"Our baby is so smart, stubborn,
difficult, easy…"
These early life labels have a
tendency to stick.
Labels can be either useful or
destructive.
Almost all societies and languages
use descriptive words as a means of cataloging and categorizing people,
activities, and behavior.
These words can make it easier to
figure things out - or get us stuck in a quagmire of false convictions.
We are experiencing a lot of this in
today's news as well as the anxiety that often goes along with these labels.
DANCE WITH IT! EXPERIENTIAL APPS
An opportunity to experiment with some fun ideas…
THINK ABOUT THE LABELS YOU USE
What do you
label? Behavior? People?
Groups?
Now ask yourself
where you 'picked up' these labels.
How useful is this
language short-cut?
Does it give you
more ease in dealing or less?
Does labeling expand
your options or limit them?
Now ask yourself how often you label
yourself.
How many of your
self-labels are negative?
Try a day without
labeling yourself or others as an experiment.
What happens?
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