Beau Lotto - Thriving in a World That Doesn't Exist
Presenter:
World Economic Forum
Time:
28:38
Summary
Visual perception can be misleading: our brains interpret what our eyes see by imposing meaning that may have been useful historically, but may no longer be the case in today's rapidly changing world. Beau Lotto, Professor of Neurobiology at University College London, discusses how to see differently – including through science and play – and asks how to educate children to thrive in a world that does not yet exist.
Transcript
Innovation has basically two sides has creativity, and it has efficiency. Okay. And almost everything we do, especially in businesses, even in education actually focuses on one side of the equation and focus on efficiency, right, trying to get more for less focus on answers. In schools, we don't teach children how to ask questions.
We don't even teach them what a good question is. We teach them how to follow recipes, right? We teach them to be efficient, because that's how our organizations run. The problem is that the world changes, okay, to be efficient is a really good idea if your world is constantly static. And in biology, the best environment for efficiency is competition. Okay. But in a world that changes, you have to adapt. In fact, the most successful systems in nature, are the most adaptable, they're not the most efficient. Right?