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“Now there is a crisis in human resources”: Ken Robinson on finding yourself and making the right choice.
Sir Ken Robinson is a specialist in innovation, creativity and human resources, a consultant to governments and the world's leading cultural events. Knighted in 2003 for his services in the development of education and the arts. In his talk at The School of Life in London's Conway Hall, the oldest free thought society in existence, Robinson argues that our mistakes are not caused by high expectations, but rather low expectations.
“Several years ago, my wife Terry and I were at a wonderful event called the Vancouver Peace Summit. It was attended by about three thousand people, and it was organized by the Dalai Lama Center in Vancouver. I had to moderate the intro. The conference participants were very interesting. There was, for example, Matthew Ricard, a French biologist who became a Tibetan monk. His father was a philosopher, and Matthew said that all these people constantly came to their house while he was a child - they were visited by Samuel Beckett and Albert Camus. The cream of the French intellectual society dined with them. Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir stopped by. They were at the center of French intellectual discourse, and Matthew was invited to the table with everyone. But something in all this did not suit him until then, until he saw a news report about Tibetan monks who had come to Paris. Matthew noticed that they looked incredibly happy. It's like you see the prophets who came from ancient times. Their clothes, everything in their appearance literally exuded a feeling of happiness.
Being in your place does not mean being successful from a commercial point of view. But it guarantees you spiritual satisfaction.
All these intellectuals who came to visit them, the advanced minds of the European tradition, looked completely overwhelmed by uncertainty and doubt. They smoked themselves to death and drank alcohol in alarming amounts. They proclaimed many principles of the good life, but Matthew was somehow not very convincing. So he went to Tibet and joined the monastery. To date, he has spent 30 years there and is part of the circle of those close to the Dalai Lama. He conducted a detailed study of meditation at the level of the central nervous system, and the results of his observations are, in fact, very interesting from a scientific point of view. So, Matthew Ricard is officially recognized as the happiest person on Earth today. True, this is probably a heavy burden - from a social point of view. Nowhere can you appear unhappy. Every time I go outside
At that conference, I had to lead the discussion and introduce the participants. The first problem I encountered was the question of how to present the Dalai Lama. And then I realized - actually, I don't need to say anything about him. This is practically a common noun.
The Dalai Lama said many wonderful things. For example, someone asked him a question: "The word 'holiness' was used for you, what do you think about that?" He thought and thought for a whole minute. Then he leaned forward, and mentally all of us, 2 thousand people, also leaned forward, thinking: “Now there will be something incredible. This is the Dalai Lama. The question was raised, he was silent for a long time, now we will hear a sensation. "And then he replied:" I don't know. "We were overwhelmed. What do you mean you don't know? You are the Dalai Lama. We do not know this. You should know. The beauty of this moment, however, was that it was a moment of acceptance - for the entire audience. Because the meaning of what was said, which he deciphered a little later, was that he did not know, because he had not thought about it before. You see, he thought about many things, but not about this.
And it seems to me that this is just wonderful - this answer is "I don't know." In our culture, not to know is to be guilty before society. Is not it? People constantly pretend that they know about a bunch of things, in reality, without having the slightest idea about it. Because the worst thing that can be done in the European tradition is to show that you are not aware, that you do not have your own opinion. The news bulletins feed this belief; they give us opinions on credit, like a bank.
The Dalai Lama simply believes that being born is already a miracle, and the big question is what will you do with your life now that you have it. What - wasting it? Or do something interesting with her? Something that matters - to you, at least? So, what has amazed me for a very long time: very, very many people spend their whole lives doing things that they really do not care about. They just try with all their might to survive the working week, they try to endure in anticipation of the weekend and do not feel any satisfaction from the work done, at best they treat their work with tolerance, at worst - without it.
Most people do not imagine what they are capable of, do not know what their talents really are, what their capabilities are. And many therefore conclude that they have no talents at all.
From my point of view, there is a crisis in human resources now. By this I mean a serious problem - most people do not imagine what they are capable of, do not know what their talents really are, what their capabilities are. And many therefore conclude that they have no talents at all. My deepest conviction is that we are all born with talents and abilities. If you are human, it is in your blood. I am convinced that the most important difference between a human being and everyone else is the power of the imagination.
You know if you have a dog that intellectually they don't change much, do you? You don't look at the dog's light - see what's new there. What happened there? What are you doing now? Yes, everything is the same. We have a past. People always have something going on, nothing stands still. This happens because besides imagination, we have a direct consequence of it - creativity, which we use to create something new. And we are born with it just as we are born with articulate speech and the ability to think. The difference is that some discover some abilities in themselves, while others do not. Therefore, the latter often come to the conclusion that they do not have these abilities. I also often meet people who have definitely found their calling, innate talents. They love what what they do, and their life is directly related to it.
I wrote in my book about a man named Terence Tao, and I talked about him because he is extremely talented in an area in which I myself do not understand anything at all - in mathematics. Terence is a mathematician who works at UCLA in Los Angeles. Terence learned to read at the age of three by watching Sesame Street - so his accent is a little weird. At four he could do two-digit calculations in his head, which I personally cannot do until now. At the age of eight, he wrote a college graduation level test and received a 90 percent score on it. At the age of 14, he defended his doctorate in abstract mathematics. At 30, he received the Fields Prize, which is the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the world of mathematics. In short, with all this I want to say one thing - Terence understands mathematics. He has a natural predisposition for her.
One of the main signs that you are in your place is that your sense of time is changing.
I also included in the book a woman named Eva Laurens whom I met on the plane. I asked her what she was doing and she replied: "professional billiards." Read about her - Eva Laurens nicknamed Striking Viking. She is from a small town north of Stockholm. When she was twelve years old, she went with her brother to this town with various entertainments, and there they went into a billiard room. When they entered, she froze in the doorway, in disbelief. I asked what she saw. Eva said: “It was Aladdin's magic cave - something fantastic. A dark room with circles of green light and people leaning over tables. Like a church. And this sound of balls hitting each other! Their vibrant colors on green fabric. It was so exciting. "
As a result, she became the champion in a local competition, and then she took part in other championships. She became the champion in the Swedish national championship, took part in the European championships and won them too. After that, she founded the world's first Women's Billiard League, which now exists internationally. She hosts competitions, conducts workshops, wrote a book and appears regularly on television. She loves it all. And she said to me: “When I come to the billiard table, I still cannot tell afterwards whether I was with him for twenty minutes or three hours. At this moment, I lose my sense of time. And most interestingly, I hated geometry when I was in school. But billiards is geometry in action. As the ball moves across the table surface, you see new angles and shapes.
So, one of the main signs that you are in your place is that your sense of time is changing. You know how it is - when you do something that you don't have a heart for, five minutes seems like an hour. When you enjoy what you do, an hour seems like five minutes. One important ingredient is skill, the other is passion. It's not enough to be good at doing something to be in the right place. I know a lot of people who are real professionals in what they do, but they don't like what they do.
I am convinced that if you are in your place, doing what you want to do, to which your soul lies, then this occupation will never empty and tire you, but on the contrary, fill you with energy and stimulate. When I talk about the human resource crisis, it seems to me that it happens mainly because a lot of people have rejected the capabilities that they have. I know many people who had a chance to show their innate talents, and so they understood their purpose in life. Others were helped by those who saw talent in them before they noticed it themselves.
In almost every story, there is someone who helped and supported the person. The last example I want to give is a guy named Bart Conner. When Bart was six, he discovered that he could walk on his arms as well as on his feet. I have no idea how he found it, but it did. He later said that this skill was not particularly useful, but he gained popularity. Every time during a party, when the conversation froze, someone said to him: "Bart, show me this number on your hands," and the conversation immediately resumed. Hand-walking was just a "Bart trick" for house parties. But Bart's mom, when he was 8, took him to a local gymnastics center. He said after: “I will never forget the feeling I experienced when I entered the gym. It was a cross between the grotto of Santa Claus and Disneyland. It was an intoxicating feeling. " I asked him why. He replied: "Well, there were balls, jumps, ropes, mats." Look, is this how you feel when you walk into the gym? It seems to me that not all of them.
He started going there, and soon he spent every day there, because he liked it. Ten years later, he stepped on the mate of the Olympic Games to represent America. He became the most successful gymnast in American history. He now lives in Norman, Oklahoma and is married to Nadia Comaneci. Do you remember her? First gold medalist in women's gymnastics. They have a son, a lovely boy named Dylan, after Bob Dylan. He and Nadia have their own gymnastics center and are both top gymnasts in the Olympic Movement.
So, two words about this whole story. Firstly, Bart's mother could tell him as a child: “Listen, stop walking on your hands. We realized that you can do it, but now forget it and do your homework. "But she didn't, she encouraged him, and that's why he started such an incredible life. However, here follows the" second ". Although she supported him, she did not know about the path that he had to go. She couldn 't predict it. Because life is not linear. I'm sure Bart's mom didn't think: “Okay, this is Bart, he is six, he can stand in his arms, and in Romania there is this girl, and here I have a Bob Dylan album. ”It all happened naturally. And the fact that we ourselves create our lives - that we create - is the greatest blessing of human existence. We do not have to follow any one course once set, we can change it, not only to create, but also to redo. And it is more likely that we will do this redrawing in the event that we find something for ourselves that gives us satisfaction and brings joy. Because really, the only thing that matters is energy.
I am convinced that many people are unable to discover their talents: the system prioritizes, it rewards some talents and marginalizes most others. And it turns out that if you do not know how to do something, for example, you are bad with math, they think about you that you are bad with everything and you cannot do anything. And so we need to fight this educational system. It's the same with jobs. But we must start, of course, with ourselves.
The key phrase of the Vancouver Summit, spoken by the Dalai Lama, is that you cannot fight for world peace if you are angry. But the most important thing, it seems to me, can be summed up in the words of Carl Gustav Jung: "I am not what happened to me, I am what I decided to become." George Kelly said the same: "No one should be a victim of their own biography." And if Jung argued that we are what we decided to become, then he meant that we have many options before us, and we must do everything to study them all and make the right one.
Sir Ken Robinson is a specialist in innovation, creativity and human resources, a consultant to governments and the world's leading cultural events. Knighted in 2003 for his services in the development of education and the arts. In his talk at The School of Life in London's Conway Hall, the oldest free thought society in existence, Robinson argues that our mistakes are not caused by high expectations, but rather low expectations.
“Several years ago, my wife Terry and I were at a wonderful event called the Vancouver Peace Summit. It was attended by about three thousand people, and it was organized by the Dalai Lama Center in Vancouver. I had to moderate the intro. The conference participants were very interesting. There was, for example, Matthew Ricard, a French biologist who became a Tibetan monk. His father was a philosopher, and Matthew said that all these people constantly came to their house while he was a child - they were visited by Samuel Beckett and Albert Camus. The cream of the French intellectual society dined with them. Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir stopped by. They were at the center of French intellectual discourse, and Matthew was invited to the table with everyone. But something in all this did not suit him until then, until he saw a news report about Tibetan monks who had come to Paris. Matthew noticed that they looked incredibly happy. It's like you see the prophets who came from ancient times. Their clothes, everything in their appearance literally exuded a feeling of happiness.
Being in your place does not mean being successful from a commercial point of view. But it guarantees you spiritual satisfaction.
All these intellectuals who came to visit them, the advanced minds of the European tradition, looked completely overwhelmed by uncertainty and doubt. They smoked themselves to death and drank alcohol in alarming amounts. They proclaimed many principles of the good life, but Matthew was somehow not very convincing. So he went to Tibet and joined the monastery. To date, he has spent 30 years there and is part of the circle of those close to the Dalai Lama. He conducted a detailed study of meditation at the level of the central nervous system, and the results of his observations are, in fact, very interesting from a scientific point of view. So, Matthew Ricard is officially recognized as the happiest person on Earth today. True, this is probably a heavy burden - from a social point of view. Nowhere can you appear unhappy. Every time I go outside
At that conference, I had to lead the discussion and introduce the participants. The first problem I encountered was the question of how to present the Dalai Lama. And then I realized - actually, I don't need to say anything about him. This is practically a common noun.
The Dalai Lama said many wonderful things. For example, someone asked him a question: "The word 'holiness' was used for you, what do you think about that?" He thought and thought for a whole minute. Then he leaned forward, and mentally all of us, 2 thousand people, also leaned forward, thinking: “Now there will be something incredible. This is the Dalai Lama. The question was raised, he was silent for a long time, now we will hear a sensation. "And then he replied:" I don't know. "We were overwhelmed. What do you mean you don't know? You are the Dalai Lama. We do not know this. You should know. The beauty of this moment, however, was that it was a moment of acceptance - for the entire audience. Because the meaning of what was said, which he deciphered a little later, was that he did not know, because he had not thought about it before. You see, he thought about many things, but not about this.
And it seems to me that this is just wonderful - this answer is "I don't know." In our culture, not to know is to be guilty before society. Is not it? People constantly pretend that they know about a bunch of things, in reality, without having the slightest idea about it. Because the worst thing that can be done in the European tradition is to show that you are not aware, that you do not have your own opinion. The news bulletins feed this belief; they give us opinions on credit, like a bank.
The Dalai Lama simply believes that being born is already a miracle, and the big question is what will you do with your life now that you have it. What - wasting it? Or do something interesting with her? Something that matters - to you, at least? So, what has amazed me for a very long time: very, very many people spend their whole lives doing things that they really do not care about. They just try with all their might to survive the working week, they try to endure in anticipation of the weekend and do not feel any satisfaction from the work done, at best they treat their work with tolerance, at worst - without it.
Most people do not imagine what they are capable of, do not know what their talents really are, what their capabilities are. And many therefore conclude that they have no talents at all.
From my point of view, there is a crisis in human resources now. By this I mean a serious problem - most people do not imagine what they are capable of, do not know what their talents really are, what their capabilities are. And many therefore conclude that they have no talents at all. My deepest conviction is that we are all born with talents and abilities. If you are human, it is in your blood. I am convinced that the most important difference between a human being and everyone else is the power of the imagination.
You know if you have a dog that intellectually they don't change much, do you? You don't look at the dog's light - see what's new there. What happened there? What are you doing now? Yes, everything is the same. We have a past. People always have something going on, nothing stands still. This happens because besides imagination, we have a direct consequence of it - creativity, which we use to create something new. And we are born with it just as we are born with articulate speech and the ability to think. The difference is that some discover some abilities in themselves, while others do not. Therefore, the latter often come to the conclusion that they do not have these abilities. I also often meet people who have definitely found their calling, innate talents. They love what what they do, and their life is directly related to it.
I wrote in my book about a man named Terence Tao, and I talked about him because he is extremely talented in an area in which I myself do not understand anything at all - in mathematics. Terence is a mathematician who works at UCLA in Los Angeles. Terence learned to read at the age of three by watching Sesame Street - so his accent is a little weird. At four he could do two-digit calculations in his head, which I personally cannot do until now. At the age of eight, he wrote a college graduation level test and received a 90 percent score on it. At the age of 14, he defended his doctorate in abstract mathematics. At 30, he received the Fields Prize, which is the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the world of mathematics. In short, with all this I want to say one thing - Terence understands mathematics. He has a natural predisposition for her.
One of the main signs that you are in your place is that your sense of time is changing.
I also included in the book a woman named Eva Laurens whom I met on the plane. I asked her what she was doing and she replied: "professional billiards." Read about her - Eva Laurens nicknamed Striking Viking. She is from a small town north of Stockholm. When she was twelve years old, she went with her brother to this town with various entertainments, and there they went into a billiard room. When they entered, she froze in the doorway, in disbelief. I asked what she saw. Eva said: “It was Aladdin's magic cave - something fantastic. A dark room with circles of green light and people leaning over tables. Like a church. And this sound of balls hitting each other! Their vibrant colors on green fabric. It was so exciting. "
As a result, she became the champion in a local competition, and then she took part in other championships. She became the champion in the Swedish national championship, took part in the European championships and won them too. After that, she founded the world's first Women's Billiard League, which now exists internationally. She hosts competitions, conducts workshops, wrote a book and appears regularly on television. She loves it all. And she said to me: “When I come to the billiard table, I still cannot tell afterwards whether I was with him for twenty minutes or three hours. At this moment, I lose my sense of time. And most interestingly, I hated geometry when I was in school. But billiards is geometry in action. As the ball moves across the table surface, you see new angles and shapes.
So, one of the main signs that you are in your place is that your sense of time is changing. You know how it is - when you do something that you don't have a heart for, five minutes seems like an hour. When you enjoy what you do, an hour seems like five minutes. One important ingredient is skill, the other is passion. It's not enough to be good at doing something to be in the right place. I know a lot of people who are real professionals in what they do, but they don't like what they do.
I am convinced that if you are in your place, doing what you want to do, to which your soul lies, then this occupation will never empty and tire you, but on the contrary, fill you with energy and stimulate. When I talk about the human resource crisis, it seems to me that it happens mainly because a lot of people have rejected the capabilities that they have. I know many people who had a chance to show their innate talents, and so they understood their purpose in life. Others were helped by those who saw talent in them before they noticed it themselves.
In almost every story, there is someone who helped and supported the person. The last example I want to give is a guy named Bart Conner. When Bart was six, he discovered that he could walk on his arms as well as on his feet. I have no idea how he found it, but it did. He later said that this skill was not particularly useful, but he gained popularity. Every time during a party, when the conversation froze, someone said to him: "Bart, show me this number on your hands," and the conversation immediately resumed. Hand-walking was just a "Bart trick" for house parties. But Bart's mom, when he was 8, took him to a local gymnastics center. He said after: “I will never forget the feeling I experienced when I entered the gym. It was a cross between the grotto of Santa Claus and Disneyland. It was an intoxicating feeling. " I asked him why. He replied: "Well, there were balls, jumps, ropes, mats." Look, is this how you feel when you walk into the gym? It seems to me that not all of them.
He started going there, and soon he spent every day there, because he liked it. Ten years later, he stepped on the mate of the Olympic Games to represent America. He became the most successful gymnast in American history. He now lives in Norman, Oklahoma and is married to Nadia Comaneci. Do you remember her? First gold medalist in women's gymnastics. They have a son, a lovely boy named Dylan, after Bob Dylan. He and Nadia have their own gymnastics center and are both top gymnasts in the Olympic Movement.
So, two words about this whole story. Firstly, Bart's mother could tell him as a child: “Listen, stop walking on your hands. We realized that you can do it, but now forget it and do your homework. "But she didn't, she encouraged him, and that's why he started such an incredible life. However, here follows the" second ". Although she supported him, she did not know about the path that he had to go. She couldn 't predict it. Because life is not linear. I'm sure Bart's mom didn't think: “Okay, this is Bart, he is six, he can stand in his arms, and in Romania there is this girl, and here I have a Bob Dylan album. ”It all happened naturally. And the fact that we ourselves create our lives - that we create - is the greatest blessing of human existence. We do not have to follow any one course once set, we can change it, not only to create, but also to redo. And it is more likely that we will do this redrawing in the event that we find something for ourselves that gives us satisfaction and brings joy. Because really, the only thing that matters is energy.
I am convinced that many people are unable to discover their talents: the system prioritizes, it rewards some talents and marginalizes most others. And it turns out that if you do not know how to do something, for example, you are bad with math, they think about you that you are bad with everything and you cannot do anything. And so we need to fight this educational system. It's the same with jobs. But we must start, of course, with ourselves.
The key phrase of the Vancouver Summit, spoken by the Dalai Lama, is that you cannot fight for world peace if you are angry. But the most important thing, it seems to me, can be summed up in the words of Carl Gustav Jung: "I am not what happened to me, I am what I decided to become." George Kelly said the same: "No one should be a victim of their own biography." And if Jung argued that we are what we decided to become, then he meant that we have many options before us, and we must do everything to study them all and make the right one.
