Kids learn languages by talking nonstop and being wrong constantly. Adults forget that’s allowed.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

A small child learning to speak is wrong constantly, loudly, and with no sense that being wrong is a problem, which is exactly why they end up fluent. Somewhere later the fear of sounding foolish arrives and quietly removes the main method. All those errors are not a side effect of the learning, they are the learning.

Decide to be wrong out loud a set number of times this week in whatever you are learning. Ten badly formed sentences, said to a real person. Count the attempts instead of the mistakes.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What stops you from babbling badly in order to improve?

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