{"id":979,"date":"2013-02-24T15:14:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T23:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/?p=979"},"modified":"2013-02-24T15:14:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T23:14:55","slug":"getting-under-your-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"Getting Under Your Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m trying to get under your skin. I\u2019m trying to get you to stop being a spectator and a pawn in the industrial system that raised us, and maybe, just maybe, to stand up and do something that scares you.
\nSeth Godin<\/p>\n

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\nThis is Seth Godin<\/a> and he speaks to me. I am reading his V is for Vulnerable: Life Outside the Comfort Zone<\/a><\/em> and for some reason it is where I stand. It is an ABC for Grownups<\/em> and it is for people like you and me.<\/p>\n

Here are some letters of the alphabet from his ABC picture book that are resonating for me. Perhaps they stick for you as well. I present letters A, C, D and E.<\/p>\n

1. \u201cAnxiety is experiencing failure in advance.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>
\nThis is what we do. We worry. I worry. And then we do not bring our best selves to the task at hand. We anticipate the worst and it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. We need to let go and have hope in what we want to accomplish. Seth calls us to be intense in what we do: \u201cThe artist wonders, \u2018How can I break this?\u2019 and \u2018Is it interesting?\u2019 Go break something,\u201d Seth exhorts.<\/p>\n

2. \u201cCommitment is the only thing that gets you through the chasm.\u201d<\/strong>
\nThis is what takes us from a great idea to reality. It requires risk and a stick-to-it-ness.\u00a0 When change is discouraging or seems insurmountable you need to believe what others have believed for you on your behalf. You are a warrior. Change is hard work. Not everyone values it the same way. Commitment can get you through the valley.<\/p>\n

3. \u201cDance with resistance.\u201d<\/strong>
\nThere is something here that I need to learn. When we embark on a change agenda it is uncomfortable for us and for others. We are pulled back to continue the status quo like some rubber band that snaps us back to the comfort of the past. It is safer to teach and lead the way we have always done. I need to learn to dance with others, to engage the unbelieving and to convince my own heart. I think I have forgotten how to dance. My moves are awkward. I cannot seem to find my place to move with others gracefully. I have been stepping on toes. And alas, I feel my own have been squished as well. I need dance lessons\u2014this I know. This is an embarrassing weakness and my flaw. I will covenant to practice the dance until I too can dance with others. It doesn\u2019t work to be a wallflower. Our organizations need to get everyone on the dance floor.<\/p>\n

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4. \u201cEffort isn\u2019t the point, impact is.\u201d<\/strong>
\nHow do we know these change efforts, these shifts in pedagogy, these new ways of learning, are making a difference? Are we better off as a system? Has the learning experience deepened for the student? How are we measuring it? How will we know that it matters? \u201cEffort isn\u2019t the point, impact is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seth is getting under my skin. There are others that get under my skin as well. They call me to stick to an agenda of transformative change in a large, slow-moving and sometimes resistant system. Seth encourages and admonishes us to embrace ideas that \u201cpush us to take action, to embrace opportunity, not to merely watch and wait.\u201d I\u2019m not waiting. Are you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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