I am slowly going to get back into the blogging world again so this will be short and sweet. This is a wonderful book that kicked my butt in terms of my “whining” about how much time i have to pursue goals, even with Jude at what feel like the busiest stage of his life and with another baby on the way (due early March 2011). I have dreams and some life goals that seem like miles away, but really I have been making excuses. Perhaps its this sabbatical I am on that is making me realize a few things.

With that said Linchpin is a great motivator, its abstract enough to inspire you and specific enough to get you on the right path. His concepts around gifts and his words about self awareness are perfect. These are concepts that mentally i have known for a long time but only ...

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[On teaching students to solve interesting problems] "Interesting" is the key word. Answering questions like "When was the war of 1812?" is a useless skill in an always-on Wikipedia world. It's far more useful to be able to answer the kind of question for which using Google won't help. Questions like, "What should I do next?"

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The sign in front of your local public school could say:

We train the factory workers of tomorrow. Our graduates are very good at following instructions. And we teach the power of consumption as an aid for social approval.

It's almost impossible to imagine a school with a sign that says:

We teach people to take initiative and become remarkable artists, to question the status quo, and to interact with transparency. And our graduates understand that consumption is not the answer to social problems.

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The future belongs to chefs, not to cooks or bottle washers. It's easy to buy a cookbook (filled with instructions to follow) but really hard to find a chef book.

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