#209: Dump your training wheels

According to cycling boffins, it’s time for kids to dump their training wheels. Training wheels don’t teach balance; they simply stop you falling over.

Balance is a critical skill in cycling, but the tool designed to teach you that skill actually prevents you learning it. Why? Because it creates the illusion of balance.

This got me thinking about life. Don’t we use similar crutches to prop us up so that we can pretend to be balanced and in control?

Get rid of them. Balance does not matter. What matters is your ability to get up when you’ve lost your balance. Which you will, often, because...

Surely you know when you're glad is not when you're itchy or scrappy
And crying is never that bad if it means you can tell when you're happy
Yes, go for balance I say, but don't get upset at a tilt
It's all just part of the play, to be jilted or stilted or spilt



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