FINDING YOUR ELEMENT is often a highly personal and often surprising process.  People all start from different social characteristics and circumstances.

Robinson was born in 1950 in Liverpool, England.  He was raised in a large, close-knit family that was very sociable and funny.  But as a young child, he spent a great deal of time on his own.

In the early 1950's Europe and he United States suffered an epidemic of polio which Robinson contracted.  He progressed from a strong energetic child to becoming almost paralyzed.  He also had a severe lisp which may have contributed to this ailment.

Two-Way Journey

Finding your element is a quest to find yourself: an inward journey to explore what lies within you and an outward journey to explore opportunities in the world. 

People live in two worlds: the world that came into being when you did and the world that exists because you exist.  There is the inner world of your own consciousness, i.e., feelings, thoughts, moods,  and sensations and the external world that exists whether or not you exist consisting of social events, circumstances and material objects.

Turn Down the Noise

To find your element, it is necessary to get to know yourself better by spending time with yourself, apart from other people's opinions of you.

We also live in a time of "noise" and distraction.  In 2010, Eric Schmidt, CEO of GOOGLE, estimated that every two days society now creates as much information as existed from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.  According to researchers at CISCO SYSTEMS, by the end of 2010 the amount of data traveling across the Internet was equal to the information contained in a bookshelf 36 billion miles long.

Change Your Perspective

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Mind Mapping

A visual technique for displaying or sorting information.

The originator of the modern mind map is Tony Buzan.

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