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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Juggling and bicycles (E)

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The best way we learn is rarely the best way to perform. 


Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 20 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.

You can find out more about Seth by reading his daily blog at seths.blog and about the podcast at akimbo.link.

To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button.



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0:00.0

On today's podcast, perhaps for the first time in audio history, I will teach you how

0:07.2

to juggle three balls.

0:09.9

But before I can do that, I need to teach you how to write a bicycle.

0:13.7

Hey, it's Nathan Combe, and this is a special archived episode of A Kimbo.

0:24.8

So many things in our lives aren't taught properly.

0:28.8

They're taught with a mixture of status, as an inducement, shame, as a threat if we

0:35.0

don't opt in.

0:36.0

And fear, the fear of getting hurt, the fear of doing it wrong, a fear to overcome.

0:44.2

So when we think about learning to write a bike, it's a fraught exercise.

0:49.2

Little kid wants to write a bike, because big brother and big sister have a bike, because

0:53.5

having a bike represents freedom and a right of passage and a form of growing up.

0:59.6

But it's also filled with fear, the fear that you will fall and hurt yourself.

1:04.1

Parents also are afraid.

1:06.1

Afraid they won't teach the kid properly, afraid the kid will fall and break his wrist.

1:12.2

Afraid that their bad parents and will be unable to teach their kid how to ride a bike,

1:16.5

their kid will be ostracized and never recover.

1:20.1

Enter the strider bike.

1:22.4

Two million bikes later, the strider company has figured out how to teach kids to ride a bike.

1:28.8

And they do it by not teaching kids to ride a bike.

1:33.3

They do it by teaching kids to balance.

1:36.9

Because of course, training wheels are foolish.

1:41.4

Training wheels sort of make it look like you're riding a bike, but the hardest part of riding

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