The adults must let go

The Prophet - Khalil Gibran, gives a good message to adults...

" You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth".

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might, that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness;

For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

The young know their bull's eye and will make it to their goal, only if given the opportunity to lead on. The world is for the children always and may the youth always prevail. All we do is to equip them, maybe provide the necessary resources and then let them build the world of their dreams. The dreams of the young must become a reality to make a better world.

The flight of the majestic arrow is for us to enjoy and the swift current of air the arrow creates, is the beauty we need to cherish. The youth must be equipped for life, this is the truth that must be cherished by all. When we hire fresh minds for any task, the value add and their energy they adds propel the innovations to the next level. The creative instinct of the youth must never be scuttled and this is where the adults must let go. The stable hand be a guide alone and the new world be our goal.

Once the arrow leaves the stable, it will reach the destined target!

Empowerment of Youth

My friend and philosopher guide Ted writes...

In a recently published article in the Guardian there were the champion memories of  Europe and America. Our ancestors did not worry about words or telephone numbers, they just had to go out and hunt for dinner and know how to bring it home. Thus the spatial memory is vital not the verbal. So contestants learn  to put mnemonics in the form of visual images against the words they have to remember. Schools teach words that are the worst things to remember so they have to be rote learned. I suggest it is also because they are unrelated to anything else whereas total mind is a built-in mnemonic.

Teaching of the verbal part of the mind is worse than useless. Einstein's mind had at least twelve dimensions, Creative Scientists do not use words except for communication...
1. Senses 20-30, not just five (sight, sound, smell, touch and taste). Micromegas of Voltaire had near 1000!;
2. Visualization;
3. Imagination;
4. Intuition;
5. Creativity
6. Subconscious - sleep on a problem, but unaware how it works.
7. Creative Hemisphere, Bolte-Taylor's visual Nirvana brain. 'My Stroke of insight', lost her left or utility brain and found herself in the creative brain;
8. Super conscious of Aurobindo, it harnesses total brain, it hisses like the ocean. (Kundalini & Western Mystery Ceremonies). Rumi's poetry came from it;
9. Vision - Telescopic;
10. Beauty of Creative Rapture was Einstein's lifelong quest - beautiful laws of Nature;
11. Higher mathematics;
12. A lifelong purpose. Maslow's 9 Human needs.

A third of young people/students leave having lost their visualization ability. Pestalozzi schools in Switzerland teach visualization, one of their students was Einstein. He and Poincare hated rote learning of facts and words. Einstein did not think in words but visual images. Relativity came to him from thought experiment. A light ray on a train pursued by an observer in a bus.

In Industry, James Lincoln's workers; produced four times that of other companies and were paid twice as much. Every suggestion of workers were paid 100% of its savings. I was put in charge of Tetley Tea's. 1000 people and copied Lincoln. We doubled the productivity in three years and from a loss making company it became a hugely profitable. It takes workers six months to realize you the manager are on their side: then you can apply incentives and generous suggestion systems. Workers and managers should work to make the most money and provide the best security possible; the only argument is about the division of the spoils.

Creativity and the European obsessions with Renaissances of which the present is that of Science for 400 or so years; is a vision of real hope for humanity.

Students/young people need guidance in life and I have found a better than Maslow's Ascending Hierarchy of human needs:
1. Warmth and shelter.
2. Food.
3. Safety.
4. Feelings of belonging.
5. Love from someone e.g. mother.
6. Self-esteem.
7. Esteem of others.
8. Peak Experience or Creative Rapture.
9. Achievement of creativity.

After each need is fulfilled (or transcended) by religion etc; the being grows spiritually. The highest were called 'self-actualization' and are ready for the highest experiences of life. This I think is a marvelous blueprint for living.

All the best, TED