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Brene Brown’s New Book: Daring Greatly

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Readers of these posts may remember a brief discussion of Brene Brown’s work and video on the Power of Vulnerability here.  Today, her latest book was released, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. In the following promotional video she talks about the book and its title’s origins in a Teddy Roosevelt quotation.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdN9-DN09vk

Our work in iFoundry and the Big Beacon points to the importance of these habits, you can download the Kindle version of the book here.

Higher Education Bubble

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Parents pay more and more for their children to learn less and less from faculty members who are increasingly less engaged in education and learning.  Can this go on?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAwBN2Q8L14

“No,” says Glenn Reynolds, who thinks it’s a bubble.  Watch the RSA-style animation in the video above or read the book here. What do you think?

Help Make Cool Big Beacon Posters

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Check out the new Karen Salmansohn designed Big Beacon poster.  In working with the themes of the BB manifesto (here), a number of the posters played with whole brains as a theme.  Help us design the next generation of posters by answering a few questions:

  • What is your single most favorite web poster?  (send a link)
  • Do you like the ? (mind-heart-hands) poster (here) better than the on-switch poster.
  • What themes should we be using for the Big Beacon posters?
  • Describe in words a poster your would like to see.
  • What else should we be thinking about in poster design that I haven’t asked about?

We will use and credit the best ideas in coming poster designs.  Send your ideas to deg@threejoy.com.

 

Video: Karen Salmansohn and Perfectionism

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Friend of ThreeJoy and the Big Beacon, author and artist Karen Salmansohn has a usefully funky take on perfectionism in the video in the viewer below:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGkQP0giXOM

Karen did the cool graphics on the Big Beacon Manifesto and the head-heart-hands poster here.  Her mission statement in life is quoted below:

My mission in one long run on sentence: To offer easy-to-absorb insights and advice to help you bloom into your happiest, most loved, highest potential self – and have fun in the process – because I use playful analogies, feisty humor, and stylish graphics to distill big ideas (from the latest scientific studies to ancient wisdom) into short, easily-digestible, life-changing tips.

Read more about Karen’s books and work on her website notsalmon.com

A.B.E. – Anything But an Engineer

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Students in developed countries want to be A.B.E, anything but an engineer.  The deck below considers this difficulty.

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It considers also the way in which the Big Beacon (here) may be a way to overcome this difficulty.

Creating Innovators by Tony Wagner

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I heard Tony Wagner at an Olin College event in Palo Alto on Sunday and his thoughts about how to educate a generation of innovators as described in his book Creating Innovators.  See the book trailer  below:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c6_Hzgqfmg

The book is available in hardcover and kindle versions here.