Virginie Glaenzer explores how formal education's physical setup, seating arrangements, and expert-front dynamic create habits that stick. Speaker B notes that new ideas learned in workshops get diluted when you return to an unchanged workplace. Changing the environment, policies, or people involved can break these patterns.
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Anyone else would like to share their thoughts on how to unlearn our formal education?
Yeah, for me it was very simple. It was every time I was sent away to learn something at work and I'd go learn it in that isolated context and it's like, oh, this sounds great, wonderful stuff, I'm going to bring it back to the office. You bring it back to the office, the office is still 100% the way it's always been. So there's no room to bring this new idea in. And you can kind of get it in motion, but that other 98 to 100% of what already exists is eventually going to just take over and water it down. So, you know, I think what Nora shared about leaving the classroom And it can be as much as just changing the environment because you go into that room and that room has expectations about it, right? A classroom has expectations. Students sit. You know, the expert stands at the front and, you know, kind of tries to get the conversation going. The expert may already have some predetermined ideas on what the class will work on. So just taking out the place is one step. You know, maybe you can't remove all the inertia, but if you can take away a policy or procedure, or you can take away the setting and change it, or you can change the people that are doing it, that's a big one. I think one of the biggest hindrances to change is experience. Something's not going right, you're going to look back at your experience and try to figure out how to do it. And you've probably seen me tweet this, that's doing the wrong thing more right, you know, when you do that. So I think, you know, what Nora shared about the environment, yeah, you can just start with a new setting.
