These students are similar to Colonel Collins and the men and women Robinson profiles in his book. Whereas Q 4 represents students who have arrived at an enviable state of having a passion for what they are good at doing. In quadrant Q 2 students are able to do something, but they don’t enjoy doing it. If you move along the “aptitude” axis from left to right, you will find quadrants representing students who have developed greater proficiency at something, and depending on the level of passion they have developed for doing it, we can assign them to quadrant Q 2 or Q 4 on the chart. We obviously try to help students avoid this, but too often it happens and this lack of interest and aptitude have consequences that are all too familiar. Students, for example, represented by quadrant Q 1 are not in very good shape because they lack the passion and aptitude for doing something. After her talk I had the opportunity to ask her what inspired her to become an astronaut. She developed the aptitude to do what she loved to do, be an astronaut. She is a person who obviously found her Element. A veteran of four space flights, Collins has logged over 872 hours in space.

and former NASA Astronaut talk about her experiences at NASA flying on the Space Shuttle. Recently I had the opportunity to hear Colonel Eileen Marie Collins, USAF, RET. As Robinson explains the process, they have found their way to their Element, “the meeting point between natural aptitude and personal passion.” (21) In his latest book, The Element, Sir Ken Robinson offers the reader a series of mini-biographies, the life story of people who have become successful in spite of the education they received in the schools they attended.

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