[Music]
two years ago I co-founded a makerspace
at Elon University called the maker hub
if you’re wondering what a makerspace is
it’s a space where you make things maker
spaces are labs where people go and they
make things that they’re interested in
making and you’ll actually find maker
spaces in a lot of different places
you’ll find them at colleges and
universities you’ll find them in k-12
you’ll find them in libraries and
communities around the nation even
abroad but all maker spaces even though
they’re all different they all tend to
have the same three things in common
that is that they give people access to
tools supplies most importantly a
culture of knowledge and support to make
things that they are interested in it’s
that culture of knowledge and support
that’s really the most important part
that’s a group of people within that
space who define the heart and soul of
it who help you figure out how to work
through a project how to get past
adversity so why do we go through the
trouble of making a makerspace
what’s its purpose stick with me we need
to take a little bit of a detour here
okay because there are too many students
I’ve been higher ed for over 10 years
now I see too many students who are
coming in and they’re failing to learn I
don’t mean that in the traditional sense
they’re not getting D’s and F’s far from
it they’re getting A’s and B’s but their
relationship with learning is damaged
it’s broken in some way they’re afraid
to try new things they’re afraid to go
above and beyond and sometimes they’ll
even resort to things like cheating and
plagiarism
I’ve seen this Illustrated this fear of
engagement with learning illustrating a
couple of different ways most recently a
story that I heard from a friend of mine
who runs a makerspace over at UNC
Greensboro and their makerspace is
actually in the school of education so
it’s for education majors and minors to
learn how to use making with younger
students but they also bring in people
from the community so they bring in
administrators they bring in teachers
from the community they bring in classes
from local schools and they do
activities with them tell them learn
about what making is and why it can be
such a positive thing for their lives
now one activity that they really like
to deal with all the groups is to give
them a whole bunch of Lego bricks and I
say build a house and you would think
that the teachers and administrators
the adults would be really good at this
because most of them own houses but
they’re terrible at it because they have
questions before they’ll even put a
single brick what’s the house supposed
to look like right this is the adult
version of what’s is this going to be on
the test all right the kids they just
start they don’t have questions they
build houses that are whimsical Korea if
this one doesn’t even have a roof right
and it’s great it’s really cool so I’m
wondering what changes what changes
between when you’re their age and when
you’re our age we see evidence of this
in other areas as the kids like to say
I’ve got receipts because if you look at
the research this pops up all the time
there’s a study done a couple of years
ago they talked to instructors who had
at least 10 years teaching experience in
higher education and what they would do
is they would give them a statement to
describe their students they would ask
them for feedback on that statement so
one of those statements that’s really
important is my students recognize the
link between effort and success this is
important we were talking earlier about
grit you do have to persevere you do
have to work hard to get things they’re
worth having so when students don’t
recognize a link between effort and
success that would represent a problem
and so when they gave these experienced
instructors this statement and asked
them to respond to it about 52% of those
instructors said my students currently
recognized a link between effort and
success that’s a really big gap and on
the flip side of that 46 percent said my
students ability to recognize that link
has gotten worse over the last decade
one of the other statements from that
study that stood out to me was this one
my students are willing to struggle with
complicated ideas and theories struggle
and confusion are absolutely essential
pieces of the learning process they are
confusion and struggle that’s the sweat
of learning that’s how you know it’s
happening if you’re not willing to
struggle you’re saying you’re not
willing to learn and when they gave
these experienced instructors this
statement asked them to respond to it
only 38 percent said yes my students are
willing to struggle with complicated
ideas and theories right now and over
half said their students ability to do
that over the last 10 years has gotten
worse and so I think we have a big
problem that needs to be solved
something happens between kindergarten
and college now there are a lot of
things that
do you have it in there live really
important milestones right you lose your
first baby tooth as your first adult
tooth comes in you learn to ride a bike
and then drive a car you have your first
crush your first kiss your first love
and those are major milestones you can
play a date on most of those but in
between those two points there are tons
of subtle little things that happen
often dozens of times a day things that
kids are exposed to that form little
bits of pressure that over time just add
up and crush them in certain ways and
this pressure it comes from so many
different places but if we could pick
out four it comes from things like the
values of the people around them and
what they consider to be important it
comes down to things like the heroes
that we celebrate in front of children I
think the world of athletics is really a
great example of this because we only
buy jerseys for the people who are best
on the team have you noticed that what
message does that send to kids aside
from your only good enough if you’re the
very best at what you do where are they
supposed to pull their worth from that
it comes down from things like what kind
of compliments we give them earlier you
were hearing about growth mindset some
of the research is showing that when we
give kids praise in the form of labels
like you’re so smart what it tells them
is that they have this label that they
then become afraid of losing right if a
parent tells them that they’re smart and
later they’re confronted with a
situation where they might have to do
something that would make them feel like
they’re not smart
where are they going to do and one very
big influence in their lives would be
standardized tests now I want to explore
this one just a little bit further so
you can see some of the subtleties that
come along and affect kids over time now
standardized tests do seem like a major
milestone we know when they’re going to
happen we can put a date on it right if
you’re a parent in the audience right
now you know when your kid is taking
their next test but here’s the problem
with standardized tests is they’re a
really big deal a really big deal if
your student your scores are going to
determine which courses you’re enrolled
in next year and coincidentally who
you’re going to get to spend time with
in class if you’re a teacher it will
determine how much you’re paid by your
district if you’re an administrator your
school scores will determine how much
money your school is receiving in terms
of funding from the state so these are a
really big deal instead of just one day
here we focus on them
a really significant chunk of the school
year and it sends two really damaging
messages to students about their
relationship with learning and the first
is it tell students that learning is an
outcome and not a journey and that’s
wrong it does tell them that failure is
a stopping point in their the other
thing that does is it tells them that
most answers are black and white and we
live in a very gray world right we know
this but when we tell kids that
everything is black and white then
they’re either right or they’re wrong
all the time and when a situation comes
up that challenges them what do they do
they run away from it because they’re
afraid
right they’re afraid and we get that
okay
can we really be surprised that our
students fail to see a link between
effort and success when we put all of
these pressures on them and over time
these pressures add up and they create
barriers to learning in the form of
habits not just one or two big habits
but dozens of little habits habitual
responses to situations even and we can
put these habits under the umbrella
perfectionism now what’s wrong with
wanting to do well right we used to joke
like what’s your grass weakness oh I’m a
perfectionist
right psychologists used to actually
think that there were positive aspects
of perfectionism but recently we’ve
determined that all perfectionism is
maladaptive behavior meaning it’s
damaging the problem with wine to do
well doesn’t exist we want kids to be
high achievers we want them to set high
goals we want them to strive for
greatness we want those things
the problem with perfectionism comes
with how you respond to adversity how
you respond when things don’t go your
way or when things don’t go well because
a perfectionist mind things happen
differently for most people these are
the three outcomes that you could have
when you try something new it either
works really well it doesn’t work or it
works well enough but when you’re in the
mind of a perfectionist you lose one of
those options good enough isn’t an
option and success becomes very narrowly
defined as something that is absolutely
perfect imagine what it feels like as a
kid to never have anything you do be
good enough to yourself and how that
affects them over time and even worse it
creates an emotional response within
them and one of fear and fear is one of
the most powerful emotions it’s really
hard to overcome it usually creates a
fear of being seen as not good enough in
some way not smart enough not fast
enough not talented enough right and
when you’re afraid of those things you
start to create barriers to situations
that might make you feel like you are
not good enough right and so when you
look at kids who are struggling with
these things they are very risk-averse
they’re hesitant to trying new things
they’re are worried about how other
people will see
them now to some extent we all do this
right no one wants to look like they’re
bad at doing something they should be
good at we can appreciate that but the
difference is when you don’t have
perfectionism influencing you even if
you have the spirit you’ll still do it
anyway but perfectionists will try and
avoid potential failure at all costs and
this is an unhealthy relationship with
learning it is thanks for sticking with
me on that so that’s our detour so why a
makerspace well again maker spaces can
have a lot of different types of
equipment in there they could have 3d
printers sewing machines laser cutters
tools arts and crafts there could be
computers if you’re coding apps or
something like that but the most
important thing in every space again
it’s going to be that culture that’s
supportive environment where people are
saying hey it’s okay that your project
didn’t work out let’s try and figure out
why let’s try and make it through and
the culture that you find in this place
it promotes something called a maker
mindset and I think the maker mindset is
a way forward past some of these
perfectionistic tendencies I think it’s
a way to help combat them and to me the
maker mindset is made up of four
different components first makers are
intrinsically motivated so they pursue
projects that genuinely interest them
it’s not for a class it’s not for a
grade we’re not going to judge you when
you come into our space we’re just going
to ask you are you interested in making
anything in particular
and if not we’ll just show you some
things until you find something that
piques your interest because if you’re
not interested in doing it it’s not
worth doing in that space over the
summer we thought that no one would be
in there but it turns out we found two
students Ashley in Olivia and they were
working on a therapeutic boot for
diabetics because it turns out the
diabetics are at risk in certain cases
of losing their feet when they don’t
have boots like this and they actually
did such good work on this a I want to
point out like this is a project that
they just wanted to do they wanted to do
something different for someone else
right that was their motivation here
they wanted to make a difference
and I think that’s really powerful right
and they were actually so successful in
this that they actually just received a
ninety-five thousand dollar grant to
keep the work going so I needed to do a
quick little side brag
for my students another thing that
makers are really good at is they are
very good knowing what they know and
what they can learn so when you don’t
know something it’s not a point of
embarrassment it’s an opportunity to say
I don’t know how to do this yet can you
show me how and this is the first maker
mind set piece that really requires an
emotional investment it requires some
self-awareness but more importantly it
requires humility to say I don’t know
how to do this yet but also recognizing
that you have the potential to grow
makers also understand that it takes
time and effort to make a project great
perfectionist will be very hesitant to
try something they will not be good at
right away but makers understand that
it’s a very long process it’s not just
one and done you’re not just going to
get to your first prototype and that’s
on to the next thing we have a student
named mass in Tamblyn she was working on
a heat sleeve to keep coffee warm for
three hours after you purchase it she’s
gone through about a dozen prototypes
before she finally got to the one that
worked it was not the first one that
worked out and that’s okay and the most
important part of the maker mindset the
fourth piece I really I can’t stress
this one enough makers embrace failure
they do and I think one of our former
student staff said best when he said
makers don’t view a lack of success as a
failure I think we need to
recontextualize how we look at failure
in general because we very much consider
it to be a bad thing and we stigmatize
it we make it something that you don’t
want to be there’s a website called the
noun project their goal is to create a
visual representation of every noun and
why I search for failure these were the
results that I got do you say anything
positive up there they even put plane
crashes right people falling bugs
nothing positive on here but failure to
a maker is an opportunity it’s an
opportunity to diagnose where are my
soft spots what do I need to do better
how do I make this better
right so what do we do about all this I
think there are three things that we can
focus on through the lens of making that
can help improve this and help our kids
get back on track and the first is
focusing on process over product because
if learning is a journey it doesn’t
matter where you end up
what matters is what you’re doing along
the way
the other thing we need to do is we need
to change up how we praise people and I
don’t just mean kids I mean adults too
because we already have these habits
firmly in place when we tell kids you’re
so smart what we’re telling them is
they’re done but when we tell them we’re
proud of things like effort and how hard
they’re working what the research does
show is those kids are more successful
they do go on to be higher achievers and
here’s the really important part they’re
happier they’re happier okay imagine if
instead of just telling someone that
they’re smart you tell them that there
are hard workers sometimes they need
that sometimes they definitely need that
ok and finally I think we need to
reclaim failure we spend so much time
stigmatizing it saying it’s a bad thing
and in educational environments I’ll be
honest as someone who works in education
we don’t always do the best job of
building and accommodating for learning
in our or I’m sorry failing in our
learning environments we don’t
accommodate for failure and we should
because everyone fails and they fail
often I read by a school district in
Chicago they’re getting rid of F’s you
know what they’re doing instead not yet
can you tell kids not yet imagine what
would be like to a kid instead of
someone saying you failed for them to
say not yet because Nadia is hopeful not
yet says you have room to grow
not yet says you can be better and
you’re not bad right so we have all
these students out here who are failing
to learn and quite frankly I can’t
really blame them given the amount of
pressures that we put on them from so
many different sources these pressures
do create some habits bad habits but
here’s the interesting thing if you want
to learn how to break a habit here’s the
easiest way around it from someone who’s
quit smoking in the past ok if you want
to break a bad habit create a good habit
the counteracts it I think that’s
possible through the lens of making I
think that when you immerse yourself in
the process of making things when you
immerse yourself an environment where
people like to make things where they’ll
support you in doing that that you can
start to develop
some habits to counteract these things
that hold you back from experiences that
you’re genuinely going to enjoy and help
you develop a really healthy
relationship with learning I think the
best thing that we can do for these kids
and ourselves is to give ourselves a
gift and that gift is learning to fail
thank you
[Applause]
two years ago I co-founded a makerspace
at Elon University called the maker hub
if you’re wondering what a makerspace is
it’s a space where you make things maker
spaces are labs where people go and they
make things that they’re interested in
making and you’ll actually find maker
spaces in a lot of different places
you’ll find them at colleges and
universities you’ll find them in k-12
you’ll find them in libraries and
communities around the nation even
abroad but all maker spaces even though
they’re all different they all tend to
have the same three things in common
that is that they give people access to
tools supplies most importantly a
culture of knowledge and support to make
things that they are interested in it’s
that culture of knowledge and support
that’s really the most important part
that’s a group of people within that
space who define the heart and soul of
it who help you figure out how to work
through a project how to get past
adversity so why do we go through the
trouble of making a makerspace
what’s its purpose stick with me we need
to take a little bit of a detour here
okay because there are too many students
I’ve been higher ed for over 10 years
now I see too many students who are
coming in and they’re failing to learn I
don’t mean that in the traditional sense
they’re not getting D’s and F’s far from
it they’re getting A’s and B’s but their
relationship with learning is damaged
it’s broken in some way they’re afraid
to try new things they’re afraid to go
above and beyond and sometimes they’ll
even resort to things like cheating and
plagiarism
I’ve seen this Illustrated this fear of
engagement with learning illustrating a
couple of different ways most recently a
story that I heard from a friend of mine
who runs a makerspace over at UNC
Greensboro and their makerspace is
actually in the school of education so
it’s for education majors and minors to
learn how to use making with younger
students but they also bring in people
from the community so they bring in
administrators they bring in teachers
from the community they bring in classes
from local schools and they do
activities with them tell them learn
about what making is and why it can be
such a positive thing for their lives
now one activity that they really like
to deal with all the groups is to give
them a whole bunch of Lego bricks and I
say build a house and you would think
that the teachers and administrators
the adults would be really good at this
because most of them own houses but
they’re terrible at it because they have
questions before they’ll even put a
single brick what’s the house supposed
to look like right this is the adult
version of what’s is this going to be on
the test all right the kids they just
start they don’t have questions they
build houses that are whimsical Korea if
this one doesn’t even have a roof right
and it’s great it’s really cool so I’m
wondering what changes what changes
between when you’re their age and when
you’re our age we see evidence of this
in other areas as the kids like to say
I’ve got receipts because if you look at
the research this pops up all the time
there’s a study done a couple of years
ago they talked to instructors who had
at least 10 years teaching experience in
higher education and what they would do
is they would give them a statement to
describe their students they would ask
them for feedback on that statement so
one of those statements that’s really
important is my students recognize the
link between effort and success this is
important we were talking earlier about
grit you do have to persevere you do
have to work hard to get things they’re
worth having so when students don’t
recognize a link between effort and
success that would represent a problem
and so when they gave these experienced
instructors this statement and asked
them to respond to it about 52% of those
instructors said my students currently
recognized a link between effort and
success that’s a really big gap and on
the flip side of that 46 percent said my
students ability to recognize that link
has gotten worse over the last decade
one of the other statements from that
study that stood out to me was this one
my students are willing to struggle with
complicated ideas and theories struggle
and confusion are absolutely essential
pieces of the learning process they are
confusion and struggle that’s the sweat
of learning that’s how you know it’s
happening if you’re not willing to
struggle you’re saying you’re not
willing to learn and when they gave
these experienced instructors this
statement asked them to respond to it
only 38 percent said yes my students are
willing to struggle with complicated
ideas and theories right now and over
half said their students ability to do
that over the last 10 years has gotten
worse and so I think we have a big
problem that needs to be solved
something happens between kindergarten
and college now there are a lot of
things that
do you have it in there live really
important milestones right you lose your
first baby tooth as your first adult
tooth comes in you learn to ride a bike
and then drive a car you have your first
crush your first kiss your first love
and those are major milestones you can
play a date on most of those but in
between those two points there are tons
of subtle little things that happen
often dozens of times a day things that
kids are exposed to that form little
bits of pressure that over time just add
up and crush them in certain ways and
this pressure it comes from so many
different places but if we could pick
out four it comes from things like the
values of the people around them and
what they consider to be important it
comes down to things like the heroes
that we celebrate in front of children I
think the world of athletics is really a
great example of this because we only
buy jerseys for the people who are best
on the team have you noticed that what
message does that send to kids aside
from your only good enough if you’re the
very best at what you do where are they
supposed to pull their worth from that
it comes down from things like what kind
of compliments we give them earlier you
were hearing about growth mindset some
of the research is showing that when we
give kids praise in the form of labels
like you’re so smart what it tells them
is that they have this label that they
then become afraid of losing right if a
parent tells them that they’re smart and
later they’re confronted with a
situation where they might have to do
something that would make them feel like
they’re not smart
where are they going to do and one very
big influence in their lives would be
standardized tests now I want to explore
this one just a little bit further so
you can see some of the subtleties that
come along and affect kids over time now
standardized tests do seem like a major
milestone we know when they’re going to
happen we can put a date on it right if
you’re a parent in the audience right
now you know when your kid is taking
their next test but here’s the problem
with standardized tests is they’re a
really big deal a really big deal if
your student your scores are going to
determine which courses you’re enrolled
in next year and coincidentally who
you’re going to get to spend time with
in class if you’re a teacher it will
determine how much you’re paid by your
district if you’re an administrator your
school scores will determine how much
money your school is receiving in terms
of funding from the state so these are a
really big deal instead of just one day
here we focus on them
a really significant chunk of the school
year and it sends two really damaging
messages to students about their
relationship with learning and the first
is it tell students that learning is an
outcome and not a journey and that’s
wrong it does tell them that failure is
a stopping point in their the other
thing that does is it tells them that
most answers are black and white and we
live in a very gray world right we know
this but when we tell kids that
everything is black and white then
they’re either right or they’re wrong
all the time and when a situation comes
up that challenges them what do they do
they run away from it because they’re
afraid
right they’re afraid and we get that
okay
can we really be surprised that our
students fail to see a link between
effort and success when we put all of
these pressures on them and over time
these pressures add up and they create
barriers to learning in the form of
habits not just one or two big habits
but dozens of little habits habitual
responses to situations even and we can
put these habits under the umbrella
perfectionism now what’s wrong with
wanting to do well right we used to joke
like what’s your grass weakness oh I’m a
perfectionist
right psychologists used to actually
think that there were positive aspects
of perfectionism but recently we’ve
determined that all perfectionism is
maladaptive behavior meaning it’s
damaging the problem with wine to do
well doesn’t exist we want kids to be
high achievers we want them to set high
goals we want them to strive for
greatness we want those things
the problem with perfectionism comes
with how you respond to adversity how
you respond when things don’t go your
way or when things don’t go well because
a perfectionist mind things happen
differently for most people these are
the three outcomes that you could have
when you try something new it either
works really well it doesn’t work or it
works well enough but when you’re in the
mind of a perfectionist you lose one of
those options good enough isn’t an
option and success becomes very narrowly
defined as something that is absolutely
perfect imagine what it feels like as a
kid to never have anything you do be
good enough to yourself and how that
affects them over time and even worse it
creates an emotional response within
them and one of fear and fear is one of
the most powerful emotions it’s really
hard to overcome it usually creates a
fear of being seen as not good enough in
some way not smart enough not fast
enough not talented enough right and
when you’re afraid of those things you
start to create barriers to situations
that might make you feel like you are
not good enough right and so when you
look at kids who are struggling with
these things they are very risk-averse
they’re hesitant to trying new things
they’re are worried about how other
people will see
them now to some extent we all do this
right no one wants to look like they’re
bad at doing something they should be
good at we can appreciate that but the
difference is when you don’t have
perfectionism influencing you even if
you have the spirit you’ll still do it
anyway but perfectionists will try and
avoid potential failure at all costs and
this is an unhealthy relationship with
learning it is thanks for sticking with
me on that so that’s our detour so why a
makerspace well again maker spaces can
have a lot of different types of
equipment in there they could have 3d
printers sewing machines laser cutters
tools arts and crafts there could be
computers if you’re coding apps or
something like that but the most
important thing in every space again
it’s going to be that culture that’s
supportive environment where people are
saying hey it’s okay that your project
didn’t work out let’s try and figure out
why let’s try and make it through and
the culture that you find in this place
it promotes something called a maker
mindset and I think the maker mindset is
a way forward past some of these
perfectionistic tendencies I think it’s
a way to help combat them and to me the
maker mindset is made up of four
different components first makers are
intrinsically motivated so they pursue
projects that genuinely interest them
it’s not for a class it’s not for a
grade we’re not going to judge you when
you come into our space we’re just going
to ask you are you interested in making
anything in particular
and if not we’ll just show you some
things until you find something that
piques your interest because if you’re
not interested in doing it it’s not
worth doing in that space over the
summer we thought that no one would be
in there but it turns out we found two
students Ashley in Olivia and they were
working on a therapeutic boot for
diabetics because it turns out the
diabetics are at risk in certain cases
of losing their feet when they don’t
have boots like this and they actually
did such good work on this a I want to
point out like this is a project that
they just wanted to do they wanted to do
something different for someone else
right that was their motivation here
they wanted to make a difference
and I think that’s really powerful right
and they were actually so successful in
this that they actually just received a
ninety-five thousand dollar grant to
keep the work going so I needed to do a
quick little side brag
for my students another thing that
makers are really good at is they are
very good knowing what they know and
what they can learn so when you don’t
know something it’s not a point of
embarrassment it’s an opportunity to say
I don’t know how to do this yet can you
show me how and this is the first maker
mind set piece that really requires an
emotional investment it requires some
self-awareness but more importantly it
requires humility to say I don’t know
how to do this yet but also recognizing
that you have the potential to grow
makers also understand that it takes
time and effort to make a project great
perfectionist will be very hesitant to
try something they will not be good at
right away but makers understand that
it’s a very long process it’s not just
one and done you’re not just going to
get to your first prototype and that’s
on to the next thing we have a student
named mass in Tamblyn she was working on
a heat sleeve to keep coffee warm for
three hours after you purchase it she’s
gone through about a dozen prototypes
before she finally got to the one that
worked it was not the first one that
worked out and that’s okay and the most
important part of the maker mindset the
fourth piece I really I can’t stress
this one enough makers embrace failure
they do and I think one of our former
student staff said best when he said
makers don’t view a lack of success as a
failure I think we need to
recontextualize how we look at failure
in general because we very much consider
it to be a bad thing and we stigmatize
it we make it something that you don’t
want to be there’s a website called the
noun project their goal is to create a
visual representation of every noun and
why I search for failure these were the
results that I got do you say anything
positive up there they even put plane
crashes right people falling bugs
nothing positive on here but failure to
a maker is an opportunity it’s an
opportunity to diagnose where are my
soft spots what do I need to do better
how do I make this better
right so what do we do about all this I
think there are three things that we can
focus on through the lens of making that
can help improve this and help our kids
get back on track and the first is
focusing on process over product because
if learning is a journey it doesn’t
matter where you end up
what matters is what you’re doing along
the way
the other thing we need to do is we need
to change up how we praise people and I
don’t just mean kids I mean adults too
because we already have these habits
firmly in place when we tell kids you’re
so smart what we’re telling them is
they’re done but when we tell them we’re
proud of things like effort and how hard
they’re working what the research does
show is those kids are more successful
they do go on to be higher achievers and
here’s the really important part they’re
happier they’re happier okay imagine if
instead of just telling someone that
they’re smart you tell them that there
are hard workers sometimes they need
that sometimes they definitely need that
ok and finally I think we need to
reclaim failure we spend so much time
stigmatizing it saying it’s a bad thing
and in educational environments I’ll be
honest as someone who works in education
we don’t always do the best job of
building and accommodating for learning
in our or I’m sorry failing in our
learning environments we don’t
accommodate for failure and we should
because everyone fails and they fail
often I read by a school district in
Chicago they’re getting rid of F’s you
know what they’re doing instead not yet
can you tell kids not yet imagine what
would be like to a kid instead of
someone saying you failed for them to
say not yet because Nadia is hopeful not
yet says you have room to grow
not yet says you can be better and
you’re not bad right so we have all
these students out here who are failing
to learn and quite frankly I can’t
really blame them given the amount of
pressures that we put on them from so
many different sources these pressures
do create some habits bad habits but
here’s the interesting thing if you want
to learn how to break a habit here’s the
easiest way around it from someone who’s
quit smoking in the past ok if you want
to break a bad habit create a good habit
the counteracts it I think that’s
possible through the lens of making I
think that when you immerse yourself in
the process of making things when you
immerse yourself an environment where
people like to make things where they’ll
support you in doing that that you can
start to develop
some habits to counteract these things
that hold you back from experiences that
you’re genuinely going to enjoy and help
you develop a really healthy
relationship with learning I think the
best thing that we can do for these kids
and ourselves is to give ourselves a
gift and that gift is learning to fail
thank you
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