“I imagine, Therefore I am”
Sir Ken Robinson argues(2010, “Do schools kill creativity”, Ted talk) for radical changes in how we should think about our own intelligence and creativity- and in how we should educate our children and each other to meet the extraordinary challenges of living and working in the 21st century.
Robinson conducted tests with children up to age 4, tests of complex problems for which they achieved a 98% success rate. The same test carried out on children aged 8 – 10 years showed that this had dropped to 50% and by 13-15 years of age its drop was much greater.
This appears counter intuitive. So how does it happen and how does it affect our leadership?