Our brain gets used (too much and too quickly) to what it already knows, so any necessary change may, at certain times, seem impossible to make, a Herculean effort, like the myth of Sisyphus.

What happens to you when someone tells you that you need to "think outside the box"? And when you are told, in the same sequence, that you need to "get out of your comfort zone"? If you are like me, when I hear either of those two expressions, that I get a kind of metaphysical hives, the least will be something close to rolling your eyes. I believe there are good reasons for an adverse reaction.

The need to get answers has left some of us with the presumption of knowing them all, for ourselves and, worse, for others.

I was recently talking to two colleagues about a learning experience one of them had conducted for a group of people from a client of ours. I had asked her how it had gone. Her response sparked such a conversation. We were trying to understand and define what would make our learning experiences different from so many others. How had we arrived at this model and style?

Imagine you are in a room with a child. The room has a staircase. He doesn't know how to walk yet, he is learning. You hear a noise and your attention and gaze wander briefly away from the child. When you return to the room, you see that the child has managed to climb up to the fourth step of the stairs. What does he do?