Urgent TO LEARN TO relearn

(music "Forget Me Not", by Baulander)

I want to suggest you

to allow ourselves

to LEARN to RELEARN.

Basically three points

will lead my speech.

FEAR, BRAIN...

and CREATIVITY.

And... about fear,

that can be awakened

through different processes...

I want to focus on a specific:

Fear, according to Dean Burnett,

is generated by our brain,

that even after millions of years
of evolution,

it still has as its main purpose

our SURVIVAL.

But it acts as we were still
living in the old times.

And..., to this brain's primal part,

if there is something crucial
for our survival,

is that we are part of a group,

in other words,

one of the most common fears that
the brain awakes on humans

is the fear to be secluded from
social groups.

To be left behind.

Which, in millions of years ago,
would mean death.

And to be still really connected
to those times,

the brain gets into an alert state.

Whenever it thinks there's any risk ..

(echo) of us to be rejected.

Burnett also explains that even when
facing imaginary dangers

our brain activates a tool
that stimulates us to whether

RUN AWAY or FIGHT.

Running away, which is easy to be
perceived in situations such as

when we think of vanishing,

of hiding ourselves,
faking we are sick.

You spectators,
do you remember any situation...

that has taken you out
of your comfort zone?

That has demanded you
to do something different

that made you feel afraid?

It can be something simple,
as a public speech,

to ask for earnings raise,

to get your driver's license,

or to make the decision

to start chatting with someone
that you had a crush on...

I always keep thinking to myself

(echo)
"What if they laugh at me"?

(echo)
"What if I forget everything"?

The fact is

I also suffer from the fear
of being secluded by the group

And it makes me afraid to make mistakes,
to be rejected...

afraid of criticism.

A fear that is better known as shyness.

Now, imagine me being a College teacher,

teaching majors such as Design,
Photography, Advertising and Marketing.

Delivering lectures, workshops.

I have already heard several times:

(echo) "No way you are shy"!

But I am.

Well, between to FIGHT or to RUN AWAY,

my choice was to take the risk.

I believe that if I had not
chosen this path

I would have spent the rest of my life
asking myself :

"What if I had left Accountancy?"

"Had been an intern at 26"

"Had asked my boss
to be the art director"

"Was admitted in College at 32?"

"Would have taken the chances
as a creative director"?

"Gotten into a partnership?"

"Being a teacher at 40?"

"Finished my Masters degree?"

(echo)
"What if I accepted to lecture at TEDx?"

Maybe it doesn't look like...
but it's not easy to me.

I am always trembling my legs out,

my will is to run away,

my heart beats like crazy.

It's just that...

life teaches you along the way.

And when we face our fears

we realize that

it's not possible to terminate them.

Fear is part of the packet of being human

And many times, due to this fear

we prefer to keep enduring things
that are no good for us

for a long time.

We keep waiting for things to get better,

but it only happens because our brain

has the ability to ADAPT.

And that's why, when we are...

outside of the situation,
we ask ourselves:

(echo)
"How come someone tolerate that much?"

For better understanding

read this text:

Notice that in the beginning

it takes some time

to understand the code.

But the brain adapts itself

and starts reading faster.

I believe it is important to
understand better

how our fear shows itself on us.

And that can help us to learn
how to negociate...

And to show ourselves

ANOTHER VERSION of the situation.

Much more positive than the one
created by our survival instinct.

And we know, don't we?

How good is our brain in convincing us...

that there's a danger around the corner.

It knows ourselves better than we do.

Not to mention that, due to fear,

It's harder for us to change our path.

In "Future Shock", Alvin Toffler comments

the act of learning demands energy

and to relearn demands even more energy.

Because to relearn we

must leave a lightened, sinalized path

to take the chances into a detour
that has no guarantee

we are going to get somewhere.

Reconsider.

Relearn.

Restate.

(echo) "It's all about taking risks."

When we have to face any sort of changes,

our survival instinct doesn't get
too comfortable

How many times a change of pace
had bothered us?

I'm not talking about:

(echo) "Oh! I don't like monotony."

I'm talking about things that take us
out of our usual way.

That take us out of what we are used to.

Facts that demand us to do something
in a very different way,

even worst:

that don't allow us to do whatever

the way we've always done.

This nuisance feeling

also suits to comprehend something.

Creativity,

is so desired,

admired,

praised,

but it also

annoys.

Creativity scares.

Because it demands us
the opening to relearn

And it's not about that creativity
everybody takes

because it won't change anything.

I'm talking about the one
that overpass

questions,

restates.

The one innovative

that develops different ways
to do the things.

Creativity that takes people
of their comfort zone.

Usually when a new idea actually comes up

it suffers resistance.

Even because it takes people out of
their safe place,

of the way they learned.

And, due to our survival instinct,

it afraids even who had the idea.

That is because

people rates us.

The group judges us.

(echo) "What they will think about me?"

An example, that may be used
to understand how do we feel

when we are forced to change,
it's this pandemic.

Not getting into sensitive points,

but observing some changes in our habits
and manners.

(echo) "It messed up our routine"

We had to relearn,

to adapt,

to change our way to work, to dress,

and to relate.

Other day, a lady's grocery fell near me

and I couldn't help.

Because my kind gest

it was to not overstep into her space.

In this context,

we are being forced
to relearn many things.

This will influence the way

we consume, we feed,
and relate with others,

and how we deal with our health,
with the environment.

Folks, we are in the beginning
of a new millenium!

Which asks for open minded
and creative people,

that innovates!

People that knows how to deal
with the new issues,

that brings new ideas.

People who actually thinks out of the box.

That thinks in a way

to scare our primitive brain.

Because radical changes bother.

In this new millenium,
according to Toffler,

it's knowledge that becomes
more valuable...

than a product or a service.

As Creativity is already a crucial tool

to face new challenges.

But we are still very afraid.

Because we don't know what is to come.

However, nowadays,

we've already got issues that demands us
a behavior turn,

and the comprehension of what is still
named as

"ït has always been like this".

We got to have the courage
to think different,

but this attitude

may bothers other people.

And to bother other people it afraids.

However,

the more we allow ourselves

to relearn and to innovate,

getting the courage to leave
natural fears behind,

more creative people we'll have

thinking and rethinking this world.

Minds that won't have the certainties
of the last century,

but, indeed, a lot of questions
to be answered.

This is because the creative thinking

makes us questions the certainties.

We need to face the discomfort
that creative thinking induces.

But is the other (the group)
that needs to understand.

that RE-LEARN, has always been a necessity

of our survival instinct.

That's why, it is more than urgent

that we allow ourselves
to LEARN to RELEARN,

to think with CREATIVITY.

And that we choose to FIGHT,

and not to RUN AWAY.

THINK ABOUT IT!