I bought this book after seeing Robinson's incredibly eloquent, witty and spot-on TED speech on creativity and our schools.

I'm not sure what I would have thought of this book without the video preface. I don't generally warm to single-target suggestions about how to fix our world (The Element, The Promise, The Secret, etc., etc.) and my inner skeptic reels at the subtitle ("How finding your passion changes everything.") Minus the speech, I doubt I would have read it.

Having been tempted forward, I found that the book repeats many of the anecdotes mentioned in the speeches themselves. Robinson is funny and his ideas are compelling, if not a little disjointed from the complex realities of the whole 'education reform' morass.

I'm happy to be supporting his ideas by shelling out a few dollars for the book. That said, the speeches themselves resonated with me in a way that the written work did not...I wouldn't be passing around this book like I will the website address (www.Ted.com) ;)