Kevin Eikenberry's latest book is titled Vantagepoints on Learning and Life. It is a collection of fifty-six essays that consist of Kevin's Vantagepoints on Learning and Life. That's it. Kevin's title is clear, succinct and tells you exactly what his book is about.
I have read Kevin's book twice and there is one word that keeps rising to the surface of my conscience: Connections. Kevin possesses that rare ability to observe life's moments, learn from them and connect them to objects of relevance via the written word.
The page turner for me in this book is Kevin's connections to life's moments that most of us have experienced. For instance, he talks about a game that his family plays in their car when going on trips. I am not going to reveal the game at this time, but I have been familiar with it all my life and I bet you are as well. If you have admired a night sky crammed with stars; if you enjoy hand-cranked homemade ice cream; if you thought rainbows were magical; if you've been to a Jimmy Buffett concert... The list goes on and on.
Kevin's connections delve into associative memories and pave the way
for a learning experience. Your brain is stimulated when hearing the
story about hand-cranked homemade ice cream. It races to make
connections with memorable experiences. Once your brain has made the
connection, it is primed for additional learning. Now, the lesson from
Kevin's ice cream story will not fade away very easily.
Vantagepoints are an outlook on learning and life. But one doesn't
simply plop down on Earth and suddenly have vantagepoints of merit.
This leads to another fascinating factor that surfaces in Kevin's work
- his upbringing. A solid family upbringing on a farm in Michigan with
a Purdue education, a thriving consulting practice, a blossoming family
of his own and the influence of many wonderful people who no doubt
recipricate Kevin's own goodwill, lead to the outstanding fruit that can
be found in Vantagepoints on Learning and Life.
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