For anyone out there that isn’t a good test-taker, don’t let low scores hold you back. And for those of you with high scores, don’t rely on just that to get you through life.
We all have skills, experience, and abilities that just can’t be captured in standardized tests. And, lucky for society, Malcolm Gladwell is currently obsessed with proving that.
Check out this video link to Malcolm Gladwell’s presentation posted on The New Yorker, entitled “Reinventing Invention”.
In this video you will get some great insight into Malcolm Gladwell’s new book coming out in November. He speaks of the ‘mismatch problem’ in hiring and how ‘outdated, simplistic measures of ability’ for sports, teachers, lawyers, government (cleverly referencing our current administration), etc., doesn’t work.
“As the world changes…people can not be understood and summed up easily and cleanly.”
Isn’t it great when you attend an event and it greatly exceeds your highest expectations for it? Last weekend’s Empowerment Retreat did exactly that for me.
Right from the beginning, when I first arrived and opened the window of my air-conditioned car, I was gently greeted by the natural scent of pine trees in the serenity of the YMCA camp where this event took place. Not overcrowded, and nicely situated away from the day-to-day hassles of everyday life, there was an intimate feel right from the start.
At first I didn’t know what to expect. Most of the speakers slated to present at this event, I had not heard of before, yet I had high hopes just from having read their posted biographies. They did not disapoint. The event’s organizer, Carson Tang, can certainly be trusted to bring together a great set of quality speakers and attract a great audience of like-minded folks.
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I’ve always known that Ethics can get complicated and many times falls into a big gray area.
And, I personally place honesty and integrity quite high on my list of values. Yet, I’m surprised to be finding more and more people raising arguments to justify why it’s okay to get close to crossing the line on ethics. And, I’m starting to wonder if I might not need to be more flexible in my judgements of people that do flirt with or actually cross that line.
Intentions do make a difference. If someone does something wrong (and, of course, that is all relative, too), but if it is done out of ignorance or out of good intentions, then that should be taken into consideration in our evaluation of that behavior.
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For anyone out there that isn’t a good test-taker, don’t let low scores hold you back. And for those of you with high scores, don’t rely on just that to get you through life.
