Watch, Laugh, Learn, Live
I dug up Sir Ken Robinson‘s inspiring and hilarious old 2006 TEDTalk on creativity and learning recently. If you’ve seen it before, you’ll want to see it again… and if you haven’t, what hell have you been doing?
Creativity – “the process of having original ideas that have value”
There are lessons for all with an interest in education and the future. But some are especially relevant, and often forgotten, in medicine:
- whatever we do, and wherever we do it, creativity needs to be nutured
- we should never be afraid of mistakes so long as we learn from them
- the future is unknown — how do we know if we’re educating for the future?
Watch, laugh, learn and live.
He was back in 2010 urging us to overcome the tyranny of common sense, embrace diversity and to dis-enthrall ourselves with traditional educational dogma so that we can educate in ways that feed our spirits:
Chris is an Intensivist and ECMO specialist at The Alfred ICU, where he is Deputy Director (Education). He is a Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University, the Lead for the Clinician Educator Incubator programme, and a CICM First Part Examiner.
He is an internationally recognised Clinician Educator with a passion for helping clinicians learn and for improving the clinical performance of individuals and collectives. He was one of the founders of the FOAM movement (Free Open-Access Medical education) has been recognised for his contributions to education with awards from ANZICS, ANZAHPE, and ACEM.
His one great achievement is being the father of three amazing children.
On Bluesky, he is @precordialthump.bsky.social and on the site that Elon has screwed up, he is @precordialthump.
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