The Adaptable Mind and The Human Economy

So recently, we had an assembly at my school. I went into it expecting to hear the long drawn out speech and standard conduct rhetoric that we have all come to expect in Western schools. Instead something different happened instead he talked for 2 minutes until chatter inevitably began and than challenged anyone in the room who wanted to go to go, which least to say shut people right up. Once he'd regained control of the room, he played one little ten minute video and that was all. Least to say it was probably the best assembly ever, now that's what I call satisdiction (it's a real word I'm not kidding. It means to get ones point across with few words. It's cool :D ).

The video in question is "The Adaptable Mind" talks about the future of our world and our role in it as technology grows and grows and takes up more of the physical work. It specifically talks about how our human traits; Curiosity, Creativity, Initiative, Multi-disciplinary Thinking and Empathy, will be what we build our economy around. A "Human Economy" if you will, based around peoples ability to think outside of the box. Now as much I'd like to talk about the idea of that, we aren't going to be talking about it. Instead (as per my orders), you get to hear

In the context of those five things at least.


Out of those five things I would have to say that I am very good with curiosity, creativity and empathy. I love exploring things, wrenching them open and looking around and generally thinking about possibilities. As a student of the arts I feel like I am quite apt at being creative, coming up with new ideas and solutions to problems. As for Empathy I do my very best to always try and get into someone else head space when trying to work with them.

As for future development I feel like I really need to focus on my initiative, as I am terrible at getting things going that I am not especially interested in. Also I am terrible with procrastination and making excuses, this namely being my favorite excuse:

And as for multi-disciplinary thinking, I feel that it wouldn't be very hard for me, as I enjoy interacting with others and developing projects. My biggest struggle is that I need to put myself out there and actually find the other disciplines to work with and talk to. Really more of an initiative problem, but I digress.

I think to continual to grow and develop, I really just need to focus on getting myself motivated and if I can get that part of my life worked out than I should be able to do very well in life.

 Congrats, you've managed to get through another novel that are my blog post.
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I hope you enjoyed this post and that you personally try to grow your human traits and be the best person you can be.

Your Humble Scribe