MIT Medial Lab are certainly living in the future. The thinking is that Resilience, Risk, and a Good Compass are key to flourishing in today’s world. Here are THE PRINCIPLES broken down:

Resilience instead of strength, which means you want to yield and allow failure and you bounce back instead of trying to resist failure.

That means you pull the resources from your network as you need them, as opposed to centrally stocking them and controlling them.

You want to take risk instead of focusing on safety.

You want to focus on the system instead of objects.

You want to have good compasses not maps.

You want to work on practice instead of theory. Because sometimes you don’t why it works, but what is important is that it is working, not that you have some theory around it.

It disobedience instead of compliance. You don’t get a Nobel Prize for doing what you are told. Too much of school is about obedience, we should really be celebrating disobedience.

It’s the crowd instead of experts.

And my favourite…

It’s a focus on learning instead of education..

Source: Wired.com