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Fire!

By Colin Davitt

Sometimes I am out of ideas, energy and motivation. There are a lot of things I do to regain all of that. Somedays it is walking through the halls of a school. Somedays I drink a gallon of coffee in a very short amount of time. Other times I watch just the first 30 minutes of Full Metal Jacket, it always makes me laugh and remember some good times.

I also watch a ton of great YouTubes. Here are my top few that remind me why I show up each day, all of these are school friendly unlike FMJ.

I am having issues embedding, so I will just link to these videos.

The puzzle of motivation - Dan Pink  Check out his Pink casts, always short and powerful

The power of believing that you can improve - Carol Dweck  I saw Carol present a year ago, super interesting ideas.

Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson I also saw Sir Ken, the best hour of any conference. This is a moving video, one I have watched maybe 30 times so far. Each time I rewatch, I get a little something new. You can't go wrong with this one.

I use these videos when I am feeling down or out of a spark and each time I leave all fired up!

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