Real-izing your Dream
This page is about finding your passion, improving your creativity, and making a difference.
Utne Reader lists of 150 works that fire the imagination Part 1 and Part 2has quite a few influential green thinkers.
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Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (74 min youtube version). longer Google video version ****
Sir Ken Robinson has written numerous books, most recently "The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything." This longer 2009 talk explores ways to connect peoples' natural aptitudes with their personal passions to achieve at their highest levels in education and business. His TEDtalk on how schools kill creativity has been viewed 4 million times. ****
Jeff Hawkins, entrepreneur, founder of Palm Computing, advises everyone to find their passion and to use the fastest and surest ways to pursue that passion. He also believes it is very important to make the right decisions at critical junctures, as well as having fun while following one's goal. 4 min 2005.
CBS News segment 1/10
Books
Barbara Sher helps people identify and follow their dreams. Wishcraft is online for free. She has made several very fine PBS programs sample.
How writing improves creativity
Roger von Oech is a very good writer of popular books on creativity.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the smartest researcher on creativity. His best known work is Flow. here's TEDtalk video on Flow ***
How To Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas
General Ideas on Design and Creativity
Bruce Mau has been inspired by nature, wants to redesign the world, and he may well rock yours. Another profile Interactive version of his "An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth" Here's a text excerpt. Here's a downloadable complete version. Video compilation. Longer interview.
As a creative director at Ideo, Paul Bennett reminds us that design need not invoke grand gestures or sweeping statements to be successful, but instead can focus on the little things in life. TEDtalk video
Tim Brown on creativity and play (TEDtalk video).
Yves Behar has produced some of the new millennium's most coveted objects, like the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset, and the XO laptop for One Laptop per Child. (TEDtalk video).
Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. (TEDtalk video).
Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design (CS547) video
Dean Kamen, inventor of Segway, speaks about creation of prosthetic limbs. TEDtalk video. he has also created an amazing power source and water distiller for Third World countries TEDtalk video.
Inspired By Nature
Climbing devices based on geckos
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus TEDtalk video.
"Captain Organic," Ross Lovegrove embraces nature as the inspiration for his "fat-free" design. TEDtalk video
