The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

So often, I think, we as women stop ourselves from trying because we don’t want to risk failing. We put such a premium on being approved of, we become reluctant to take risks.

The idea of separate subjects that have nothing in common offends the principle of dynamism.

“My key words are experiential and contextual,”

pedagogy, the process by which the system helps students to do it;

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

Many of the people you’ll meet in this book didn’t pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn’t imagine doing anything else with their lives.

A+ Schools encourage teachers to use such learning tools such as mapping, thematic webbing (establishing connections between various subject areas), the development of essential questions, the creation and use of interdisciplinary thematic units, and cross‐curricular integration. They build the curriculum around experiential learning. They use enri

And the fact is that the average office worker probably does have more financial security than the average jazz trumpeter. But it is difficult to feel accomplished when you’re not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something “for your own good” is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.

I have described intelligence as being diverse, dynamic, and distinct.