Understanding and adapting to different learning styles, especially in the earlier years of learning, can significantly impact an individual's ability to learn and be empowered to live a happy and fulfilled life by gaining meaningful and positive experiences along the way.
Roy Sharples and Gary Burt provide perspective on a manifesto for education delivery to drive a "learning without frontiers" sensibility and approach. Instilling creativity and innovation within the core academic curriculum, the way it is delivered and taught.
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Understanding and adapting to different learning styles, especially in the earlier years of learning, can significantly impact an individual's ability to learn and be empowered to live a happy and fulfilled life by gaining meaningful and positive experiences along the way.
Roy Sharples and Gary Burt provide perspective on a manifesto for education delivery to drive a "learning without frontiers" sensibility and approach. Instilling creativity and innovation within the core academic curriculum, the way it is delivered and taught.
Accompanying blog post
Creativity Without Frontiers is available at all relevant book retailers
Stay in touch with Unknown Origins
Music by Iain Mutch
Hello, I'm Roy Sharples, and welcome to the unknown origins podcast. Why are you listening to this podcast? Are you an industry expert looking for insights? are you growing your career? Or are you a dear friend, helping to spur your old power on? I created the unknown origins podcast, to have the most inspiring conversations with creative industry personalities and experts about entrepreneurship, pop culture, art, music, film and fashion. In this podcast, Gary Bart, and I detail the manifesto for education delivery, to drive a learning without frontiers, sensibility, and approach, instilling creativity and innovation within the core academic curriculum, the way it is delivered and taught. Understanding and adapting to different learning styles, especially in the early years of learning can significantly impact an individual's ability to learn and be empowered to live a happy and fulfilled life by gaining meaningful and positive experiences along the way. Number one, and still imagine eating as a core discipline. Pablo Picasso believed all children are artists, but they lose their creativity when they grow up, and still grow into not out of approach to creativity that encourages people to follow their dreams by evoking magic and childlike wonder, and how to turn their ideas into art and vision art of the possible. Imagine f What if applying divergent thinking, to dream up what doesn't exist and perceive patterns that are not obvious to create and express art through a concept methods, solution, design, work of art or physical object, apply convergent thinking to critique and prioritize the best ideas rapidly prototype, and construct a plan to bring them to life, learning and applying techniques to drive evolution, synthesis, re application, reinvent, reinvention, reimagination disruption, revolution, and changing direction, building confidence and belief and ideas on building Julian's to never give up and navigate through adversity, to bring them to fruition. purpose, autonomy and mastery are what people need to optimize their creativity. Think with your own mind, feel with your own heart, and create with your own hands, invent, make mistakes, improve, seek excellence, and reject conformity and mediocrity
Gary Burt:as a great point, right. You know, I think one of the things we that you talk about Imagineering and you know, Picasso believe in all children are artists. And then we come out of school. And we think that, you know, creativity is something that that for that is only for the arts. Creativity is massively valuable in business, economics, finance, where we've seen, you know, huge fortunes made but huge changes made. This is where we've seen creativity where we've seen innovation. And when we get it's easy to think of jobs and musk and Bezos and really reinventing industries. But we could think in the creative areas around Anita Roddick who pour environmentalism into you know, cosmetics, Damien Hirst, Banksy challenged the norm, create and don't apologize,
Roy Sharples:but be you. Number two, embrace authentic creative expression. manifest what is inside yourself and arrange you in everyday life by influencing your innate perspective and talents to transcend the obvious, ordinary and routine, appreciate and understand what great art is, by helping see the unseen. Blend the art and science and craftsmanship by anticipating future trends inspired by culture and aesthetics, connected to emotions, and imagination, to elegantly compose creative solutions, crafting poetry, and a world where there is only prose and gracing the world with art impacting people's feelings and lives under design and functioning of everyday life.
Gary Burt:I see this is embracing creative expression. You know, I think too much of what we think about is about trying to teach the skills to create but we also need to talk teach the skills to Appreciate, to understand, to not just take great photos and paint great pictures, but to understand what great teachers photography and art help us do, which is understand and see. Why did that great photographers can take different images of the same person and end up with fundamentally different pictures? Why is it that we Lord photographers such as Annie Leibovitz, David Bailey, because it's their way of seeing that shows us a different person, it shows us a different perspective of that person. How does photography and imagery influence our decision making? Look at the work by Tom Stoddart, Kevin Carter, Robert Capa, you know, they reported someone that on in the most challenging war, famine, human desperate challenges, you know, and that changing things, their creativity and how they share those images. Why is the society are we pulling back and investing in arts and leaving it to wealthy philanthropists rather than seeing that this is something that everybody should be a part of? Why does this matter? Because it's how we change the world by talking, writing, taking photos, creating films by starting movements by raising awareness. It's these creative activities which change the world.
Roy Sharples:Number three, leading without frontiers. Creativity is the most differentiated quality for every leader in every domain. Creative leaders display distinctly different behaviors, values, and characteristics from traditional management. They get exponential results, inspire creativity and others, build productive teams, and drive successful businesses by encompassing disruptive thinking, and practice to drive radical improvements in a domain discipline, an industry reaching the other side by leading toward new frontiers of unknown opportunities on fulfilled hopes and dreams. By doing things their own way. And in their own style. They have a holistic view, and see the world as it should be free to listen that expression, transcend the status quo, and stand against the convention, and naysayers without fear of retaliation, entrepreneurial, purpose LED and mission driven. They hold themselves accountable for their actions, and having a social conscience and empathy for the environment. By continuously managing innovation. that powers the products they design, make and sell. And the businesses they run, instill a fearless approach to leadership on how people manage themselves and others in the spirit of leading toward invisible horizons. By applying a do it yourself sensibility to finding the future by being adaptive, persistent and resilient, to be independent minded, and self sufficient from start to finish. always finding the alternative by rejecting the banal and status quo. People who achieve greatness do not fit the formula or follow a structure. They break the mold by following their own path.
Gary Burt:It's about being bold, being brave, being respectful, but also being unapologetic. When we talk about teaching entrepreneurs and too often we fall into the trap of thinking this is about business, about creating businesses, but getting online about printing. It's not. It's about teaching persistence, confidence, not giving up and having the courage to do what you're passionate about. So what does this mean in reality, it means that our children, our students, or young adults coming out of school in education have one belief of above all others. They believe I can, doesn't mean to say they're going to be successful, but it means they have the right the backing and the confidence to try.
Roy Sharples:Number four, treat messiness and failure as critical to learning. The modern world is saturated with a consumer led celebrity culture where everyone looks the same, and everything is for sale. descending from all four corners, is the vironment, tongued, conformist, or separatist armchair analyst and Tiger parent who strikes out to crush your imagination in a voice and hope. This reality is counterintuitive to how creativity works. imitation is not creation. It is a process that infuses imagination, taste, style, even a little mess. And in which desperation, sacrifice, adversity, struggle, experimentation, failure, persistence, and the acquisition of skill and practical know how are more valuable than risk. Receiving instant fame. Continuously swimming against the tide and search of the authentic and new staving off false promises of easy gratification and immediate success. journeys have ups and downs. achievements are the result of journeys with beginnings, middles and ends. Always show the tension between the challenge and the outcome.
Gary Burt:The US does really well in seeing failure as a positive. We know the Edison quote about finding hundreds of ways that things don't work. But we need to embrace failure, because failure is progress. It's evolution. It's a path forward. But we need to balance this, but the US is also the greatest worshiper at the altar of disposable society and consumerism. The book Nomad land by Jessica Buddha had the following quote, and remember that the book was based on real people, and that the film was an adapted dramatization it was a good one, but it nevertheless a toned down one. Anyway, the quote in the book is, during Linda's first season working for Amazon, she'd seen up close the vast volume of crap Americans were buying and felt disgusted. And later in that paragraph, there is 1 million square feet in this warehouse packed with stuff that won't last a month. It's all going to the landfill. So what if we made that stuff with skill, to be beautiful to last to be enduring, to be repairable to be sustainable. And making selling or buying disposable crap was seen as a disgrace. So we can create and we can create things of beauty. I love it that artists can promote and sell their wares globally. It's tough, the competition is intense. But creating beautiful things is a superpower. I look at my friends who can do this. I've got a friend Claire bigger, who's an artist, a sculptor. I mean all of her beauty, her ability to create beauty. I want my kids to leave school and understand that this is real beauty. The ability to create true happiness in people when they look at her sculptures. And is reset is not an AI amended image of a Botox injected model, living a fatal life for clicks.
Roy Sharples:Number five, deliver an interactive and personalized experience to the right person at the right time. At various touch points along the learner journey. Tailor experiences the ways that people think live and act make it accessible, engaging and easy to understand. details matter to achieve the highest levels of quality and craft and delivering unforgettable experiences. Provide the relevant and consumable content, the visible and to smaller bites delivered to the right person at the right time, messaging and content aligned with every step throughout the learners journey. purposeful storytelling means being clear about your audience. What do they care about? What stories will resonate best with them? Why should they care? What is your goal? Is it to entertain? Is it to inspire? Is it to excite? Is it to influence? What's the call to action that you want your audience to take away? And most importantly, how do you want to make them feel? A well tell story engages the mind, heart and soul. A powerful narrative is built from simple principles. Truth is how we connect emotionally with a story and relate it to ourselves by bringing genuine moments to life, and celebrating relationships between people. Rather than just facts about things we can tell inspiring stories. We look for meaning and stories. Because we tell stories, they don't tell themselves. Our chosen voice and style have the potential to reveal meaning with ease, or bury it in confusion. the right style and voice will bring clarity, the stories both complex and straightforward. And what we say will be remembered. We exist in time. Our lives have beginnings, middles, and endings, filled with ups and downs, sudden reversals and unexpected successes. Conflict is the engine of narrative. It's what keeps us listening. details of the hope, frustration and joy inherent in any journey deep In our narratives impact, we tell stories to share and understand human experiences, building connections and passing on wisdom from the mess or potamia. To the Inca civilizations, the clans of the Hebrides to the Galapagos Islands, around campfires, and poetry, song, and throughout venues, stories celebrate our shared humanity. How can
Gary Burt:we build a school 100 years ago, and only see minor changes? We visit skills and go, it hasn't changed much. What a failure or a failure to invest in children. We've seen massive evolution in workspaces from design companies, Google agencies, have really worked to create inspiring spaces have focused on creating places which encouraged creativity, we need to put that effort into that we put into designing theme parks into education and designing schools. Maybe we need to think about sharing skills, build some amazing ones, and have children spend a small amount of time in them. So they don't spend all of their lives in one school. But they rotate across a number of schools does the nature school, the city school, the Forest School, the factory school, the dance studio school, the TV company school? How to create more experiential education? We need to flip this model. Why does Disney have 10s of Imagineers? for government education departments are starved of resources to think about what's possible level and do it? Why do we have companies pull books, when schools struggle for resources 500 copies of 50 Shades of Grey going to the local primary school, the model is broken. It's not about being commercial. It's finding a way to embrace that commercial energy and embrace it and bring it into education. So one of the things when we look at creativity is telling Michael what's possible and look at what we're doing in our own lives and when we do have the choice, and then start to bring this into making these amazing experiences for our children. And when we get that, right, we're not gonna have a problem with love and creativity. We're gonna have a
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