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The Element: Afraid of Being Wrong

Twitter Summary: We have all grown so afraid of being wrong that we are not living up to our potential.

Principle

afraid of being wrongKen Robinson gave an amazing talk in 2006 and it has since been viewed by over 4 million people. He spoke about about how we’re all afraid of being wrong and this made me want to learn more about Mr. Robinson and to get his popular book, The Element. There are a handful of YouTube videos on Robinson and I highly suggest searching them out. Since hearing this 2006 talk I’ve read The Element and want to share the first of a few principles I found of value.

In the book Robinson talks a lot about the failure of education and educational systems. He argues that they destroy our creative genius and unintentionally teach us to be afraid of being wrong...

Unrepressed: Why We Love Kids and Lead Singers

I’m reading The Element by Ken Robinson these days. This is another great book and I will be dedicating a number of future posts to it once I’m done reading it.  However, I got into a great conversation with one of my co-workers about the unrepressed nature of children and wanted to share it because I think it will resonate with a lot of people. This will definitely require more in depth writing later.

In the book Robinson notes that children have an “unrepressed” type of behavior.  They don’t care if they do or get something wrong – they are not driven by fear like adults.  Somehow as adults we lose that sense of freedom; we gradually develop a fear of failure and that child-like unrepressed feeling is taken from us.  We are too often afraid of being wrong...