True Genius Hours with Don Wettrick Transformative Principal 158

Don Wettrick is a teacher in Noblesville, Indiana and founder of StartEdUp Innovation. He can be found on Twitter at @donwettrick, and his podcast on iTunes He is the author of “Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level”

• Innovation class, teaching kids to innovate
• Daniel Pink’s innovation time Ted Talk.
• Pure Genius Book
• Why can’t my child have this class?
• 20% time for ourselves.
• How to think like a startup/entrepreneur.
• Mindset Course
• We like to complain about things.
• How do we change things?
• It is easier to complain than to do hard things.
• Collect and Connect
• ROTH IRA
• Deliberately take social media seriously.
• Rule of thirds (1/3 personal interest, 1/3 skill acquisition, 1/3 benefit to others)
• Innovation is an idea.

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