My very good friend Richard Gatarski of We Converse fame is doing a 5 minute talk at the TEDxStockholm to be held on June 6th, an invite only event with the license from TED being held by the Haren brothers (Teo and Fredrik), assisted by the likes of Henrik Ahlen (of Alfa Bravo and Internet Video Advisory Group) . And Richard being the creative man that he is, decided to “outsource” the contents of his speech (clever him) to the crowd (called crowdsourcing) for everyone to pool in their thoughts and ideas. The central theme is inspiration and the focus of his talk is “best start in life for our children”. And below are my brain dumps to him, albeit briefly for him to then be creative and develop it even more The original blog link is here

Planting creativity seeds in the minds and hearts of tomorrow’s world leaders:

Assumption: Kids / Children constitute for me 7 – 16 years;

- Digital natives being raised by digital aliens creates a mis – match. And that requires understanding and a lot of adjustments.

- There will be just 1 world  - both, online and offline will merge for them. And inspiration is not just from real people, but also from virtual objects – living and non living.

- Creativity is stifled by anarchic educational systems, and if conveyed wrongly, internet could be a bad vent for kids to get the frustration out. And there are opportunities to get it out wrongly.

- There will still be a world of difference in the outlook and mentality between kids in the developing and the developed world. Although the internet bridges the gap, there is still going to be a cultural divide.

- And finally, inspiring kids in the right way requires time and patience, and it comes when parents make sure they are in the right direction and not worry unduly about the details 

The event will be recorded by TED and might be up somewhere in some time soon.   More info when I get more