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Random Notes on the Presentation taken by Janis

=**Eric Wahl**=

http://www.theartofvision.com/

= Unlearn the rules, break the boundaries, free the thought process, and rediscover your untapped potential.=

He has everyone that sits in on his meetings use Crayola's to take notes. He encourages them to doodle. Crayola is the 20th most recognizable smells.

If you ask a room full of adults how many of them can draw, very few will raise their hands. If you ask a group of high school students how many can draw, about 15% will raise their hands. Ask a room full of adults, very few will raise their hands. Ask a room full of elementary students and most will raise their hands. What happens?

Drawing is a learned skill. We must tap into the right side of our mind to come up with new, original ideas.

If we were to follow the bread crumbs of any unmet goal it would always lead back to FEAR. If you can take your focus off of the fears you can begin to leverage some of those things that allow you to move beyond and move out into the unchartered right brained territory.

We live 90% of our time in the left brain. WE take all of our interactions and transform them into processes. The right side of our minds are intentionally closed by most of our education.

Most times the task cheats you out of the purpose of the learning. - Becky Darce Really like this.

Education Today: The way of pathologically, linear data driven, one right answer. WE were taught in a lot of ways to become increasingly logical. Our culture today places a premium on just how busy we can be.

Educara- the Latin root for education - to "draw out" as opposed to impose upon. Come up with new and different ways to engage our children instead of opposing our "right answers" upo them.

Success has almost become easy to achieve because so many have learned to accept mediocrity.

Phil Jackson - Take away all the media, Jordan would still dominate on the basketball court because of the mental edge. He had a vision - his ability to adjust his game plan to adapt any situations. That kind of adaptive vision is the same kind of ability that artists of the past had - imagination adaptvie based thinking that our kids have the ability to tap into to acheive their dreams - to go against those preconceived notions about them.

Arts almost seems frivolous or silly to our world today.

The concept of creative and innovation is learned and practiced. Truly those that embrace creative and adaptive thinking are better equipped to face the future.

How to we get back to that core of creative thinking? Go back and get a PHD in Kids. They are the masters in unbound thinking. They are not bound by what we are bound by.

Imagination is even more important that knowledge. - Einstein

Seeing the logic of what the rest of the world around us sees but doing something with it something that noone has every done before. Twsit the landscape and think with the art of vision like no one has ever done before

Art of Vision Unlearn the rules. Adapt Performance Risk Committ Break the boundaries

"I am a father. My boys are my resource pool for learning about creativity." He has Crazy Daddy Time for 20 minutes each day with his kids - An air of inefficiency and unbound creation. Embrace the idea of silliness and craziness because it wakes up the mind. "Continually stresses to his children to be perfect and start trying to be remarkable."