Sir Ken Robinson is a world-renowned consultant to schools on new education strategies for the future and is an expert on Creativity.

••• Click here to see his talk to the TED audience about Do Schools Kill Creativity? <http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=ken_robinson>

If you haven’t seen this TED talk, stop everything, sit back, take a deep breath, relax and enjoy one of the world’s best speakers who will entertain you, inspire you and make your day. This is one of my personal favourites.

What do Bill Clinton, Bono and E.O.Wilson all have in common?

They are all previous winners of the TED PRIZE!

In February each year the unique TED Conference is held in California bringing the world’s best speakers with their best ideas worth spreading to an exclusive live audience of TED Members who pay $3000+ for their VIP seat.

In 2009, a global audience will share this remarkable experience in movie theatres around the world … at movie prices!

We hope you will join us and fellow TEDizens in cinemas for this exciting event!

When: Thursday, February 12
Start time: 6pm for 6.30pm
Locations: Sydney The Entertainment Quarter, Melbourne Central, Perth Carousel

TED and the TED Prize are proud to unveil the three remarkable winners of the 2009 TED Prize:

• deep-ocean explorer Sylvia Earle,
• astronomer Jill Tarter, and
• maestro Jose Antonio Abreu.

Each of them is a leader in his/her chosen field of work, with an unconventional viewpoint and a vision to transform the world. Their lives and their words are inspiring.

This year’s TED Prize will be screened at Hoyts Theatres in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth … for the first time ever.

We hope you will join us and fellow TEDizens in cinemas for this exciting event!

When: Thursday, February 12
Start time: 6pm for 6.30pm
Locations: Sydney The Entertainment Quarter, Melbourne Central, Perth Carousel.

THE TED PRIZE – EXCLUSIVELY AT HOYTS!

As part of our goal to expand our TED Prize community, Hoyts will be presenting, for the first time ever, the TED Prize session in select cinemas. In this TED Prize event, deep-ocean explorer Sylvia Earle, astronomer Jill Tarter, and maestro Jose Antonio Abreu will reveal their 2009 TED Prize wishes to change the world. Be the first to see what they wish for!

The two-hour screening will include special features from Quincy Jones, Al Gore and Sir Richard Branson and a surprise guest.

When: Thursday, February 12
Start time: 6 for 6.30pm
Locations: Sydney The Entertainment Quarter, Melbourne Central, Perth Carousel

1. DETAILS: Click here for the details of the program: <http://www.hoyts.com.au/Movies/Events/TED.aspx> and

2. TIP: If you’re coming, please book your tickets online now as there’ll be a long line at the box office.

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then it’s scope has become broader. The conference now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives. Held annually in Long Beach, The TED Conference is still the heart of TED. More than a thousand people now attend – indeed the event sells out a year in advance – and the content has expanded to include science, business, the arts and the global issues facing our world. Part of the conference is dedicated to The TED Prize. Which is designed to leverage the TED community’s exceptional array of talent and resources. It is awarded annually to three exceptional individuals who each receive $100,000 and, much more important, the granting of “One Wish to Change the World”. After several months of preparation, they unveil their wish at an award ceremony held during the TED Conference. These wishes have led to collaborative initiatives with far-reaching impact.

TED and the TED Prize are proud to unveil the three remarkable winners of the 2009 TED Prize: deep-ocean explorer Sylvia Earle, astronomer Jill Tarter, and maestro Jose Antonio Abreu. Each of them is a leader in his or her chosen field of work, with an unconventional viewpoint and a vision to transform the world, and each wins $100,000 plus “One Wish to Change the World” Their wishes will be unveiled at TED2009. Join us to see what they are!

Hoyts proudly presents Dr. Michael Hewitt-Gleeson, who will be giving a key-note speech at Hoyts Melbourne Central prior to the exclusive TED prize screening. A Thought Leaders presenter will be introducing the screenings at Sydney’s Hoyts The Entertainment Quarter and Perth’s Hoyts Carousel Cinema.

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1. DETAILS: Click here for the details of the program: <http://www.hoyts.com.au/Movies/Events/TED.aspx> and

2. TIP: If you’re coming, please book your tickets online now as there’ll be a long line at the box office.

This exciting event is exclusive to Hoyts Cinemas. This unique experience will feature the woman leading the world’s search for extra-terrestrial life, the deep-sea explorer who’s spent her life campaigning for the oceans and the maestro who’s transformed the lives of thousands of kids… through classical music.

Thinking has the power to change attitudes and lives. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) brings you inspired talks by the world’s most fascinating thinkers. These are ideas worth spreading. Innovative thoughts, ideas, trends and technologies for scientists, business people and families are being presented, promoted, debated and launched at unique TED meetings.

On Thursday night in Melbourne … I’m Live @ the Movies!

‘Multiply Your Thinking By Ten!’
There’s never been a better time to multiply your own thinking by ten and I will be giving this 45-minute key-note speech at Hoyts Melbourne Central prior to the exclusive TED prize screening.

Send this invitation to your friends and family, come along after work with your workmates or bring your uni friends and schoolmates. I look forward to meeting you there.

If you’re coming, please book your tickets online now.

If you’d like to get a brainrush at the movies, I’ll see you at Hoyts Melbourne Central on Thursday 12 Feb at 0600 for 0630.

1. DETAILS: Click here for the details of the program: <http://www.hoyts.com.au/Movies/Events/TED.aspx> and

2. TIP: If you’re coming, please book your tickets online now as there’ll be a long line at the box office.

Get Inspired. Have fun. Stay cool … at the movies.

Michael

I’ve created a new online course called Think Darwin! The purpose of this training is to help raise your darwinian intelligence, your ability to survive and grow in rapidly changing environments.

There are no fees for Think Darwin!.

••• Click through for this new course …

If your family, friends, business associates and others can benefit then they are most welcome, too.

••Click here for the first lessons …

These lessons were first published in my book

The X10 Memeplex: Multiply Your Business By Ten!

(Prentice Hall 2000).

In a recent masterclass I was asked the following excellent question: “If you could only ever teach just one thing about ‘thinking’ what would it be?”

Based on my experience, I’m quite clear on that question and my answer was one word, “Escape!”

When I first put forward the idea of designing a selection of thinking caps to teach thinking the strategy was this: in order to use, say, Cap #2 the thinker first had to remove (or escape from) Cap#1.

This is one of the most difficult skills in thinking and is indeed what defines a skilled thinker: someone who can escape from their current point-of-view.

Escape! Escape! Escape!

I was once asked to teach a class at Brighton Grammar how to use the Thinking Hats so I selected two hats–the black and the green hats–and drilled the students in the skill of removing the black hat first. Once you are able to remove the hat you are wearing (usually the black hat) then you are free to select any of the other hats. But, if you cannot escape from your current hat then you are not free to use a different one.

The same idea lies behind the strategy of the Universal Brain Software–CVS to BVS. If you cannot escape from your CVS then you cannot move to a BVS.

Yes, thinking skill is all about ESCAPE.

Aristotle is acknowledged as being one of the greatest thinkers in Western history. The questions is: could YOU teach Aristotle a thing or two? And the answer is, of course, yes you could!

Oxford Professor Richard Dawkins makes the point that because you have “the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Watson, Crick and their colleagues that you could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being“.

So, here’s a thought experiment and post your reply below: in less than 100 words, if you could go back in time and give the great Aristotle a tutorial from your current perspective of 2008, what would you reveal to him that would be a real knockout for old Ari?