Seth Godin: It's easy to do (if you know how to do it)
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Seth Godin discusses It’s easy to do (if you know how to do it)
The three elements of successful instructional design might be:
- Acknowledge that communicating what you know is difficult.
- Find empathy for people who don’t know what you know yet.
- Test the work, often.
Humility in design dances with the arrogance of believing we can help other people move forward.
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This is particularly relevant as one organises for a social revolution. One has to convey a different ordering of society to people who think that the current society is the most natural thing in the world. They may consider some reforms are needed, but not a wholesale reordering of society.
However, revolutionaries need to believe that they can change society. This counts as an "arrogance of believing". We also need to "find empathy for people who don't know what [we] know yet". We should remember our own journey of discovery.
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