TED: the up down of hills

Computer Science Profesor Schimon Schocken took a break from numerical analysis and decided to transform the lives of young men in an Israeli corrections facility. Seeing the value of education, Schocken convinced the Warden of the facility to allow ten young “troubled” men to join him on his weekly mountain biking adventures. This was to establish a club for them to have a sense of empowerment. He hoped the feelings he experiences while on bakeries would be that of these young men – thus transforming their lives. He claims there to be a “connection with energy that is greater than [himself] yourself.” These weekly adventures were to “magnificent vistas” in Israeli, meant to captivate and transform the mentality and perspectives of these young men. He highlights the varies encounters – whether it’s with creatures, weather elements, or terrain – how each impacted these kids in a varied way. Schocken describes how the challenges of the up and down hill rides each developed a new principal or value within these kids and how it transformed them over these rides. They developed respect for other members of the group, love and appreciation, and most importantly love for themselves. The most interesting part of this TEDx was that Schocker himself realized and gained the same experiences he sought out to teach. For being a computer science engineer he never needed certain skills to deal with varies situations. It was as as if “frustration (of the kids) met frustration (his own frustration)” and found ways to work around them

Principals -teamwork, endurance, perspective, resource allocation