検索キーワード： "自己啓発" イノベーション

Oggi internet, con tutti i suoi pericoli e le sue opportunità, fa parte della vita dei bambini e delle competenze che dovranno acquisire per stare al mondo. Tra i genitori c’è chi ha rinunciato alla battaglia per tenere sotto controllo i contenuti a cui sono esposti i propri figli e li lascia navigare da soli in rete, e chi, nel dubbio, vieta tout court smartphone e tablet. Chi ha ragione? Secondo Giuseppe Lavenia, che si occupa da decenni della delicata relazione tra bambini e strumenti digitali in veste di psicoterapeuta e formatore per insegnanti e genitori, nessuno dei due.

You don't have to be a mechanical genius to be an inventor. Anyone can invent - a parent wrestling with a baby sling...a coach frustrated with slick-soled running shoes...an office worker determined to keep the computer cords untangled. Inventing is simply finding clever solutions to everyday challenges. Author and inventor Patricia Nolan-Brown has turned common annoyances into ingenious and money-making products.

How did a balloonist circumnavigate the earth without fuel? How did an inventor design a device that creates electrical power from human footsteps? How did the WHO figure out how to treat and reduce the transmission of Ebola? They all used alien thinking. For over a decade, innovation experts Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux and Michael Wade have studied individuals around the world who have made leaps of creative genius. Their research shows that they are five patterns of thinking that distinguish true innovators from the rest of us.

When I was growing up, I always thought there were only two ways to get rich. Number one: You were born rich. Number two: Some family member left you a bunch of money when they kicked the bucket. As much as people love to talk up the American dream, I grew up inside the American reality - raised inside a trailer in New Jersey, born to a 14-year-old mother. But now, things are a little different. I've done lots of cool things with my life, but most people know me as "the ab roller guy".

Dale Dougherty, creator of MAKE: magazine and the Maker Faire, provides a guided tour of the international phenomenon known as the Maker Movement, a social revolution that is changing what gets made, how it’s made, where it’s made, and who makes it. Free to Make is a call to join what Dougherty calls the “renaissance of making,” an invitation to see ourselves as creators and shapers of the world around us.