Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
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Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
The lag holds conflicting messages, simultaneously crossing declining legacy narratives and rising challenger narratives.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being “with it.”
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Mass participation is often a sign that a shift in narrative resonates with many people who believe that the old narrative has outlived its timeliness.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
How we think about learning, cohesion, time, youth, aliveness, nature, and value is being upended. The legacy frameworks that have defined these core human conditions are giving way to new, emerging narratives.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
We get educated out of our creativity. We unlearn our willingness to take risks and be wrong. Robinson goes on in his talk to define creativity as “the process of having original ideas that have value.” Our education system is educating people out of having original ideas that have value. Let that notion sink in for a moment.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
what is education for? The purpose of education has held different narratives throughout history. Is it preparing young people to join the contemporary conversation the world is engaged in? Or merely to join the workforce as skilled laborers?
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
The best way to teach curiosity is to throw ourselves at living. To make life our classroom, and our tremendous bundles of experiences our curriculum.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
“What will happen if we give away free money? Won’t people just sit on the couch all day?” Underpinning these kinds of questions are two essential assumptions: (1) that money, a vehicle we use to exchange value, is intrinsically linked to labor, and to separate the two would be like reversing gravity, and (2) that leisure is something lacking in
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A cultural interregnum is a transition between fundamentally different sets of values catalyzing an evolution in shared frameworks of the human experience. During a cultural interregnum, ideas from the past decline, as we question the legacy narratives and, in turn, the norms, beliefs, and mindsets that we inherited from preceding generations.
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