书名：The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything让天赋自由：用激情改变你的世界

作者：Ken Robinson；Lou Aronica
出版社名称：Penguin
出版时间：2010
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141045252
商品尺寸：19.6 x 12.7 x 2 cm
包装：平装
页数：288 （以实物为准）

你在如何度过自己的一生？
你如何教育自己的孩子？又在如何管理自己的公司？

本书The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything《让天赋自由：用激情改变你的世界》是世界知名教育家肯·罗宾逊的“教育创新五部曲”之一。它将帮助你换个角度审视自己，使你更了解自身的天赋与爱好！

你天生就应该成就某项事业，而不是浑浑噩噩煎熬度日。阅读本书，你就可以在作者的引领下探索自己的天赋，实现更高的人生目标与价值！

The groundbreaking international bestseller that will help you fulfil your true potential.
The Element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. In this hugely influential book, world-renowned creativity expert Ken Robinson considers the child bored in class, the disillusioned employee and those of us who feel frustrated but can't quite explain why - and shows how we all need to reach our Element.
Through the stories of people like Vidal Sassoon, Arianna Huffington and Matt Groening, who have recognized their unique talents and made a successful living doing what they love, Robinson explains how every one of us can find ourselves in our Element, and achieve everything we're capable of.
With a wry sense of humour, Ken Robinson shows the urgent need to enhance creativity and innovation by thinking differently about ourselves. Above all, he inspires us to reconnect with our true self - it could just change everything.

Review
“With a crackling wit and a deep humanity, (Ken Robinson) urges us to ignore the naysayers, bypass the crowd and find the place where our talents and desires intersect” (Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind)

“A book that lightens and lifts the minds and hearts of all who read it”(Susan Jeffers, author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway)

“Happiness really is within your grasp” (Guardian)

“The Element gives you the feeling that all is possible if we dig deeply within ourselves, using our imaginations and curiosity” (Vidal Sassoon)

天赋是每个人的专属礼物，只有运用自己的创造力，沉浸于天赋指引的世界，与同“部落”的小伙伴相互支持，勇于突破自己的舒适区，找到一位人生的导师，我们就可以随时随地发现自己的天赋，过上幸福自由的人生！

Ken Robinson is an internationally recognised leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources. He has worked with national governments in Europe and Asia, international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, national and state education systems, non-profit organisations and some of the world's leading cultural organisations. He was knighted in 2003 for his contribution to education and the arts.

Introduction
The Element
Think Differently
Beyond Imagining
In the Zone
Finding Your Tribe
What Will They Think?
Do You Feel Lucky?
Somebody Help Me
IS It Too Late?
For Love or Money
Making the Grade Afterword
Notes
Index

GILLIAN WAS ONLY eight years old, but her future was already at risk. Her schoolwork was a disaster, at least as far as her teachers were concerned. She turned in assignments late, her handwriting was terrible, and she tested poorly. Not only that, she was a disruption to the entire class, one minute fidgeting noisily, the next staring out the window, forcing the teacher to stop the class to pull Gillian’s attention back, and the next doing something to disturb the other children around her. Gillian wasn’t particularly concerned about any of this—she was used to being corrected by authority figures and really didn’t see herself as a difficult child—but the school was very concerned. This came to a head when the school wrote to her parents.

The school thought that Gillian had a learning disorder of some sort and that it might be more appropriate for her to be in a school for children with special needs. All of this took place in the 1930s. I think now they’d say she had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and they’d put her on Ritalin or something similar. But the ADHD epidemic hadn’t been invented at the time. It wasn’t an available condition. People didn’t know they could have that and had to get by without it.
Gillian’s parents received the letter from the school with great concern and sprang to action. Gillian’s mother put her daughter in her best dress and shoes, tied her hair in ponytails, and took her to a psychologist for assessment, fearing the worst. Gillian told me that she remembers being invited into a large oak-paneled room with leather-bound books on the shelves. Standing in the room next to a large desk was an imposing man in a tweed jacket. He took Gillian to the far end of the room and sat her down on a huge leather sofa. Gillian’s feet didn’t quite touch the floor, and the setting made her wary. Nervous about the impression she would make, she sat on her hands so that she wouldn’t fidget.
The psychologist went back to his desk, and for the next twenty minutes, he asked Gillian’s mother about the difficulties Gillian was having at school and the problems the school said she was causing. While he didn’t direct any of his questions at Gillian, he watched her carefully the entire time. This made Gilhan extremely uneasy and confused. Even at this tender age, she knew that this man would have a significant role in her life.