[Edu-sig] real advice to a real student (comments welcome)

[kirby urner]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:

> Can you suggest your student watch this video?
> http://www.thersa.org/events/rsaanimate/animate/rsa-animate-drive
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> It is Dan Pink's _The Surprising Truth About what Motivates Us_
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> After he or she has done so, I have this added bit.
>
>
A very worthwhile read.  I have continued corresponding with this student
and will share a link to this post.

What's interesting in the cartoon / animation is where we start seeing
shafts of light and here people just wanna be good (at something).

That looks a lot like the religion model i.e. religion better answers these
needs than businesses.

But then immediately we have to ask:  what's the difference (between
religion and business -- both involve branding for example).

In a way it's just our mental categories that get in the way.  "We"
(amorphous we) approach the world with messy namespaces.

As I posted to a physics list recently:

"The best religions are yet to come."
>
>
> This saying pisses everyone off because:
>
> (a) half the people sing "Imagine there's no religion" and imagine they
> know what they mean by that
>
> and
>
> (b) the other half can't imagine "new religions" in the pipeline, still
> set to make their debut...
>
> ... but I assure you're they're there.
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> A lot of religions come with excellent science.  Belief in God?  Not
> always a feature.
>


Kirby
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