Fear should be tackled with action and strength of character
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 10:30 am
It’s not about being braver than the person working with you, it’s about being able to stick with your decision for just 5 minutes longer to push through the fear and get to the other side. For many reasons this section of Todd’s talk probably struck me the most.
We have all faced different levels of fear in our lives and we will continue to do so but what makes some of us keep being prepared to push on through that ceiling that paralyses so many others? What makes that person believe that they have the strength of character to make the right decision?
Action.
It’s the antidote to fear. If you make a decision to act and rebel against that instinctive feeling uae email list 2.5 million contact leads of fear then you can push through it. It doesn’t always have to be the right decision but at least you were prepared to not let fear beat you.
Schools need to start being smarter about how they teach our kids about creativity
I’m not intending to use my blog as a soapbox but this was such an obvious reflection on the current education system that I wanted to share it.
Despite both my parents being teachers and my sister choosing to become one from a very early age I always hated school. I hated being expected to learn things by heart that I didn’t have an understanding of why I would need to know it and not one of my teachers could ever explain that to me…even Dad gave up trying in the end.
At the moment the way we teach our children is designed to suck the creativity away from them by teaching them the “right way” to do things. I am in the privileged position of seeing my 17 month old daughter learning through creativity everyday at the moment and I wonder how long I can let her explore the world in this way before she becomes aware of the “right way” to do things?
Todd summed it up perfectly – if our education system doesn’t change to embrace teaching both sides of the brain shouldn’t we only be expected to pay half the school fees?
We have all faced different levels of fear in our lives and we will continue to do so but what makes some of us keep being prepared to push on through that ceiling that paralyses so many others? What makes that person believe that they have the strength of character to make the right decision?
Action.
It’s the antidote to fear. If you make a decision to act and rebel against that instinctive feeling uae email list 2.5 million contact leads of fear then you can push through it. It doesn’t always have to be the right decision but at least you were prepared to not let fear beat you.
Schools need to start being smarter about how they teach our kids about creativity
I’m not intending to use my blog as a soapbox but this was such an obvious reflection on the current education system that I wanted to share it.
Despite both my parents being teachers and my sister choosing to become one from a very early age I always hated school. I hated being expected to learn things by heart that I didn’t have an understanding of why I would need to know it and not one of my teachers could ever explain that to me…even Dad gave up trying in the end.
At the moment the way we teach our children is designed to suck the creativity away from them by teaching them the “right way” to do things. I am in the privileged position of seeing my 17 month old daughter learning through creativity everyday at the moment and I wonder how long I can let her explore the world in this way before she becomes aware of the “right way” to do things?
Todd summed it up perfectly – if our education system doesn’t change to embrace teaching both sides of the brain shouldn’t we only be expected to pay half the school fees?