granted

8. 3

8.1. beyond imagining

8.1.1. Faith Ringgold

8.1.2. The promise of creativity

8.1.2.1. Creativity

8.1.2.2. Intelligence

8.1.3. Most people have a narrow view of intelligence

8.1.3.1. Academic only

8.1.4. Myths

8.1.4.1. Only special people are creative

8.1.4.1.1. Creativity is like literacy

8.1.4.1.2. Needs to be trained

8.1.4.2. Creativity is about special activities

8.1.4.2.1. Anything that involves your intelligence is creative

8.1.4.3. People are either creative or not

8.1.4.3.1. First critical step

8.1.5. It's all in your imagination

8.1.5.1. Mental images

8.1.5.1.1. Ex: Driving

8.1.6. Does size matter?

8.1.6.1. Bertrand Russell

8.1.6.1.1. "Is man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet"

8.1.6.1.2. Solar system

8.1.6.1.3. Encouragements

8.1.7. The power of creativity

8.1.7.1. Imagination is not the same as creativity

8.1.7.2. Creativity takes the process of imagination to another level

8.1.7.3. Definition

8.1.7.3.1. "the process of having original ideas that have value"

8.1.7.4. To be creative you have to actually do something

8.1.7.4.1. make something new

8.1.7.4.2. come up with new solutions

8.1.7.4.3. think of new problems

8.1.7.4.4. new questions

8.1.7.5. Applied imagination

8.1.7.5.1. Music

8.1.7.5.2. dance

8.1.7.5.3. math

8.1.7.5.4. science

8.1.7.5.5. business

8.1.7.5.6. relationships

8.1.7.6. Creative dynamics

8.1.7.6.1. Personal creativity

8.1.7.6.2. How it works

8.1.7.7. Open your mind

8.1.7.7.1. Involves more of the mind

8.1.7.7.2. Non linear

8.1.7.7.3. Divergent

8.1.7.7.4. Creativity uses much more than our brains

8.1.7.7.5. Creative work also reaches deep into our intuitive and unconscious minds and into our hearts and feelings

8.1.7.7.6. Like letting a cork out of a bottle

8.1.7.7.7. Requires effort

8.1.7.8. Getting it together

8.1.7.8.1. We don't just see the world as it is

8.1.7.8.2. William JAmes "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude of mind.... If you change your mind you can change your life

9. 4

9.1. In the zone

9.1.1. Ewa Laurance

9.1.1.1. Billiards

9.1.1.1.1. Geometry

9.1.2. To be in the zone is to be deep in the heart of the element

9.1.2.1. Aaron Sorkin

9.1.2.1.1. Not an actor

9.1.2.1.2. Writer

9.1.3. Are we there yet?

9.1.3.1. One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is the sense of freedom and authenticity

9.1.3.2. When we are in our Element we feel we are doing what we are meant to be doing and being who we are meant to be

9.1.3.3. Time feels different

9.1.3.4. Meta state

9.1.3.4.1. Where ideas come more quickly

9.1.3.4.2. Jochen Rindt

9.1.3.4.3. Eric Clapton

9.1.3.4.4. Wilbur Wright

9.1.3.4.5. Flow

9.1.4. Reaching out

9.1.4.1. When we connect with our own energy, we're more open to the energy of other people

9.1.4.2. The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others

9.1.5. Being yourself

9.1.5.1. When people are in the zone they align naturally with a way of thinking that works best for them.

9.1.5.2. Using a thinking style completely natural to them everything comes more easily

9.1.6. Getting out of the box

9.1.6.1. MBTI

9.1.6.1.1. Issues

9.1.6.2. Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument

9.1.7. Do the math

9.1.7.1. Terence Tao

9.1.7.2. Self taught reading

9.1.7.3. Mozart of math

9.1.8. Questions we need to ask

9.1.8.1. What did their parents do?

9.1.8.2. Left to their own devices what are they drawn to doing?

9.1.8.3. What kinds of activities do they tend to engage in voluntarily?

9.1.8.4. What sorts of aptitudes do they suggest?

9.1.8.5. What absorbs them most?

9.1.8.6. What type of points do they make?

9.1.8.7. What sort of questions do they ask?

9.1.9. We need to understand what puts people in the zone

9.1.10. We need to determine what implications this has for the rest of our lives

10. TED Talk

11. 6

11.1. What will they think

11.1.1. This time it's personal

11.1.1.1. Chuck Close

11.1.1.2. Candoco

11.1.2. Fear is perhaps the most common obstacle to finding your Element

11.1.2.1. Susan Jeffers

11.1.2.1.1. Techniques

12. 5

12.1. Finding your tribe

12.1.1. For most people a primary component of being in their element is connecting with other people who share their passion and a desire to make the most of themselves through it

12.1.2. Meg Ryan

12.1.2.1. Stage fright

12.1.2.2. Hung out with actors

12.1.2.3. Found element

12.1.2.4. Peggy Fury

12.1.2.4.1. Classes

12.1.3. A plan to discover yourself

12.1.3.1. Tribe members can be collaborators or competitors

12.1.4. Domains and fields

12.1.4.1. Domain is the sorts of activities and disciplines that people are engaged in

12.1.4.1.1. Acting

12.1.4.1.2. Rock music

12.1.4.1.3. business

12.1.4.1.4. Ballet

12.1.4.1.5. physics

12.1.4.1.6. rap

12.1.4.2. Field refers to the other people who are engaged in it

12.1.5. It's not just me

12.1.5.1. Debbie Allen

12.1.5.2. Connecting with people who share the same passions affirms that you are not alone

12.1.5.3. Some people are most in their Element when they are working alone

12.1.5.3.1. Mathematicians

12.1.5.3.2. Poets

12.1.5.3.3. Painters

12.1.5.3.4. Athletes

12.1.5.4. Interaction with a field

12.1.5.4.1. "if you don't kick things about with people you you are out of it" John Wheeler

12.1.5.5. Michael Polanyi

12.1.5.5.1. Argues against state control of science

12.1.6. How do they do that

12.1.6.1. Find your scene

12.1.6.1.1. Bob Dylan in NYC

12.1.7. Circles of influence

12.1.8. The alchemy of synergy

12.1.8.1. Kind of Blue

12.1.8.2. Creative teams

12.1.8.2.1. Diverse

12.1.8.2.2. Dynamic

12.1.8.2.3. Distinct

12.1.9. Lost in the crowd

12.1.9.1. Fan behaviour

12.1.9.2. BIRGing

12.1.9.3. deindivdulation

12.1.10. Look, listen, learn

12.1.10.1. Some are skilled critics

12.1.10.2. Billy Connolly

12.1.10.2.1. Watched Chick Murray on TV

12.1.10.2.2. Turning point

12.1.10.2.3. Found his tribe

13. 1

14. The element

14.1. People find high levels of achievement and personal satisfaction upon discovering the things they naturally do well and that also ignites their passions

14.1.1. Examples

14.1.1.1. Matt Groening

14.1.1.2. Paul Samuelson

14.1.1.3. Gillian Lynne

14.2. One size does not fit all

14.2.1. Three features of formal education

14.2.1.1. Preoccupation with certain sorts of academic ability

14.2.1.2. Hierarchy of subjects

14.2.1.3. Growing reliance on particular types of assessment

14.2.2. Result

14.2.2.1. Narrow view of intelligence and capacity

14.2.2.2. Overvalue of particular sorts of talents and ability

14.2.2.3. Neglect of important skills

14.2.2.4. Marginalisation

14.2.3. Dance and drama not taught

14.2.4. Basic flaw

14.2.4.1. Back to basics

14.2.4.2. myth that standardised testing makes a country more competitive

14.2.4.3. Severe underestimation of human capacity

14.2.5. Alienation

14.2.6. Not back to basics enough

14.2.6.1. Concentrates on

14.3. The pace of change

14.3.1. Children retiring today will retire in 2070

14.3.2. Technology lightening change

14.3.3. Population growth

14.3.4. Future predictions are almost impossible

14.3.5. BRIC countries will play increasing role

14.3.6. The only way to prepare for the future is to make the most out of ourselves on the assumption that doing so will make us as flexible and productive as possible

14.3.7. Most people set aside their passions to pursue things they don't care about in the name of financial security

14.3.8. The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different

14.3.9. We need to think very differently about human resources and about how we develop them if we are to face the challenges

14.4. What is the element?

14.4.1. The meeting point between natural aptitude and personal passion

14.4.2. Time passes differently

14.4.2.1. more alive

14.4.2.2. more centred

14.4.2.3. more vibrant

14.4.3. The element is different for everyone

14.4.4. How do we find it?

14.4.5. Not limited to one

14.4.6. Features

14.4.6.1. Aptitude

14.4.6.2. Passion

14.4.7. Conditions

14.4.7.1. Attitude

14.4.7.2. Opportunity

14.4.8. Sequence

14.4.8.1. I get it

14.4.8.2. I love it

14.4.8.3. I want it

14.4.8.4. Where is it?