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Mary Ann Bitter is a Creative Strategist for Red Hat's Marketing Communications & Design team. She lives at the intersection of business and design and believes the open source values have never been more relevant than they are today. She is passionate about problem solving and working with people who give a damn.
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"..the total time spent watching television each year is 200 billion hours.." -- wow! Now that is an eye opening number, but you are right, getting people to apply their "extra" hours elsewhere vs. to tv---on something that really needs attention or even a several somethings/projects/problems that need attention and that will = a lot of progress!
Now the bigger question: how? How do you motivate people to put down the remote to work on something that could be equally entertaining and definitely more rewarding. Step 1: awareness? or possibly a challenge: "For a month [or whatever time period] instead of watching tv in your spare time, spend time doing xyz & track your experience by..."
Well said. With the traditional education structure it's hard to think big picture because students are so busy memorzing definitions etc. vs. understanding the life lessons from the content / how does this specific information relate to the real world.