Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. Here we are. It's just the two of us. We're not the

tripod right now. It's just sister and me. Abby had to take our youngest to school. So

we are here today with you to introduce a new idea we had. Alright, so here's why my

teacher self has been stressed about the way we have unfolded this glorious podcast. You

know this because I've been talking to you about this ad nauseam. I was a third grade

teacher. Teaching was my life, was my love. I loved being in the classroom so much because

every day I got to create the truest, most beautiful world in one little room with

a group of small people. Which is the only way you can create a true beautiful world

as in one room with very small people. Exactly. Exactly. So here's one thing that we learned

as teachers. The idea with little minds and with all minds what we're trying to do with

this podcast actually is that when we introduce new ideas to brains, those brains get a little

bit discombobulated. Okay. New information when it goes into a brain or is presented

to a brain causes the brain confusion, disequilibrium. That is good. I must be always, always receiving

new ideas because I am always only but always in disequilibrium in my brain. But actually

it is my deep belief that people who live in confusion, which also could be called

awe are the people who are truly paying attention and taking things in because everything is

a freaking miracle that Einstein thing you can either look at the world as if nothing's

a miracle or as if everything's a miracle. And people who look at the world and see it

for what it is, which is a bunch of miracles are often freaking confused constantly. Yes.

Confusion is a side of awe or disequilibrium constantly taking in new information. I hear

it's the thing. What we learn in teaching is that you do want to create that disequilibrium

with new ideas and cause the scattering in the brain. But there's a second step, which

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