In this education video, Destin Sandlin, founder of Smarter Every Day, is confronted with an interesting challenge: when his engineers tweak a bicycle so that turning the handlebars to the left makes him go right and vice versa, he thinks it’ll be easy – as easy as riding a bicycle. But he’s wrong…
After a series of frustrating attempts (captured in the video), Sandlin concludes that knowledge is not the same as understanding and just having the information.
This bike, and the failed attempts of many of his workshop participants to get used to it, also illustrate how our brain tricks us into thinking the same way (bias). And the more rigid our thinking, the more difficult it can become to change, even when we want to.
This is why it can be difficult to unlearn something as an adult – kids are usually better at this, if given a chance as Devlin’s son shows us and there is a lesson for us to be learnt.
We need to be aware of and question how we are interpreting the world around us.
We must also realize that knowledge on its own is not enough. We also need the attitudes and skills, which come after lots of practice and effort and after trying to see things from different perspectives.
So what happened when Devlin jumped on a ‘normal’ bike months later? Find out in the video!
In this article we answer some questions regarding the decision to transform Learn to Change from an association to a collective.
In this article, we talk about what we mean by Collective – the new form chosen by L2C – and how you can join it.
Learn to Change’s members held a General Assembly in fall 2022, in which the decision was taken to transform the association into a less formal, and more agile entity. Therefore, we will change status, going from an ‘organization’ to a less formal entity that we name “The collective”
If you feel you are committed to the vision and mission of the association, then your place is here.
We are sure that becoming a member will benefit you in many ways. Read the product description for more details or click sign up now.
