"Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery." --Claude Bernard Related Posts: Unlearning the need for Answers The Iceberg Principle P.S. This quotation was found compliments of Maria Popova's wonderful blog, BrainPickings.

Want to help your company or organization unlearn a little faster? Here's my advice: Bar the sentence "That's not the way we do things around here" from ever being uttered again.

Unlearning Lesson #24 “Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance.” –George Bernard Shaw Question #24: Do more people die jaywalking or in the crosswalk? The answer is the crosswalk. The reason is because people are lulled into a false sense of security due to the allure of existing rules such as painted [...]

A while back I wrote this post: 10 Things Worthy of Learning in Kindergarten. Now, Forbes, has a similar article entitled Nine Dangerous Things That You Learned in School. It suggests you unlearn them. I concur.

My kids are a little older now but, as a young parent, I recall growing weary at the end of a long day responding to their seemingly endless number of questions. "Dad, why is the grass green? Dad, why is the sky blue? Dad, why is the caution light yellow and not blue? Dad, why [...]

What does it feel like to be wrong? The answer might surprise you. It feels like being right. As Kathryn Schulz explains in her wonderful book, Being Wrong, it's similar to that moment when Wile E. Coyote has run off the cliff but hasn't yet realized it.

Which square is a darker shade of gray -- A or B? If you said A, you're wrong. They are both the exact same color. (Click here for an explanation). The moral: Unlearning requires recognizing that our perceptions can be easily deceived and that one person's "shade of gray" might not be different from another's [...]

One reason people are frequently caught by surprise by the future -- be it the emergence of a new technology, the disruption of old business models or a shift in human behavior -- is because they make the assumption that just because something has never happened in the past that it never will happen in [...]

"We must unlearn the constellation to see the stars.” --Jack Gilbert from the poem “Tear it Down” Question #23: In 2003, what money-losing product far exceeded its sales projections for the year in spite of the fact that manufacturer made no material upgrades to the product and spent less money on advertising? The answer is [...]