It's About Learning

Simon Sinek quote of the day both frustrates and motivates me:

Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there’s room for improvement.

Source: Sinek’s Start With Why

It frustrates me because our primary and post secondary systems of education focus so significantly on getting the right answer through the passive educational environment of main lecture points, individual competition and standardized testing. “Will this be on the test”, or “will we be tested on this” become the primary questions students learn to ask rather than questions like: “how does this___ really work” or how can we fix or improve this…”

Fortunately, as we can see from Steve Jobs Heres to the Crazy Ones video that there are enough misfits, rebels and trouble makers who are curious enough and believe that they can change the world.

http://youtu.be/8rwsuXHA7RA

Over the next few days we will see many blogs, videos and news shows that pay tribute to Steve Jobs. It is doubtful that you will see this first video in any of these tributes because the sound and image quality is a bit off yet it captures the essence of what made Jobs unique and explains the foundation to the “Think Different” campaign and the core values of Apple. Staying true to ones core values is not only the key to marketing success it is key to one personal and corporate identity.

The second video offers just the Think Different add narrated by Steven Jobs…the original Think Different add that was published was narrated by Richard Dreyfus.