The Myth of Average: Todd Rose at TEDxSonomaCounty
High school dropout turned Harvard faculty talks about how a simple new way of thinking helps nurture individual potential. L. Todd Rose is co-founder and president of The Center for Individual...
========== Reviewer: Queenie Lee Host: Please welcome
to the TEDxSonomaCounty stage, Todd Rose. (Applause) Todd Rose: It's 1952,
and the Air Force has a problem. They've got good pilots
flying better planes, but they're getting worse results. And they don't know why. For a while, they blamed the pilots. They even blamed the technology. They eventually got around
to blaming the flight instructors. But it turned out that the problem
was actually with the cockpit. Let me explain. Imagine you're a fighter pilot. You're operating a machine that in some cases can travel faster
than the speed of sound, and where issues
between success and failure, sometimes life and death, can be measured in split seconds. If you're a fighter pilot, ...