Hello and good morning, good evening, good afternoon, wherever you are in the world, whatever you might be up to, grateful to be in your ears.

I saw a quote the other day from Wendy Kopp, from Teach for All, and I quote goes up this.

It's easier to poke holes in an idea than to think of ways to fill them. And it's easier to focus on the hundred reasons you

shouldn't do something rather than the one reason you should. So I thought in today's micro show,

we might actually consider this quote from Wendy

for a moment and put it in the context of a life, a life that we all experience where it really is

easier to be a naysayer, to be a critic than it is to be a creator or to be, as Brunee

Brown talks about, to be in the arena.

And I believe we're all guilty of this in one way or another or at one time or another.

I'm all kinds of good at poking holes and ideas that I don't want to do, that a family member or someone on the internet shares that to me seem inaccurate, absurd,

or perhaps it's often actually mostly a reflection of me

in the mood that I'm in at that moment.

So what if we shifted our mentality

and acknowledged this right now and decided that for this week,

we would avoid poking holes in the ideas of others, that we would avoid the concept

that trying and failing somehow wasn't worth it. If we could shift into the positive,

the creative, rather than the negative and destructive. Now, a couple of notes, as you set off

on this week, this challenge, to find value, to lean into ways to solve problems

rather than to highlight them, way to find joy and beauty in the world. Three notes. One note

goes like this. Let's always this week endeavor to value trying and failing.

Think about, you know, a baby.

At some point, most able-bodied babies will be able to walk.

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