Real-izing your Dream
This page is about finding your passion, improving your creativity, and making a difference.
Video
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. ****
General Ideas on Design and Creativity
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).
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
