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Imagine If...

Written by: Sir Ken Robinson
Narrated by: Kate Robinson, Sir Ken Robinson
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Imagination and creativity are at the root of every uniquely human achievement, and those achievements have brought us to this present moment.

We are now the largest population in human history: seven and half billion people, rising to nine billion by 2050. Our technologies are evolving exponentially, but spiritually and emotionally, we're not keeping pace. Our appetites are straining the Earth's capacity to sustain us, and our attempts to force it to do so are fuelling a holocaust of other species. Communities across the globe are still locked in ancient cultural conflicts, and while the majority of people are materially more comfortable than ever before, there are global epidemics of depression and anxiety.

To meet these existential challenges, we have to harness our creativity to a more compassionate and sustainable vision of the world we want to live in and the lives we hope to lead. To do that, we have to create new systems of education for the future and for our children that are based on organic principles of diversity, creativity and collaboration.
©2022 Ken Robinson (P)2022 Penguin Audio
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A powerful call to thinking...

We humans have the most enviable gift of #imagination. And that's what really makes us so different from rest of the creatures on the planet. Everything we've ever made once started its journey in someone's mind as an imagination - a challenge to the status quo, questioning the established mental models, a departure from the social norms, swimming upstream against the establish business models,...literally anything and perhaps everything! As humans, we are born with the innate power of imagination. And just like a good seed needs the right soil and nutrition, we too need just the right environment to give wings to this power of imagination and build the future. I won't shy away to call it as a #superpower of the humans.

And yet, our #education system makes such a horrible mess of our budding capabilities. We are taught conformance rather than creativity, we are expected to comply rather than question. Rest of the damage is completed at #workplaces that treat people as "human machines". In what might be the biggest irony, our education system was designed for the #industrialage when we needed a hierarchy of workers at each level to support mass production. Now that the industrial age is practically over, it is time to reset the way we teach our children, the way we design our future. And who better than Late Ken Robinson to guide us with his radical ideas? I totally enjoyed listening to the audiobook narration of his last book by his daughter Kate Robinson. One word of caution: some books are meant to generally entertain, and some are there to provide readymade answers and canned wisdom. This book does none. But this will make you think so that hopefully one day you might come up with ideas to change the world. And I think that is the most audacious hope. #imagineif...

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A short and strong message

loved the message and loved the narration . thank you Robinson family 😀. I hope I can use this knowledge to make a difference

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