Inspiration to learn about yourself

Here’s a 3½ minute video of Shaquille O’Neal conducting the Boston Pops Via  

Listening to this interview with Daniel Pink , I learned more about what people need to do to avoid that the work, they do, get outsourced. Video # 1 The abilities, that we associate with the left side of our brain, i.e. logical, linear, sequential, spread-sheet abilities still matter, but they matter less.  Work, that is basically about following a set of rules, can relatively easily be outsourced. It is now abilities characterized by the right hand side of the brain, for example, artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big picture thinking, that matter most in several professions and industries. Video # 2 What becomes valuable is what you cannot reduce to a set of rules. Accountants, for example, need to work more on becoming financial advisors. Video # 3 The abilities, that are hard to outsource and hard to automate - for example design, storytelling and seeing the big picture - are fundamentally human abilities. Video # 4 Right brain abilities require a certain measure of autonom...

Via this tweet , I came across the interview embedded below with David Kelley of IDEO. Listening to Mr. Kelley, I learned, for example, that everybody is creative. However, when we educate ourselves, we are talked out of being creative and into using our analytical mind. We need to get our creative confidence back. What are you doing to get your creative confidence back?

Listening to this interesting 23 minute conversation between Charlie Rose and Andrew Mason of Groupon, I learned, for example, that it is the element of discovery, of finding new things, of being surprised by whatever the deal is that makes Groupon fun for consumers. Groupon tries, according to Mr. Mason, to remain surprising in various ways. About 5 minutes into the conversation, Andrew Mason also mentions that people have a thirst for experiences.  Reflecting on the surprise effect, that Mr. Mason refers to at the start of the conversation, I also came to think of the 2 versions of Händel’s Hallejujah embedded below. Both versions of the song are, I think, beautifully performed by the competent artists. Notice - in the last of the 2 videos - the surprise effect. In this regard, consider also the cool idea of using a shopping centre as a venue for an experience like this. By the way, check out the faces of the kids in the video. They look completely amazed. I think I would be...

Listening to Deepak Chopra, I learned that there are 4 forms of human intelligence: # 1: Being Being is the highest form of human intelligence. # 2: The feeling that is aroused from the level of being Love and compassion. # 3: Thinking Creativity # 4: Doing Doing is based on the 3 other forms of human intelligence mentioned above. This means, for example, that action without love is meaningless.  

I came across this slideshow about 10 things that make a great green city .  I noticed, for example, idea # 10: Farmers’ markets . What examples of great farmers' markets do you know in which cities?

Via this posting , I came across the 10 minute video embedded below. Watching the video, I learned that there are 6 main time zones that people live in: # 1: Past positive orientation People, who remember all the good old times, for example successes and happy birthdays. # 2: Past negative orientation People, who focus on regret, failure, and all the things that went wrong. # 3: Present hedonism People, who are hedonistic, i.e. people who live for pleasure, avoid pain, seek knowledge and sensation. All of us begin life as present hedonists. # 4: Present orientation 2 People who think their life is fated, for example by religion, poverty, conditions that they live under. The nearer you are to equator, in an environment where climate doesn’t change, the more present oriented you are. # 5: Future orientation 1 People, who have learned to work rather than to play, and who resist temptation. # 6: Future orientation 2 People who think that life begins after the death of the mortal bod...

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Listening to this Thinkers50 interview with Kjell A. Nordström and Jonas Ridderstråle, I learned, for example, this: Minute 3 Kjell A. Nordström mentions that “if there’s one thing that is very much the same as it was in 1999, it is the business school, and how we train people.” Minute 5 Kjell A. Nordström says that “It’s a well known fact that Sweden , or Scandinavia in general, is a very good market to test a product.” Minute 9 Jonas Ridderstråle explains that funky means to be authentic, to be true to yourself. Minute 10 Kjell A. Nordström mentions that he’s involved in a company that makes plant walls. Mr. Nordström mentions that the company will grow a lot of things in the cities in the future. He also explains that they will probably use walls much more than they do today. Minute 11 Telling a story about a person who, in the 1960s, succeeded a previously fantastic football player as the coach of Juventus, Jonas Ridderstråle refers to the answer that the new coach, who was ...

Via this posting ,  I came across this innovative 5 minute presentation by Hans Rosling.