#10 DFQ
Sir Ken Robinson, Expert on Creativity,
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Your DFQ:
What is the most important thing you will take away from this lecture?
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:57 am
Who knows … the sky’s the limit eh? I’m sure I’ll enter some random discussion with one friend or another on something which will allow me to ignore logic and let my brain simply free-fall into a great pool of ideas …
However out of this, who knows what non-nonsensical concepts or ideas may be born …
November 25th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Am I really talking nonsense or is it the universal reality speaking thru me? I try to enjoy nonsense as a gift, different from the “truths” we are all constantly subjected to.
Much of humor is based on truth clothed in nonsense. I particularly enjoy this perspective, as so many “truths” are either in fact quite questionable or outright wrong!
August 12th, 2007 at 10:41 am
That life is way too busy and difficult, and most things i must do have no purpose.
July 15th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
I am not god enough.
June 24th, 2007 at 4:38 am
The ‘nonesense’ would depend on the idea the conversation revolves around. If the people involved are willing to accept a different possibility, one that has not been entertained by the many, but an idea that is new (at least to the few), different, worth exploring, and challenges common thought, then I would release the nonsense.
June 7th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Nonsense is something I take an exception to. Talking nonsense is an insult to ‘ones’ intelligence and destroys credibility and trust.
June 5th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
My thoughts create my reality
April 22nd, 2007 at 12:59 am
that I need to do so many things, when in fact I choose them
April 12th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
What nonsense
Much I think…I’ll keep a watch out for it and make a note…
April 12th, 2007 at 9:46 am
IHAVE BEEN “aware” of the foolishness which use to come out of my mouth…………for some time now, I have been doing more listening, keeping my mouth SHUT and watching the positives emerge in .
April 11th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Who can prove that what I am saying today is nonsense!
April 10th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
sometimes I will be talking nonsense for the joy of it,, for the fun and beauty and joyfulness and funiness of like, knowing it is nonsense,,,, and loving it
some other nonsense
that life is the way I preceive it and I know because I have lived a life
that what I have heard about the holocaust must be true because I have heard it lots of time
or
what some people have said about the holocaust must be true because they have studied it
April 10th, 2007 at 7:05 am
Vebalising negative self-speak and talking to those in a world of reality that is outside of mine.
April 9th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
That I am currently ‘ill’ - when there is no medical test which shows that to be ’scientifically’ true; moreover, when even I have my doubts about the veracity of that statement.
April 9th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
In the same sense that there is no absolute (worldly) truth there is no absolute worldly nonsense. Is it sense or is it nonsense? - it doesn’t matter in the sense that neither has to be proved or disproved (unless in a court of law, in which case truth, lies and nonsense rank equally..it’s how you tell it that counts!). Keep your own score, don’t try to score off others. Make your own mind up - don’t let someone else make your mind up for you, and certainly don’t try to make other people’s mind up for them (unless you’re a lawyer of course, in which case you’re a w**ker anyway.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:07 am
about feelings…
April 4th, 2007 at 6:30 am
In my human frailty, yes, there is the likelihood that I will be talking about something of a nonsensical nature as much as I would desire to be perennially clever. I may slip and say that something is not humanly possible, such as for example, that the likelihood of a woman age 50 or older being able to find the man of her dreams, have a family and live a long life of happiness and fulfillment is probably not possible. In fact, everything inside my human rational mind cries, “impossible.” Yet, my spirit cries, “Is anything too hard for our God?” While, my mind will rationalize that not everyone believes in a personal God. Well, spirit counters, “Sounds like a personal problem because one’s lack of belief in God does not negate His existence nor His power. For some, talking about God in this way is nonsense but for me it is immutable truth. Therefore, nonsense is relative for God has given us the foolish things of this world to confound the wise. Is truth relative? That’s a nonsensical question I just wrote. Truth is what agrees with the final reality and is therefore absolute. Is all of this nonsense or making sense?
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:28 am
If I said that everything begins from your thought, some people might think that I am talking nonsense. So, it might be nonsense to some, but this “nonsense” is powerful!
March 29th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Hopefully very little nonsense as I own my words. I do what I say I will do when I say I will do it, I don’t go back on my word and if I say something I don’t really mean, I take it back immediately. But inevitably there are times where you find it difficult to make a connection with someone (i.e. to have a real conversation involving thoughts/feelings/emotions) and you end up talking about the weather…that is nonsense and a waste of good time.
March 29th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
That the restructure we are undergoing at the moment is going to work and make changes.
What makes changes is a change of thought pattern and attitude - not just rearranging pieces.
March 29th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Anything I might say that is founded on prejudicial belief from which I cannot reposition my thinking could quite rightly be thought to be talking nonsense.
March 29th, 2007 at 5:04 am
Hopefully, I will not be talking nonsense today, nor any day. In the Bertrand Russell example, he is obviously talking about people who believe in an unseeable, unmeasurable, undetectable in any way, super natural being guiding the universe. He certainly would not believe that his statement to be nonsense, yet many “believers” would consider it to be complete nonsense.
Therefore, what is considered nonsense is in the mind of the beholder.
March 27th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
That I have doubts in my ability
March 27th, 2007 at 2:21 am
None I hope.
March 25th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Talking is all non-sense. Feeling and thought might not be.
March 24th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
It will only be nonsense to those who don’t understand
March 24th, 2007 at 3:13 am
that i hope to be successful one fine day, without any hard work
March 23rd, 2007 at 7:37 am
None for today and most other days, I have passion and belief in my thoughts and responses, inter-reacting with other people. I’m not very good on the small talk either, which elliminates a lot of the nonsense talk.
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:10 pm
ANYTHING FOR SOMEBODY WITH A DIFFERENT REALITY THAN MINE
March 21st, 2007 at 10:46 am
about whether the fact i can find my wallet when i need is really something to get worked up over when really i can change my focus and just get on with this beautiful day. just waffle really.
March 21st, 2007 at 10:35 am
none… i keep my orbiting teapots to myself.
March 17th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
None, now that I’ve read Russell’s quote!
March 16th, 2007 at 1:21 am
Depending on who’s listening, it could all be nonsense to them!
March 16th, 2007 at 1:08 am
I will be saying that, as a member of management, I support what my company is doing.
March 9th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
the language of love - real nonsense - but lovely just the same!
March 9th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Hopefully not much if any
March 9th, 2007 at 5:25 am
Anything I say could be considered to be nonsense by those who have a different view of the situation.
March 8th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
That anybody else’s choices have a more powerful affect on my life and the outcomes I experience than my own.
March 6th, 2007 at 5:17 am
I could be talking nonsense today when I talk about what I think will happen in our economy and business environment in the future. I probably talk a lot on nonsense every day without having realised it, but I will be more aware of it in the future.
March 5th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
None what-so-ever…..our greatest inventions & achievements were created and born out of those things & idea that started out as making no sense at all.
March 5th, 2007 at 10:45 am
None as I don’t dismiss any ideas without thought and welcome all feedback on those I submit
March 4th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Not sure, but I will do my best to avoid it.
March 3rd, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Nonsense? I don’t talk nonense, I think it and know where I am is not where I wish to remain.
Must stop thinking nonsense!!
March 1st, 2007 at 4:08 am
We all go around acting out of what we think is right. These actions justified by what we believe. Our world is shaped by what we believe. However everybody has established different beliefs. Each persons world reflects a different view. But what we hold in our minds as beliefs is not necessarily true.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Probably plenty. Lots of what I talk about is “nonsense” to others, but that’s because my ideas challenge “orthodoxy”. That’s okay with me. At one point Columbus was thought to be an idiot for sailing off to his death from falling off the edge of the earth! There’s also Einstein and his societal rejections — genius doesn’t seem to present itself in a real pretty little package.
Nonsense?! It’s all in the eyes of the beholder.
February 15th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
It goes without saying that anything man cannot prove or understand he will of course doubt it!
There… I’ve gotten that off my chest!! And anyway what has that got to do with the price of tea in China? Whether the Orthodox speaks or the skeptics disbelieves it is still only a matter of perceived knowledge, or opinion . Now why is that a mistake? We would do well to find out who is doing all this receiving of the dogmas, maybe they know something we don’t?
Maybe the above statment is only playing devil’s advocate?
How’s that for talking nonsense today! ( smile )
February 14th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
I had not anticipating talking nonsense ~ however now the question is raised I shall monitor my talk & check what comes out .
February 13th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
I can let you know tomorrow.
February 13th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Undoiubtedly all the “learned”, dogmatic “Stuff.” Wow. This one certainly gets one thinking! Querying of self, “How many times did I think or speak from rote today?” Hmmmmm. To Peggy. Yabbut, when these old people were young, it wasn’t this way….and they believed it….they didn’t have any reason to disbelieve…then…Wow.
February 12th, 2007 at 6:33 am
Hopefully none.
February 12th, 2007 at 4:27 am
Propably the most nonsense I will be talking is in my head. Stuff about the can’t and limitations that I think exist. All nonsense indeed.
Jeremy
Let change Education
February 11th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Well, actually, I am pretty sure that what makes sense to me today will seem nonsense next year
I think there is no such thing as nonsense
February 11th, 2007 at 5:41 am
I believe that I do not talk nonsense. This of course is my own belief and may be total and utter nonsense to someone else. I am a firm believer in saying what I think no matter what the cost and sometimes this gets me in trouble. You see this may be seen as nonsense by somenone else.
On another note so what if I talk nonsense as long as it does not harm anyone or anything. Sometimes talking nonense can be a cause for laughter which is a good thing. So maybe we need to talk an amount of nonsense each and every day to make ourselves and others laugh. As long as we know it is nonsense it is OK.
February 10th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Many think that what I say is nonsense. It is all in the eye of the beholder whether it is nonsense or not. Therefore I speak my mind and don’t care too much what others think or believe. If I believe it to be true, then to me it is.
January 31st, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Firstly I want to visit Bertrand Russell’s teacup in space!
Oh, Ive finished a whole days’ work and have probably talked nonsense all day! But I dont believe I have ( so I’ll leave it up you whether you want to seek proof or not, depending on how you answered no 9!
Now , thats statement itself is just a bit of nonsense! Bit nonsense is helathy sometimes - it can be creative and fun to image anyway!
January 26th, 2007 at 4:37 am
none!!!
January 24th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Probably none.
It’s 10:49 pm, only a little over an hour left in the day and I won’t be speaking to anyone until tomorrow morning.
January 24th, 2007 at 5:58 am
It won’t be nonsense to me but may be nonsense to others listening to what I’m saying.
The nonsense may be that companies that you work for are not responsible for your future. You have to plan every instance of your employable life to benefit yourself. Have your plan and manifest it!
Maybe if older people followed this nonsense, they wouldn’t have to work in their old age.
January 22nd, 2007 at 8:30 am
time will tell. Probably alot, but I’ll be trying to cut back
January 22nd, 2007 at 6:27 am
I will be assisting corporations to market their products - which is based on the need to grow profits - which assumes the need to increase production (and consumption)… …which is leading to the destruction and collapse of our planet’s environment and ecosystems… which will bring about the end of civilization and human existence as we know it… which will greatly reduce consumption, production and profits…. :-))
January 21st, 2007 at 12:35 am
None as far as I know
January 19th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
As little as possible, as a person will always speak of nonsense at least once during a given period. Without nonsense, we would not be able to clarify knowledge and wisdom.
January 17th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
None I sincerely HOPE, although if i react before i think, and if i talk without reasoning my thoughts first, I’m sure I’ll end up spewing some sort of nonsense. Hopefully after a I’ve had time to think, I’ll be brave enough to admit it was nonsense to those I’ve affected.
January 15th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
I can hope for “none” as an atheist I do my best not to promote superstition & ignorance. ref; 9 /11
January 14th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
I wil be talking no nonsense today, hopefully. May I not speak a dogmatic thing unless I be willing to prove it. No, I would much rather opine.
January 14th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
None that I am aware of. I am open and tolerant of other’s nonsense, but I dislike it enough to do me best to avoid perpetuating it. However, this question will make me more aware of what I say.
January 13th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
i am not sure but am sure i will.
January 13th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
None, I speak less and meditate more to be in touch with God.
January 13th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Which branch of the government failed us during hurricane Katrina.
January 12th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
As long as I use evidence and logic to guide my thinking, any nonsense I pronounce should be at a minimum. To avoid talking nonsense, I think first.
January 11th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Work, it’s all nonsense and none of it is real.
January 10th, 2007 at 7:33 am
None . . . I believe.
January 9th, 2007 at 8:10 am
Most everything if not everything is nonsense that anyone talks about until we disprove and it becomes the new nonsense until someone becomes brave to disprove the new nonsense and on goes the cycle of truth.
January 3rd, 2007 at 8:57 am
Absolutely none…IF I speak only about that which I know to be true and believe nobody, including myself.
January 2nd, 2007 at 8:28 am
Hopefully none. I dare you to try and prove me wrong.
January 2nd, 2007 at 1:50 am
Hopefully none, but you never know. I should add not speaking nonsense to my list of New Years resolutions.
December 31st, 2006 at 11:07 am
All dogmas are nonsense.
What is reasonable today is nonsense tomorrow.
Only a short time ago, in cosmic terms we thought the earth was flat.
December 30th, 2006 at 2:29 am
Today is a lovely day!
December 28th, 2006 at 10:13 pm
True. Doubting is basis of thinking and is very human. People must be encouraged to question things, even spiritual dogma. Questioning is not wrong and is not akin to disbelief.
December 21st, 2006 at 12:14 am
Some times there is a tendency to talk in circles without coming to a concrete meaningful conclusion or to express an opinion that you are not so sure you belive yourself. It’s all well and good to have a point of view and to express it but is the logic sound, is it worth even talking about if you don’t really know what it is you’re trying to say? What is the purpose? If it is an effort to create more questions in search of the solution, then there is merit. But, if it is merely to try to speak intelligently, then you are simply a bell gonging in the wind and perhaps not so intelligent. Better to be productive and sometimes saying nothing is just that. I will avoid talking nonsense.
December 16th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
Anything I say that will not have a good payoff for me in the end will be errant nonsense.Thanks for empowering me with this great question!
December 16th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
Some fascinating information regarding quantum physics, of which I have a great interest in, but it flies over some folks’ heads, so whether or not I am is of no consequence, but plenty of people think that I am talking nonsense.
December 16th, 2006 at 7:15 am
Probably 90% of what I say. But who doesn’t. Being a very unscientific type person, I’ve never had the inclination to do much proving or disproving. I go with my gut feel.
Hence I really need this program.
December 16th, 2006 at 5:39 am
Am I really talking nonsense or is it the universal reality speaking thru me? I try to enjoy nonsense as a gift, different from the “truths” we are all constantly subjected to.
December 16th, 2006 at 1:17 am
I am going to criticize or find fault in others by following weak reasoning.
December 15th, 2006 at 1:06 am
Negative self talk, regurgitating the media’s point of view
December 14th, 2006 at 8:46 pm
This is really cause me confusion. If you can’t be right or wrong do you just stop there?? This sort of thinking seem to be a dreams killer that stop all movements of creativity. And yet I am talking about this nonsense today.
December 12th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
It may be ok if I believe in something - but is it is a nonsense if I want or expect people to support it or worst - prove or disprove it. Example could be - I may feel I am good intentioned, well-behaved human being - but people may perceive it from their point of view. If I want them to believe what I beleive - “I” have to prove or disprove it - not others - through my words and action for a sufficient period of time. This is nonsense if i talk about it.
December 12th, 2006 at 3:40 am
That there are evil forces in the world that have the power to conquer the forces of good and keep them under for ever.
December 12th, 2006 at 3:03 am
Any time I speak with absolute certainty, I am quite likely to be talking nonsense.
December 11th, 2006 at 7:59 am
Plenty. I enjoy talking nonsense. Nonsense is often the best way to engage in conversation or simply engage someone.
December 9th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
My lab report which is due next fri!
December 8th, 2006 at 10:35 am
It won’t be so much talking, as listening to nonsense - the Tv and papers are full of sensationalised (mis)takes on situations. Am rapidly giving these up while I get a grip on my own reality.
December 4th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
I work in IT. Regularly someone will complain the network is slow. Could be caused by any of a hundred reasons. The first response is always we are monitoring the situation.
December 4th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
my priorities are the right priorities for the situation
December 3rd, 2006 at 3:23 pm
not believing in myself, not believing that I can have all things
December 2nd, 2006 at 3:07 am
Well so far to day I haven’t actually spoken to another person……
December 2nd, 2006 at 1:13 am
I will be in a seminar via teleconference and willnotice how differently people behave when the speaker is there in person compared when the information is available without the speaker. It willmake me aware that I perfrom ‘audience’, even when I don’t feel it, and that doodling on paper while listening to complex ideas is my preferred statement of attention when the speaker’s presence and expectations are removed from the equation.
November 29th, 2006 at 3:08 am
The nonsense I often talk about is the belief that a few of our wealthy citizens control our US government. I call it nonsense because I really can’t provide any evidence that this is occuring. Either way, I believe the theories and logic I have read and heard from others.
November 27th, 2006 at 10:50 am
I don’t believe I ever talk nonsense unless it is part of a humorous exchange with another person. Perhaps I can break out of the habit of taking myself and life too seriously by deliberately seeking more humorous exchanges so I can escape from this pattern (a previous DFQ) and talk more nonsense.
November 25th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
what kind of question is this? what kind of nonsense will i be talking today, how will i know what is going to be like in the future? “as in will be talking” is inherently saying something that i will talk about that has not happen even as i type rite? so it is really a worthless question, isn’t it?
November 25th, 2006 at 3:13 am
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November 16th, 2006 at 6:56 am
It is better to listen than to join in with all this nonsense
November 15th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
Talking about my stuff as if it were real and trying to convince someone that it’s true.
November 14th, 2006 at 1:30 pm
The nonsense I will be talking about today is budgeting. As it is not an exact science many people think it akin to hypothesising that there is a small teapot orbiting around the sun.
November 14th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
“Forgive me my nonsense, as I forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.” (Robert Frost)
I agree with Ivan - the most nonsense I will speak today will revolve around the assumption that external factors need to be ‘just so’ in order for me to be happy. Wrong! Happiness can only be gained by my own choices, and mostly, the choices I make when reacting to said external factors.
November 14th, 2006 at 10:25 am
This was a silly sample!
The way I perceive my reality and how I will change it. Or not?
November 14th, 2006 at 1:59 am
I will be talking about “reality” “illusion” and our true selves. How wacky is that! Everybody and everything I bring into my life today are illusions and created by my belief system!
November 13th, 2006 at 7:47 pm
Thinking about a thought, is like having a dream and in the dream you are dreaming.
November 13th, 2006 at 9:17 am
Working on the 2007 budget!
November 13th, 2006 at 8:56 am
I speak nonsense to make others laugh.
November 11th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Making “logical” leaps from what I know to theories to explain it, as if they are true just because of some evidence.
November 10th, 2006 at 8:40 am
Mostly bluffing that I know what is going on and I have an opinion…so pretty much everyting you say is nonsense. its the things that go unsaid that tell you how it is!
November 9th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Hopefully not as much as that! The nonsense I speak is pretending to be happy with the way somone treats me, when in my heart i know its not good enough
November 9th, 2006 at 9:16 am
I often discuss and even argue for a while only to notice later that day that what I said was nonsense. However only through acknowledging it the conversation or dispute is not resolved and it takes sometime more nonsense to do so. The day just started and I will most likely talk some nonsense today (but I will watch out for it).
November 8th, 2006 at 7:42 pm
Sometimes I stop and listen what I am saying and start thinking what nonsense is coming out of my mouth. I’m sure we all feel like that sometimes.
November 8th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Test - am I losing something because the popup was blocked?
November 8th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
Sometimes, to please people, I knowingly talk nonsense. However I am sure that many of the things I discuss are not really founded on fact and i do not know they are nonsense.
But … I do not think, as Russell appears to (from this quote), that everything must be proved before you can use it or discuss it. As a matter of expediency we must accept many “facts” which we have neither the time nor ability to prove or disprove.
Look Michael, I see it like this. You assert that this process will improve my thinking. I cannot prove or disprove this without going through the process. Even then the results may be inconclusive, but I consider the process is worth following and take on trust that it may be beneficial.
November 8th, 2006 at 2:51 am
My teacher says that God created us that it out of S Adam and Eve that we were born . We must just accept this no questioning.
Tsevi
November 7th, 2006 at 11:53 am
This is an interesting point of conversation between my wife and me, as we both reckon we are pretty good “bush lawyers”. We talk on our feet well, and often make a superb and seemingly indisputable point in an argument, only for the wronged party to realise, on reflection, that it was a load of nonsense. Fortunately we only use this type of strategy on each other, and even more fortunately we have a great relationship so we can laugh about it afterwards. As for today, well given the day, I will be talking nonsense about horses, trying to justify a selection in the race that stops a nation. If I win, it will be due to my incisive thinking and judgment of horse flesh… if I lose, it’s the jockey’s fault!!
November 7th, 2006 at 7:53 am
that my way is better than yours
November 6th, 2006 at 7:49 am
I’ll talk to sort of nonsense required in my daily work….
November 2nd, 2006 at 3:21 pm
Most people talk nonsense because they have not really stopped and thought about a preconceived idea or belief and challenged it….
When an alternate thought or idea is presented most dismiss it as being nonsense, especially if it is contrary to what we believe to be right.
November 2nd, 2006 at 2:38 pm
I will no doubt blurt out something I beleive without having any facts to back it up and then argue the point with someone who does have fatcs.
November 2nd, 2006 at 8:53 am
I don’t talk nonsense.
October 31st, 2006 at 3:08 am
That I’m better at my job then I really am.
Perhaps that isn’t nonsense though if it gets me ahead.
October 30th, 2006 at 10:52 am
oh, probably the usual, although this being sunday, ie a non-workday, i hope to say as little as possible.
October 30th, 2006 at 7:40 am
I think today I would prefer to focus on not talking nonsense very conaciously, rather than considering here what nonsense I might speak.
October 30th, 2006 at 6:15 am
That hard work equals more money; that there is not enough to go around; that our current government is ‘of the people, by the people, for the people’.
October 24th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
I’ll certainly be regurgitating items of knowledge that I’ve learnt by rote, rather than investigating for myself. A necessary evil at present.
October 20th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
That i need some kind of answer from someone, or some further learning, in order to make my life happy, because all the answers are within me