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Alfonso Montuori and Gabrielle Donnelly The Big Idea The winningest coach in the (USA) National Basketball Association is Phil Jackson with 11 NBA titles. Whatever you might think of Jackson’s coaching philosophy, there is one thing he seemed to intuitively know and later put into words: “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” This research discussion on creativity is unwittingly a suggestion of the meaning and implications of Jackson’s paradoxical quote about individual and collective…
Carol S. Dweck The Big Idea A good number of years ago the American educator and philosopher, John Dewey, wrote a little, sticky sentence when talking about learning. It was this sentence: “We must have lions in our path.” In a general sense, Carol Dweck’s literature research review turns nicely on exactly that sentence. Dewey was arguing that progressive human development depended upon facing challenges. How we respond to those challenges largely defines the extent to which we become all that we can be. Dweck’s subject…
Clifford J. Mallett, Stephanie J. Hanrahan The Big Idea “An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.” So said Emil Zatopek, the remarkable Czechoslovakian distance runner, when asked what his motivation to run was. This one word, motivation, is a giant of a word. In the sporting world this one word has birthed thousands and thousands of inspirational quotes, sayings, locker room chalk-talks, T-shirt slogans, marketing ploys, even prayers. It is the one word that is…