Idea Festival 2020: Cuidad de las Ideas (Mexico)

On December 5, I’ll be in Mexico to speak at La Cuidad de Las Ideas.

“La Ciudad de las Ideas is an International Festival of Brilliant Minds, a celebration of creativity and curiosity. With the participation of over 60 speakers, from scientists to opinion leaders, the festival takes place from the 4th to the 6th of December 2020 in Puebla, Mexico. At this unique event we also offer an artistic and cultural program that includes short films, artistic interventions and music throughout the festival.”

My theme will be Entrepreneurial Education: What character and cognition traits enable young people to become lifelong solution-makers? I’ll be using as examples the deaths of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Nathan Rothschild and the life-saving efforts of physicians John Locke (Locke was a medical doctor before he was a philosopher, and the two are interestingly connected) and Ignaz Semmelweis. Speaker information here and the program schedule is here.

Related: My Wall Street Journal article, “What Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us All about Life” (or here at the WSJ site). Also this cautionary tale about cats and dogs and the Black Plague.

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