The Element - How finding your passion changes everything

by Ken Robinson

Ironically, Alfred Binet, one of the creators of the IQ test, intended the test to serve precisely the opposite function. In fact, he originally designed it (on commission from the French government) exclusively to identify children with special needs so they could get appropriate forms of schooling.

A strong will to be yourself is an indomitable force. Without it, even a person in perfect physical shape is at a comparative disadvantage.

Most children don’t opt for barking as a way of communicating—with the possible exception of the terrible twos and a couple of years in late adolescence.