People-pleasing.\u00a0 What a terrible affliction. \u00a0It may make you liked (but not always) but man, do we miss a few tricks!\u00a0 From Rosa Parks on that bus in Montgomery, Alabama to the brave few who stood up to Nazi outrages, down to the man who stands up to the neighbourhood bully, these are the people who leave their mark.<\/p>\n
Fitting in is not something I admire.\u00a0 I like the guy who dares to stand out, who questions stuff.\u00a0 Take Galileo in 1600.\u00a0 His idea was that the earth goes round the sun and not the other way round.\u00a0 And of course, he was told to shut up.\u00a0 But he didn\u2019t.\u00a0 He wrote his book.\u00a0 And caused a lot of trouble.\u00a0 Charles Darwin did the same thing with his outrageous idea – although he took a lot longer to publish \u2018The Origin of Species<\/em>\u2019.<\/p>\n How do you encourage this in children?\u00a0 If you know, please tell me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People-pleasing.\u00a0 What a terrible affliction. \u00a0It may make you liked (but not always) but man, do we miss a few tricks!\u00a0 From Rosa Parks on that bus in Montgomery, Alabama to the brave few who…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n