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Lynda
5,0 sur 5 étoiles Great book.
Commenté au Canada le 5 mai 2020
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Great book, exactly as described, packed well shipped lightening fast and arrived safely; Thank you!!!
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ana
3,0 sur 5 étoiles Good to get you start thinking
Commenté au Canada le 3 septembre 2014
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Has some good food for thought but I found it limited in direction. I found the book a bit vague especially when compared to Kaplan's What you're really meant to do, a book I really found helpful. If you learn/respond well to personal stories this book will not disappoint as it has a number of those that serve as great examples of finding ones element.
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5,0 sur 5 étoiles Would recommend
Commenté au Canada le 22 septembre 2019
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Excellent read.
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Katie
5,0 sur 5 étoiles Used as a gift, and recipient loved it
Commenté au Canada le 9 septembre 2018
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Self help book, fascinating information
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Roubin
5,0 sur 5 étoiles you will enjoy it
Commenté au Canada le 27 novembre 2020
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very fast and perfect book to read
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Passant Elalfy
5,0 sur 5 étoiles Excellent Book
Commenté au Canada le 23 juillet 2019
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Loved it.
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ellison
3,0 sur 5 étoiles Who are you?
Commenté au Canada le 18 novembre 2015
Author shares his life stories and exercises to find out who you are. Includes writing, meditating, mind mapping (thought diagram), and others. Insightful and occasionally cheeky.
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Robert Morris
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5,0 sur 5 étoiles Finding your Element is "vital to understanding who you are and what you're capable of being and doing with your life."
Commenté au Canada le 21 mai 2013
According to Ken Robinson, what he characterizes as "The Element" is not a physical location but the challenge is to locate it, nonetheless. "It's about doing something that feels so completely natural to you, that resonates so strongly with you, that you feel as if this is who you really are." Some people locate it in childhood, others decades later, and still others never. "Finding your Element is a quest to find yourself...it is a two-way journey: an inward journey to explore what lies within you and an outward journey to explore opportunities in the world around you." Robinson wrote The Element (2009) with Lou Aronica who also assisted with the writing of Finding Your Element four years later. Ever since the first book was published, Robinson explains, "people have asked me how they can find their own Element, or help other people to find theirs."

In response, this sequel has five main thematic threads that weave throughout the book, each of which is intended to help the reader reflect and focus on finding their own Element and, if they wish to, help others to do so. Robinson provides ideas and principles as well as stories and examples, stories, and other resources such as 15 exercises to complete (more about them in a moment) and clusters of questions to consider at the end of each chapter before moving on to the next. In fact, each chapter title is a question. "Although there are ten chapters in the book, Finding Your Element is not a ten-step program." Just as Oscar Wilde once suggested, "Be yourself. Everyone else is taken," Robinson suggests that only the reader can answer the questions posed. "In the end, only you will know if you've found your Element or if you are still looking for it. Whichever it proves to be, you should never doubt this is a quest worth taking." True to form, Robinson asks most of the right questions but it remains for each reader to answer them, perhaps using some of the tools that Robinson provides. I have found mind mapping to be an especially helpful technique during both an inward journey of personal discovery and an outward journey of the world in which I live. As with answering questions, however, each reader must select which tools to use as well as when and how.

These are among the dozens of passages that caught my eye, also listed to indicate the scope of Robinson's coverage.

o A Personal Quest (Pages xxii-xxiv)
o Three Elemental Principles (19-27)
o True North (27-30)
o Hidden Depths (39-44)
o Finding Your Aptitudes (44-48)
o What's Your Style? (65-71)
o Two Sorts of Energy (84-87)
o The Unhappy Truth (113-115)
o Having a Purpose What Is Happiness? (117-120)
o The Meaning of Happiness (120-126)
o Seeing Through the Barriers (143-146)
o Who Are You? (147-148)
o A Question of 160-165)
o Figuring Out Where You Are (173-174)
o The Culture of Tribes (191-192)
o Moving Forward by Going Back (215-222)

As I began to re-read this book prior to composing this brief commentary, I realized that amidst all the information, insights, and counsel that Robinson provides in abundances, there were certain key points that I had missed. I strongly recommend re-reading this book, highlighting especially relevant material along the way and then reviewing that material from time to time. I also suggest keeping a notebook near at hand in which to record personal thoughts, feelings, experiences, concerns, and other professional as well as personal issues.

As quoted earlier, Robinson views "finding your Element is a quest to find yourself...it is a two-way journey: an inward journey to explore what lies within you and an outward journey to explore opportunities in the world around you." This is a never-ending process because each of us and our circumstances change and adjustments must be made to accommodate them.

This is what Ken Robinson has in mind, when concluding: "Like the rest of nature, human talents and passions are tremendously diverse and they take many forms. As individuals, we're all motivated by different dreams and we thrive -- and we wilt too -- in very different circumstances. Recognizing your own dreams and the conditions you need to fulfill them are essential to becoming who you can be. Finding your own Element won't guarantee that you'll spend the rest of your life in a constant, unbroken state of pleasure and delight. It will give you a deeper sense of who you really are and of the life you could and maybe should live."
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1,0 sur 5 étoiles This isn't what you hope it will be
Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 18 novembre 2018
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Pretty disappointing hotchpotch of clichés and stories in the vein of Dale Carnegie (though nowhere near as engaging). All strung together with generic advice and exercises you'd find in any self-help book for 50p in a charity shop.

Highlights include being advised to do a SWOT analysis on your life and being informed of something called the Internet that will help you find more help. This smacks of a lazy follow-up to a more successful book.

If you already have a basic sense of self-awareness (which let's face it is most people educated enough to persue self-actualization) then this book is a waste of time. It doesn't have any unique advice beyond something pleasant to read on the toilet.
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rjj
1,0 sur 5 étoiles Padded out and full of recycled cliches
Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 22 décembre 2019
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I was really disappointed with this offering. The author did admittedly point out that there were not going to be any real suggestions or roadmaps for us to follow but that it could start to show the way. Well, I finished this book with a sense that I had read a 300 page introduction. It simply failed to launch.
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Rob
1,0 sur 5 étoiles Rubbish
Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 4 mars 2019
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It is simply multiple stories and the author will ask you questions when you probably brought this because you wanted answers which you won't find here.
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Sean Mc Gee
5,0 sur 5 étoiles Wonderful read. It should be required reading for every young person especially. Too many of us suppress our heart's desires and
Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 10 juin 2016
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A wonderful read. Highly recommended. This book should be required reading for all young people. Too many people suppress their true calling and end up living a life of mediocrity.
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Tone Tellefsen Hughes
5,0 sur 5 étoiles Give this to you teenagers before chosing a profession.
Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 26 avril 2015
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I would recommend anyone who is not clear of their future profession to read this. When you mix aptitude and ability with passion you get the sense of being in the "element". Work takes on a different meaning and is no longer "work" in the traditional sense. I wish more parents would give this book to their kids instead of pushing them to study without a purpose.
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